skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the 'left' is an ideological mess. I don't see a lot there of more modern voices that hold sway and seem ideologically coherent to me. The irony is in their time at least up to 1917 the marxists examined and tried to update their theory to match their current conditions. It's like amongst some, everything has been frozen in amber from a certain point and among others, marxism has come to mean redefining class struggle as identitarian struggle. I imagine the historical adherents are really just objecting to the more modern more 'woke' invariants in a clumsy way.

There's never been much agreement on what marxism means. I believe Marx himself disliked the term and claimed to not be a marxist.
I think that’s the point.

Elon takes the “freedom from consequences” interpretation of free speech when it comes to his complaints about twitter and “cancel culture”, then turns around and effectively cancels these employees for speaking their mind.
We also alternate between various positions in programming languages, so it's not a matter of formal precision.
It’s just a too long animation.
great tip - thank you. i have a pet saying that with developers, the classic advice of "talk benefits, not features" doesnt work

(https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1361279902889086980?s=20&t=A...)
That sounds like tremendous trouble if you have your card on any sites like Amazon.
> A 'slave' implies people that were enslaved with no justification

it absolutely does not, and to suggest so is absurd. In America, black people have been enslaved with all sorts of justifications about how they were of an "inferior race", how they were "naturally" more violent and "animalistic", etc and how their enslavement was actually good for them.
In Defense of Online Anonymity
It seems I skimmed poorly and got everything but the important part of the background. I went from the article title to "(Not Boring) suite of everyday apps" to "Designing for Feel" and somehow missed "habit tracker app" and "habit" being mentioned multiple times. This kind of design does make much more sense in that context. Thank you for the correction.

(All I can offer in my defense is that about half the article sure sounds like it could have been a design doc for making bad modern UIs, but that's the fault of other UI designers, not this article or author.)
It's too bad that talk shows aren't like this anymore. The Letterman producers from the 1980s deserve kudos for finding interesting guests (not only Grace Hopper, but also Isaac Asimov, Doc Edgerton, Don Herbert, and plenty of others).

Aside from Neil deGrasse Tyson or Dr. Fauci, it's pretty rare to see a scientist on a late night show now. For all the empty talk about the importance of STEM, it's pretty unlikely that you'll see a pioneer of computer science.
I'm sure you're the guy everyone likes at work.
I think, "democratizing complicated or beautiful things" (ie. music, Internet, education, information) is the myth of the day alongside other prevalent myths like, "elite rule isn't the norm for humans" "The real basis of legal rights is a religious object" (this applies just as badly to Liberals in their belief in equality as much as it does Christian Conservatives who believe Jesus was our first president) and especially, "self-determination for common people is the highest good humanity could ever realize."

I really, really hate to say this but I'm beginning to have sympathies with Ayn Rand's literature. We don't let, "normal people" into operating rooms; why is it that the public has been invited to the conversation about complicated things like science, medicine, philosophy, ethics (..?)

Worth relating: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/708391
US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
When you hear the term "safe" used in the woke-cancer whines, you can be sure that employee was a real cry baby and anchor on the rest of the team.
Of course I'm speaking from theory in a vacuum.

In the real world competitors don't always form immediately, it can take quite awhile. But the broad strokes are true, and bear out over time, barring monopoly formation in a given sector, free information etc.

Of course Costco does have competitors, they just haven't been able to execute as well up to this point.
Not only that, but macOS routinely (or aggressively) likes to treat off-brand(?) monitors (e.g. Dell) as a YPbPr device rather than RGB that adds to the blurriness. You can override that by generating and installing a custom EDID display profile. This is mentioned in the post and it has been a recurring problem for me.

With recent macOS versions, I've often had displays auto-negotiate with 30 Hz refresh for no apparent reason, and only sometimes.
As a heads up, this is not loading for me. Your other pages seem fine, and I'm not getting a 404, just an empty page. Doesn't seem to be adblock or pihole.
> It's a supply side problem due to Corona shutdowns

This is a lie being spread around. It's actually extracting stimulus back from the poor, making up for lost profit during COVID, and decreasing total employment.

The market holds more power in the price of oil than the fed does with interest rates. The fed and the market are teaming up to make up for any ground (in profits and operating cost) that was lost during COVID.
Interesting, cheers.

I did a brief stint at Software Studios / Electric Dreams (in Southampton) — who were owned by Activision — in the late 80s. And then I did some work (via Images Software) for Activision (in Reading), a little later in the 80s. Briefly met quite a lot of well-known (better known than I, anyhow) devs during that time.

I think I recall meeting Andy Glaister at some point (though not at Activision), but I might be wrong: his name was often mentioned in our office because we (Images s/w) were dealing with PDS quite a lot. But if I did meet him, it was only very briefly, and he likely wouldn't remember me. Him and our boss (Karl Jefferies) seemed to have quite a few meetings.

I think the early / home computer games dev world was actually kinda quite small (in the UK), well, fairly tightly networked — lots of folk knew one another, or were just a couple of friend-network links away. It seemed quite commonplace to meet other devs, usually during what is now called 'crunch time' towards the end of a project, in the publisher's office. I still have memories of sleeping under various desks, in various offices, on various projects.

— Life is indeed weird!
Delorean sold about 7,000 cars, total, in its existence. Tesla sold about a million last year. Regardless of how you feel about Tesla, it's safe to say it's now a major, fast-growing auto maker that's not going away.
Hey! Founder here. Thanks for your comment!

> That's not hard to debug

I agree there's a large class of problems where that's the case, and I also agree it's perhaps easier than many of the issues we've caught in the real world, such as are discussed in the Cisco case study. But I still want to defend the example as non-trivial.

So of course we pick up the errors in services that are fall-out from the breakage, and we pick up the chaos test running, which leaves a pretty wide footprint. But if something like this happened in the real world, the important event would have been that one that's in the RC report, that's not even an error (though it is quite unusual): the kernel log entry pointing out the eth0 misconfig. It can take a long time for someone to get around to poring through their various host kernel logs and looking at everything, even non-errors, so having it surfaced to you right away feels like a very useful thing.

At the same time though, I like the example you gave even more. What many people will do is upload their own incident data via the CLI, or deploy our chart into a staging environment and just break things, to see what happens. Based on your description, there's a good chance we would pick it up since we track anomalies and perform anomaly correlation across all pairs of streams: we're not looking for a threshold percentage of overall error rates, for example, anywhere. If you'd be willing to help us test this use-case, I'd love to work with you personally to help you get up-and-running.

Also, as we see more and more failure modes, we continue to make our detection algorithms more robust. While we generally achieve >>90% detection of incidents and their root cause indicators overall, there are always places we can and would love to do better. I think you'd find that our solution would catch most of what you'd want out-of-the-box, and that we're responsive enough to learn from every customer.

Lastly, I would ask: do you think that we should do videos of some more "subtle" examples (for lack of a better word)? As someone viewing the website, would you have watched them?

Thanks again for your feedback!
Those "shares in companies" or stock makes you part owner. As part owner you may get a share of the profits in the form of dividends and voting rights.

When you buy stock in a company whether is in during an IPO or new issue of stock that money is used to hire employees or build a new factory and make even more profit. That can increase your dividend and make the stock go higher. The same thing can happen when you buy the stock on the open market but the connection isn't as direct. Companies with good stock performance are able to attract better employees which will increase their profits which benefits the stock holder.

None of this happens when you buy bitcoin or ethereum. Some crypto exchanges make up their own crypto currency and offer high interest rates on those but as we are seeing most of those are turning out to be scams.
I agree. It might be because having it go clockwise would make the sun appear to be setting? I do agree with the other point about having the wheel just go in one direction as well.
I recall heavily using gnome 2?/KDE 2? (indeed I had to test things on them for work) Circa 2005 and indeed when Sun heavily invested in gnome to make the "java desktop" on Solaris to add accessibility etc so they could win institutional contracts. Was perfectly on the way to being great.

Then the great childish "let's rewrite everything from scratch" for both Linux DEs happened. It was a decade? before KDE was remotely viable again.

The gnome/gtk Devs focusing on zero configuration options possibly the most rubbish redesign I've ever seen.

KDE/Plasma only became viable to me in the last 24 months. Felt like a POC
Starting with an assumption that Republicans have a goal of winning elections isn't it pretty rational for them for do character assassination and not irrational? The average voter isn't going to fact check your attack ads.
I had a newspaper send me to collections when I tried that; over a matter of about $18 for newspapers they never delivered because I hadn't paid.
I don't think Vim ever hated extensibility. Vim is defined by its modality and vocabulary and grammar, which Emacs lacks without extensions like evil.
Personally I would much prefer to keep my banking (cash storage) separate from my credit. To me, it is nice to have a barrier between the two. This way, your credit provider won't randomly decide to shut you out of your bank because you're too small!

I see your point, but I am not of that opinion.
I'm not saying that is the only barometer I would use if I were measuring performance but again, I'd be surprised if you told me that an average Kickstarter now was anywhere close to being as productive (whatever metric you'd like to use) before their unionization.
Page is blank for me and I couldn't find a version though your site's search.

Your experience is that editors are cheap and that publishers readily supply substantial editing services, not requiring that practically all editing work is done before entertaining a submission? That's contrary to the experience of multiple close friends and relatives who are writers or are working on getting published, and to that of multiple others I follow whose experiences I've heard or read about.
I guess they can mothball it afterward.
Source: the whole economy. If someone offers X, and you want Z, and you sign a contract for Y, they are giving you Y. Do you evet give Comcast an extra $50 for fun?

It's what the company supports, not what the union supports. And "performance based raises" are obviously not CoL raisesm
I think you're correct that the statement isnt necessarily indicative of the writer having a specific bias. However misleading yet provocative comparisons like that are actively incentivized by the structure of journalism at the moment. Writing like that takes less effort and research yet it gets more views and shares. So perhaps its not malice or agenda pushing, but the writer also understands that being misleading is directly profitable. Why would they bother doing the work to make a more accurate or nuanced comparison if will hinder their own interests.
Free speech absolutist does not like his critics exercising free speech. Seems to me to be more like a free speech hypocrite.
I've been an engineer at Amazon for almost 10 years. Been promoted twice. Ask me anything.

Yes, we're having a lot of trouble recruiting engineers, because of discussion threads like this where a lot of misinformation is shared about what it's like to work here.

Is it tough? Yes. Is it competitive? Yes. Is there stack ranking? Yes.

Is it the most fulfilling and challenging and interesting job I've had in 22 years of Software Development? (The latter half of my career has been here). Yes, yes, and yes.

This is the best job I've ever had and I think it can be for a lot of others who want to have disproportionately large impact day-to-day and on-the-world.
I think they would. Toyota already had very good hybrid cars for years, so plenty of experiences with batteries.
Tesla made electric cars sexy, but I was always just a matter of time before electric would go mainstream.
Those were rationalizations. Nobody thinks enslavement like that is justified.
Way back when AWS EC2 was announced by Jeff Bezos. He showed a graph where a startup needed to scale fast because startup's launch went viral and they were able to add more power (machines, cpu etc) quick. OK, nice. But then the first launch hype was over and EC2 allowed them to scale down equally fast to safe money. That was the killer feature for me: servers rented by the hour.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 or https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-and-edit-files... I guess?

First one also mentions the ⌘-click on a window's title
No. Flying wings do not allow for efficient internal layout of passenger seats, cargo areas, and engines. You're better off designing something with minimal wing drag and a body that provides additional lift.
The TypeScript website is very convincing: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

I was just learning JavaScript, heard a lot about TypeScript, but scrolling on this page was what convinced me to learn TypeScript. (And I am deeply skeptical of Microsoft and I've was hesitant at the time to learn JS tools and frameworks.)

Not sure if it's a contender for "best of all time" but I remember it as strikingly good
This was great!

IMO the NYT really shines with their arts/culture sections! Makes the subscription worth it for me personally.

I do feel like their politics/opinion sections have gone downhill.

But every now and then they do a long-form article which convinces me to re-subscribe for a year. This one was incredible: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/the-jungle-pri...
Working together to keep LinkedIn safe
"4 hour itinerary" is hardly excessive for a big tech role, what are you on about?
Shocking lack of research on your part. His mother was a supermodel and his father was/is a fairly sketchy businessman. Despite knowing his father had a dark side, he still chose to be with him after their parents divorce, signaling where his true emotions lay:

"After Maye and Errol divorced in 1980, Elon mostly lived with his father, who says he owned thoroughbred horses, a yacht, several houses and a Cessna."[0]

He has had a charmed existence his entire life.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/10/2014-rocket-man-the-o...
Yes, editors are wonderful and ought to be paid well (even if authors aren't...) but authors who can't afford editors (i.e. all the ones trying to break in to writing but who don't have substantial financial backing) benefit greatly from tools that help them do their own editing more efficiently.
Antarctica does not have polar bears, introducing a apex predators to a balanced environment is not a good idea.
Haven't the GTK developers basically admitted that GTK exists to serve the needs of GNOME, and if anyone else gets good use out of it, that's accidental and unsupported?

I really wish we had another popular GUI toolkit that isn't Qt.
this is a huge problem. arguably one of the primary technical reasons that 'web 2.0' was such a dud.
Hi! I'm the author, thank you for the encouraging words!
I'll think about the aspect ration thing. Don't think I'll ever do it for the Area Capture, but I think I can add it to the in-app crop (which is a muuuuch better way to get a cropped screenshot with Shottr).
I don't believe regular planes to ever run on hydrogen and be commercially viable. Hydrogen is not very dense, even in liquid form (to be compared with the volume already taken by kerosene on a plane). And requires very strong -and thick- container walls.

However with dwindling fuel supplies, I'm pretty positive we'll see the return of glorious, massive blimps. Powered by a fraction of the hydrogen it uses to float in the air, savvy meteorology, and thin solar panels.
If it’s the pitch then you don’t have a product.

Google wave had what might be the greatest pitch of all time. I was certainly all in.

It’s 2022 and all we have to save us from email is Slack which is a pale imitation of Wave wearing a sparkly tutu stolen from IRC.
>...The difference is that we (America) can change China and the Indo-Pacific, but not the US prison system.

I'm not sure how ending prison slavery abroad in a sovereign country is supposedly easier than ending it at home, especially in a country that rambles incessantly about "freedom". The fact of the matter is that much of the US population likes the system, and by focusing on China, we don't have to acknowledge that offensive fact.
The suggestions under item III ("keep up with crypto or fall behind") seem to be less about education and more about perpetuating the echo chamber. Item VII ("someone must be offended, some of the time") seems like a rationalization for being a bit of a jerk. Some of the other items share one or both of these vibes. It all makes this a bit of a joke.

> We hire strictly based on merit

Not even close. When you're explicitly making certain ideologies, behaviors, and character traits mandatory, you are most definitely not hiring strictly on merit by any definition that has any meaning whatsoever.
Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
we're in 2022, gdb asks me "can i download missing symbols from the internet" when it loads a binary and does it
The fact that people are leaving with their foot is a strong evidence in itself that the job is not good. Does Ford lose all their workers right now? No. But they are unionized and make more money. Of course different industry but since Amazon chose to be in the industry of razor-thin margin, they have to find a solution to their own problem. If their business model relies on super cheap labor, then they must adapt.
Certainly works for GPT-3 as a writing prompt:

'"im making drugs...for cats?" I shake my head as the prospect of tenure track seems to fade away.

"No, I'm not making drugs for cats."

"I'm not sure what you're trying to say."

"I'm trying to say that I'm not going to be a tenure-track professor."

"Oh."

I'm not sure what else to say. I know that I should be upset, or at least disappointed. But I'm not. I'm relieved.

I've been on the tenure track for six years, and I'm tired. I'm tired of the politics, the infighting, the backstabbing. I'm tired of the constant pressure to publish, to get grants, to bring in money. I'm tired of having to choose between my research and my teaching. I'm tired of feeling like I'm never good enough.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do next, but I know that I'm done with the tenure track. And that's OK.

"So, what are you going to do?"

"I'm not sure yet. But I'm open to suggestions."

"Well, you could always make drugs for cats."

I shake my head and laugh. "No, I don't think that's quite what I'm looking for."

But who knows? Maybe making drugs for cats is exactly what I need.

"In all seriousness, though, I wish you the best of luck in whatever you decide to do."

"Thank you. I appreciate that."

And with that, I walk away from the tenure track, and into the unknown.

Who knows what the future holds? But for now, I'm OK with not knowing.

I'm not sure what the future holds, but I'm open to whatever comes my way.

And that, to me, is the most exciting part.

(This story was originally published on The Professor Is In blog. It has been republished here with the author's permission.)'
Why do they create drag? Is it difficult to make them flush with the exterior of the plane?
Hi! Thank you, that's one of the features that I'm most proud of : )
It was indeed a nuisance, but when a fraudulent transaction appeared on my statement, it had to be done. I just found it convenient to not update the card on the NYT.
>No longer do a small cabal of bureaucrats or politicians decide how much money circulates or who receives special privilege

Stopped reading here. There's still a cabal, it's just a different group of bad actors.
He raised a lot of zero dilution cash with the flamethrower. How many people can do that?
Wall Street Journal

If I had more time I’d do Financial Times as well.
I'll bite; yes precisely. You sound like a brownshirt trying to justify smashing a wealthy Jewish' person's antique statue. The public ruins our nice things and we have a right to complain; we also have the right to keep our nice things from degradation through democratization. It's worth noting that almost every single classical commentator from Socrates up until the Enlightenment considered, "Damos-cracy" (Democracy) an undesirable form of government; Mob rule.

Remember it's not, "waspy old Conservatives" that keep new housing from being built in San Francisco-- No, it's rich Palo Alto liberals empowered by free market neoliberal power structures that keep guys that wear sock-with-sandals in multi-million dollar homes. Think about it awhile.
Singapore Changi Airport's New $1.3B Lifestyle Hub [video]
Reposted since it appears to have been flagged for the title edit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31783508
I loved Openai's codex JavaScript game making live demo(1) where they actually created a fully functioning game in JavaScript using just plain old english.

Kind of changed my whole view about programming and it's future.

(1) https://youtu.be/SGUCcjHTmGY
Exactly this. Context is everything. This checkbox would be terrible for most use cases of the checkbox, but seems like it would work well in this example.

That being said, I think the approach could be really useful for a lot of interfaces. UX design often overlooks the little details that happen when a user interacts with something. A little extra zing can go a long way.
The Unix Chainsaw by Gary Bernhardt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnyApKysg4

almost nothing new, but a clear mastery of combining existing tools into high leverage
There is so much nonsense in this thread. The letter has nothing to do with working conditions.

I take that back:

The letter was spammed to all employees using company resources, which means its authors and supporters were creating a hostile work environment. Firing the dead-weight woke cry bullies was the proper move.
It's not even from their group. It's from a winery run by an ex-member