skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides for entry-level positions, there's still huge shortages of software engineers. There's no reason to expect the secular technology trends of the past 30 years, software eating the world, to suddenly reverse just because of one business cycle. Becoming a good software engineer is probably equally as difficult as becoming a good doctor, attorney, accountant or corporate manager. So low-to-mid six figures seems like a floor.
Let's not forget adjuvants.
How do you replicate water cooler talk in a fully remote environment? Do people do work while tuned in to a meeting where anyone can drop in and talk to them?
Given the frequency of updates, maintaining a privacy fork with anything but minor changes would be a Sisyphean task.
Yeah , in the past I’ve worked for many similar companies, if it’s not part of the operating system amir they one associated with the OS - then that’s the IT policy - that’s when I bring my own laptop and use my own phone- two phones always in pocket!!
Have you considered that those of your view and those espousing that remote is more difficult might have different personalities, levels of need of social interaction, or lifestyles?

Have you considered that your company is self-selecting for those who flourish in remote, but that those whose personalities differ are self-selecting for working in an office environment?

It's OK for there to not be a one size fits all solution.
Ah, wasn't aware of it.
We’re missing the connection to Musk here. Care to enlighten us about your theory?
> Maybe not officially, but the people certainly have given me the impression that they do.

I don't know that they've written them off so much as they feel helpless to tackle the problem in any meaningful way, and are frustrated about it.

If someone had a better plan than "throw another $200m at it and see if it gets better", I think people would be on board. I don't live there anymore, so I don't really follow it, but what I recall is mostly trying to dump more funding into the same programs as if it would hit some critical mass and make a difference.

> I highly doubt most (let alone all) of that money is actually going toward the homeless people themselves, though (even indirectly, e.g. for healthcare). I'd best most of it, rather, goes toward bureaucratic overhead.

That's the budget for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, it's not a slush fund. As far as I'm aware, they're not paying ER bills or anything like that. Those externalities are in addition to this funding.

As I said to the other commenter, if you've got evidence of poor fund usage, I'm open to that idea, it wouldn't shock me. As far as I could validate, they're spending the money well. I checked ~$100m in funding that went to partnered non-profits (there was ~$250m in the list). The worst non-profit I saw spent 78.5% on it's funding on programs. The other two did better at 92.8% and 98.1%.

> And the median rent for even a studio (let alone anything better) is $27,000/year - i.e. $8,817 more than what's generally deemed affordable via the "one third of income" rule. Factor in all the other things more expensive in SF, it's no wonder why homelessness is so rampant when wages don't keep up with the cost of living.

I genuinely don't think the city can fix that. There's more people that want to live in SF than there is housing. Lower the prices and people will move to SF (hell, I'd think about moving back). Raise the median wage and prices will rise; the tech people will still make more than the median wage. The only thing I can see working is dramatic redistribution of wealth, which will probably crater the city finances as everyone with money leaves.

It's a small, highly desirable, highly productive, geographically constrained city. Capitalism practically dictates that the poor won't be able to afford to live there.

That's a false dichotomy, though. The third option is to move somewhere they can afford to live. It sucks, but it's happening all over the country.
> Maybe it bothers me that using ask as a noun is passive voice, like the request is disembodied. I'm not asking, the ask just appeared there!

I think the latter is the key to corpspeak as a whole and it has ramifications beyond just stripped emotion. It always erases causality from the communication. Everything is just "appearing" with no thought to how or why things are the way they are. Businesses are really, really bad about asking "Why?" at times and this kind of language reinforces that. There is no "Why?", things just materialize into existence and are and you (have to) deal with them.

The emotion part makes sense, because often the answer to a "Why?" is because someone has made a mistake or done something dumb and it provides cover. However, it also leads to rote, wasteful, inefficient behaviors. It doesn't necessitate that there is no reason "why" things are being done, but it does mean that a reason isn't required either.

"Why are we having this sync meeting?" "Well, to sync of course!"
Fair enough but in that case what’s missing and stopping them now?

Edit: rereading it sounds like you think Apple might want their own (version of) ISA which is reasonable except they already had huge input into A64 and are adding their own extensions already anyway.
It's common in lots of software - a form of a "su" command that lets you assume all aspects of a particular user.

Usually developed for testing purposes (easiest way to reproduce a problem, after all) and prevents password-sharing. But it can obviously be used for evil, and so it should be heavily logged and flagged.
This is an electric utility that will avoid a death spiral of distributed solar -> no incentive to tie in -> go off-grid -> selling less power to fewer customers paying to maintain the lines. Other utilities could take a note for their own long-term planning.
Welcome to cloud computing.
That sounds like The Matrix (the movie) logic. In reality, feeding humans is energy inefficient. If anything, it takes multiple watts to end up with one watt of human work. Dishonest accounting is pretending human/animal labor is free.
Why GDP is a useful number
The only way to really escape telemetry today is a local firewall that can block network access by application.

I would like to see some analysis of the telemetry Jetbrains sends and whether you can turn it off. It's a paid pro IDE so it wouldn't surprise me if you can really disable it because some commercial customers will not want telemetry. In high security environments it's often considered bad due to the possibility of accidentally exposing secret information.
We're all speculating here.

But if I were a betting man, I do think both Twitter and Mudge's respective track records would place me in Mudge's camp.
It's probably just plagiarism.
Yeah, I almost mentioned IntelliJ, as an IDE it's almost unmatched.
> I agree that M1/M2 Macs are good, but I implore everyone to not get sucked into and stuck into the Apple ecosystem.

So much this. Every time I hear something good about the M1/M2 it's interesting but it's like "aah, such a shame I can never use it without loosing my sanity due to all of the strings it has attached".
Even if you agree with his message, the guy is running a pyramid scheme.

The only reason he is famous, is that "Hustlers University" instructs you to spam clips of his to social media together with affiliate links to his scheme. Compound that with his Alex Jones-like talent to generate the most divisive, ridiculous, humorous and infuriating soundbites and you have a TikTok smash hit. But just like Alex, once he glows out, his shady dealings and ridiculous statements will relegate him to a subject of mockery and an argument to dismiss his ideas for the opposing side.
> They've been filing their methodology for bot counting with the SEC since 2013.

No, they haven’t. They describe at a very high level the amount of sampling they do (100 accounts a day? Really, that’s it?), but don’t discuss the methodology used, such as what they use as signals and indicators of botness. That’s not “filing their methodology“, it’s covering their arses.
I worked for 2 years in Silicon Valley with a WFH policy that I used maybe 2 days total (once for a package and the other for apartment maintenance). If you live close to work commuting isn't so bad. I need physical space in my life. Ideally every day of the week would have a commute to a different location.
I've always wanted to live in the future shown in science fiction. Remote work is a big step in that direction.
Is there a way to use Apify's paid proxies without paying for the hosting? That doesn't look like option on the website.
I imagine a lot of the benefit of a CBDC goes to maintaining the USD's dominance internationally.

Domestically there is enough convenience.

But if you want to send USD to China, or somewhere with strict capital controls? Digital wallets that the user can self custody would be quite useful in bypassing those state authorities. Ironically, it may undermine your own state's authority...BUT at least you'd still ultimately control the network.
It's safe to assume Microsoft is GDPR compliant. There's no sense in risking the fines GDPR could potentially levy for the sake of ... what exactly? There's no upside even if this data was somehow de-anonymized. The sensible thing to do is to delete everything within 90 days. Even if the developers behind VS Code didn't agree with that, legal and privacy at MS would make sure they would.

All this talk about how this data can be used to target people seems far fetched. Microsoft doesn’t have a serious ads business. What they do have are various products and services to sell to developers - Github and Azure among them. That’s the whole point of VSCode - give it away for free so they can understand developer practices and also upsell paid products. And if anyone doesn’t like that, they can simply … not pay Microsoft any money.
If you leave the cuttings they'll decompose and fertilize the soil, giving advantage to fast growing weeds. Possibly also add nitrogen deposition from surrounding industry/agriculture to that, and you have an ideal cycle for lots of biomass. Mowing like twice a year and removing cuttings on the other hand can and usually does break that cycle, can take some years, resulting in less fierce growth, and more slow-growing species.
Nope, on average 22 out of 23 startups will dry up into dust, and blow away in the wind. I guess the modern metric of success is how long your team survives. =)
If a platform is too large to be allowed to self-regulate, maybe it should just be nationalized and the suggestion algorithms deleted. That'd free the platform owners from the personal responsibility of hosting objectionable content (as is the case here) and ensure the government isn't abusing its platform to elevate some speech above others.

I can't see any way to justify requiring Facebook et al to host misogynistic content at the barrel of a metaphorical gun.
I'm always surprised that more people can't see the writing on the wall.

The startup boom exists because money was so cheap you had to spend it. Then consumer spending started to ramp up again and money was flowing both ways. Worrying about profits was viewed as silly since that would get in the way of maximizing growth under the assumption that you could one day flip a switch and generate profit.

With inflation rising consumers have much less to spend (and are already starting to rapidly take on more debt), this alone would hurt tech companies (you see this in cancelation rates rising with streaming services and a drop in e-commerce spending), but the end of cheap money will have disastrous consequences for the startup ecosytem.

The number of IPOs is declining rapidly. Investors saw this coming when the pandemic hit and started to get everything together so the could cash out their chips before the casino closed.

Massive layoffs are coming in tech as unprofitable companies will be forced to demonstrate that they can in fact make money (if they really can) and even profitable companies start to see their income drop (since their income is primarily other tech companies or consumers who will be increasingly tightening their wallets).

What's coming is going to make the dotcom bust seem mild.
Perhaps I missed the point too, but the way I understand the post is that it's demonstrating how to parse DDLs so that a model (AST) of the actions and structures can be extracted.

From there an implementation can be defined to create, alter, drop, etc the respective objects and then probably update some kind of manifest that represents the objects and potentially its relationship to others. In most databases that manifest is the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
TBH I think you are mistaken if you think they are here to heed the legal warnings.

It might be just me, but it would appear they are banking on 1) no individual start-up is going to bother to sue them over a slide deck because it's expensive, and 2) those who do notice the infringements would recognise that suing a group of debt-laden students/graduates won't amount to anything (hence the emphasis on "doing this to fund education" aspect).
> Telemetry is godsend for developers, since it lets them track down actual product usage

This is is actually a terrible trap, as product usage tells you next to nothing about which features are useful. I suspect it' a big part of why a lot of software has turned to shit last decade or so.

Look at it this way: Your average fire extinguisher sits mounted on a wall its entire life and is never actually used. You still rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
A fair number of people use it to mean that they could go into an office or that some co-workers go into an office even if they rarely do so themselves. It can mean come in for 3 days/week but it doesn't necessarily.
https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560

So about a few hours.

*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
ELON MUSK’S LEGAL TEAM HAS SUBPOENAED PEITER “MUDGE” ZATKO, TWITTER’S FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY - CNN
8:30 AM · Aug 23, 2022·TweetDeck
On my team, we've had to be intentional about creating time specifically for social events (fully optional). It can be challenging since it doesn't feel "productive" and it takes a long time to see the benefits.
I think remote has the biggest issue with onboarding people that can't hit the ground running. I'd hate to be a new grad right now.
Lots of public slack channels works pretty well in my experience. People end up talking about a lot in plain view and people hop in etc
People need to move regardless of the weather conditions, so they pick what makes it comfortable to do so.
> AMD recent processors are still great on the desktop, and an absolute blast on the server

Yes they are truly great but point to consider is they are just competing against Intel. Don't get wrong I love what AMD has done recently with Ryzen but we need ARM based servers which has perf per watt competing with M1/M2
Sorry for being so short, but my point is that what your doing is not accessible to a local Ecuadorian, so isn’t really relevant to this discussion.
Not really.

Every time a new handout gets created, there is a predictable round of complaining from the fiscal conservatives, but fiscal conservatives make up only about 10-15% of Republicans and 3-5% of Democrats so inevitably the handout eventually gets passed, perhaps with a name-change or some token constraint, but then once established becomes normalized and permanent.
With fingerprints it's a tradeoff between having enough of them for large scale scraping and staying consistent with your environment. E.g. you can get exponentially more combinations if you also use Firefox, Webkit, MacOS and Windows user-agents (and prints) when you're running Chrome on Linux, but you also expose yourself to the better detection algorithms. If you stick to Linux Chrome only prints (which is what you usually run in VMs), you'll be less detectable, but might get rate limited.
Polio, Monkey Pox, Covid variant x, environmental concerns, inflation. The office isn't coming back unless we fall into some dystopia where they force people back in.

People had a taste of life WFH during the pandemic. Overwhelmingly they loved working from home even though there were a minority who wanted a return to the office.

The hybrid model or remote work will be the only real possibilities going forward. Top talent does matter and is the edge that companies like Apple and Google use to stay competitive. They need that talent more that talent needs them. Plain and simple.
> Someone like Twitter, Google or Facebook should have 'some of our employees are malicious and sophisticated' as part of their threat model.

I would estimate there is a 100% chance that every one of those companies listed, has multiple employees who work for or are sources for US domestic and foreign intelligence services.

It should be expected and part of their internal systems that people only have access to the shared drives they are meant to.
They should make sure this won't have a simple chronological list of updates to make life worse.
My concern is that anybody at a company can suggest a telemetry point and it's added with little or no oversight, and store it forever. It may not be a fun engineering challenge (though it could be, depending on the metric), but sifting through the results is a "fun data interpretation" event. Especially for marketing and sales groups.

The solutions should have a privacy nuance... but don't. For example from TFA, collecting git branch and repo names. That seems like a terrible idea, since it's not like Microsoft's devs will have access to reproduce issues from those repos. It's also a potential leak of sensitive corporate data.
They might win the war for the best “talent” (whatever that means). Remote only may lose the war for building the best products.
You are still the product even if you're paying.
I'm not more productive when monitored and have to waste 2-4 hours a day getting to and from the workplace.
A warning for people who, like me, long ago disabled telemetry in Visual Studio Code: Microsoft introduced a new setting that deprecates the two older settings... and the new setting defaults to "all"[1]. I just noticed this now after double-checking my settings. Sneaky, sneaky, Microsoft (but still totally expected).

[1] https://imgur.com/a/RbrsuyA

You will want these three settings in your default settings JSON (the first two just to be safe):

{
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false,
"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
"telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off"
}
Automattic (Wordpress etc) is a great example, and have been doing it for years. However, they are very purposeful about it, including:

+ Hire for the culture

+ Commit to awesome, persistent written communication

+ Meritocracy in which trust can be earned by the work itself

+ Periodic in-person get togethers (not always to 'do work')
I'm working in my IT job in Italy after a Bachelor's in Physics and a Master's in Astrophysics.

My priorities where:
- don't go with the baddies (amazon, google, facebook, nestlé, military...)
- remote work (work for a living, not living for work. I don't want to be a commuter 2 hours every day to work in an office while I could do the same from home)
- coding/data analytics/software analytics in general. I just wante to be open minded and learn what I don't know and use what I already know

With this priorities in mind I found a good job with an average pay as a data manager for the Health minister, while working from home or traveling with my 9-18.

I believe that if you put your lifestile first and then the capabilities ego last, you can be happy after just a few of linkedin searches.
on a related note - I picked up a ten year old Mac laptop here in California, let the Chrome browser update itself so HTTPS will work, did a google search for a research paper PDF, and at the bottom of the search page it clearly said -- CityName,ZipCode based on your last activity. Login (the city and zip where I live and sometimes use a Google chromebook for YouTube)

this older Mac laptop is not a google computer, no google account active, not logged in. That is a profile indicator, adding to my "dossier." How is this OK now?
Serverless is the new timeshare.
It's trivial and cheap to apply a matte screen protector if that's your preference.

But you can't convert a matte screen to glossy.

Also, matte doesn't necessarily translate to more legible outdoors either. Matte removes reflections by reducing contrast which has its own drawbacks.
I am seriously curious on how/if MSFT/Dell/Google/etc will answer.
VMware Fusion has a tech preview for Apple Silicon at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?do...

Background at: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2022/07/just-released-vm...

(Disclaimer: I work at VMware - but not on Fusion)
I get the impression the Twitter CEO is a little out of his depth running a company like Twitter.
Google has completely weaponized it's search...it has destroyed it to make sure it is useless for anyone but their advertising....

it's disgusting. absolutely dreadful. the programmers should be ashamed...and frankly...never met a person who has worked and claimed to work on these algorithms.....never read an article by anyone taking credit....it's either the greatest NDA .... or more likely....just shameful purely shameful...

I bet the conscience of them is riddled like swiss cheese knowing they took a product that the world loved and turned into a pointless and completely broke. experience....well down .. would never hire you ..
They publish research updates like https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/experimentati....
In a production environment, the eeprom chips will get flashed before they're placed on the board and soldered.

In a DIY environment, https://www.flashrom.org/ or TL866 or something.
I miss Opera having everything in it.
When I started working for Basho, which was fully remote, many of the engineers were logged to a Mumble channel for chatting, while simultaneously on Slack.

I couldn't handle that level of distraction, but some of them clearly enjoyed it.
> Absolutely zero reason to say "who was terminated for ineffective leadership and poor performance". That context is not at all relevant to this matter and comes off as an attempt to distract from the subject in matter.

While it is distasteful I think it is also relevant. If twitter have an actual reason for firing him they'll want to make it clear, so that it doesn't look like they got rid of him to try and sweep his concerns under the carpet.

In practice it's hard to say whether it works. They can't go into detail about why he was dismissed which means no one on the outside is really any the wiser about whether he was dismissed because twitter had legitimate concerns about his performance or whether they don't like what he had to say.
May I dare to ask how profitable your company is at the moment and how sustainable their business model is ? I hope we are not talking some of those NFT thingy where money apparently appears out of thin air and disappears as quickly as it showed up.
The new CGI actually.
Yeah, but indirect (with e.g. water/glycol between the condenser and the indoor air handler) systems can be combined with scrubber tanks (basically just water+baffles, I think) that the blow-off from a leak or a pressure relief valve is forced through, in order to contain most of the ammonia.
Thanks to "consulting" companies' abuse of H1B.

We should've just have a stack ranking of H1B candidates, based on income (and severe penalties for regression in comp, so you can't just do it for the visa). This would immediately break companies like Infosys that simply spams the lottery system with bogus applications.