skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter was instrumental in the Arab Spring[0]. Many organize and plan protests on there, trying to recreate that initial success. Twitter is a mirror of the real world, albeit a very bad one. People who say 'Twitter is just text' have obviously never watched whole 30-minutes news article videos on Twitter, so it's not 'just text', it's full of rich media.

The Russia-Ukraine war is all over the platform, for better or worse. It annoys me that people are resorting to disaster tourism, popcorn in their hands, whilst watching the world burn. Stop being an armchair activist, and get out there and make a dent whilst you still can. A small retweet of something you think is important means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...
The linked tool git-branchless handles this pretty well (https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless, I'm the author). You basically run `git checkout <branch>`, `git commit --amend`, and then `git restack`. This will rebase all dependent branches. As long as you're not using merge commits, you won't have to resolve the same conflict more than once. (It will also warn you up front whether or not merge conflicts will need to be resolved; you can pass `--merge` to start merge conflict resolution.)

To rebase your commit stack on top of the main branch, use `git sync` instead of `git merge`. Merge commits often make it so that you have to resolve conflicts multiple times.
That was fun. I opened the WSJ link from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202295 and consentomatic shrunk the "can we spy on you" popup and then auto scrolled through it and unchecked everything.

Not sure how well it worked but it was satisfying.
My gripe with MacOS is that it creates huge files. A few MB for a screenshot, when 250KB are often enough; and probably 10MB per minute for a small area, for video, which makes it immediately impossible to send to customers.
I agree - Mean World Syndrome [0] is taking its toll on society.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome
I agree, people who are only fluent in one language (and who don't study anthropology) tend to ignore the huge cultural factor in these things.

Indian people already have a hard time getting hired in your own country, you think your boomer boss is going to go out of his way to get them? I strongly doubt this.

Outsourcing has been tried for a long time, if it was a permanent solution it would have become the norm. Not to say that there is never a time for it, but software is, ironically, where I think it's the least likely to work out, precisely for the reasons you cited.
I'm not a lawyer but does at will mean anything in cases where you are dismissed for an illegal reason? Basically your company can fire you at any time but if they fire you because your black it doesn't matter if in theory they could have fired you because you wore red on Tuesday if in fact they actually fired for being black.

If its protected to talk about your salary or wages and they fired her for doing so its illegal.
It's not necessary for everyone to use Twitter, or social media in general, for it to affect the culture. And if he can admit that, then most of his objections to Haidt's article sound more like misunderstandings of it.
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More like a default key, I suppose.
Intel plans to simulate this kind of old-fashioned hiring by hosting a job fair in the metaverse early next year. Tech workers—or people who want to be tech workers but have unconventional backgrounds—will strap on virtual-reality headsets, select avatars and pitch themselves to Intel.

“We’re still working through the details, but I’m assuming people will look like aliens or something,” says Intel spokeswoman Chelsea Hughes, adding that the goal is to prevent imperfect algorithms and unconscious biases from filtering out good candidates.

Brilliant. So they replace hypothesized implicit bias with ... an explicit bias for people willing to jump through whatever hoops the company puts in front of them. Like showing up to the interview dressed up like an alien, for example.
Texas is very good at water planning. Solar does make sense if you have lots of land. How much skilled labor actually works at a fab? Attracting skilled labor to work far enough out, that that amount of land is affordable could be a problem. If the weather, and power situation remain. It might be hard in any case.
It hasn’t been just one manager. I guessed you’d make that assumption though ;)
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What sort of programs do you use crystal for?
How does it matter if it's a news article relevant to hn audience or a blog article from somewhere else?

Not everyone scans the internet every day
Compare the evolution of the alpha wave in Israel, France and Lebanon. Israel, had also drastically cut down on community measures like lockdowns, curfews and closure of non-necessary businesses.
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Indeed. I stopped reading after she said:

> Because, brace yourselves, “real time” refers to process prioritization not response time.

She latter back pedals and does define it correctly.
I think it's a favorable tax environment. Just remember that these companies claim to be progressive, but if they can save $20 on their taxes, that all goes out the window.
As long as it doesn't get chilly, a little too warm or too many people set their AC to below 78 the texas power grid works great!
Yeah I don't know where benreesman pulled that statement from, neither the blog post nor the original OpenAI paper claims anything of the sort.

That aside, I'm not sure how impressive is an AI that could do 37% of "all coding tasks". It's like a self-driving car that only works 37% of the time.
Official Apple Support page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614

3rd party description of it:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/icloud-private-relay/
If you look at Noah Smith’s substack linked above in another comment he links to another post at the end contesting his somewhat and claiming if you look at the price data differently the divergence is quite manifest before.
In a way, writing software is translating human speech into machine speech. Any good software developer is fluent in the "machine" part, but trying to "translate" from a language (and culture) you don't master is a recipe for disaster.
I don't think this was a thinly veiled insult either. It was what we call "robust debate."

Bruce Schneier popularized the term "security theater." I would broaden that to "policing theater."

I've noticed that a lot of public protection agencies like to demonstrate to the normies that they're on the job by prosecuting the normies. After all, normies are much less likely to fight back than real pedophiles. And they still count as "enforcement actions."
Hardening SSH doesn’t generally mean “making the openssh process more secure”. It means “making connecting to your servers more secure”. So turning off password auth, or restricting network access to the SSH daemon, or using stronger centralized auth all do that.

Most of the risks that affect SSH are around credential lifecycles, weak credentials, and credential compromise.
Apparently they just... shut down: https://www.kvue.com/article/money/economy/boomtown-2040/sam...

I've read about chip fabs colocating with power plants, but apparently they just plan to sign agreements with the local utility for guarantees: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2021/09/24/samsung-u...
I find it somewhat horrifying. The clearest indication to stop something is for the body to literarily give up... And then to jury rig something to go beyond what can be expected.
Yeah, there's breakdowns where events are tied close enough that they could be seen as de facto firing for race/salary, etc.

Of course, this is all coming from a NYPost article, so I'm assuming it's leaving out some details.
The author maintains an AWK implementation:

https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
Is Twitter today the same Twitter than enabled the Arab Spring though?
Buffer of batteries and generator backup
The reclassification of any deaths that could be attributed to covid was happening in the spring and before.
This is a good point, yeah--of course they're bred for it. That they taste similarly relatively-sweet irrespective of artificial sugar consumption is orthogonal to how much sugar is actually in them.
Oh I see. My intention wasn't to compare the two nations, but that I was surprised that people across the globe feel the same way about their government and politics and COVIDs influence on it.
Child abuse also happens in foster care homes, in fact the chances of that are a lot higher than in the normal population.

Between four(!) and twenty eight(!!!) more times:

https://www.focusforhealth.org/sex-abuse-and-the-foster-care...
I have one of those shirts :)
The political right and left are equally susceptible to conspiracy theories
I've done all of my hiring via UpWork and will continue to hire via UpWork. After about 2.5 years at this, I prefer talent in Ukraine and Vietnam. Post a project description with good details and pay and you'll have all the talent you can handle. I don't think being in the same timezone matters at all. I have no idea why you'd hire American technical talent when you can get the same talent at 5 - 10x less the cost.
git-branchless author here. By "branchless", I mean literally using detached HEAD as the primary state of development. If you're using tools like Gerrit or Phabricator, you never have to explicitly make a branch to get your code merged. If using GitHub, then branches are unavoidable, but it can be nice to do branchless development as part of rapid prototyping (see https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Workflow:-div...).

Another term you could use is "anonymous branching". This is not technically accurate in the above workflows, but it captures the essence pretty well in Git, more so than "branchless".
It depends on the local culture. You've gotta be pretty dedicated to ride a bike in the metro near me on some streets, because the layout isn't very friendly to bikers.

Those that do seem to rarely obey traffic laws- the number of near-miss incidents alone caused by bicyclists who run red lights or weave in and out of lanes, up onto sidewalks, then back down into traffic is too damn high, to borrow a meme.

The city would be a whole lot better off somewhere in the middle- more room for dedicated biking, and more enforcement of safe behavior.

It's not just the roads either, unfortunately. There's a shared walking and bicycling path that runs around a lake in the city. It's fairly popular, but I've never been more than twice because I find walking there is unpleasant. You can only get nearly clipped by bikers flying past, not staying in their lane, just so many times.
Usually we say that The Simpsons did it first, but I think this one goes to Futurama: https://youtu.be/v8Ha6tNvRUg
I had a different experience, 8 years ago I needed to get a job quickly and went round my local town pubs with CVs, had an interview the next day and a job the day after.
Given the wrong things I read about both kosher and halal in How To Eat To Live I’ll refrain from holding my breath.
The Journey Begins
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Legendary in the sense that you got all the details wrong. If you're answering someone saying 'citation needed' the least you can do is look up what you want to reference first so you can actually share useful information instead of multiplying confusion. If you can't remember or don't have time to look something up, you can just not reply.
I did this in 2016 after graduating high school and it worked surprisingly well. I had been applying to places online and never heard back, went in and they had me working the same day. I was assuming every place would say apply online, but it seemed most employees were referrals.
This is observably the prevailing folk epistemology in the USA.
Any concrete reasons? SQLite is probably good enough for 99% of websites / apps.
Exactly. Call it "policing theater." Demonstrate that you're doing your job, by doing it a lot.
Sure, but restriction of people’s movement, especially within a nation, is not going to be a popular political position.
Modular housing could be an answer
A few random thoughts on this.

1. The main issue I see is that smartphones are primarily devices for consumption (vs creation). The creation you can do easily are well established tools (digital writing, photography and videography). Where TikTok and Insta have succeeded is simple editing tools for the latter two (+ sharing and social algos etc).

2. To the action we as technologist need to take, is to build tools for smartphones that have a focus on creation rather than consumption (or to fuse the two, a la explorable explanations).

3. It may also be that the smartphone is a broken paradigm and we need to start thinking beyond smartphones, with a keen awareness that powerful corporations have a strong incentive to ensure that consumption is at the core of the technology experience (e.g. Meta and VR).
Does this apply to GKE? Are they going to remove support for Docker as well (or did they?)
I’m pretty sure before covid made disease doom a political issue you could have gotten most any kindergarten teacher to give you the same idea about how immunity works. I remember my own kindergarten teacher doing so when I was 5.
My admiration for Elon Musk has really taken a nose dive. He is on complete opposite trajectory of Steve Jobs which tried to make himself less of an asshole. Elon Musk is going the opposite direction.

Maybe getting kicked out of Tesla would have been healthy for him just like getting kicked out of Apple made Jobs a better person.
I tend to agree with this.

I remember seeing outsourced work done by a Canadian consultancy for a Canadian startup, where in the contract it was required to write passing tests: the tests where testing nothing and were tautologies, so of course always passing.
Back in the summer of 1999 I had finished college and an internship and was weighing my options. Many afternoons I was hanging around the office with a friend that had just been hired by a startup. One day there was some issue, I don't remember exactly what, I casually typed a Perl one liner solving it, and was hired the next day.

And some time later the people from the internship place called me just as I was becoming sick of the post acquisition vibes at the startup, so I left.

And so on... I have never sent a CV or interviewed, sometimes I think I should have.
That area of TX gets about 40 inches of rain a year, about as much as Seattle.

It's not as 'wet' as some areas, but far from the dusty tumbleweeds people often associate with central and west TX.
"Most porn is about watching women pretend to enjoy sex acts that are unpleasant to them. It doesn't have to be this way, but it is."

It doesn't have to be this way, and it isn't. Amateur porn is on the rise and doesn't fit at all with most of the above anti-porn screed. There's always going to be awful porn, but there seems to be a lot of people who refuse to believe that there is also an near-endless supply homemade and semi-pro porn. It's easy to criticize porn (or anything) if you only look at the worst examples.
I don't get this comment. You definitely didn't need a PC clone or disk drive to learn to program.
Try out the linked tool git-branchless (https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless, I'm the author). It should help you restore Phabricator-like workflows. In particular, check out the `git sync`, `git restack`, and `git move` commands for handling rebasing and conflict resolution.
Fabs have all sorts of power systems because even the slightest blip or glitch in power could mean millions in losses

I know a decade or two ago IBM was using superconducting magnets for power smoothing to handle sub-millisecond events. Then you have battery and flywheel systems for bigger drops that are designed to carry load until generators can start and accept load (usually a very short period of time if the generator's oil and coolant are on heaters.)
Some people know how to put parts together but never learned algorithms and data structures. Most may have not learned discrete math, either. Those devs are still very effective but run into quadratic time problems a lot. I’ve met a lot of them in my work.
I have over 20 years in software, only a few as a developer. I can provide value, but I can’t fizz buzz. If I studied for it I could.

There’s a lot of stellar talent out there that won’t fit traditional boxes.
What does most significant divergence mean?

https://vodoueconomics.substack.com/p/dont-believe-the-haiti...
It appears to be so common because it's a self-selected bias of observation. The people who can't fizzbuzz are the ones who don't get hired and are continually circulating among the applicant pool. The people who can will get jobs and remove themselves from the pool.

If the question is why people who can't fizzbuzz keep trying anyway, well, Dunning-Kruger. They don't know what they don't know.
The other day I finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death and I wondered what a similar book about the age of social media would’ve said.
Would you be specific as to what etymology you mean? I linked the extended discussion above.

The Wiktionary page I linked to, as well as many other etymological pages on the web say what I did above. There are many things that could be true, but they do not all have the same likelihood.

Even NPR [1] and the history channel [2] have pages on the etymology of ketchup.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/02/248195661...

[2] https://www.history.com/news/ketchup-surprising-ancient-hist...
That's easy banning all air travel would have stopped this in the beginning.
While you are technically correct, kubernetes removed the Dockershim. Docker is often used as a synonym for containers. However, most of the things should still work [1].

[1]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-...
There’s also the narrative that post-divorce Brin hit on Travis Kalanick’s then-girlfriend according to Super Pumped, leading to the whole Otto imbroglio.

What scandal and pettiness the auto tech industry has involved.
Same. It was the worst back in 2009. I was 19 and my dad couldn't understand why I couldn't get so much as a burger flipping job. I told him how many companies I'd applied to online, but despite how otherwise technologically savvy he is, it didn't compute for some reason. He told me to just walk in to businesses and ask the manager for a job.

So I did just that. If I was lucky, I just got the fluoride stare. Most of the time I was either told sternly "you gotta just apply online" or was actually laughed at a few times. I could handle all that on its own. The real bad part was my dad thinking I wasn't really trying.

Showing up IRL might work if one already has a resume full of experience, but I have to wonder how well that works when one either has no experience or is junior to mid level (in any field).
You've had many issues that violate trust, and you're still looking to outsource?
> just shut down

Yes, a year ago.
Austin resident here, who used to work in fabs.

Basically, there was a time (1980's) when fabs in Austin had their own power generation. AMD, which used to have its own fabs, had its own power for them. Then, they (not just AMD but everybody with fabs in Texas) eventually decided it wasn't worth the cost, and started using the regular power grid, because Austin's power had become more reliable. Obviously, as the percentage of solar, wind, and natgas has increased, and the percentage of coal has decreased, this reliability has been thrown into question. Also, the rapid population increase has also just meant a general problem of building new capacity fast enough.

My guess is that they have an eye on it, and it is also possible they will build their own power generation, but more likely they are just getting guarantees of some sort that enough power capacity will be built.
In one of my first jobs, code reviews were done exactly like this, with the the reviewer (my boss) and I sitting together at one computer going through the changes.
It definitely has benefits but it's still important to ensure recommendations/concerns etc. get written down and doesn't necessarily help if there's a need to go away and make significant changes based on the outcomes of discussions.
But while the back & forth discussion that often occurs during review can benefit from being synchronous, it might still be some time before your coworker has available time to participate in such a session, so it's still likely you'll need something else to work on in the mean time.
After some deliberation, I think this mostly makes sense and shouldn’t be upsetting. If someone discovers/invents something important but isn’t capable of communicating that new thing for whatever reason then no one else can benefit from it. Later someone else independently discovers it and is capable of popularizing it and then people can actually benefit from it. So we are often naming things after the popularizers or people who figure out how to make a discovery widely applicable, and they are often at least or more important than the original discoverer.
A VR interview isn’t that different from a video interview when compared to an in person one. My concern is this reads like an applicant must have a vr headset to be eligible for interview.
What about people who usually have beards who suddenly become clean shaven?
depends on place and time I suppose. 2013 was the peak of post-recession unemployment, and this was in a deindustrialised area with limited job opportunities even in good years.
I'd disagree here. "Your partner is going to get a cut" is the exact issue. I feel like if you're the CTO, you're going to want to own the relationship between you and talent. You can find very good people on UpWork at $40/HR across all technical disciplines.
This code doesn't work and has security holes via race conditions.

You cannot walk a path using lstat and readlink. Once you have walked past a component you have checked, an attacker can change it to point elsewhere.

You must use openat() and readlinkat() to have any hope of symlink security.

As my talk already pointed out. The POSIX file API is impossible to use safely for programmers.

I'm afraid you just illustrated my point perfectly.
Maybe all this stuff counts as work for him...
Of course it matters, adding citations to already written research is deceptive and thus actively harmful.

The point of citations isn’t simply an index of prior research it’s there to inform readers of the writers context.
For people who think the problem is not enough fertilizer I would think overuse of pesticides or poor drainage practices might be the culprit? I think there are some comments on Noah Smith’s substack to that effect.
Ill never understand why people just blatantly assume someone else is lying.

Particularly strange as I know for a fact that’s a common experience.

In 2016 I personally drove my down-on-his-luck brother around for two days to dozens of restaurants, shops, strip malls, and 3 different shopping malls. He was entirely convinced walking in would somehow show “dedication.” Only _three_ even took his resume (he never heard from them), the rest looked at him confused and told him to apply online.

Now that these businesses are desperate, are more of them taking walk-in applications? Maybe? But it was absolutely not the norm in 2016.

Even if I hadn’t seen it personally, so confidently declaring a commenter is lying is gross behavior for hn.
Bit rot is a thing. It seems like you have a different idea of what archival means than most of us.
To me the benchmark is digital ocean. Obviously it's not anywhere near as powerful, and maybe it shouldn't be anyways, you can use the API to do anything extra. But I almost never find myself lost using DO in the ways that I do with AWS.