skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to attempt to define information (because I think it's beyond my ability), but what I mean by it is what I think "information" means as it relates to physical phenomena, for example the black hole information paradox [1], or Shannon's entropy [2], or constructor theory [3], or calculating-space [4], or digital physics [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
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VC funding enables the high salaries in startups
and that is because those startups are competing for talent against high margin, highly profitable other companies which can afford to pay very well.
It is an issue in all fields. The reason why we have delays in major infrastructure projects and why software projects are notoriously hard to plan both boil down to unplanned and unexpected changes to requirements. The fact that it’s easy to change software makes it that much more vulnerable to last minute requirement changes. If something is exactly the same we can just reuse existing software and we don’t call that “development”. It simply becomes “buying” instead. And that makes most software development explorative in nature. Now tell me how many explorative real world, non-software projects have a well-adhered to and exact plan.
Or they can organize, as is their legal right, and renegotiate those terms together.

Even if you aren't unionized, it is your right to get together with your coworkers & advocate for better working conditions.
One month later…

> Apple delays plans to roll out CSAM detection in iOS 15 after privacy backlash

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/03/apple-csam-detection-delay...
I don't think they should knowingly allow it. On the other hand I don't think they should do anything about it proactively.
As something of a counterpoint, a literal 4-hour assignment isn't that bad--especially as an alternative to a day of interviews.

On a relative scale that might be true. In absolute terms you've already lost a high proportion of good senior people who might otherwise have been interested either way. Most good developers I know would just walk on seeing a 4-hour assignment that was actually a 4-hour assignment. Some would accept a full day of interviews if the employer had a reputation for being a good place to work and offered exceptional compensation but plenty wouldn't and I doubt any would for an employer that wasn't very top tier. Risk/reward and all that.
> The actual reason for many is probably that with a high enough deficit, you can feel so tired that it's hard to burn the same amount of calories.

Maybe, but for the folks most in need of weight loss, how active are they to begin with? Even for a fit person, it's often impractical to be active enough to make up for overeating. So while it'd be ideal to decrease intake without further decreasing activity, they'd still probably lose more weight by decreasing intake even if that brings activity to near-0.

> Walking 20k steps per day is no problem for most healthy adults, at such a deficit it becomes really hard.

Google Fit on my phone says I don't get 20k steps in, even though I run/jog four miles most mornings. I'm physically capable of moving more, but I have a full-time desk job, family responsibilities, etc.
Skiff.org charges $8 USD/month for it's premium service, and it's just an implementation of PGP encryption. I have no idea what this as to do with crypto.

ens.domains is a privately owned and managed DNS provider. It's litterally the exact opposite of what web3 claims to be. Having a "constitution" is just re-wording "Terms of Service". I love how it sells hard covers versions of it's Terms of Service for fiat at Blurb.com. And no, Blurb does not accept cryptocurrency payments even, lol.

Signal.org existed well before they added crypto, and quite frankly, yes I did just about completely stop using it - and so did many others. The introduction of cryptocurrency in that app litterally chased away users rather than improve adoption.

Gawd, could go on forever here.
For the most part, I agree.

But...

If the UX wasn't garbage I'd defend it, too. It has a lot of nice features and integrations. But the UX changes they have made in the recent past (few years-ish), made it worse, for me.

And, in my opinion, the reason some other company hasn't come along and toppled it: critical mass. It's the same reason Epic is king in the hospital IT world. The UI/UX can be garbage (and it's so much worse with Epic than with JIRA), but organizations will still stick with it, because it's what they know.
Well, no thank you. I have enough problems getting my teens - - especially my son -- to live the real world, to make friends, socialize, get outside, breath fresh air, and get off touch screens and games.

I won't let VR goggles enter my home. I'm not the only one. Maybe it's the future, but I'll hold it off as long as I can -- especially if it's Facebook, with all their ethical blindness and attention monopolizing -- that's pushing it.
For some of these, like the $80/6" Shars caliper that you can get from Amazon in 24 hours (most of the time), it's not even worth dealing with recalibration. If you no longer trust it, get a new one.
I agree that Jira isn't wonderful, but I can't think of any of any task management system that I have used, that I would recommend.

Are GitHub Issues the answer? I have only tried those for small open source projects and not big enterprise projects.
4 day work week.
You can inexpensively (~$10) check if your calipers have been whacked out of calibration as frequently as you want with a gauge block or other calibration standard. If they have, you can also calibrate using the same block.
Apple hardware is generally quite good. Besides the complete lack of repairability on recent models, new Macbooks are really quite nice work laptops.

The software experience, on the other hand... it's been slipping downhill for almost a decade now. I haven't been able to "full-time" MacOS since Mojave, and with each update I just find myself using it less and less. I suspect this is mostly driven by their attempts to appease shareholders: changes like the Big Sur UI overhaul, forcing everyone onto Metal, prioritizing SaaS offerings, all of it contributes to the Windows-10-ization of MacOS. Meanwhile, MacOS has major architectural issues they could be fixing, like their increasingly broken BSD compatibility layer or rectifying their licensing woes with GPLv3.

I really wish people luck in bringing Linux to modern Macs, but I'm not very hopeful that it will be a fruitful long-term relationship. Apple has time-and-time-again shown that their bottom line comes first, and if Linux becomes an appealing enough alternative for developers, I suspect they'll cut support for that too. People said the same thing about Nintendo when developing custom firmware for the Switch ("Who would shut down a project used for running Android/Linux on first-party hardware?"), but subsequent models came with extensive homebrew mitigations.

Instead of dealing with these issues, I've just cut Apple out of my life. As a developer, my life has gotten so much easier, and as a user, I've got so much more peace-of-mind. It feels great, but it's not a path everyone can take. Apple (like Microsoft and Google) deserves strict regulation to ensure that their behavior is ethical and doesn't promote harmful lock-in.
There exist people now who spend all of their sleeping time, and the majority of their waking time in primitive virtual environments while wearing incommensurately cheap hardware, speaking with almost nobody, over Internet connections barely fit for the task of voice, let alone streaming video. There exists appeal, for a few. You can do a lot with an avatar making one of two faces.
Nah, there's enough big players out there, and the tech will continue to get better and cheaper. I think Meta might be surprised by how many potential customers will run to their competitors if it means they don't need to have a Facebook account to use VR.
Yep, and the same thing is true for the other giants - Amazon, Google, Microsoft.

We're already living in a world where most segments of your life are taxed in a way from these 3. In a few years they will cannibalize the rest.
Nothing besides evidence that shows that the mind is somehow not connected to the body would be the only thing that could convince me that materialism isn't real

I don't care about what the philosopher thinks because I never see them use evidence to back up their claims

As a neuroscientist, we can actively see that we can manipulate the mind in real time by manipulating neurons. There is no reason to believe, whatsoever, that the mind is somehow disconnected from the brain
The people hating on JIRA never worked in a shop without it.

If you're old enough to remember before Atlassian came along - just how was it better? Spreadsheets? Trax?

You don't want structured workflow? Don't work in a company with more than 5 people.

"I am an accountant and hate ERP" .. tough shit, for real.
Mate, I don't know if you realize this, but most people here just want to hide due to minor privacy concerns, not a plan to overthrow the government or some shit. Of course if the FBI is after you, no, Mullvad won't protect you. But in the more realistic scenario that Disney might be after you, would Mullvad be a liability or not, that is the question.
Jenkins uses Jira. Only one I know of.
No one clears the table in an off-cycle election. The notion that controlling the legislative branch is going to have an effect on his company is a bit much, especially when state governments and state courts will have so much power, not to mention that the right wing won't control the executive for the next two years following those elections
And try to get a straight answer on pricing from the ServiceNow rep…
"Presentation of technical assignment to the team"

awful idea...
Not sure how they “simulated” these vaccines efficiency.
If all big pharmas data looks alike, does it means they just generate trial data using the same software, while russians did it in some other app?
Btw can we “simulate” how much deaths were in each group? Or “simulation” is not working that way?
> I hope that every infrastructure project tries to make a measure of the total economic gain of said project.

This is basically impossible to do short of shutting the system down for year to measure the loss (unthinkable).

And even then, you'd have a measurement that doesn't mean anything because it couldn't measure the opportunity costs of the path not taken when the chocie was made initially.

As a matter of fact, I'll go one step further: I don't even think the question makes sense.

Economies are chaotic systems, and even if it is sometimes rather clear after the fact that a specific choice leads to overall positive outcomes (such as choosing to implement a high-quality public transportation system in Switzerland), actually measuring the "gain" is basically impossible. Worse: it's an ill-defined question.
I think the goal here is to have an out of the box "self-hosted Twitch" experience.

Spin up their Docker container, connect it to a storage provider, and you're good to go.

Jitsi and Nextcloud are video conferencing solutions if I'm not mistaken, this is livestreaming.. A bit of a different model, where only the broadcaster is sending out video, and everyone else is just watching and maybe using the (text-based) chat room.
Thank you. This is amazing. Precisely what I've been searching for. Something cheap, affordable, and most of all, moves a large quantity of air within a short amount of time. Loudness doesn't bother me one bit since I almost always have white noise playing in the background.
AD: Put the pay scale in the ad. Let's not waste everyone's time.
Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing:
If you want 4 hours of someone's valuable time a) pay for it, or b) commit 4 hours of your time. Either is reasonably fair
Presentation of technical assignment to the team:
That's just straight-up pay-for-the-time. If you've all come this far in the process, there must be some interest and it only seems fair. Also, why do you care what the team thinks? They're either on the initial phone-screen, or you really don't care what they think. Don't waste the team's time. If you really care, make that 45-60 minutes.
Do you still need a Facebook account?
This is an important take away.

A lot of senior management isn't about specific outcomes, but building muscle memory within an organization that evolves into workflows and processes that level up the company. A favorite quote of mine is "leadership is holding a vision long enough for someone else to realize it for themselves."
It’s interesting — I dislike about 50% of the photos, but love the other 50%
Let’s say I’m a saas vendor that has some web product, it doesn’t need user profiles as such, just gated access. Without need to take credit card payments, one can sell a token that provides access, and know that the api to query its status is going to be stable and eternal. It simplifies a particular use case that I think works.
Tinnitus seems to be linked to sleep
Data scientist, I'd guess.
> Not everyone deeply cares about their carbon footprint when by far the largest amount of CO2 generated is industrial.

Industry makes stuff that consumers demand, either directly or indirectly. It’s a bit of a meme to suggest that global warming is all down to companies emitting co2 just for lols. Of course, industry is sometime dirty because it’s cheaper, but it’s putting one’s head in the sand to pretend that consumers have no bearing on what companies do.

This is not to say that the blame lays solely with consumers. People are acting rationally — they want to go on holiday and can afford it; what’s stopping them? The issue is one of regulation. If emitting actually had a cost (well, a cost now, to the emitter, rather than to the whole planet at some later date) people would make better decisions.
I believe their intention with the lab is to focus more on written articles instead of video content? He’s complained on his podcast (in the context of talking about the lab) about the decrease in quality print journalism in the tech space.
The idea of making jokes up vs. down seems to be predicated on there being a very hierarchical or class stratified society. While I realize my country (the USA) does have classes and class migration is terribly difficult, we also live under the ideal of a meritocracy.

However I do think the younger generations are trying to tell us all that emperor has no clothes. I also think we are swinging too far the other way, where every detail of oneself is used to define our place in society, as evidenced by the proliferation of intersectionality in our culture.

Anyway, my point is that both cultures have distinct but different ways of approaching the hierarchy of power but both (arguably) going too far in “protecting” the lower in the social order. My fear is that this has the (hopefully) accidental side effect of reinforcing that very social order. The idea the “elites” need to make rules and laws to “protect” the non-elites is just way to paternalistic for me. For those being protected, it is easy to internalize the protection as being necessary to defend against an intrinsically unfair society. For others, it can “confirm” their belief that those being protected are intrinsically lower than themselves.

My overall point is that well-intended acts have undesirable consequences and the pace at which we move is faster than the pace at which we can account for these outcomes.
VR as a future is tied into "identity" and certain group identities, some of which we see clearly now in social media.

Identities which someone can invent for themselves which can be independent generally from geography, genetics, looks, temperament, age etc. Freedom to be whoever and whatever you want to be. Today's social VR users are often playing with their own identity right now.

It's all about image, a spectacle, a way to make personalities and reality flexible and it's a way for identity to be expressed as a kind of collection of things that can be commodified and packaged up for sale. That's the future which is looked at.

However I think we might see a genuine sub culture emerging, as a reaction against this. We can possibly see some of this in some of the language used in a few strange semi-underground youth music events today. It's not anti tech, and not anti identity at all! More like a demand to be in control of their own methods and ways of consumption. A certain ironic detachment from corporations.
But Google Captchas aren’t any better
Only a very small percentage of the population has a demand for encrypted email or decentralized anything. Most people trust institutions blindly and it gives them anxiety to even think about not trusting them. Most people don't even agree that there's a problem at all with centralized institutional trust-based systems. They don't understand or trust algorithms, they trust brands on TV.

Web 2.0 gave us legitimate added productivity and functionality of being able to do stuff online for the first time. Web 3.0 does nothing but give us a trustless system that nobody asked for. Zero new functionality in any of those apps.

If you trust banks and FAANG companies, as most people do, Web 3.0 has exactly zero value.
> They do this for transit projects in Toronto.

They may do this, but whether the number they derive has any kind of meaning or value is another thing altogether.
What do you mean he didn't give examples? Just throw a dart at any web3 project, and there is your example.
Rowan Atkinson could literally sit in a room watching their little toes and people still would give him money.
I Left the 150 Employee SaaS Company I Cofounded to Get into Nuclear Power
Isn't part of the reason people are spending on iPhone that they can signal wealth to friends? From what I remember Apple always sells more when then introduce new golden colors so people can show they have the new device.
Fantastic. ISO8601 date is a must, otherwise, its delightful :)
Why do you think a tech-growth S curve is the right model for civilization? Companies plateau and then eventually decline as do cultures and countries.
https://sso.tax/
Oh wow! I hadn't seen this. Thanks for sharing.
My "really old dentist" drilled a whole straight through 2 teeth and didn't tell me after filling it up... It is just an anecdote (as is your account), but I now prefer a university clinic where young students are taught and most of the time keep working for a time there as well. Up to date techniques and they are not out for the big bucks yet.
> They just protect the object's ID, not its content.

This is very similar to how DRM works (protects the ID, not the content, hence we need DMCAs if someone tries to illegally stream a movie on YouTube or whatever) and it seems to be doing a pretty good job. In spite of everyone hating it, we have the luxury of Spotify, Netflix, Apple+, etc. because of DRM. NFTs definitely have a use case in gaming and digital collectibles; they also happen to be consumer-friendly (unlike the current status quo of digital collectibles). I wish I could sell my thousands of items in WoW for real money, or my Fornite skins for real money, or my unneeded Magic Arena cards for real money, but I'm locked in their ecosystem.

The tokenomnics aspect of Web3 is mainly speculation, which imo also has a use case, but it most likely will be impacted by some much-needed regulation.
My problem with calipers is that there are three separate measuring modalities (outer, inner, depth) that can each require different zeroes as they get damaged.
>. I assume this is because you never know how clever people can be in cheating remotely, so they can't really trust the applicant did the project.

I mean.. in the tech world tho... Unless you are literally having someone else do the assignment for you entirely, what exactly constitutes 'cheating'? Isn't it common knowledge that most programmers refer to StackOverflow (or the equivalent site for devops) all day?

This is what I find so dumb about assessments and tests in the tech space.... there is no such thing as "cheating". Either you know how to google and figure something out or you don't. Most people can't just pull solutions off the top of their head. Tech is too broad. You have to do research.

And if thats not what you mean by 'cheating', I just don't believe people are applying to jobs out there and having other people literally do entire assignments for them.... If you can't do the work yourself, you would be fired in no time... so whats the point? Or if you can have someone else always do the work for you, why not still hire that person if the works getting done either way?

There is no "You might not always have a calculator in your pocket, so we need to test that you know this stuff off the top of your head" in tech. I will always have a calculator, robust IDE, and google. Tests and assignments for hiring in tech are completely bogus, at all levels.
Huh, TIL that Steve posts these here himself :).

As feedback, I find that new executives, even with external credibility won't be able to get the "innovation heroes" to talk to them at first. You have to make time, make space, and follow through.

Don't just have a single all-hands meeting to say "Come to me with your stories of friction", but continually do "skip level meetings" and "meet the team 'lunches'". And then boost that signal personally.

If you want an organization to value the removal of friction and apathy, it requires the most senior executives to actually celebrate the groups that were fighting that fight. Otherwise, these folks would rather remain nameless and wait for this new executive to go away like all the rest have. They're already doing their job, and it's too emotionally taxing to believe that this new executive means what they said.
It's not that I think is a particularly good or bad implementation of project management software (though I think as others have pointed out, in its effort to be all things to all people, I think it has converged on a lowest common denominator solution). I reject the concept of general purpose project management software. I think that at best these tools are primarily surveillance tools for middle management. They disempower workers and make them fungible. The workers are evaluated on tool points rather than the actual value they create (sometimes these may be alignment, but often they are not). At worst, I think they actually lower product quality because of the poor incentives that are inherent in a system that rewards closing issues and creating "features".

I believe the best workers (at both the management and IC level) are not going to want to waste a significant chunk of their professional lives in Jira world and the worst workers just want to keep their paycheck coming every month so they will just submit to it and keep cashing their checks. The organization will thus rot and converge on the lowest common denominator employee, which is indeed what the tool kind of promised: fungible, low skill workers with predictable (low) output.
Saying that Epic has a predatory business while actively praising Apple taking 30% for doing fuck all shows you're truly either in denial or have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
In web3, the "curation fee" is gas fees.
Cool, but I'm never buying anything from Zuckerberg.
I have four of them to cover both floors of a two-story house. They work well (so long as you remember to clean the prefilter every month or two!) and are very quiet on the lower fan speeds.

The only thing I'd ding them for is not having a fan speed setting in between "nearly silent" and "jet engine", but you should only need the highest setting in unusual circumstances.
Yeah, the difference is whether you can run the same air through the filter multiple times.