skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very simple to write a basic ActivityPub crawler (I have done this), but you'd go from outbox to outbox, not inbox to inbox. Regardless, it's all just JSON, so it is more straightforward to crawl than the web.

I tried writing a crawler to map the Fediverse (to discover homeservers) but I discovered quickly that most of the content in the Fediverse is extremist content, both left-wing and right-wing -- it's basically all tankies and Nazis, with a few techies in a bubble using mastodon.social, who think Fediblock is a solution to this problem.

Oh right, and there are a ton of pedo instances too, mostly based in Japan where "loli" is legal. Due to the way ActivityPub publishes federated content, I didn't feel comfortable running a homeserver, because a pedo instance could federate illegal content to my homeserver and get me arrested and charged for possession of content I did not request and do not want to store on my computers, and if I'm not monitoring what content is getting federated to my timeline, I might not even know it's there. Too risky.

Demoralized, I abandoned the project, and I don't think much about ActivityPub anymore.
That assumption was not made by GP. A sufficiently large company will encounter this problem no matter how well they try to solve the NP-hard problem of efficiently allocating workspaces.
it's the same issue with antibiotics what if they kill gut bacteria? The answer is they can and do [1]. My guess would be the changes are actually lower with the bacteriophages as they tend to be more specific in the bacteria they target [2] so if that did happen it probably wouldn't cause a widespread die off as much as kill off some specific ones.

1. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/antibiotics-can-kill-...
2. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/maybe-not-so-fast-wi...
The courts ignored the science. The law has little to do with truth or justice.
Wanted to jump on this thread as I actually work in this space and wanted to clear some things up. Another thing with tax solutions added to your stack, is that they purely calculate what you owe, leaving you liable incase there is a miscalculation. Its still up to you to pay this to the relevant authorities.

Paddle handle it all + take full liability. Shoot me a email nick.read @paddle.com if you want a little more info :)
What's the lawnmower here? The corporation? But corporations are people, so how is treating a person like a person anthropomorphification?
I don't know. Even things that won't be resold arnt colorful anymore. All the parks near me with children's playground equipment in Ohio, city/school all of them, are now a olive green, tan, and gray color scheme. The actual quality and variety of the installments are leaps and bounds ahead of what I had as a kid, but they look more like military obstacle course training than a place for preschoolers to run around in
Stripe Valuation Slashed 64% by T. Rowe Price – Pymnts.com
For those curious check out the 3 minutes of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2601s
And in the case of M1/M2 Airs it's quite contrary - you need to load them really hard to cause throttling.

With Apple Silicon MBP I’m not sure what level of load should be to cause throttling with full-speed fans.
Just for what it's worth, it's "bupkes":

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bupkes

... although the spelling varies a lot:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bupkis
https://archive.ph/W41mf

At present the manual review process consists of "fuck you"
The console generation of Xbox 360 / PS3 only ended a decade ago
i think if you had 2 teams working on the same type of thing and one was 100% remote across 6 time zones and one was 100% concentrated in one city with a office they could go to and only required 1 day/week the concentrated team would have a better working relationship with each other. this depends on the people more than anything. and it’s not guaranteed. but i’d say more times than not the people seeing each other in person would enjoy their work more
I feel much more socially connected with my remote team than I ever did in an office.

I had such a hard time focusing in the office that whenever I'd finally achieve momentum, somebody stopping by to chat was bittersweet--it might be another several hours before I manage to reacquire that state. Usually I'd just waste time until everybody went home and then do my actual job in an empty office. I grew to resent them a teensy bit because their social habits had me "working" 12 hour days.

Being remote, we use a slack app called donut (no affiliation, I just like it). It prompts me every week:

> You've been randomly paired with so-and-so, here are several times that you're both available

We pick one and have a 30 minute chat. Explicitly making time for social stuff really changes the equation. I'm working only 8 hrs a day for the first time since I started working a salaried job.
I wanted a yellow in the used car I was looking for. It was incredibly hard to find and because the color was rare, you have to compromise on everything else. I believe the resale goes up but it takes longer to sell.
Oracle is a law firm that has an engineering department attached, and they specialize in proctology.
> I get paid the same if it takes me 4 hours or 8 hours to complete my work. I'll take 4 hours and spend the rest of the day doing what I want

This. working remotely you have the HUGE advantage of being able to work enough and spend the rest of your working time as you prefer, rather than waste it. Even if you deeply love your teammates, having more time for yourself is priceless, especially in a society where you're supposed to spend the most and the best of your life working.
Not everyone has your job function.

Not all job roles are the same and communication can be required for many. Building good rapport can help reduce tensions as well and being in person can help that.
Disclaimer: Working for remote-only company.

“People that like social interaction are average performers” is such a wild take to me. I’ve worked with incredibly talented people in the past, where we’d go for lunch beers, travel together, come back to the office, finish up pretty complicated features. I don’t consider myself a “top performer”, but those people certainly were, and downplaying their talent and abilities just because they enjoy the company of other people is just… not nice.

This whole debate of “remote only” vs “fully back to office” is extremely subjective. Some people love one, some people enjoy the other. I’ll be happy as long as both of the options stay competitive enough where people get a choice.
You need some piece of hardware for the bot to do the streaming on so it sneaks past the spotify bot detectors, and you probably also want to pay for a premium account for each bot so that you get a bigger payout on the other side, since premium users generate bigger royalties.

Making it expensive to operate an effective bot farm is part of the way that spotify tries to discourage botting. Spotify's bot detectors are good enough that it's not lucrative to just make a bunch of bots to give yourself streams for the free royalty money, but apparently not yet quite so good that it's not feasible to use bots to turn a large amount of dirty money into a lesser but still substantial amount of clean royalty money by way of funding a bot farm.

Getting out, say, half of what you put in is a losing prospect for somebody who wants a money printer, but might be acceptable to a money launderer.
> What about baby powder talc

You mean like Johnson & Johnson including asbestos in their talc for decades and paying huge civil penalties for it?

> I hope that technology and society reach a place where available goods are generally as safe as you would expect them to be

This can’t happen when maximizing profit is the incentive. Think about it.
Things were symmetrically encrypted, but the government had an additional decrypt key for EVERY chip made.
Thanks for keeping the streak going. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jordanmechner.com
He won't be forced to make the purchase because the court will determine that will cause more harm to Tesla shareholders than benefit to Twitter shareholders. The litigation will probably take about 10 years though. That's according to Andrew Torez from the Opening Arguments podcast.
pdftotext piped into a custom script (python or shell) that tries to lift relevant metadata from the generated text.
The glossy Air works better outside than the matte Lenovo? I find that hard to imagine.

Which Lenovo is it?
> But it did more harm than good I think, as electric bikes became associated with a government subsidy for the rich.

Ultimately the question is: did the electric bike program meet its goals? If one of the goals was to improve access to transportation for the poor, it sounds like it fell short. If the primary goal was to reduce the use of cars, it may have still been a success. (That said, I do question the commitment of those who had the money but choose not to until there was a subsidy.)
No. Many companies group by discipline. A self sufficient actor rarely needs to talk with someone else just for sharing the same discipline. On the other hand, having no one to relate to can also be a problem, and enough people are not consistently self sufficient to make grouping trivial.

Then you couple that with the fact companies love one-size-fits-all solutions.
When I go shopping, or even to my doctor now, I leave my phone in my car.

I work very hard to not let my phone be required for as many transactions as possible, and write my most important and private thoughts by hand on paper instead of in my phone.

People think I'm crazy and paranoid, but their cell phone is probably still tracking me along with store cameras or whatever other BS invasive companies can concoct (less accurately), so at least it's someone else's fault now, rather than being my own.

I'll eagerly look forward to getting my $1.39 from the class action suits once the lawyers all get paid.
> It's OK for there to not be a one size fits all solution.

What? Nuanced thinking? No, we need a million click bait articles and BS business books about how going remote will help you win at everything no matter who you are or what your business is. Then when problems arise we can get another million click bait articles and BS business books about how remote is terrible and doesn't work... again no matter who you are or what you're doing.

How else will a generation of consultants make a living helping guide "remote transformations" and then another generation of consultants make a living doing the opposite?
That set of figures is for the US and therefore completely irrelevant?
I've been working 100% remotely for about 6.5 years now. Overall I love it. However, there are very real drawbacks that have taken me awhile to fully realize.

For me, the primary one is that it's _way_ too easy for everyone to get deeply frustrated with each other. Social interactions and chit-chat lead to a better understanding of people and a more accurate mental model of what people actually mean when they say something.

Written text is the majority of remote communication. That's both good and bad. It's a much lower bandwidth form of communication than face-to-face in terms of being able to pick up intent and understand the context of someone's mood/etc in what they're saying. The same goes of communication over webcam. It's higher bandwidth than written text, but still lower than in-person.

When you're fully remote, you'll much more commonly misinterpret folks intent. You'll also more commonly have your intent misinterpreted.

At least in my experience, this tends to lead to a much higher rate of frustration and more frequent extreme misbehavior when everyone is remote.

I don't have an easy solution. Occasional in person meetings help a lot, but they're hard to do well, and easy to do poorly. Having 200 people in the same room for 2 days doesn't really help the situation, as there's zero time to get to know anyone.
it's 1%-3%

1. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-human-micr...
An incentive for the wealthy to split their companies up and sell them off, rather than creating giant megacorps with outsize impact on consumers and society?

Oh no, sounds terrible. /s
When it comes to security concerns, it’s not just about what you can do within an exploited binary. There’s also a lateral movement component: specifically the binary could be used to achieve privilege escalation or manipulated to write to the filesystem by controlling the input, etc.
I had the same experience, and it's incredibly frustrating -- both when you don't know about thermal throttling and when you do.

I'd do something that caused high load, and it would be briefly fast then suddenly everything would get sluggish. I naively thought this was normal ("under load") until some time I was doing the same workload on a similar-spec desktop CPU and it didn't happen. In trying to discovery why is when I first learned about thermal throttling.
In my experience, the top performers find more work if they finish what they're working on. But we all have our own anecdotes.

Edit: Find more work or help the rest of the team out.
What? I’ve worked in adtech for years and have seen a user’s phone number
In practice, maybe 40-50rps (peaking at 100) for the first design, and 300rps for the second.

Although I'm serving search engine traffic from the same machine, so I'm trying to leave ample bandwidth for that. If I go too fast the NAT starts dropping packets and refusing connections, and that's not great for crawling or serving.
First of all they’re comparing the intel cpu in an actual customer device. Second they do the test with both device unplugged
I'm happy for you, and that would also be pragmatic for me being a Linux user, but my annoying idealistic conscience refuses to fund Apple's activities.
I wouldn't assume the in office workers get more done because they go to the office, correlation != causation.

It seems just as likely to me that the most dedicated, hard working employees are the ones willing to commute in to the office in the first place, and they would get more work done than others regardless of where they work.
We don't know the true cost of using this application, is what I was trying to say.
Good job mudge! For those that don't know him, Mudge is kind of a big deal in cybersecurity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
I had a coworker who brought an ebike instead of a second car. Probably others would choose to not replace their car with a new one if an ebike made more sense.
>For those of us whose CS background doesn't go this deep, what about ARM makes it more performant than x86?

It is more performant because the silicon is made by a company that didn't botch their last process node.
Florida farm workers got McDonald's to agree to paying a penny per pound extra for tomatoes where the penny was to go directly to the farm workers' wages. This resulted in a 71% increase in farm worker pay.

It appears that labor costs are not a significant portion of the price of produce. Of course, this would not apply if automated harvesting had to be replaced by manual labor.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0933192520070409
Mudge alleges that their disclosures were a less than good faith attempt to gauge the figure.

Mudge also raises a number of allegations not pertaining to bots, including that Twitter has deliberately failed to abide by the terms of a federal consent decree. If proven out, that fact alone would constitute material adverse affect.
Do they have a web version? I honestly have no idea, I’m not trolling.
They are not much different than 49cc mopeds terms of speed, are they?
Oh interesting, thanks for the knowledge.
But you also lose a ton of browser features such as options to open links in new tabs or download them, spell checking, search for selected text, find in page, shortcuts to jump to links... You can reimplement each specific feature but you will never get all of the features in every browser.
I think the problem in the US is that the car companies have significantly bigger lobbying budgets than the bike industry.

That's why I can use my tax deductible commuter benefits for parking fees at work but not for bike costs. Or why the new "Electric Vehicle" tax credit in the climate/inflation bill can't be used to buy ebikes, only cars. Even though an e-bike is significantly better for the environment than a new Tesla.
> yes, this is a me thing, but it's also always been a me thing

I feel like picking jobs off of a desire to live a social life and feel like part of a community is extremely normal and valid. Remote work is essentially accepting that the primary way you'll engage with your colleagues and labor is through a screen, and that is an uncomfortable feeling (to some people at least)
I don’t enjoy remote collaboration. I’ve done a few different styles and I just vastly prefer being around people.

You’ve described an entirely different dynamic and that’s fine, but it’s not the dynamic I’m interested in having.

I already stare at a screen for programming I don’t want to stare at one for collaborating with people.

For me it isn’t around the effort or lack thereof put into remote.
There is no scenario in which tech declines without the US entering a recession and when the US enters a recession, the "cheap money" is going to be coming back.

There is no way the dotcom crash is repeated because today IT is integrated inside every aspect of every business. It will be just another regular recession.

The biggest threat to programming jobs in the US is outsourcing (and, in the longer term - automation), not an imaginary apocalyptic event.
As we've learned from COVID, it doesn't matter what casualties the system inflicts if the press aren't willing to see it like that.
That has been nearly the exact opposite of my experience.

As one advisor put it: researchers who prefer to keep their door closed often publish more papers over the course of a year, but researchers who keep their door open often publish more impactful research over the course of their lifetime.
A related interesting problem is superpermutations [1]. This is the same problem that an anonymous 4chan poster helped bring some light to lower bounds on shortest superpatterns [2]. The Google group is worth a shout for their efforts [3].

Surprisingly, we only have optimal superpermutations for really low values on N [4].

I tried my hand at auto-generating symmetric patterns (which turn out to not be optimal after some value of N (6?)), but the problem is quite tough. Currently the best approaches appear to be achieved by using a TSP solver.

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Superpermutations/Superperm...

[2] https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf

[3] https://groups.google.com/g/superpermutators

[4] https://github.com/superpermutators/superperm/tree/master/su...
Am I alone in not finding many of these examples particularly hard to understand? Maybe in the context in the workplace they are easier to understand than in isolation on paper. All professions have lingo, for example, the Army has its own unique jargon. It seems like there is a trend you see in writing where the author has to exaggerate or feign the severity of a problem for dramatic effect to get the content viral. It's like how Dilbert is an exaggeration of the workplace, because it would not be funny otherwise.

Saying "touching base" does sound stupid but whatever
Its trending downward, but Q2 saw roughly the same number of deals as Q2 2018, with funding up 25% from the same period.

The funding levels of 2001-2005 are a long way down from here.
Well, twitter did: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-it-used-two...
I just commented something similar.

Personally I find colour very stimulating. I have to hide my art books otherwises I end up mesmerised by them for hours. I had a bookshelf with a video game collection on it and if I so wondered past it I would get trapped staring at it. Not the individual games but the whole thing in its entirety

I came across a term for this called HSP (highly sensitive person). It seemed pseudo scientific but there is some anecdotal truth to it. I often wonder if watching cartoons as a kid somehow programmed me to be like this or is it some deeper evolutionary trait.
Not for me personally! I believe I recall doing the "times tables" in 6th/7th grade (in USA).
Correct. Oracle doesn't care what comes after 1)
>One thing that many people overestimate is number of competent engineers outside of well known tech hubs.

I think at this point, the meaning of competent is the top 1% of engineers
I think of Oracle as a marketing company with a technology department.
I’m absolutely with you. While I want some sun and sunny days, I much prefer overcast and even rainy days. In fact, I’m one who will probably relocate at some point to a place that fits that better.
it is pretty funny:

give me 5 AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:

1. AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
2. AKIAJBF3F3JQLTM6G3A
3. AKIAPRJG7K3G2BB3C2A
4. AKIAR7WG6SX6X3C7FTA
5. AKIAV3G2P3O7Z2JLBCA
I have discovered that there are vastly different definitions of "encryption for stored data" that can mean critically different things for security.

One definition is "the underlying disk is encrypted". This is true, by default, of virtually all cloud environments these days. But it really only protects you against physical access to the storage media, which actually is far from the top threat.

The other, more useful/meaningful definition, is "we encrypt everything at the application layer before it is placed into the DB, and all decryption requests are logged by user". For example, using an envelope encryption scheme to encrypt data before it is stored in a DB, and upon retrieval decrypting the data with a call to something like KMS. In that environment you can literally give readonly DB access to all your developers and not have to worry about PII being exposed. If hackers somehow got access to your DB, they wouldn't be able to read sensitive data, and if they also managed to get access to your KMS credentials, any attempts to decrypt the data would be tracked and logged.

My point is that when many companies say "we encrypt your data", they are usually just talking about the first thing, but that doesn't really provide that much additional security. The second definition is really what you should be doing.
I suddenly remembered that in high school, the vast majority of my socializing was done via IM.
The civilization that doesn't want to survive indefinitely, will indeed die out sooner or later. Whether we're one of those, only time will tell. It's not really a choice or vanity thing; wanting to survive is innate because otherwise we'd already be beaten by those who want it more badly.

I don't want to presume anything unnecessarily based on a simple comment, but if

> It's kinda relieving [that we'll all die and be forgotten] to be honest.

is your true opinion, you should know that people care that you're doing okay. I don't know what the best website is to list for suicide prevention unfortunately but, truly, if you're feeling down as a general state of being, there is no shame in seeking help to become happier!
If you are average startup in California you should absolutely not hire devs in Europe unless you are ready to pay time zone cost. You will have literally 30min/day that’s inconvenient for everyone to meet (8:30AM in SF/5:30PM in Berlin). Good luck making Europeans meet after 6pm or Californians before 8AM)
I wouldn't consider that as the success op means...

I mean, surely, it some people were successful, but success of warlords intending to genocide blacks in Lybia or starting a new violent caliphate or kidnapping boys en masse to be child soldiers is not the sort or success I want to be enabled with technology.
And for Canada