skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
> Like I don't wanna reject them, but if I can somewhow ask them to pay that would be great.

Never ask for pay. Demand it, and refuse to work until you've been paid. There are four words you need to learn to speak without fear, and shout if necessary. Anybody who has seen GoodFellas knows what they are. The four magic words are...

FUCK YOU. PAY ME.

Clip from GoodFellas: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48>

Also, you need to watch Mark Monteiro's lecture, "Fuck You, Pay me" at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U>.

My employers can always rely on me. But they gotta come up with my money every week.

Payroll company fucked up? FUCK YOU. PAY ME.

The client didn't pay you? FUCK YOU. PAY ME.

It's an emergency and you want me to work late? FUCK YOU. PAY ME TIME AND A HALF FOR OVERTIME.
Goodbye, 99.9% of content we all regularly read.
Oh, yeah. Those are pretty bad. Basically you bought content and then they removed it. DRM in general shouldn't be immoral, but it can be if it's abused like that.
idk, in the enterprise world all those things still exist but they're applied against AWS/other instead of your servers in the datacenter. Instead of "build+test boxes" you have "build+test instances". It takes the same level of redtape/approvals to get an AWS instance as it took to get a server in the old datacenter. All my enterprise clients have the dedicated infrastructure teams they always had, only now they're working in AWS/other and not the datacenter.
It’s funny that he use the empire state building and then talk about federal government.
The government didn’t build the empire state building, a private corporation did.

Now there is so much regulation that it would be impossible to get through the permit in 5 years.

It’s the same here in Canada, all the infrastructure, building, farms, road that were built around 1900 are no longer possible with the level of regulation.

We are getting into a kafkaesque state where the technology is super productive but the regulations swallow every improvement and them some.

Well, who is John Galt?
These are my "good" apps:

- Spotify: everyone loves music. Put it on speakerphone. Dance and sing silly while you cook.

- Shazam: discover music. Exactly what apps ought to be.

- Google Maps: Does what it does.

- Google home: setting my lights to match the time of day / mood / or movie.

- Google Authenticator: 2FA is good

- "Justin Guitar", a simple guitar tuner, and a metronome app: I've been learning guitar

- Duolingo: my wife and I have been learning Spanish together.

- Apple Books, Libby, Kindle: I use Books for PDFs and epubs I "find" online or get through Humble Bundle. With Humble Bundle you can get a TON of books for super cheap. Libby for getting ebooks from the library. Finally, Kindle for books I purchase b/c I couldn't find them anywhere else.

- Audible: for audiobooks, which was more important when I had a commute.

- Stranger "Things to do": very specific to Seattle, but connects me to my community by giving fun events and activities to check out.

- Carbon: also specific to my interests, this is the best life-tracker app for Magic the Gathering Commander games. Worth the $5 upgrade.

"Mixed" apps:

- Discord. At best it keeps me connected with my friends. It was invaluable during the pandemic and strict quarantines. But can be addicting, toxic, and net-negative.

EDIT: from a comment below, I also realized that everything on the Control Panel is a Good App: airplane mode, low power mode, add note, add audio recording, alarms, timers, stopwatch, calculator, flashlight, Apple Pay, Shazam, and camera.
I'd be careful about painting the developers at Rockstar as "not curious," that feels like an incredibly unfair conclusion to draw from this. Those developers have other pressures, and deadlines to hit. There are a million reasons why this bug wasn't solved by the team there. When a user complains about a bug in software you wrote, is it because you just "weren't curious" enough? Or is the situation more complicated?

Lots of incredibly talented people worked on GTA Online, it's worth trying to think through why a team of smart developers might not have prioritized this, rather than assuming something negative about them.
I agree liking to ask simpler stuff first. But what about this more complicated stuff? My problem is that when we talk about stuff having more "signal" - how are we determining if those questions are giving us more signal?
I wonder if keeping the older kids around the younger kids causes them to subconsciously inhibit their "wild teenager" behavior.
> In peacetime

The US was in two wars for nearly 2 decades, to say nothing of various other special operations, and accidents were a leading cause of deaths and permanent disability for a large number of those years.

Readiness is important, but IMO, the Army does a ton of unnecessary and unnecessarily dangerous training for capabilities that are almost never needed (jumping, in particular, but also certain types of combat training). Most importantly, this destroys people's physical health for no reason. Secondarily, this also costs the taxpayer enormous sums of money (each permanent disability retirement for a 30 year old is many millions of dollars).

The other branches might be more reasonable. Not sure.
It's always been possible to patent a sufficiently good improvement on existing things. Otherwise nothing at all would be patentable.
>I'm pretty sure you're free to compete with them if you think it's profitable.

If I could generate the amount of free advertising Cuban's getting I would.
>It takes intense systemic conditioning to suppress their natural curiosity.

Yep, the public school system in America excels at squelching curiosity and any desire to learn.
On the flip side of that coin:

https://draxe.com/nutrition/proline/
The hubris of interviewing companies is just unreal. Someone can talk until they're blue in the face about the problems they've solved and things they've built, but no, I'm not going to believe any of it until I see that, what, they can traverse a binary tree post order? Give me a fucking break.
This is completely unacceptable. It’s also not acceptable that airlines are responsible for verifying documentation.

I’ve dealt with more than a few airline agents over the years who were given incorrect information by their employer and tried to tell me I was ineligible to fly.
Because that would never happen in private companies? Or, by contrast, that would be _allowed_ in the military?

As if, private companies were the pinnacle of human organization?

Some assumptions to clear up here.
Literally every uC has hardware blocks for that, 99% of the stuff you will ever encounter is a standard. Nobody bitbangs protocols. And even if, the ws2816 driver on the raspberry pi is bitbanged from Linux user-space.

How often are you bitbanging non standard protocols? And if so, which field are you in?
Github has had achievements for a ages I think, they just never used them for much. I know I've had "Arctic Code Vault Contributor", and "Mars 2020 Contributor" achievements for ages (but only incidentally, because I happen to have commits in the linux kernel.)
If your costs are all fixed, and demand falls, you have to put prices up to stay alive. That's the issue with Nuclear: If it costs $1bn a year for the plant, it costs that whether you generate 1bn kWh (at $1 each) or 1 kWh (at $1Bn each).

What you call artificial shortage, others call "not making something no one wants and then forcing them to pay for it"...
The business model relies on societal guarantees against serious crime.

You can't be serious when you claim that illegal streams raking in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars for popular sports through plague like ad banners are the innocent party that should be allowed to operate freely.

Why not punish all the ad networks that, in retrospect allow their ads to be shown on these illegal streams? Don't they have an obligation to ensure their ad models aren't supporting illegal businesses?

The dual standards by intelligent tech workers who should know better is one of the biggest shames of our time.
Unlike Brexit, the first American civil war has set precedent to prevent secession. The first state to attempt secession will be labeled a word (like insurrectionist, fascist, racist, etc.) and then, like Ukraine, invaded.
New release brings Mesh to MetaHuman
Exciting news. Sounds like Cron will remain separate while they work out a way to integrate into Notion.

Off topic: Does anyone else have trouble using Notion because of the .so domain? We've had a number of corporate firewalls wholesale block the .so TLD and Notion is a casualty. Hopefully they switch over to .com soon.
> serve the purpose of keeping potentially talented and intelligent people ignorant and average

Man I think you're thinking wayyyyy to deep into stuff.
This is a pretty popular post to link to when it comes to feedback for a new app you're building. Another fun one is the slashdot posts when the first ipod came out.
When problems are this obvious, it's surprising that someone doesn't have a look, even if they're busy. Maybe I'm asking too much/projecting here, but I just don't understand how people put up with fairly obvious semi-breakage as much as they do.

I have this at my current job, I seem to be the only one (not really, but seems like it sometimes) interested in finding out why things are slow/broken and investing the time to fix it. If you're "busy" all the time, but put up with things that slow you down, you're hamstringing yourself by not fixing the brokenness. When only a small number of people take the time to fix things (typically other's issues), that becomes very demotivating.

That would be like being on an all-day ski tour, and feeling too rushed to bother getting rid of the slush on your skis. Yes, you feel rushed because you're moving slower that usual. Taking 4 minutes to kick the slush off will make you much faster on the overall trip. (Sharpening the saw analogy, etc).

Sometimes "busy" is a state of mind, more than it is a reflection of reality. I know each situation is unique, but I've seen this enough times to understand that it's often a form of dysfunction rather than a reasonable reaction to the work situation. This is like when people used to say "we're too busy to write tests". Well, maybe you need to get better at communicating the trade-offs to the broader business, and be a bit more assertive about non-functional aspects that are still important to address.
This though experiment always gets stuck with the military and social security when I start to imagine this possibility. Not sure how you go about dividing those up.
RUSSIAN M.O. since the 80’s.
NextCloud is a popular fork of OwnCloud by its original developer, and doesn't seem to gate features on their self-hosted version.
Thanks!

Do any significant disadvantages of Privacy Badger stand out to you, contrasted with uBlock Origin? The biggest problem I can think of is that uBlock Origin will immediately prevent me from loading content that could be dangerous, while Privacy Badger has to visit dangerous content enough times to learn to block it, which is less good for security.

On the other hand the big advantage to me for Privacy Badger is that it doesn't depend on manually-curated lists. uBlock Origin nicely wraps the block lists but when it comes down to it you are giving control over your browsing experience to the random volunteers building these lists, which, who knows? Though I'm not accusing anyone of anything.
In reality the states that are most outwardly in favor of small/no federal government and "states' rights" are also the ones that benefit most from federal spending. Don't buy into the campaign speeches too much. The federal government is only going to keep getting stronger. There's too much money in it for everyone involved.
> I think you may find you have accidentally arrived at the wrong party.

Definitely - I thought I was at the SF party, not the Skeptics party.

I mean, of course the story defies physics. As do over 90% of Asimov's stories. As do most SF stories. Talking about these things is like going to a party to watch the soccer World Cup final and pontificating over how much better soccer would be if you could use your hands to hold the ball and run.
It's good. For my use case, better than Kdenlive on Windows. Shortcut renders much faster than Kdenlive because Shotcut supports HW encoding using the integrated Intel GPU. Kdenlive only supports that on Linux.
What Do You Make, Who Is It For, and Why Do They Care?: How Startups Win Talent
Startups — It’s difficult to attract talent when nobody knows who in the hell you are, what you do, who it’s for, and why those people care, to begin with.

Skilled workers need a reason to:

Raise their hand and ask you for something.
Accept a conversation request.
Be curious enough to read a job description.
Take the few (or 20) steps to make it to your careers site.
Click the apply button.

Before getting into this, let’s take a step back and look at how workers and companies meet:

Job descriptions aren’t marketing material. They aren’t attraction pieces. Something else happens first that peaks a person's curiosity enough that they feel compelled to give a JD a look-see or agree to a conversation with a recruiter or hiring manager.

That something else could be (amongst many things):

A social post from someone at your company.
A referral.
A personal introduction.
A product ad.
A recommendation from a peer.
An article mentioning your company’s name.
A podcast mention.
A thoughtfully written message from someone at your company.

The list of micro influences goes on…

This means that within the context of marketing your company, your job, your product, and your ideas to workers, you need to spend more time thinking about creating the “something else's” that happen first. Without them, we (your labor market) don’t know who you are, what you make, who it’s for, and why those people care.

And as a result, we don’t care either.

———

If you want to create an asset or set of assets that will help market your company to talent, I’ve included a link to a doc with a sample set of interview questions that we ask teams when creating video content for them at BYA.

Tactically – Questions like this can be used to create a simple FAQ in a Google doc or Notion page or applied more creatively as prompts for hosted video interviews or blog posts

Yes, we did a lot of research in order to come up with these questions. Yes, I’m giving them away in hopes that companies will start creating better recruiting content.

Hope this gets your wheels turning.

Note: Although some of these questions are specific to technical teams and leadership, they can easily be tweaked for sales, marketing, and other niche corners of the labor market. We’ve come up with several hundred questions across most functions. This is just scratching the surface.

Questions doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xbb0EwzzR9OHItf0vdLj6VB_v724yFS29XUYE-ixOOc/edit
> Readiness is important, but IMO, the Army does a ton of unnecessary and unnecessarily dangerous training for capabilities that are almost never needed.

Readiness is precisely about training for things that will almost never happen. Until they do.
Meritocracies can by tyrannical. Organizations select for sociopaths to rise to the top. People are unaware of their biases. Minorities - in race, gender, viewpoint, or along some other axis - are marginalized and it has a real cost to the organization and society. Things like affirmative action are an attempt to recognize and correct these biases. No one is looking to fill a quota except those who don’t understand the problem to begin with. And if you think the military is any more efficient a bureaucracy than any other government sector I have a bridge to sell you.
This is not a uniform problem. States like Washington has really great administrative capacity. Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee... not so much.
Big hit to site identity though. Agreed it introduces issues, but it's not realistic to think you'll convince Marketing to drop all custom typefaces. Used responsibly, they can improve a site's appearance without hindering UX.
To be fair, the person that found the issue was persistent and did some serious digging to figure out what was going on.

I imagine that even if you were on the GTA team, you'd most likely think the long loading time was unavoidable due to some complexity you were not aware of.

Great work to solve it from outside of the company.
> There is no sane way to make async optional in a library and reuse code.

FWIW, there's an effort to do exactly that, but because it will require language level changes and it is just on the drawing board phase, it will likely be a while before it can be widely used.

The "optionality" of `async` while sharing code also applies for `const` and mutability (why do we need `Deref` and `DerefMut`?). Finding a solution that can work for these three (and maybe others?) parts of the language will be a welcome improvement.
A long-shot, but given that you know your credentials, have you tried an other interface like a mail client connecting through POP/IMAP/SMTP (if you have ever enabled them in the past).
Depending on the drug, yes. Walmart & Amazon have cheap generics and so do many regional grocery stores.
Connecticut has created a board with a $2 million budget to advertise for the ruling party's candidates in the upcoming election.
Why reply then? Just move on. I don't think this is a product for me, either, but I was curious enough to click through and make that determination, and decided against telling the world. If you're so disinterested that you don't even want do that, why reply?
The problem with this way of thinking is that it basically absolves everyone of blame. Bad stuff happens and nobody's at fault. You point to the managers, because the engineers were so busy, but the managers are going to claim they were busy too. Again, from the manager's perspective - the managers aren't even in a position to understand the problem or the reasons for it.
I thought I was the only one who did this (the pacing and practicing conversations). I am surprised at how often it pays off
> Sure there is spam and flames, but one gets all the tools one needs to deal with that.

Asking the user to implement measures and keep them up-to-date is detrimental to adoption from users that are aware of curated sources. Pretending this is net-neutral is misleading.

> We are a lot worse off today than we used to be, largely because of the centralization of discourse.

Usenet was centralized in practice, so I think you mean something else. It's not clear how much the curation of content stifles discourse when creating new forums is essentially free. Either way, I would tend to disagree that curated is worse. Everyone curates to some degree, even when they are free and open discussions.
Ocient is building a world-class team to tackle the toughest hyperscale data challenges and deliver customer-centric solutions. Ocient is looking for team players who are dedicated to improving our product, solving tough problems, establishing strong customer and partner relationships, and enhancing the customer experience with every interaction.

We're hiring for multiple levels of Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Interns and recent college graduates. Experience writing code to solve complex problems using an object-oriented programming language (e.g. C++, Java, C#). Familiarity with CPU architecture and assembly code.Strong understanding and application of data structures and algorithms. Some experience with C or C++ and Linux/Unix. Ability to speak and write in English fluently.
There's other costs: how many times per day to R* devs & testers have to go through the same loading? How many man-hours wasted? How many compute resources wasted? How many upgrades were justified by "I need better hardware to get my job done in a timely manner"?
The thing I miss about Usenet is maintaining article and comment scoring in trn (based on the subject, keywords and/or author)

With this I could easily surface interesting articles or replies by insightful people, while avoiding subjects and authors in which I had no interest.

This worked at a thread level, so I could quickly see any new threads, and new replies added to threads I was following, skipping over everything I had already marked as read.

For me this was more effective than the communal post scoring that took over on web forums, reddit, hn etc.
Isn’t preparing for an interview a skill? Seems like unprepared candidates who know there is a simple way to prepare should be cut. They don’t want it enough to go to the trouble of spending their time.
I don't buy the explanation of societies collapsing because they're too complex, Some software systems do.

But not because some esoteric systemic property of complex systems, but just because working projects get deprived of maintainers and eventually there's nobody that understands WTF original programmers intended and how to fix the holes.

So incomprehensible portions of the system are circumvented or replaced with something that just works. Actually the same happens in societies, unless some group sabotages the workaround.
I agree that spelling mistakes in a readme / website / docs should be fixed. Comments, on the other hand, are irrelevant, and not worth pinging the maintainers for unless they are affecting comprehension (not the case here). On a project with 0 PRs open it may be ok, but in more active projects that have dozens/hundreds of PRs at any given time, it's just adding noise.

It's also been a trend in the past few years for people to make this kind of PR, which is very low hanging fruit, just to increase the number of projects they "contributed to" and their profile activity. The author may have not had this intention, but it sure plays into the stereotype.
The main sponsors of war with Ukraine are EU and US who continue to buy oil and gas from Putin. It is estimated that since Feb 24 EU has paid more than 60 Billion Euro [1] for resources stolen from Russian people. If this revenue stream would dry out, Putin's economy would collapse overnight. So the most effective strategy is to cut the payments, now.

(I personally think that EU should have stopped buying energy resources from Russia in 2014 after Crimea annexation. Instead, EU countries increased energy dependence on Russia and continued to fuel Putin's oppression and war machines)

As for my personal efforts, well, I don't think that there is a realistic way of doing something significant. I have protested Putin's regime for more than 10 years, was detained once, cops threatened to plant drugs on me, and do nasty things to my family. I don't think unarmed protests have any prospects in stopping Putin's regime anyway: Ukraine has an army with heavy weapons, Javelins and Baryaktars, and help from the West, and they still have difficulty stopping Putin's orcs. And whatever he has thrown on Ukraine he has at home - so good luck fighting that barehanded. By now I think everybody understands that if the protesters will gather enough strength so riot police would not be able to disperse them, he'll just order to mow the protesters down with machine guns and flamethrowers.

So, a few years ago I moved most of my business offshore to EU, and pay ~zero taxes to Putin's regime, but now this virtue signalling campaign by western businesses cancelling everything russian actually creates great difficulties to simply function. Russians were discriminated even before by EU and US institutions and banks, and now this discrimination is turned up to eleven. The sad irony is that most of these discriminating measures actually help Putin, like idiotic ban of Visa / Mastercard payments - now Russian people have great difficulty paying for foreign VPS services, for example, and can only visit websites that perpetuate existing state propaganda.

[1]: https://crea.shinyapps.io/russia_counter/