skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Too many employees, but very few of them supported or utilized correctly." is how I'd put it. I worked at Facebook for over 7 years, and I would've worked myself to death for the company. I was making a small fortune, and living a nice life, and I greatly appreciated it. (in hindsight, lol, so glad I left.)

The real problems, imo, were the organizational rules, the expectation that basically everyone in a role is the same... the red tape, the ridiculously gamed review cycles, the little empires that reject change... the fear & the blame. This all on top of bad managers, of which I had a fair mixture, those who were helpful and those who actively worked to hurt me.

Regardless, the downsizing is coming, and it's all leaderships fault.
There are, in fact, a very wide range of options between "have the British steal it" and "destroy it".
Former Twitter Employee Convicted as Saudi Spy
After reading this book review on Haidt's Righetous Mind (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-r...), I've been wondering if I falsely gave him credence for channeling a neutral voice. This article pushes me further in that direction.
I'm a prickly unlikable tech person that is bad at making people like me, doesn't mean what I say is wrong though.

I commented my experience a couple comments up. The whole show they put on while giving you a refub unit without a discount is insulting.
It wasn't until they moved to Cassandra that they were able to let the db do that job and work on adding the shit ton of features that exist today.

But cassandra is still a nosql and doesn't give the constraints of something like pg.
It almost seems like lolling at the idea of a government seeking regulation and oversight of a money supply network was a touch premature.
I'd argue that running the IRS like this is one of those dumb things.

There's a massive army of people manually transcribing forms in 2022. One old-timer (and his ability to turn new parts of a lathe!) is all that keeps a massive, country-wide system running.

It's like the definition of penny-wise and pound-foolish.
It’s been depressing for me with how adamant people are on keeping bad systems like the electoral college or how the senate is set up. Even worse when they were initially set up by elitist, classist, and other powerful people that cared more about their own wealth and power than democracy. Why would we listen to what people like John Adams (who as far as I know is one of the better founding fathers) think of democracy when they believed in a system where only land owning men matter[0].

To prevent a response of “things were different then”. Even putting aside things that would be different if they were around today, namely women’s and non white’s rights, the core crux of being power hungry and considering themselves above poorer people is something that fits in perfectly with their writing and how the status quo is today. There’s no reason to think they’d think differently about who should wield power today. Elitism and greed hasn’t changed like sexism and racism has.

0. https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1645
A prosecutor doesn’t seek a sentence until after the defendant is found guilty.

Moreover, judges don’t care about prosecutors or what they think. And, sentences are largely determined by sentencing guidelines.

Rich white kids with no prior convictions don’t go to prison for stealing library books.
Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws
I was always surprised that even living in Silicon Valley I was never able to get fiber! I’m near San Francisco now and it still isn’t an option to my home.
Eishockey, Kanufahren, Wirsing.

(Alles okay. Kann noch fahren. Wiedersehen!)
Yep, that double bowline with stopper is what I was referring to. Trouble is, it is now almost as challenging to tie as the fig-8 loop / trace.
Yes, these are commodity prices.
So you won't be wet from the rain, you'll be wet from your own sweat.
My Modem can support 1.5 gbps to the internet. The cat5e cable between the modem and my router can support 1.0 gbps (rated to that at least), and the one between the router and my desktop is the same.

Over wifi, I can get around 600mbit to the router at best.

Running generic speedtest websites, I'm seeing myself top out at around 900mbit or so. Which should be enough for all my needs for long time.
Consumption taxes disproportionately affect the poor, because prices of goods largely stay the same.
Love the title.

Just waiting for "How PHP makes you do heroin"
Coordination games and public goods games (which arguably model insurance) work best when people don’t adversely self-select, but coordinate around the social optimum (for insurance, when the risk pool is as large as possible). Whatever can orchestrate such coordination adds value. If people do it on their own, great, but some problems have characteristics like time horizons such that the coordination doesn’t happen without an authority. Yes, this brings in other public choice problems, but the trade-off is not necessarily bad.
His argument was "No one who advocates against hate speech laws doesn't want you to have that freedom" -- while saying "No one.." is always dangerous (as there is always someone, somewhere), I'd say it is fairly common in my experience for people in favour of laws against free speech to also think companies like Twitter should be forced to also allow free speech.
If not agreeing means "let's agree to disagree" then that's fine and healthy.

If not agreeing means "I need to pretend I agree even when I have good reason to disagreee because this person needs to be appeased" that is not healthy and contributes to a toxic workplace.

This post is talking about the latter scenario.
Still digesting this, but part of what makes some of the smartest people smart is the ability to find an interesting, well-defined, problem in a vague question. Great mathematicians don't just solve such problems, they help formulate them.

All of which is an aside -- I doubt it has bearing on finding happiness. It's more a critique of the way the paper wants to frame the problem.
For small engines, a manufacturer will use the same one everywhere in the world with very little difference. Only when you get to large engines do you see things unique to the US.

The issue with belts/chains is if the engine is designed for interference or not. If the belt/chain breaks do the valves and pistons come in contact with each other or not? That's a design decision with costs and benefits.

With an interference engine, a broken belt means a destroyed engine - preventative maintenance is mandatory. Or you go with a timing chain.

If you don't have an interference engine, you replace the broken belt and drive away. Preventive maintenance is a good idea but not quite so critical.

Interference engines can run with much higher compression ratios and get better performance for their size. So you see more timing chains with higher performance engines. If your car doesn't have a turbo and isn't aimed at the speed racer crowd, chances are better that it has a timing belt.
I've never used an ORM (Hibernate, Doctrine) when you can't also write the queries yourself and then leave the object mapping to the ORM.

It's not an either/or.

Often I'll use the ORM for saving, and SQL for retrieving.
The cost is a drop in the bucket, the end result is anything but. The people on HN play checkers, our politicians and elite bankers are playing chess.

Why do you need to double the auditing arm of an organization that already doesn't audit the ruling class?

Because, when you expand and increase the middle class tax bracket (i.e. those who actually fucking pay taxes), you want to make sure your pay pig class keeps paying.

I hope you boys are ready :)
Completely forgot about Google Fiber, just assumed they'd abandoned it like so many other Google projects. I was so excited for it back when it was announced. Anything to disrupt the corrupt local monopoly I have to deal with here. Then they scrapped any plans to come to my city and I lost interest.
Destroyed like the English banning the Irish language in schools in trying to destroy the Irish language?

Insofar as radical Islamists, the English sided with and supported radical Islamists in Iran against Mossadegh and then against the secular left under the Shah. The English supported Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Watch Lawrence of Arabia, they do it and celebrate it. The English saving secular socialist pan-Arab nationalism against radical Islamists? Please.

The real destruction of artifacts was the destruction of Iraq Museum during the UK's unprovoked invasion of that country. Which they of course blamed on Iraqis. These people are transparent.
I would recommend SQLite + a nice usable interface tool like

datasette

https://github.com/simonw/datasette

Or SQLitebrowser
https://sqlitebrowser.org/

(There are other generalized tools, search around to see if there are more suitable.)

You can store whole files, in addition to searchable text fields , and the single file is easier to share or turn into a more sophisticated “app” when the time is right.
I do that sometimes but I started going for thinner cuts of meat and just grill them in 12-15 mins. Sousvide is nice but sometimes takes too long and you still gotta sear.

For nicer cuts of meat, sure, but for flank steak and such, I find it much easier to just let the meat marinate for 24-48 hours and then grill it.
"Those with stronger sadistic tendencies engage in sadistic sexual behavior or even criminal acts (e.g., torture, animal abuse)."

This article is really hardcore kink shaming here by not saying "non-consentual sadistic sexual behavior" and just lumping in potentially consentual sadistic sex with torture and animal abuse.

There are plenty of people who get off humiliating their partner or being humiliated... in a consentual way that is within a bubble of love and consent. The emotions are no less real, neither is the high. Casually grouping a healthy consentual pursuit of these releases with sexual abuse, and then placing that next to animal abuse in a sentence is really problematic.
I think that the entire concept of dynamic emails is misguided and eliminates a few of the strengths of email.

I already make sure to never allow my mailreader to render HTML or resolve links anyway, though, for security reasons. So I guess this won't affect me any.
Google couldn’t wire up their own back yard! You think Comcast has more lobbying clout in Silicon Valley than Google? Google rejected proposals from places like Baltimore and LA that were trying to kick out Comcast and asking Google to wire them up.
Smart people may be looking for more problems than normal people
This is a blunt misunderstanding of power in general.

Nearly every citizen that's not running an extensive mining operation is going to be required to go through a centralized exchange at some point or another.

There is no way to avoid this issue of trust with crypto, unless crypto itself becomes the de-facto currency of choice (hint: it won't).

There is simply no meaningful way to avoid "trust", despite the snake oil that crypto folks like to coat everything in.
I don't think it is "a bit much"

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/150901-is...
> Yes, it's pretty clear that humans were overfitting to their interview objective function: comp-sci algo problems.

Worse, it's often over-fitted to memorized specific solutions to esoteric comp-sci algo problems.

So you end up with a bunch of, admittedly smart, developers who all have the spare time to memorize an entire suite of algo problems and solutions.

Some of those developers are going to have copious amounts of spare time while working at your organization as well.
It can be inconsistent for sure. I see the most inconsistency when "shipped and sold" by a third-party. FBA ("fulfilled by Amazon"), or whatever the term is for when Amazon stocks and ships it, seems to more consistently meet the 2-day time limit. When it doesn't, the blame can often be placed on the shipping company. Even when the blame is on Amazon, it's a day or two delay, and accompanied by an email with a (usually) accurate reset of expectations.
They’re not the same. In addition to the 40-60 hours a week of billable work, they do 10-20 hours of nonbillable work as well.
It’s exactly the same sort of paternalism that tore apart the British empire in the first place.

You guys are too stupid to take care of this obelisk so we’re just going to take it. K bye.

Even if you’re 100% right you look like an asshole, and if you don’t repatriate it when the place has a stable government then you’re just proving your rationalization was fully self-serving.
Another good finance example is Michael Burry. He completed medical school and largely completed specialist neurology and pathology training without realizing he was autistic. It wasn't until years later, after his son was diagnosed with autism, when he got his diagnosis.
Founder of HomeBrew starting blockchain to pay open source developers
Never used a cheque in my entire life. Had couple of blanks when opened an account with BofA about 15 years ago, but didn't get the idea. For me cheques are something from Theodore Dreiser novels.

I heard from friends in Israel that there's a fancy custom of writing 12 cheques to landlord when one rents an apartment dated for every month of the rent. This way you never see your landlord for the entire year, which is neat, can't argue with that.
I've gone shopping at Grocery Outlet (discount West Coast chain) since I was in grad school and couldn't afford anything else. I could use higher quality stores now, but it's kind of fun to work recipes around their ever-changing (and incomplete) stock, so I tend to make one stop there and then drop by another store on the way home to fill in the gaps (usually just grapefruit juice and fresh bread). It only adds ~15 min. to the trip if I know what I'm missing before I walk in.
Flexible JSON Transformations in Rust
Most certainly. Most "normies" or everyday people do not use or interact with crypto yet.

Likely also just a case of using the best tool fit for the job.

If you tried to ransomware a company and demanded cash, that would make it a lot harder to obtain without being caught. Although there are nation-state ransomware groups like Moses Staff (Iran) who deploy ransomware without a demand for money. They do it to cause disruption and to make the company have to spend $ to get fixed.
i have literally used 20yr expired medicines before and been fine
Squip: Exploiting the Scheduler Queue Contention Side Channel [pdf]
Directory of canned responses. If you lack inspiration
When I left Amazon, I never thought I'd miss it, but I'm finding this true for me as well:

"My job is so boring now. I miss Amazon. But It's not stressful (because there is no pressure on me), and I get paid more money"
The entire movement felt like a massive tragedy of the commons. There is just no incentive for any single player to push the standard forward and the commercial players are already reaping enough benefits from Web 2.0 that putting more money in Semantic Web makes no sense.

Semantic Web was supposed to be the Web 3.0. It's so dead now that even its name is stolen by the blockchain. RIP.
Err, I don't work there.
The way you described it made me feel that you either learned a lot from Gary or are you are Gary itself in a huge plot twist. Very entertaining story, like a meta-answer.
The Dutch seem less interested in finding any excuse for their bad habits than we suburban Americans do.
What would you recommend as an alternative for disk imaging in Linux? I'm in the process of migrating a herd of PCs from HDDs to SSDs and would appreciate suggestions.
>> It's not clear who these "victim's watchdogs" are. It's not clear what they mean by "neighbourhood".

The information comes from Dame Vera Baird, Victims Commissioner. They seem pretty legit to me.

https://victimscommissioner.org.uk/about-us/

>> And you seem to be relying on the Tory house newspaper.

I agree it's disgusting how the Labour house newspaper and state broadcaster have ignored this.
I'm not trying to make a particular statement about whether threats should be illegal, I'm just saying hate speech and threats aren't the same thing.
> sociopaths, if not psychopaths

they are bred and selected by game rules a.k.a. "rational" actors.. look at Martin Shkreli, still listed as "American Executive" and right back in the pharm trading..
Nowhere on Earth where rainwater safe to drink – study
Ah yes, the 3/5ths compromise and its relevance to today’s world. Basing one’s political beliefs on apportionment of power over the fears held by 18th century politicians feels ripe for bad takes.

There are many, many other divides than high population vs low population territories that we conveniently ignore in this debate. If you want to argue in favor of the population of smaller states deserving greater representation, can I get you on board for giving black people, Muslims, LGBTQ members, and communists vote multipliers as well?

You see, there’s actual historical precedent for population majorities screwing over these groups.

In comparison, those small population states you fight so valiantly to protect historically receive more tax dollars than they pay in. Seems like a pretty sweet deal.

Before you say hey that’s all thanks to disproportionate representation, Canada and other countries with more proportionate representation see the same thing. You see, small population states are in general beneficiaries of putting their lot in with bigger states. Giving them more vote power on top of that is… silly.
Easy to blame lazy overpaid ICs, but really this is an organizational problem. When I was at a big tech company I was on not one but two different teams that were created to build a poorly-thought-out product with no plan and no serious executive backing. Both teams accomplished ~nothing and were re-orged into non-existence within a year or so. We did work hard though, at least until it was obvious that we were going nowhere.

I never quite could figure out why they did this. Are these moonshots where they "fund" a bunch of "startups" and hope someone knocks it out of the park and produces enough revenue to justify all the failures? Or is this make-work for some executive to justify their headcount? Or maybe the company was so profitable that they were willing to fund non-profitable enterprises for PR or customer goodwill reasons?
> I'm honestly surprised that our city is so well wired up that I have the choice of two gigabit providers. We aren't a tech hub or anything like that. I wonder why this location seems to be such a competitive market for ISPs.

Texas makes it easy and cheap to build. Places like NYC and SF make it hard to build. There’s other reasons, but that’s #1.
A standard residential generator typically holds a gallon of fuel and will burn through that in about 8-12 hours, which is not the ideal way to run a refrigerator. If you run the generator constantly, you'll burn through substantial amounts of fuel, and if you run it only occasionally, you're going to get the kind of temperature fluctuations we're trying to avoid here.

I have a 1kW power station with solar charging, which won't fare a whole lot better; it'll run a fridge for maybe 2-3 days if it's sunny outside.

Low-tech solutions win in power outages of more than a day or two.
You can't do a Show HN with just a signup page. There needs to be a way for people to try out the product. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

A physical product such as a desk obviously can't be tried out over the internet, but the product needs to physically exist and there needs to be some meaningful way to look it over.
Nope, you cant fully do that... but you can get some help to accelerate adoption and lower your burn rate.
You can buy a Cinder Grill instead. Same basic thermodynamic concept, but with metal instead of water+plastic for the stable heat source
We’ve built a freemium cloud RPA software focused on web scraping and monitoring, called Browse AI.

https://www.browse.ai

It lets you train a bot in 2 minutes. The bot will then open the site with rotating geolocated ip addresses, solve captchas, click on buttons and scroll and fill out forms, to get you the data you need.

It’s integrated with Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, and more.

We have a Google Sheets addon too which lets you run robots and get their results all in a spreadsheet.

We have close to 10,000 users with 1,000+ signing up every week these days. That made us raise a bit of funding from Zapier and others to be able to scale quicker and build the next version.
Google fiber isn't even available everywhere in Austin, a town they "came to" long ago.

So... color me skeptical about the significance of this.
> The implications of this are nothing short of a revision of Einstein’s theory of gravitation. Why the scientific community is in denial about the falsification of the dark matter model (...)

This is easy to explain. For Einstein's theory of gravitation you have the experimental evidence of every experiment every done, and against you have one guy with a half-baked argument.
I know the answer to this one: because we are taxed without actual representation. All the good buzzwords apply here- cash grab, wealth transfer, class warfare.
If people want distributed social media, there are already great models for that. Mastodon is one. Hell, you can make the case that USENET is still a great fit for that application.

Adding crypto and blockchains to the story really doesn't gain us anything, and it may lose us the ability to delete messages, which is actually a feature you sometimes want in a social network. If everything you said when you were 12 was indelibly chiseled into cryptographic Stones somewhere, why would you speak into the device that does that in the first place?
Yes but now you don't get to eat bacon and you're eating tofu bacon instead. You're still alive, but are you really living?

More seriously, that quality of life decrease is now completely ignored. I think it's worth acknowledging that it's happening.
Modern rain gear is okay on that side but at great expense.
avoiding the literally 105+ degree weather
definition

In python, go and C maybe, but in typescript? People tend to kungfu-type their APIs way too much where healthy repetition would suffice.

I believe ts typing power will eventually become “considered harmful”. I also think that ts should have a way to intertwine types as it does now, but leave that to technical part of dts and give a way to declare that by <that gibberish> you meant <this clear interface>.
This was a completely foreseeable outcome. The primary function of the Internet is to accelerate and broaden communications. Somehow people thought that it would accelerate good communications (for whatever definition of 'good' you prefer)!!!

But it turns out that bad actors also know how to use the Internet to accelerate their bad communications. Surprise, surprise!
That's the other route for sure. It's what Mark Manson proposes in "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F---". His contention is that it's impossible to stop worrying about things. We're always going to worry about things. The only thing we can do is choose better things to worry about.

For my money, I prefer the dispassionate route. I get way too hung up on results and expectations otherwise.
but i was responding to this

> fiber network that can reach 600 houses

GP wasn't asking about 'original effort' .

Title mentions 'hundreds of homes'
"Recently become apparent"? Tony Blair won 43% of the popular vote and made major constitutional reforms like the Lords reform of 1999. It's crazy to have such a low bar for reforming the political system.
As long as your taking input/feedback - look at smartdesk (integrated monitors) or at least integrated monitor stand(s).

Unrelated, Geminos (stacked monitor solution on kickstarter) is doing something interesting with monitors (which frankly have stagnated for a long time). Consider that general purpose monitors and/or pre-configured monitor set-ups specific to your desk solution might help people visualize their use case.

Monitor stand on the desk is a turn-off for me.