skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My larger point is that it doesn't matter where Nestlé is located since they'll ruin your ecology wherever you live. It doesn't matter if they're located in Antarctica, the parent's point was still relevant since Nestlé has a supply chain that relies on America.

Nestlé can be located anywhere for all I care, but it's not relevent to the discussion since they rely on American resources (and American manufacturing/processing plants, for that matter).
Agreed - I didn't mean to say the researchers are flawed (negative results are part of the process as you say). I just meant that even if they were that doesn't really matter, in order to zero in on the OP's concern.
I believe its the kind of relatively meaningless achievements someone like him might count as "merit worthy".

Whenever I say we should increase minimum wage or unemployment benefits I hear its because I must be poor and a moocher. Whenever I say meritocracy doesn't exist someone chimes thats because I have never achieved anything. Whenever you want to help others someone comes out and says its because you want to take advantage of him.

I work really hard, always have, always will. But the truth is that, that same amount of work, effort and knowledge would not be rewarded if I was born somewhere not in the first world. That I got extremely lucky both in birth, location, time and chances and while I worked hard I am not entirely responsible for my success.
> I think people go to high-technology finance because they want to test themselves against a harder class of problem in a more adversarial setting against people who feel the same.

That and among developers, I think Jane Street has hit "mythological status". I've known about Jane Street since I was an undergrad looking for internships and it was always talked about like: "oh yeah, that's where the REALLY smart people go to work". I think a little part of going to work there for everyone is figuratively one-upping your friends from college, you made to the place where geniuses worked.
And there is also a Do not disturb toggle in both iOS and Android so it is not necessary to go completely offline.
It's definitely the final nail in it's widespread use but it was used somewhat up to the end of WW2 though that focused on anti-kamikaze painting in the Pacific theater. Japan was several years behind the rest of the world on radar so it stuck around longer in the Pacific too before that transition to anti-kamikaze but even there by the end of the war Japan was using radar fire-control.
do you work at Tesla?
at the beginning of the 2007 real estate debacle, right after the markets had shut down, Eric got up in front of TGIF and told people it was going to be OK, that Google was in a better situation than most, and since things would eventually recover, it made sense for the company to continue being aggressive at a time when others were not. This helped position Google for tremendous growth in the years after. I think that's also the TGIF where he announced a company-wide 10% raise.

I met Eric later and we chatted about my project and how Google should be more aggressive at getting into Cloud. He and I thought on pretty much the same wavelength and I realized- he was a far better leader of Google than either Page or Pichai.
Ahah I live to hear stuff like this! You are welcome! :D I actually receive a fair amount of email from kids with clear school emails and they always put a smile on my face :D
what happened to the 'great resignation/dropout wave'? And what will happen to those who participated in the movement?
> Strong labor numbers means wages would be increasing.

Wages are increasing, that's one of the inflation drivers people are complaining about.

> What would be an issue is the labor participation rate decreasing, which it is

Not per FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART It's quite clearly still rebounding from the covid shock. I think you're trying to say that the long term trend is clearly downward. But the subject at hand is the immediate economic environment ("strong labor numbers", "hiring freeze", etc...).

And clearly there's nothing wrong instantaneously with either participation rate nor wages. Those numbers are in fact good, not bad.
Also the US's demographics problem is peanuts compared to Europe and Asia.
It depends, some topics are explicit and others are implicit within a larger world view that you cannot really pick and choose parts from.
It seems to me that that entire world view is the critical part, because otherwise any single biblical command can just be ignored anyway if we don't like it.
At the end of the day, either we are all made in God's image and have God-given inalienable rights --- in which case the government has no right to take them away --- or morality is relative, and who's to say that Chinas approach to human rights is inferior to ours? Or that those pesky flat-earthers deserve not being in prison? And so on :)

There is of course much morality that one can give chapter and verse for. This includes "big" things like murder and theft, and more subtle things like fair wages, due process and government for the people.
> What about real wages

“Real average hourly earnings decreased 3.6 percent, seasonally adjusted, from June 2021 to June 2022. The change in real average hourly earnings combined with a decrease of 0.9 percent in the average workweek resulted in a 4.4-percent decrease in real average weekly earnings over this period” [1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
I'm a fan of Firecracker, but your use case might be a better fit for plain old containers because the tooling is currently more mature. If it's the isolation that attracts you to Firecracker, gVisor is an option: https://gvisor.dev/.
Slowly approaching 50, I would say dyeing the hair also helps during the interview process.

After the contract is signed, then whatever.
For Flutter Entertainment plc, not to be confused by Flutter.io (Google's Cross-platform UI Toolkit).
The uneven energy costs of working from home
Buy an Instant Pot. Learn Instant Pot recipes. Easy peasy.
Dilbert is still funny. We have an old archive. Just ignore new stuff.
A lot of the recent volume seems to have come from Chinese users, but is this insider knowledge or simply bias amplified by fake money being fake?
How is it solved in France then? I dont' think it's possible to have an trans-national employment contract (which labor laws would the contract observe? The French ones or the US ones?). So, how do French people work remotely for US companies? I don't think most countries' laws are set up for a situation where a company employs a worker that does not live in the same country.
If you only care to "move fast and break things" with the sole goal of getting acquired, none of that matters.
Probably the least common voltage in Canada. We’ll have some 347V though.

My condo parking spot has a wonderful looking junction box above it labelled “600V”.

But I’ve heard some Canadian factories will still get spec’d with “US Voltage” (ie: 277 and 480) for “standardization”, but probably so they can move the plant to the US without having to find electricians that can speak Canadian.
That's an awful lot of words just to say Adams is unhinged.
Making a version affordable and available to small time randos would probably have helped as well. Was it even possible to buy a complete system at something other than call-for-pricing pricing?
I find it humorous that the usual tone deaf HR stuff suddenly becomes a lightning rod of "wokeness" for certain folks because it personally offends them.

But with Scott Adams, you can see that this sort of stuff always irked him - look back at Dilbert poking fun at sensitivity training in the 90's - he did have the progressive take of making Asok and Alice as the equally, if not more, competent than their peers(ed: though fraught with presentation errors itself)

Now however, he has taken an approach that is as subtle as a Ben Garrison "comic."
If you feel personally attacked, take yourself out of the process & have someone else handle support. If you intend to remain a sole developer and these interactions continue to affect you outside of work, try working with a therapist to discuss & work out these issues.
As a consultant who sees a lot of different big company cultures, and even done some work specifically on diversity stuff: They’re overblown.

I’ve yet to see anything noteworthy. I’m convinced the stupid stuff is more or less confined to California. I’m sure people will be eager to show their anecdotes otherwise but I’m not really interested in that.
NR, NMN, or just good old regular Niacin?
Like a lot of software, it's matured and along the way has put on some weight. I still love it for certain use cases, but tools like Dagster are peeking my interest.
> if you just implement `__instancecheck__` directly

The point of the article is that to override what "isinstance(obj, ClassA)" means one doesn't need to touch ClassA, or any descendants of it, at all.
> It can be used as evidence that even Visa themselves agrees they shouldn't have been doing business with PH.

Specifically cited in the decision (along with Pornhub purging of the vast majority of it's content in direct response to that suspension) as showing that Visa had the power to affect Pornhub content (since Visa had apparently argued that lack of such power as a reason they should not be liable even if they had knowledge.)
They're not big cats, they're only feliforms. Big cats belong to felidae. But no, it's not commonly known that hyenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs.
> Strong labor numbers means wages would be increasing

How can you equate these two? Couldn't strong labor numbers also be indicative of an economy in turmoil, forcing many people who no longer had to work back into a job to get by? I guess what I'm trying to say is, shouldn't we be taking a look at the data holistically instead of nabbing one good data point and using that to promote a narrative? Inflation, COL, real wages, unemployment, and many other factors all contribute to the overall picture. Why aren't we using all this data instead of focusing on unemployment only?
Klaviyo and Shopify establish strategic partnership
They have been together, is a sale in the future.
May still have been worth it if it increased reliability and maintenance.
> Dilbert's commentary has so far been entirely appropriate based on my experience, hence it's puzzling to me when people think there's something particularly conservative about being concerned or critical about these societal changes

Isn't it pretty much by definition (social) conservative?

> Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions and practices

> In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society

> Progressivism is a way of thinking that holds that it is possible through political action for human societies to improve over time. As a political movement, progressivism purports to advance the human condition through social reform based on advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization

You might disagree with the changes being made, but (social) progressives believe they're making them for the betterment of humans. (Social) conservatives want to stop them, (social) reactionaries want to go back to "the good old times" where the woman kept the house etc.

It's pretty much textbook definitions.
I live in Sweden where parents combined get 480 days parental leave that we can divide between us with some restrictions. For example 90 days each are reserved for each parent and cannot be transferred. We also get ten days each right after the baby is born that don't count toward the 480 days. Me and my wife had our first child in May. I was off work until mid july, first my ten days and then I took a few weeks vacation. Now my wife is on maternal leave until January when we switch and I go on paternal leave. I will be away from work from January until August. If we have any days left we can use them until the child is 12 years old.

I think this is a very good system. Me and my wife have been talking about how valuable it has been for us to spend the first couple of months together and bonding with our child, both learning what signals mean hunger, gas or being tired.

I work from home so I'm still able to help my wife with taking care of the baby, for which I'm very thankful. We take a long walk at lunch every day and if I need a break I can be with my family. I feel like I live in the greatest country on earth.
In our industry, the interview process is completely divorced from the skillset required for the actual job.

Fittingly, this is because Google developed an interviewing process that was scalable, required minimal training, human-interactive or soft skills, and was objectively measurable (leetcode), while non-obviously biasing the interview process towards cheaper, younger interviewees. It is also an interview process that is utterly incapable of differentiating low skill from high skill engineers. For Google, which needed a way to choose between the very best resumes in its pile, this made sense. For the rest of the industry, it does not.

But apparently our industry just does whatever the "big players" do, blindly, so here we are.
Thank you for voicing this, I really agree that something about the culture growing up around tiktok is special and feels like a breath of fresh air. I think a lot of the doom and gloom talk is coming from people with a totally outside perspective who haven't actually tried to engage with the platform.

One thing that stands out as special to me, since it started out as an app for dance videos, so much of the cultural threads still revolve around that, and so it encourages an embodied way of presenting yourself. It makes text heavy sites like twitter and facebook feel... detached, cerebral, sterile in comparison. Whereas tiktok keeps a playful frivolity that that is so often lacking online. It seems to me a big step towards solving the big challenge with "online culture": considering the human.
I guess compare to some alternatives:

I believe it's not very weird if someone says "I messed up my Arch Linux installation, and so re-installed from scratch". (Although I don't think it's common for people to re-install all the time).

Or the most ubiquitous way of deploying software from one machine to another is to build a Docker/container image. i.e. to package the built binaries of executables and libraries in such a way that they can be run portably. -- Prob'ly the most common way to build Docker images is to write a Dockerfile, which is more/less a simple sequence commands to run.

I mean.. lots of stuff involving installing/distributing/configuring packages is very hard, and conventional solutions are layers of familiar beat-things-into-shape solutions, where you don't need a deep understanding of what's going on to get things done.

Some of the implementation in Nixpkgs is complicated (like lazy fixpoint stuff), but I've also seen e.g. developers not like Nix because they don't like the idea of learning the Nix language.
I've run into some real-world examples of this workplace weirdness, including a clumsily architected hiring plan that required certain roles to be filled by people meeting certain demographics (quickly shut down by legal once they caught on).

But at the same time, I don't find Dilbert's take on these issues to be funny, nor do I really think that it's an appropriate place to combat these nuanced issues. 3-panel comic strips are too small to address these topics even in a properly satiric manner.

I wish the comic strip had stuck to its original formula that thrived on simple workplace dysfunctions. Trying to stretch the formula to cover complex political issues feels like it's just attacking strawmen and dismissing actual issues that can (and do) exist in workplaces.
Oh nice, I missed that one! And I love Russian Doll!
No, I'm a former athlete and workout heavily. I know my body very well, know how to recover, etc. It's a bit of a staleness in the muscles and then a lower energy malaise. Noticeable, but only afterwards. Citrulline may be good.
This should definitely be a warning sign for everybody who votes for cashless transactions in the future.

Because every transaction will then be processed by some big company. And if they see a risk in that kind of transaction then they will of course deny it due to legal risks.

And then we are speaking whether a newspaper may be bought because the opinions expressed in that paper could bear the risk that somebody is going to sue them.

Welcome Dystopia.
Ageism is, for sure, a very real thing. I work with a guy who started his programming career on UNIVAC and he’s doing cloud stuff now. He’s still quite sharp and capable. Another gentleman is middle aged, as I am, and there’s one younger developer on the team. My older colleague is probably our best asset. He knows when we do something stupid and has no fear of telling us.

I work for a non-profit though, and I’ve become management. Other companies I worked at in the past didn’t treat older people well at all. Always bugged me.

We may add more layers of abstraction to things but logic and math do not change. The things that worked in the past will still work, you may just need a different language, framework, or whatever else… and it’s probably easier than what we all started with, let alone what someone who’s 60+ started with.
> But I would think to win sueing someone you have to show intent.

In this case the plaintiff has to show knowledge, but showing is a later stage of the case. The decision here was only over whether a valid claim was stated.
Welp, I had to cancel almost immediately because it was more complicated an improvement over Google calendar than I wanted. I tried to leave decent feedback when I cancelled, hope it helps. Keep it up.
Signaling 'Stressed-Out' Plants
He's gone off the deep end. I've seen the same happen with some friends and wrote about it, it's a sad thing when formerly intelligent human beings start losing it and fail to recover only to sink further and further into their own version of reality.
Not sure about France, but in Poland, if you’re sending invoices to an entity that has no presence in Poland, is not incorporated there, has no offices etc, it can hardly be legally seen to be a legal “employment” relationship.

But, assuming the situation above, even if it is illegal (which I strongly doubt), so what? What can the system do here to you? Will it jail you or fine you, or otherwise stop you, the worker, for “illegally” working on a wrong type of contract? After all, it cannot do anything to the company, as it has no jurisdiction over it.
Doonesbury was a political comic basically since inception.

He won a Pulitzer prize for a contemporary comic about Watergate.
The next level of multi-modality in DocArray
It feels like ageism is more pronounced at startups and tech companies - at least, that is my perception based on real world and online discussions.

I'm 50, work at a large, established manufacturing/distribution company and haven't experienced any ageism that I know of. I also work with a lot of engineers from external vendors and don't see a lot of people much younger than me (except as junior roles at contractors).
Optane was a very interesting technology but I don't think it as revolutionary as the article makes it to be. First, Optane does not make the memory hierarchy simpler as you still need fast RAM to solve the write endurance problem. Second, it is not obvious that Optane would be cost-competitive with SSDs. Third, you don't need a tech like that to implement a persistent memory system like one described in the article: just use RAM backed by an SSD and a battery/capacitor to flush the dirty pages in an event of power failure. I think Apple does something like this in their newer devices.

This indeed leaves Optane as a limited-use enterprise persistent cache technology.
This is where my mind went and I was incredibly confused, as good as it is to decry modern slavery.
Usually for big supermarkets they are changed over a radio frequency. So they do not need people to go around and manually program them.

You can also do cool time limited actions without having an employee go and manually change prices. For example in Kaufland stores in Germany at 19:00 the price of the Fruit and Vegetables is automatically reduced.
Sorry to hear of these experiences, it should be that you get recognition when you devote a lifetime to a field.

But I wonder if this is mostly a US-centric phenomenon. Or maybe it is a tribal mentality, I wonder if web devs of 20 years ago face the same problem with younger web devs today. Or a large amount of web devs considering everything and everyone who doesn't work in the browser to be stoneage.

As an anecdote, I once worked with a gentleman twice my age who cut his teeth writing assembly for an obscure HP platform, and I had huge respect for him. And it was obvious that even though we were developing a modern full stack webapp in Python and React, he had an excellent mind for the tough engineering questions.
I have no particular horse in this race, but it's worth noting that quite a few legal scholars have designed proposals or at least theorized under what conditions pornography could be illegalized with a First Amendment friendly law[0]. I don't know how successful their proposals are from my POV as a layperson.

Some philosophers have also suggested that even if there are good reasons for protecting the availability of porn, it may not count as speech from the POV of the philosophy of rights - it is simply too unlike other forms of speech to count. I think their arguments are at least worth considering.

[0] https://gould.usc.edu/students/journals/rlsj/issues/assets/d...
>that if you give everyone access all the time the magic will happen

There's much ongoing discussion about this is the data world, often revolving around "self-service analytics".

Unless you're talking about "our analysts don't have to clean data all the time", which, for a large enough organization makes sense, "self-service" for non-technical folks is futile and pointless. They need specific answers to specific questions, not the ability to infinitely explore the data. Organizations should desire that kind of focus, not prevent it.
I think the timeless skills you mentioned are much more useful for debugging, troubleshooting, and maybe overall architecture though. I couldn't for the live of me create a React app (because I stopped doing frontend long ago) but I can absolutely help with any of the networking, HTTP, or lower level stuff even if I'm just involved with the backend.
The problem with this analogy is that unlike a physical car with physical keys, someone stealing the keys doesn't deprive Wright of them. There is no way to "lock the car". Wright, assuming he has access to the keys, could sign a message proving that fact - no matter how many other people also have access to the keys.

It's more like Wright is saying "someone copied my car key, and then after that, I also lost it", which is a lot less believable. Especially when Wright has previously provided intentionally fake proof that he controlled these keys.
We have a cultural problem in the West that is underpinning all of this. The emperor has no clothes and the sane rational ones are too afraid to talk about it because of the costs.