skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought "Eight committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct.[17] The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged throughout the investigations.[18]" to be encouraging.

I haven't read all the reports yet, but it was good to see all of them ended up at that same conclusion. I'm sure there are people who would complain about the amount of time, money, and effort that went into investigating, but I'm glad there was so much scrutiny from so many different eyes.
The 1.0 was the N9. It had excellent reviews. Sadly it was commercially stillborn - Nokia had already publicly switched to Microsoft's bullshit, so it got no commercial push, and nobody wants to buy a dead phone.
According to their marketing, tax loss harvesting more than covers their advisory fee for 96% of customers:

https://www.wealthfront.com/pricing

If you want to save a few more bucks, you could check your portfolio every morning, invest in 100s of stocks manually, track wash sales and comparable stocks, then enter each trade into your tax software instead of just using the 1099 computations their computer does for you.

Or, maybe spend that time relaxing or being paid to do something more valuable. They charge $212 a month to manage a million dollar portfolio.

Assuming I could earn minimum wage doing something else, the lost wages from the time it would take me to do all that every weekday would be more than $212.
Maybe I don't understand what's meant by GitOps - is it the concept of Infrastructure as Code, deployed typically automatically after merge? (Or whatever triggering event.)

I don't necessarily view GitOps as requiring Product Devs to do Infra Stuff. I mean, you're right, people specialize, and you will have some who are deep in the Infra weeds and some who aren't (they're deep in other weeds instead, hopefully).

At my last job (disclaimer: tiny company), we did lots of GitOps. Infra stuff was cordoned off into its own repos generally, which made security controls and such easier for sure. Not sure I get your point there, though, because if you care about insider risk, you need the same style of controls for the product code anyway; it's equally important.

We had some enterprising product devs who contributed to the infra repos, but as you observed, most didn't. Most of the infra code was maintained by the 'Platform Team' (essentially SRE-adjacent).
IMHO they should've just used a similar convention to what IEEE did with Ethernet, given that the speeds are now roughly comparable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_physical_layer#Naming...
Totally normal. There will be some situations where you'll encounter those concepts again, like during troubleshooting X, or reading documentation on something along those lines. You may not remember it perfectly but the concept will be familiar.
Kind of contrarian view I like to read on HN. If I may add, maybe the reason people used robo advisory here is potentially ( mainly) because they are not aware of the other tool.

I must admit myself that the focus over fees charged is not something, as new comers, you would look at priority.
Especially as sales person in the sector would not put that out.
Says he's one guy != he's actually one guy. Almost certainly has an editor, a script proofer, etc.

It also seems highly unlikely he's only making money from ads and patreon. A lot of youtubers get money under the table to astroturf.
I'm doing the mundane stuff now, for a couple months actually. Stand up repo, pipeline, sem versioning, tests.. haven't actually written code yet/built something. Just copying configs/duplicating stuff.
It's rather ca 100% of their average yearly earnings or 3% of their current market cap/6-10% of their market cap a few years ago.
A bit sad this rubbish reaches Hacker News frontpage :(
When Productivity Tools Make the Problem Worse
Thanks for explaining! I'd always heard that O(n^2) value for social networks but never really thought about who that value is for. Now that you mention it, the value of a network to an individual user really is only O(n) or even O(log(n)). So while the company still has a massive cash advantage, it's much harder to deepen that moat and secure your customers with it than it seemed.
It’s documented at some gas stations near the border, also common on some forums. If padding with 00 doesn’t work, try 01, 02, etc. If filling in an online order form, it’s best to write in as much of your real address as possible, but zip code validation often means the city and state has to match the fake zip code. (This can have sales tax implications.) To avoid this, you can sometimes add US addresses to your credit cards as an alternate address, though I pretty much never do this.

Unlike some Visa cards, MasterCard is apparently a global network with very little difference crossing borders. So this trick works outside the US too. Generally the address is checked by humans at some step, and an address “close enough” (at least the street address and name needs to match), then the transaction is often allowed through. If it doesn’t go through, tell your credit card company you often make purchases online from country X and your card will usually be flagged to allow it in future.
There was a guy that literally flew a flying wing attached to his back and some model jet engines... That was years back.
A weather balloon reflected some swamp gas off Venus and please look here for the eye exam.
> The interview revolved almost 100% around their leadership principles, of which humility is not one, so that should pinpoint it. And I said no one was a software engineer.

"Leadership principles" sound like Amazon. As far as I know they purposely get all their SDEs involved in hiring, and the bulk of their interviews is based on hard-skills, even when the interviewer's goal is to assess "leadership principles".

Also, one of their explicit interview goals is to have the candidate leave the interview round with a good impression of the company.

Nothing in your story adds up. Either you're embellishing it too hard or you're misusing the FANG keyword.
Wealthfront has a turbotax import option. You tax accountant can press it too.
VPEXPANDB on NEON with Z3
What a terrible leader
Programming is a very broad term and there are many levels at which you can do programming - from as low level as writing a firmware for some device to as high as wirting a VB macro in Excel. All of these are programming and depending on the kind of programming you are doing, different kind of knowledge is useful in those context.

The CS fundamentals you are talking about are things that matter when you are doing specific kind of programming. For ex: OS theory matters when you are writing an OS.
The difference is that no "developers are just tools that should be outsourced whenever cheaper" company has a chance against a true software company (which I count Apple towards even though they're more known for the hardware) deciding to enter the competition.

Nokia was not a software company at all. They treated their OS and UX as an afterthought and put hardware features first.

The same is currently happening in the automotive world with their in-car software. Auto makers aren't thinking of their OSs and UX and the people who develop them as the absolute center point of their industry, when they are.
This looks like a try in recreating audit workflow (in a bit overcomplicated way).

https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/revi...

Yeah, I do miss Phabricator :(
Given its popularity in the retro community spares may continue to be available for a long time. You can already get entirely new boards and drop in replacements are appearing for the various custom and out of production chips.
Can you link a few examples here?
If you attempt to copy or paste anything during the interview process you will be immediately disqualified from this and all future employment opportunities.
It's unfortunate that there can be a tendency (probably in any sentient creature), even among scientists, to double-down to defend prior investment.

It got Semmelweis put into an insane asylum by his fellow academics and beat to death. And everyone remembering Pasteur instead of him. That was his reward for being correct and saving mothers and their babies -- with his unhinged conspiratorial idea of "washing yor hands is good".
One of the only upsides of "Criminal justice reform" in NY. Paying subway fares is a performative spectacle for those who choose to participate.
An "artificial intelligence-supported virtual human being" is not a robot, so it seems the real story would be about the AI software involved. There's not much detail here, though.
In 100 years, there won't be need for any sea cables because we would have had 9th generation laser links 100 kilometers above our heads, in the sky.
US inflation overall is not a war thing. It's been going on since early 2021, just made slightly worse by the war: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=TmiV
"I'll be honest, kind of. I don't know if I believe in all that, but, I don't know. Maybe, I hear a lot of it in like America that that kind of things happens. I think it's just because of like it didn't make any noise at all, which I just thought was really odd. But, yeah, definitely, definitely felt like it was like the alien invasion or something on the way," said White.

I want to believe, but, like.
> ... If someone is publishing research on a topic that is hotly contested in our society, being ignorant or indifferent to the impact that their publication might have is not a virtue.

If a topic is hotly contested in our society, publishing plenty of high-quality, reliable scholarship about it is one of the best available ways of gradually turning it into a less-hotly contested topic. This applies even to things like climate science, where people sometimes like to remark that "the science is settled". So yes, we should always be mindful of impact but undervaluing the benefits of that impact would be just as wrong.
In the realm of top-tier laboratories:

If expensive essential apparatus you don’t have is available off the shelf, you buy it or go home.

If expensive essential apparatus you already have needs floppy disks or serial ports or twinax or a green screen terminal and a dot matrix printer or Indigo2 Maximum Impact with a black box hanging off the scsi port or whatever, you have a tech keep that shit running. If it breaks and would require serious PI time to manage reverse engineering and replacing components, you buy new apparatus if it exists to be bought!!! That’s what you do, or you get steamrolled by other labs that are doing research instead of running an equipment nostalgia club.
Countering the achievement society (2018)
What's obvious is that you still don't Get It. Your experience as an employee is completely irrelevant to how Nokia treated the press.

Plenty of companies have workforces that treat each other well but treat their customers, vendors, press, etc like they're subhuman annoyances.
Leads you to think they are just trying to see who wants the job the most.
I just bought a new Nokia phone. Part from nostalgia since the last one I owned was over 10 years ago, part because it seemed to be good value for its price (300€).

Now, having used it for a while, I wouldn't say I'm impressed - design-wise Apple products for example are miles ahead. Yet I don't really have anything to complain about - it does what a modern phone should do. It's pretty big though so it's harder to put into your pocket but I guess that's just how phones are nowadays.

I'll be more interested to see though how long the phone will last, my previous OnePlus endured 5 years before the electronics started to show their age. I hope Nokia still has its built-quality and this one will be rocking way past that with couple of drops to concrete in-between.
How are lights "mysterious"? I mean, it's not like "lights" is something just invented.

And, while I'm not dispariging the expert credentials, it doesn't take an "expert" to say, "yeah, drones." Drones haven't just been invented either.

Ohh "mysterious lights", must be aliens... That's like going to a sci-fi movie set, seeing someone in costume and writing an article "aliens spotted, makeup expert consulted."
I was interested that Blackberry didn't use Android - their QNX based OS had a lot of potential. At the time, my Android phone would get hot and drain the battery whenever a batch process decided to reindex my media.
I was visiting Hamburg ~30 years ago - spoke no German. Bought a ticket from a machine and boarded the train. A couple of stops later some heavily armed police were checking tickets on the train and I found out the hard way that I had purchased a 2nd class ticket but I was sitting in 1st class. Luckily once they saw my US passport they forgave my ignorance and ushered me along without a citation (or something worse).
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835
In this thread, the point is you don't want to use a credit card because of the tracking implications.
Wouldn’t a token be necessary but in the sense that a “game” needs to be created which establishes the right incentive structure for the ecosystem to thrive?
I personally don't think happiness is very different from motivation. Happiness is the state of being motivated. Unhappiness is the state of having no motivation.

The 3 key ingredients to motivation are: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Nearly every time I've been unhappy writing software it has been because of a deprivation of autonomy, mastery, or purpose.

I've been ordered (deprivation of autonomy) to work on things I didn't think mattered (deprivation of purpose) with a language I wasn't familiar with in a context I wasn't familiar with, in a way I thought was wrong (deprivation of mastery and autonomy) for political rather than technical reasons (deprivation of purpose). I have never been unhappier and less motivated than that.
But all this points also apply to the N9, it was a fully fleshed Linux system and arguably qt for writing apps was significantly more comfortable for developers than the custom framework based on gtk. I even recall that it was quite straight forward to port desktop apps, with very minor adjustments.

On top of that it was actually usable for normal users which the n900 failed at, largely due to not being usable in many networks due to the radio IIRC. The UI of the N9 was also much more polished. So unless you never used an N9 I don't understand how you would prefer the N900 (except for the keyboard).
His book Do No Harm is fantastic. Highly recommend.
So these companies are selecting for aptitude for repetitive, pointless, soul-crushing processes ?
Little good it did with USB-C. They have a similar language guidelines for USB-C – https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usb_type-c_language_...
Do Blocknotes Need Clowns?
For those interested in the details of the protocol, there's some information here (apparently from an attempt to create a Linux driver): https://schou.dk/flashpath/
I do think tomakaks are possible. CFS and Tokamak Energy are getting there fast.

But the 50MW shipping container size generator planned by Helion would be really transformative. No need to build near a river to cool. Order from the factory, get delivered, install.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/ukeisj/if_polaris_h...
Obligatory disclaimer: I'm just a dev, I don't have any clue about business.

But as a dev working for small groups, my big concern is usually avoiding too much in house tech.

Will this be usable by sellers without any IT staff? As I understand it Amazon does a lot for sellers.

Also, will digital asset sales be a focus? That seems more accessible.

I've had several project ideas(Never seriously focused on, I really don't want my own business) where it would be helpful to have an easy way to sell license keys, or an basic subscriptions API to query whether someone was a paid subscriber.
This is news of the whitest white.

https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-04-30-this-is-the-whi...

Note it still doesn't reflect 100% of the light coming in which suggests it is still absorbing some wavelengths and so still isn't a perfect white.

So I assume you just aren't being pedantic enough when you say:

>The white from an RGB display is perfectly good

Remember, if someone sells you a black and white TV the black should be actually black, and the white should be actually white. If it's just blackish and whitish they're ripping you off.
Funny to see Noah Smith on HN, I had never heard of Noah Smith before, until this week when he clashed with Bret Devereaux on twitter[1][2], then through an exchange of blog posts[3][4]. Typical instance of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. I can't say I'm holding him in high esteem after that though.

[1] https://nitter.42l.fr/Noahpinion/status/1561837736843431936#...

[2] https://nitter.42l.fr/BretDevereaux/status/15621151250662113...

[3] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/on-the-wisdom-of-the-histo...

[4] https://acoup.blog/2022/08/29/new-acquisitions-on-the-wisdom...
What should be illegal is companies accepting an email address without verification. My email is my identity. It should be impossible to sign up with an email that you don't have access to.
I do get it alright.

Some people had a bad experience with a couple of folks and decided to extrapolate to everyone in the company.

Every single company has such pearls. If they don't, they aren't yet big enough.
See: Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...
If you omit the "www" HTTPS is working as well: https://brouter.de/brouter-web/
To me this looks like better plan. Instead of unpredictable mechanism on when the messages disappear from you history, it's now predictable and you can act according to it.
Flexport is hiring smart people who want to work hard
On a smaller scale, my work life also improved significantly by going from

"a 60 minute meeting where no decisions are made because everyone just shouts at each other so you leave with a headache"

to
"a 60 minute meeting where no decisions are made because everyone just shouts at each other but you can turn down the volume on Zoom"

It sounds really stupid, but that literally helped make a giant difference.
If USB 2 and 3 are anything to go by, there will be even odds the non-logo cable works and the logo cable does not.
I am not saying non-meeting work is not important, but that meetings (or rather, communication) is equally important, but that there are usually meetings where we should be more considerate of everybody's time.

As I said, I think you just phrased it awkwardly, since I doubt all your non-critical meetings were exactly on the day you stopped working in your workweek.
What? Its not some impossible hard code, its just a fin little exercise to get attention. It wasn’t intended to be unbreakable or take more than an hour to figure out by people interested in cryptography, the news is just that a particular 14y old was enthusiastic and also ready at the mark to speed run it.

Your attitude is equivalent to complaining about a newspaper sudoku being solved by someone early in the day, because “now no one wants to solve it and the paper wasted all that money making it”.
The Future of FPGA Acceleration in Datacenters and the Cloud [pdf]
I'm not saying that, but that trying to do bottom-up legislation at the muni/county level is probably a losing strategy.
An open source order management system is interesting to a certain number of people, but probably doesn't affect me personally. It sounds like another open web storefront builder if i had to guess based on the title.

An open source Amazon is a big deal, it implies that it aims to do what Amazon does, not just a repo you can clone and build an online store, and I might be placing orders there someday.
> what does software engineering research have to do with emotional psychology, again?

Psychology of labor is a thing, and has been for ages. The idea behind it is simple: it's people with a mind that do the labor, so their psychological state has influence on the work done. Is it software engineering? No, but the article purports to identify factors that influence the psychological state during software development.

That said, I do believe such studies to be of minimal value. Voluntary surveys are absolute bottom of the barrel. Identifying 219 factors from such a study seems like analysis gone mad. The extensive discussion of the non-normality of the central happiness statistic seems a point in case: it's trivially visible, it's not interesting, and doesn't play a role in any further analysis or conclusion. They do remark that the mean value they find is higher than in other studies, but can't explain it. Not that they need to, because nothing would change in the paper if the value had been lower.

Basically, this looks like an experiment from a starting PhD, who needs to push out one paper per year. Sadly, it isn't. The authors are senior researchers, who seem to have little idea of psychology.
Was he wearing gloves ? I understand the cashew fruit is kinda gnarly to work with. But you can make a liqueur from it: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor)
Mortgages being front loaded with interest is unrelated to not requiring a down payment. If you have to sell a home in the first 3-6 years it's usually pretty bad, as your equity doesn't outstrip your fees and taxes yet (this usually isn't too bad, but depending on the situation it might be nice to have the closing costs, agent fees, taxes, and difference between your mortgage and your rent over N months back). Having a down payment just means you also locked that up, so that's probably even worse, not better as you're arguing.

And depending on the market, down payments may not be large anyway. People with higher credit scores (honestly not that high) can get an FHA loan for as little as 3.5% down. That's not that significant, especially compared to 10-20%.

Re: being surprised by a big tax bill, BofA is running this program under its Community Homeownership Commitment, all of the programs under which provide--and sometimes require--new homeowner financial education.

Re: interest rates, the existing Affordable Loan Solution loans (again under the same Community Honeownership Program) are around .25 and .5 points higher than comparable normal mortgages. That's significant, but hardly predatory, and they're all fixed rate and have caps on LTV (105%).

I mean, I'm also distrustful. I feel like a bank shill, which is pretty uncomfortable. I believe their policies have immiserated and killed people knowingly, and they should probably be regulated out of profitability. But this program seems like what most people in the field have been advocating for for a while: lower barriers, educate and support people, help them start building wealth in their homes and grow their communities.

[education]: https://homeloans.bankofamerica.com/affordable-lending

[community homeownership commitment]: https://promotions.bankofamerica.com/homeloans/homeowner

[community affordable loan solution]: https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/newsroom/press-re...

[rate]: https://www.freeandclear.com/resources/mortgage-insights/ban... (not the best source, but best I could find)
Vanguard seems to offer advisors at a certain point -https://investor.vanguard.com/advice/financial-advisor but honestly I'm not sure what they can really provide beyond the standard bogleheads.

A separate advice session from a tax guy can be worthwhile but always remember that the tax guys work to minimize taxes, which isn't necessarily always the goal.

The bogleheads forum is great for general advice, even if you only read it: https://www.bogleheads.org