skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I am floored at so many comments painting an egocentric view of the author. I find it highly ironic that supposedly high EQ neurotypicals would not be able to take one small step back and evaluate what is written with a modicum of assumed good intent.

Take this example:

> A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React because they had read a blog post about another company doing it.

> [...]

> In this particular situation, the discussion never got past the first question.

My reaction to this is, yes obviously an engineer should be asking these questions, and it's a huge red flag that the manager didn't entertain even the first one. Obviously we don't have that managers side of the story, so I take it with a small grain of salt, but on the other hand the issue is articulated very clearly, and it is decidedly not personal or egocentric. In fact the questions are exactly what I as an EM expect my senior ICs to be asking. This demonstrates ownership and good thinking about the overall cost and impact of resourcing decisions. Good systems can not be built by managers dictating things without buy in from the expert ICs who actually build and maintain them. Therefore I think it's completely bass-ackwards that we would ding the IC for a communication gap (regardless of neurotype)—I've seen far too many cases of teams just doing what they're told and driving off a cliff because everyone prioritized agreeability and had a very narrow view of their own responsibilities. When the shit hit the fan everyone just throws their hands in the air and says "not my job".

So let me first say, kudos to you larve, you are the type of engineer I want on my team.

Now that said, some feedback. Describing office politics as "playing mind games" does you no favors in terms of being understood. I know what you mean—office politics often involved bending over backwards and dancing around issues to avoid offending people. This is not my idea of fun either. That said, morale matters, and this song and dance is a big part of how morale is managed for allistic people. Furthermore, there is a fundamentally difficult issue which is if you have 100 smart people, building consensus through complete understanding is impossible. At some point owners need to be identified, decisions made, and progress begun. Some people will need to "disagree and commit" with partial understanding. Given your experience I don't expect you would disagree with that in any way, but when folks are short with you, consider the difficulty of reaching such consensus. I don't think it's an excuse for shortcuts, but this is the art of technical management, and it requires hard work and a commitment to building trust and understanding from all parties to have any hope of realizing large scale technical achievements.
The acronym FAANG was made up/popularized by Jim Cramer, a TV finance guy, intended to be "these companies are going to DOMINATE tech with the BIGGEST MARKET CAPS". Today the market caps are (in billions) 479 (Meta), 2719 (Apple), 1450 (Amazon), 300 (Netflix), 1566 (Alphabet) + 2166 (MSFT). Cramer tried to make an updated version happen in 2021: (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet) because Netflix did not explode and Microsoft did not disappear in the way he had predicted.

So yes, IMO Microsoft sits pretty in the no-longer-accurate acronym FAANG.
Apparently you have never continually excelled at your job and been rewarded with zero raises, zero promotions, zero added trust, and zero added authority or influence.

Every place I have ever worked has taken advantage of anyone who does more than they are asked. None of those individuals were ever rewarded for going above or beyond. Not a single time.

Doing the bare minimum is what employers do. Why should employees do any more?

I believe it is our moral duty to improve ourselves. I do not believe it is our moral duty to donate effort to an unthankful entity.
How is that any different? Sounds like "dark matter was introduced because, previously, all other matter interaction was pulling on something". It walks invisibly but quacks like matter (lensing, galaxy geometry, etc) so we call it dark matter.

It's all the ways in which it doesn't act like matter which make it interesting.
>>I'm only talking about CloudFlare's ability to abuse its position.

Yes, I felt an eyebrow raise a bit when I read about Cloudflare getting the site taken down. It is a minor super-power.

That said, any power can be abused, but that does not mean that it will be abused, or that the potential for abuse means that we should eliminate that power.

In the case of CloudFlare, they so far seem like a responsible infrastructure provider, with a business model that aligns their incentives with being trustworthy, so I'm OK with it.

In contrast, I wouldn't even consider trusting any Meta/FB org with anything like this power, as their obvious behavior has been massively untrustworthy, and their business model makes it easiest to be untrustworthy.

The question is whether we are at risk of such power being extended beyond ICANN Cloudflare, etc. and to the likes of untrustworthy players like Meta, Alphabet, etc., and if so, what to do about it?
I clicked through for the code first, and then got interested in the research. Thanks for doing it the way you did :)
I don't know too much about the whole graphics pipeline, but this is definitely double-counting.

I will say though, whatever the numbers are, after running on a 144hz monitor with adaptive sync, 60 FPS feels painfully jerky for gaming.
> Maybe by their metrics

Macroeconomic data is never going to feel "true" to everyone. As the economy has boomed, plenty of people still struggled.

Inflation is measured across a very wide range of individual circumstances. I personally have seen very little inflation in my area, certainly less than the country as a whole has seen. There will always be pockets that are far from the average.
You should have gone to a college where that wasn't special.
For years I played Team Fortress 2, where everyone was so proud of the hilarious hats we'd collect from achievements and special events. In retrospect, I can see that we weren't actually having fun, because those hats were not stored in a permanent blockchain.
Incentivize engineers instead of treating them code monkey peasants and they will work hard and make you a lot of money. Create useless management layers and make them play politics to advance and you get FAANG culture.
People want to grow, they want to do better. They also, crucially, want recognition and to feel valued for it. That means they must (must) be treated with respect by their employers, and rewarded or at least recognized when they achieve personal or professional growth.

If you don’t reward and respect people who try to grow, why would they ever continue that?
The article claims

> Staff said they were expected to frequently work more than 12 hours a day, starting early to accommodate calls with China and ending late

According to what I see on Blind, this is still the case, so clearly the reporting has not done anything. On the other hand, FB and Google are ramping up their intensity. It's almost like if you have a lucrative monopoly, people are incentivized to work really hard to disrupt it, and you have to work really hard to defend it.

Yes, the failure to kill TikTok was a leadership failure by Zuck. But you need good leadership AND good execution to win. The latter means hard work. Ask yourself why Europe has far fewer major tech companies and startups than the US, even though the EU economy is almost the same size.
To me, this may signal an ominous culture shift. I don't work for Google or Facebook, and don't expect to. (Not sour grapes, just reality). But if a return to a more draconian culture becomes popular with investors, it could eventually trickle down to my little hamlet. Not something I look forward to.
Incuriosity.
There are many ways to do ~no-code GUI analysis with [Jupyter] notebooks (e.g. with the VSCode jupyter notebook support) pretty quickly; with some pointing and clicking of the mouse if you please.

Computational Notebook speedrun competition ideas:

- Arithmetic w/ `assert`: addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents/logarithms; and then again with {NumPy, SymPy, Lean Mathlib}

- Growth curve fitting; data modeling with linear and better models

- "Principia" work-along notebooks

- "Princeton Companion to [Applied] Mathematics" work-along notebooks

- Khan Academy work-along notebooks
Another factor here is that companies will hire more people as a growth strategy without having any clear idea of how to deploy them. Even if they have a high level idea they may not know how to translate that high level idea to something actionable. They have a high P/E. There's cheap money. They need to somehow grow. The only way they know to grow is just to hire more people. As you say, no wonder they don't have anything to work on. Maybe the idea is that if they're working for you they're not working for the competition. I donno.
Link appears to be broken
Why doesn't anyone ask what the user wants? Are we only about what the app owner or the website owner want?
> the judge set the trial for September.

This is incorrect. September is a hearing on defendants' motions to dismiss.

Not especially relevant, but of mild interest: this case is with Judge Alsup (of Oracle v Google).
Steve Jobs and Issey Miyake's friendship (and a nixed Apple uniform
A movie can provide tens of millions person-hours of entertainment. How much resources do other forms of entertainment waste at that scale?
Very, very few people truly have no options other than porn. But I'm sure many people have convinced themselves they don't since they can content themselves with porn.

Regardless, it's a feedback loop. People who deal with depression/anxiety are more likely to develop drug addictions. A "normal" person can usually try a given drug once and be fine. Someone with a predisposition to addiction can't do the same.

Likewise a lot of people can casually use porn without much of an issue, but some people allow their consumption to develop into an addiction that negatively impact their life.
Today in Not The Onion …
The unclear future for gifted-and-talented education
And making hospital pricing transparent was a good thing too.
Every one of their videos is so pitch perfect for the tech world. "Microservices" is my favorite.
Um excuse me, how will people know I had an açai bowl for lunch?
Sounds like a Steam Machine only with Mac OS.
Draconian culture is an environment that spurs tech innovation by new entrants. If anything, it might cause a mass migration of employees from those outfits into great new companies.
I don't understand this: "Without such theory, claiming DM doesn't exist is simply stupid IMO."

You are saying that without another theory to explain something, the current theory must be true because ... How does this logic work exactly?

In the middle ages, there wasn't a theory that explained headaches, so dismissing the idea that we should cut hole in people's skulls to let out the evil spirits is "stupid"?

Dismissing the idea that lighting is caused by Zeus being angry is "stupid" because there is no other theory yet?
Are you saying that Comcast provides decent customer service? because I think it is probably the first or second reason everyone hates them... another one could be the doubling cost yearly unless you call them and are serious about cancelling.

Where I'm at Comcast is very reliable but I've had different experiences.
Now if only chrome could do this on macOS. :( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130573...
My comment might be irrelevant but in 2008, I couldn’t even get a job as a waiter. I was job hunting for over a year. This doesn’t seem like 2008… yet.

I work at a Fortune 100 company and they are laying people off and have stopped hiring, even internal transfers can’t happen. So this tells me that it might get worse before it gets better. Either way, life goes on.
I don’t disagree at all :) these sort of scummy clauses deserve more scrutiny.
Klaviyo Security Incident
I am surprised no one has mentioned schema.org. It is a much simpler standard and more widely used than RDF/OWL.

Another point I think is that it is not in any publishers interest to publish structured data, as it easily copy-able. For example, neither Amazon nor Wikipedia publishes using schema.org. It would make their data susceptible to 3rd party aggregators.
Elon Musk's audacity may finally be catching up to him
This is why I don’t understand when some say that people would rather not work at all if given the opportunity and still live well. As people we need challenges to keep finding meaning in our lives. I’ve also experienced depression in the past as a result of getting paid but lack of work. Zuck and Pichai’s complain isn’t wrong, it’s just that they’re part of the problem for paid employees having little work, and it’s admittedly very hard for any of us to recognize when we’re the problem. Everyone suffers from bad leadership, from the employees to the boss.
I've had some of the best steaks in my life in Argentina. But they also have amazing pizza, their empanadas are great as are their pastries. I'm sure there are many more examples that someone more adventurous could list.

He's not wrong about restaurants opening late by American standards. Order takeout at 8 PM when a restaurant opens and you'll be eating around 9:30.

The exceptions are rare; one restaurant near my apartment in Buenos Aires was open for dinner at 7:00 PM and I often started my meal completely alone except for wait staff.

You should give Argentinan cuisine a chance as you might find something you like, and if you find yourself in Buenos Aires there are always places that cook foreign cuisine when you get homesick for your favorite food. But yeah, dude, at least once try the steak.
> A metaverse where these skins are transportable game to game.

Is this even viable? Can a skin from say an Unreal engine game be copied over to and used in a Unity engine game?
I was 19 at the time and had only recently entered the workforce. I lost my part time, minimum wage job that year. Otherwise I didn't notice any significant impact on my life or the lives of my family and friends. At the time it seemed like people were overreacting. I remember being baffled that they had declared a recession. It was only years later that I even understood how bad it was.

I don't know enough about economics to have any clue how this is going to shake down.
I guess it's already heavy, you have 17kWh of battery sitting low on the frame weighing it down.

Also, the Volterra has solar:
"AeroSolar charges as you drive and while you camp, with no need for set up or activation. It is the ultimate user experience."
Via: https://bowlus.com/volterra/
As a signal processing machine what the brain understand as the universe may not in some reality have a point
I grew up in the 80s/90s in Sacramento and went to public schools that had great advanced education programs. They were all free, and they were open to kids no matter what neighborhood you lived in. The teachers were free to challenge students and the students loved the challenge. I think of one friend who immigrated to the US at age 11 and went on to Harvard and Harvard Law. What an amazing opportunity.

Now I live near Palo Alto, and parents are suing the public schools (and winning) because the schools are erecting unreasonable and opaque barriers to advanced education. I never would have guessed that gifted education would be worse in the heart of Silicon Valley in 2022 than it was in Sacramento 30 years prior. But apparently the state changed the GATE requirements in 2014, and now districts can choose whether to offer it or not.

We've had huge challenges in our local school, which doesn't want to support our daughter in learning math. We've not pulled her from the schools just yet, but we know many families that have, for either private school or homeschooling. It's a pity things have gone in this direction, and quite so far.
I can't be the only one who doesn't understand the relationship between SQLite and apps deployed on Fly.io, right?

Normal apps typically need MySQL or PostgreSQL, no?
Good guess! Well, Kiwi originally but I've been here for twenty years :)
This is supposed to be your skill set as a people manager. Set up one on ones or group social events and spend some of the time not talking about work.
"Now, is this in equilibrium viewing? What's really gonna cook these guys noodle is the effect of pupillary action."

Right - and more I reckon. In hindsight things seem so easy or fall easily into place and this is no exception.

The obvious thing with respect to this new 'color space' is its nonlinearity/'curvature'. We should have gleaned this (or have taken more cognizance from existing overvations) from the way the eye works in different circumstances - and for that matter from the fact that different eyes perceive colors in different ways - as Ishihara tests bear out. It also should have been obvious from the 'dynamical' way the eye perceives color.

Anyone who has done color balancing/grading or tried to match colors knows how easily it is to be fooled unless they've lots of calibration equipment around them, as the eye automatically adjusts color balance and such depending on lighting and circumstance (remember those shadow images that fool everyone).

There are other clues too: why do a small percentage of women have superior color resolution in the green spectrum (as if they had multiple green channels) and the fact that the degree of this capability also depends on conditions and circumstance (a seemingly nonlinear effect)? That's right, the signs were there and it's good that we've now picked them up and are now running with them.

That said, we cannot be too critical of that earlier work, in fact what was done was pretty monumental. After all, the 1931 CIE work was and still is quite remarkable and it's still serving us well today - 91 years on.

Like Newtonian mechanics and Relatively, every development inches us closer to the truth and or provides us with better accuracy.
> - Arithmetic w/ `assert`: addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, exponents/logarithms; and then again with {NumPy, SymPy, Lean Mathlib}

"How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19452752 ...

"How should logarithms be taught?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28519356
Are releases/tags also counting in on that?

I was re-reading the announcement but as far as I can tell it only states repository size everywhere.

The linked cleanup instruction articles also mostly show repo size (git gc et al) and nothing related to the releases section of a repository. [1]

I'm also still unclear about what exactly is part of the package registry storage and whether or not releases in the repository are part of that.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/usage_quotas.html#manage-you...
Another Bowlus bird, my favorite, the Baby Albatross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSg9ThtC7eU
Gotcha, thanks superchroma!
This is nothing like 2008. Back in 2008 the mood was much more dire- I remember walking through malls and picking up amazing deals. Like 80% off. If you had expendable income, you were saving it because you may not have a job tomorrow. Everyone else was worried about how they were going to make their next mortgage payment.

As for me, I was stuck in a house that lost 50% of its value. I had just purchased in 2006 so I could not sell and I wanted to move. I didn’t end up leaving until 2012 at which point I was still 30+% underwater and so happy I could short sell without incurring taxes on the difference thanks to legislation.

Now prices are going up- like crazy. Salaries in our industry are skyrocketing. It’s impossible to buy large consumables at any price - cars are selling for multiples over sticker! In 2008 you could buy anything you wanted at a discount if you had cash.

So no this feels nothing like 2008 for me.
We didn't have the same problem with the old REST API, because the requests were naturally sliced by whatever resource type people were requesting. Whereas the GraphQL API allowed clients to request big slices of disparate data all in the same request. If we had (for whatever reason) exposed a REST API that fetched lots of different slices of data and combined them like GraphQL does, those requests would have faced the same problem.

So it was really due to the nature of GraphQL that the problem materialized, rather than being a GraphQL vs REST issue per se.
Looking Inside Mystery Apollo Components in a CT Scanner (CuriousMarc)
You sound like my wife ;)

I don't know how to not care. I've been writing software since I was a teenager and it's always been a central part of my life. I've always cared and that care is partly what made me successful (or so I believe). But it definitely is also what's stressing me out... I've always seen work as basically being able to be paid to practice my hobby though as well all know(?) your fun hobby becomes less fun when it's work.

I remember having lunch with a co-worker who was saying something along the lines that he's never really wanted to code and the only reason he's doing it (got a degree and a career) is for the money and I didn't understand how that was even possible ;)
In group rides with expensive bikes its often associated with higher quality wheels.

Friend of mine had Zipp wheels which had a distinctly louder freehub.
Your link doesn't support your assertion that the phrase "I hate evil people. You are evil unless you pay me reparations." meets the definition of the crime of intimidation.
You could replace step 3) with "pull power plug from host" for the same effect.

Think of all the extra disk IO the worlds databases are doing to defend against step 3) :)
Those are such buzzwords. I for one would hate to be forced to play basketball just for that.
I don't think that's true at all - it seems like Finance, Fashion, and Politics people are the richest in general, with geeks coming tied for 3rd or even 4th overall. Of the richest (known) 25 in the world [1], only 4 or 5 can be said to be "nerds", with some financiers and magnates in the tech industry doing fairly well also. The rest are all financiers, inheritors, politicians, etc.

1 https://www.therichest.com/top-lists/top-250-richest-people-... idk how reliable this is, and family/endowed fortunes like the medicis, the papal trust, eastern european organizations etc aren't counted at all apparently.
This is exactly what it is. Last I heard, a small team within FB was responsible for actually running the service itself but it could have gotten spun out since then.
Perhaps it can be an option to check: "Always open websites in your default browser".
Amazon's Creepy Palm Reading Payment System Is Taking over Whole Foods
Amazon paying less because they can't accommodate me for medical restrictions
The original (longer) title: My job is telling me I have to be removed from my current position to a lower one with a pay reduction because they cannot accommodate me for my permanent medical restrictions from my congenital heart disorder
Everytime they did it, it was half baked at best. Scientific libraries need driver support, Microsoft always takes the happy path and ignores all the other hardware permutations. If you are not running Intel/Nvidia in a Win32 environment you are out of luck. WSL2, ARM, AMD, etc. don't have much synergy in terms of product support.
Walking Tokyo for Seven Days
Yes. Ask for permission.
As an aside, can anyone recommend a subreddit or community for parents of children with autism?

I feel like it may be a good place to consolidate strategies.