skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The older I get, the more I have to rely on my gut if I actually want to get any decisions made because I can't remember why I know something, or sometimes what I know that makes the decision correct.

I don't mean that I'm being reckless (I'm reckless sometimes). I trust my gut to have some actual basis in knowledge. Another thing that I've learned to do as I get older is to freely say "I don't know" if I don't have a "gut" idea of what a decision should be. I will happily defer to someone else who convinces me that they do know in those situations (which is another gut call really, of whether to trust someone else).

In any case, I am a strong believer in making a decision and following through with it (within reason), rather than stagnating forever in indecision and research. Some research yes, if necessary, but at some point you have to pick a direction and go.

Edit to directly address the need for data:
I'm firmly behind data-based decision making. Two arguments come to mind against "most gut decisions are wrong":

1. When I make a gut decision, it's based on data that I've collected at some point.

2. Pertinent to my first point, but also to data collected more consciously in preparation for a decision. Data is also wrong sometimes and misleading often.

I go back to my idea that making a decision is better than not making a decision, usually. The next step is objectively monitoring the consequences and bailing out if you were wrong. Denial is much worse than making that wrong decision to begin with.
Yes, I'm sure it was intentional. I guess the sad part is that fewer programmers will get this pun now vs in the past.
This is very interesting and perfectly logical. I wrote a fairly recent report looking at a very similar question, and reached the opposite conclusion: night time charging is far better for the grid. That study however focuses on Sweden, where solar power only marginally impacts day-time supply.

Link to the study: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Ari%3Adiva-5752...

If the western US has a surplus in mornings and afternoons, you guys really should invest in dynamic charging using electrified roads (commonly referred to as wireless inductive charging in California, but there are conductive solutions as well).
This x 1000!

It's everywhere. From Quora where people from a certain country rush to type a non-answer quoting a useless memorized definition to your doctor.
The GP didn’t say they were using iPhone. The Facebook app on Android has been known to record audio even when running in the background
> Googlers are the softest, whiniest people

It is hard to tell what percentage of Googlers feel the same way as you do. Maybe those voicing issues over cuts in travel represent the small minority?
E2EE most certainly does exclude analyzing messages anywhere for a third party.

Notice that "ends" in "end-to-end" are users, not applications. When an application forwards things to an entity, then that entity becomes an "end" of the conversation. When it displays a message to the user, the way the user wants, then the user is the end. When it processes the message and delivers results to Facebook, the way Facebook wants it, then the application makes Facebook the "third end".

In such scenario, Facebook had intercepted the message, just chose to forward only some extracted information (which may or may not be enough to reconstruct the original). This does not match the definition of "end-to-end encryption".
~68dba compared to the Oransi at 49dba (assuming max fan speed). The sound is only from the movement of air and is directly correlative to how much CFM you are moving.
So plugging in the car whenever it's parked and letting the grid decide when to charge it is the way to go?
Sure. I think that Google can and should prioritize this more. But when the above argument is something resembling "good people like working on flashy and interesting technical problems so why worry about the travel budget" then it becomes relevant to talk about how there also isn't going to be an unlimited amount of flashy and interesting technical problems.
So your solution to some people having an easier time charging is to make it worse for everyone?
do any of the hyperscalers have vertical integration in energy production for their datacenters?
As a matter of fact I always assumed they were Welsh. This is the first I've heard that they're based in Florida.
I would love to read a Malcom Gladwell book on this topic. It touches on a core truth, not only in engineering but in society as a whole. Three examples from different spheres:

In software, I've seen repeatedly how new hires with big ideas (and youthful confidence that they know a better way of doing things) will come into a company and want to rewrite things "properly." In one management position, much of my role involved the politics of defending a well-working, well-maintained, big-revenue-driving application from a steady onslaught of such ambitious exuberance.

At the time, I thought "this must be the same phenomenon that drives shrinkflation": new MBA arrives at pickle-making company, seeks to bolster their career by demonstrably saving the company millions, convinces execs to put one less pickle in each pickle jar, consumers won't notice; step 3: profit!! In 2022, when you buy a cereal box, it's half air on the inside. In 1980, it was only 20% air.

I also shake my head when media pundits equate the success of a particular congressional session with the amount of new legislation they pass. I can imagine no simpler way to cruft-paralyze a democracy (while following the rules) than "releasing laws early and often."
Guiding Principle: Think Big, Work Small
https://archive.ph/okDhk

The point of this article is that more bosses are spying on all workers. The quiet quitter thing is sort of a red herring. It doesn't really figure into the story in a meaningful way.
How many EVs spontaneously combust while charging?
We really need a way for power hungry smart devices to charge by spot pricing. By default your car charges when rate is low eg windy nights and sunny lunch times and not a heatwave. Having Night and Day rates is too simplistic.
I feel like it's so wasteful. I have so much crap collecting dust. A denim jacket with the logo. A bright silver logo that actually shines. A jersey. Idk who is picking this either. Idk what to even do with it?
> The solution is simple. Make electricity cheaper when it's more available

From the parts of the world I come from the majority of people are vehemently opposed to time of use pricing. Because that's when they use it most.

They and their political representatives would much prefer to keep taking from those who consume in off-peak rather than fix the underlying mechanism.
It's not just a few days though. I can only speak anecdotally for the pacific north west but...

We used to be known for clean air, rating were typically below 20 AQI for almost all of the year. Now, come fall we have weeks/months hovering around 50 AQI.

How much smoke does it take to move places like Seattle and Portland from clean air paradises to "LA of the 00's" where just living there gives you the lungs of a light smoker?
I respectfully disagree, when you say contractors = employees.

Yes, they tenure may be just as long, but there are many other factors to take into consideration (just off the top of my head):

1. Contractors don't have a "career path" inside the organization, not even the ones that think they do.

2. They can be let go within weeks notice and no severance package.

3. They don't (really) participate in company politics.

4. They are also much easier to convince to jump ship and go next door, where the grass is greener.

5. They are responsible for managing themselves, ie. education, marketing, sales...

And there are others, like no paid holidays, etc., but everyone knows about those.

I would argue that contractors are somewhere halfway between employees and business owners. Maybe it would be the fairest to tax them so, by creating a special tax bracket for them.

It's like regulating e-rollers and e-bikes. What are they? Not bicycles really, but also not motorbikes or cars. Somewhere in between really.
I find this approach so sad. We've let the corporatization of everything build such huge walls between us as humans. Seeing every interaction as transactional and emotionless just feels like death to me.
I believe the classic is "Be careful what you wish for." Petty bullshit and disregard for feelings of underlings is what got us the Traitorous Eight in the first place. Telling them basically "Grow up and get up early and wear a suit and tie." proved to be a failure of epic proportions.
The folks at Google are already working at a megacorp. That small and scrappy ship sailed two decades ago.

If I had to guess, most Google engineers aren’t working on cool greenfield stuff, they’re maintaining and extending huge legacy projects with decades worth of cruft, where minuscule changes take days to land.

If you want great engineers to work on that stuff, you need to pay them and shower them with perks. Otherwise they’ll move somewhere small and scrappy that’s actually fun.
It's almost as if the logical conclusion is to invest in convenient workplace charging infrastructure so charging is simple when the car is conveniently parked at work doing nothing and the owner wants a car ready to go home in the evening...

> “We encourage policymakers to consider utility rates that encourage day charging and incentivize investment in charging infrastructure to shift drivers from home to work for charging,” said the study’s co-senior author, Ram Rajagopal
> Considering how easy it is to implement these things without anyone noticing since it's closed source

You can reverse engineer those things and analyze your network traffic. You can’t have a client in a device controlled by the user, in this case an app, send anything to a server without anyone noticing it.

And frankly, they don’t even need it. Just with your contacts they can link you to your friends and common interests without even you having a facebook account, all you need is friends with a fb/ig account who have linked their accounts to their phones and use whatsapp.

The contacts are known to be sent to the server, they are known to be linked to facebook except in the european union where there is a different app from WhatsApp Ireland and a different privacy policy that specifically states (in the version outside of EU) that it shares your contacts with facebook and they are much more valuable and much less risky than reading your messages.
Pi is a bit special because in order to get accurate argument reduction for trigonometric functions you needs lots of digits (IIRC ~1000 for double precision).

E.g. https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/~phatak/645/supl/Ng-ArgReductio...
Or the case designed for mounting comes with extendable legs to support the weight. Or the monitor is designed on some kind of lever system that can be set to balance. Lots of options.
But doing such a thing would turn Canada into a not-stable, not-wealthy country by changing the average genetic makeup of the country.
My point remains valid even if you want to replace all energy and not just what is already electrified, and also boost global energy use to the per-capita rate of Qatar (I think the highest in the world at about 2.5 times the average of the USA), and also boost world population to 10 billion, and also the PV is placed slightly worse than if it was randomly scattered.

Simultaneously. And by a large margin.

There's a lot of land on this planet of ours.

(The reason I chose Cyprus as an example is because of how small it is, and yet could supply so much if it wanted to. Any single one of Bavaria, Lombardy, Brussels, Lubusz, Aragón, Île-de-France could individually supply the entire EU just from PV, not merely meet their own needs, but again this is just to give a sense of scale — the correct placement of PV is seldom "all in one place").
I was under the impression that Google keyboard uploads everything you type to the cloud for 'product improvement' purposes. Why do you think WhatsApp is to blame?
> Wrong according to what metric?

Have you read the study ? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01105-7

> you just use natural market forces and the problem fixes itself.

Never worked, never will, borderline sounds like a cult following, "The all mighty market will automagically fix it with no human intervention"
Literally the point of the study

> “We encourage policymakers to consider utility rates that encourage day charging and incentivize investment in charging infrastructure to shift drivers from home to work for charging,” said the study’s co-senior author, Ram Rajagopal
LXC and LXD: a different container story
If my employer gave me $500, I’d put it in savings. If I spent it on a monitor, my wife would be pissed.
Writing safe SQL using JavaScript
From first-hand experience (my parents are anthropologists):

Spending nights in a small earth-floor house with a wood fire in the middle is warm and convenient for cooking but the smoke is absolutely miserable, even after you sort of get used to it. It stings your eyes and your throat, chokes you, and long-term exposure causes all sorts of nasty health consequences (lung cancer, ...).

It’s much worse than the second-hand smoke from the smokiest cigarette-smoke-filled room you have ever experienced.

(When people argue that the pre-industrial past was better because there was no air pollution, it’s hard not to laugh.)

It’s a kind of romantic rustic experience occasionally in your life just to get an idea what rural people’s lives have been like throughout history and for a change from a sanitized suburban lifestyle, but it’s very unhealthy for people who have to live that way all the time. It’s little surprise that when people obtain the resources and infrastructure to switch to some other method of heating/cooking, they leap at the chance.
Yeah theoretically it’s that easy but irl it’s not…
I guess the issue with this report is that it is specific to the unique mix of energy that the (west of the) USA has compared to other areas/countries. Countries with a lot of nuclear see that energy wasted at night because you can't just dial down the level very quickly, in that sense, in most of Nothern Europe this would be desirable.

In countries that have extreme levels of solar, clearly this only works during the day and perhaps leaves the night being covered by fossil fuel plants instead where they are happy to use less/dial it down.

The massive missing piece, at least in the UK, is a genuine Smart Grid that can drive usage to meet supply. I have precisely zero appliances in my house that can make any use of cheap electricity and even worse, if I want a dual-tariff to get cheaper overnight electric, I get punished for it costwise.
> Their (unstated but suspected) goal is to neuter adblocking chrome extensions.

Except they didn't. There's already 3-4 adblockers that work perfectly as far as blocking ads is concerned. They do lose more advanced features, but 99.9% of people with adblockers installed never ever touch those features.

To claim that this neuters adblocking is truly ridiculous. It also ignores that Safari has the exact same restrictions yet no one complains that Apple wanted to neuter ad blocking.
CIA Operatives, if you would just not care about my large consumption of cannabis I would seriously consider joining. There are a lot of us out there that would love to serve our country in some fashion by way of technology but we’re not allowed to.
I feel like that choice is at least more relatable, no matter what industry you're from.
Recently I was booking a trip to Finland, so my booking app showed me suggested destinations to other nearby countries like Estonia. That's normal.

Then, my friend asked me where do I want to go the most if I am to go scuba diving. I answered "Phillipines". My friend then said "Maldives is also great". We never searched for anything, just casual conversation. A few minutes later I look at my booking app, guess what were the top suggestions - Maldives, followed by Phillipines. Must be coincidence.
How small is the company ? If it is under 50 people and lets say you leave, will it go through a tough time to run the tech. operations without you ? Anyone can be replaced technically but at what cost. If the answer is that shit will hit the fan and the founder(s) really want you on board, then you should get some skin in the game other than salary/benefits.

However, what you need to do is to go talk to the founder(s). If you feel strongly, make a case for it. As a founder myself, I have higher standards for someone who wants equity (just the nature of the beast). Doesn't mean I now expect you to work weekends but for anything significant (>5%), you do need to make a case on why and it may mean thinking about the company more than you do currently. Just being honest.

The most important question to answer is: Why do you want equity ? Do you want it because you feel that you are entitled to profits that you help generate with tech or do you actually really like the company/product and want a long term commitment to see the company grow further and want to be part of the reward that comes with it ? 2 different things. As a founder, it is critical for me to understand the "why". If it is the latter and founders are smart, they should see and value it. If they don't, they are telling you that you are easily replaceable or they don't value you enough to give you equity. Then you will have to make a call.
Give people a signing bonus and a matching stock offer. Problem solved :)
Ah yes, a bunch of anecdotes in reply.
To be clear, it's not marketing swag which is what people usually think of when they think of "swag" that's given to potential customers.

It's more like custom team t-shirts, custom figurines, custom bobbleheads, and whatnot. Special rare acrylic desk pieces for every patent your team has generated. Stuff that says "hey, we're a team and we've been through some stuff, like important launches and inventions that we're proud of, and these are symbolic reminders of that".

Similarly, traveling -- whether to a conference or a team-building prototyping retreat -- is a way to build bonds and trust with your coworkers, in a way that just doesn't happen in the regular 9-5 in the office or (worse yet) over Zoom.

When you work in a 100,000+ person company, it's really, really easy to feel depressingly lost and just a cog in the machine. It's both the little mementos and the big travel experiences that help us remember the path we've been on and get to know the people we work with as human beings.

So it really does feel like nickel-and-diming when these are some of the most effective long-term investments you can make in a team.
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>Cover all that parking with solar panels

This would help in many cases, but parking garages are a thing, even in my relatively small city. We would need a solution for them as well.
Once upon a time, web browsers were equipped with a STOP button. As soon as the thing you were interested in was loaded, you could press it and...everything else on the web page would just stop loading. Unfortunately, now days the thing you are interested is hiding behind mountains of cruft and usually the last thing to load.
So we should pay now to have nuclear power in the future? Impossible, this lowers our prosperity! /s
Feature flags or another way to release bleeding edge features to only some of your users can sometimes be the best way to iterate over new features quickly when your most user base is risk-averse
I think the main point of the Steve Blank article was about the people who are actually not swayed by these tokens. The mere removal of a perk could cause someone who doesn't even use the perk, and is happy with his job, to wake up and think about leaving. The removal itself is a signal to start looking, regardless of whether you care about the actual thing being removed.
Googlers: I'll sign up for a random conference to get an all expenses paid trip to Europe

Google: actually in light of recent macroeconomic conditions, don't do that

Googlers: bruh!!! You are treating us like COGS in a MACHINE!
It sounds like the real issue is that the time-of-use rates are wrong. Just adjust them to match the actual energy production/demand, and the behavior change will follow.

My solar, battery, and car setup automatically adjusts to the rate for power. It sends all my energy to the grid when costs are high and I get the most back, and uses the battery at that time... and then charges the battery when rates are low.

Set the rates to be accurate and the system will work itself out. I am not going to use more expensive electricity just because the rates are set wrong.
> filling out a 64 bit address space looks tough. I struggled to find something of the same magnitude of 2^64 and I got ‘number of iron atoms in an iron filing’

Reminded me of Jeff Bonwick's answer to the following question about his 'boiling the oceans' quip related to ZFS being a "128 bit filesystem":

> 64 bits would have been plenty ... but then you can't talk out of your ass about boiling oceans then, can you?

Sadly his Sun hosted blog was eaten by the migration to Oracle, so thanks to the Internet Archive again:

http://web.archive.org/web/20061111054630/http://blogs.sun.c...

That one dives into some of the "handwaving" a bit:

https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/to-boil-the-oceans/

And that one goes into how much energy it would take to merely spin enough disks up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/71p8x4/reachin...
You are right, I should have said they WhatsApp messages are “not e2e encrypted by default”.

However, I still believe Facebook holds a second decryption key for all messages, which they rolled out along with their web access product as described above. So they are not e2e encrypted by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.

I am not aware of any way to e2e encrypt iCloud backups, so the vast majority of “e2e encrypted” iMessage messages are readable by Apple.
Inductive charging seems like a horrible solution as it must surely be extremely inefficient? Also, if dynamic charging refers to charging while in motion, why would that be a good solution? It seems way more complicated and inefficient than charging while stationary, and personally owned cars are stationary more than 90% of the time.
Words against strangers: another daily word game
Don't confuse satellite launches with crewed launches. Losing a satellite due to a failed launch is no big deal, risking the lives of potentially hundreds of passengers is a different story entirely.
My thought process, note that I am not a compiler writer, runs along these lines.

undefined behavior is valid code(it is not a syntax error), it has to do some thing, that thing should be documented, if the spec does not want to document it, then the implementation should. don't make the assumption that because it is undefined it will never happen.
Crypto Darling Helium Promised a ‘People’s Network.’
That is pretty decadent actually. Financials aside, I do believe frivolous activity like that creates a culture of unseriousness
Sounds like it is time for you to move on. The answer to your question probably has to do with how the company is structured. If you work for a person or persons that are personally funding the company and it looks like a small business then there may be no shares for you, it may be just an agreement between partners. If you work for a 'startup' that sold shares to private investors then there should be shares for you, and probably shares for everyone. Depends on how the company is structured.