skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for help with the product discovery process
I’m building a product that will improve Google Drive, and I want to understand people’s experiences with Drive as it exists today.

If you've used Drive at a company of 3-200 employees: would you be willing to chat with me for 15 min about your experience?

Your insights would be super valuable! Happy to connect via DM or (even better) you can drop a time on my calendar directly here: https://go.oncehub.com/chat2
How do you know it's the landlords that inflated the costs? That's a major premise that you haven't demonstrated.
This seems useful. Thank you!

However, not for the purposes I described.

Can I send you an email, or would that be excessive. I could describe what I'd like to build someday. Perhaps it might inform architecture, or perhaps not, depending on how it aligns with your vision.
It serves the important function of giving journos an opportunity to interview business consultants about what CEOs think of their employees' poop breaks.

Which, in generating lots of hate clicks, is a huge economic boost in terms of Nonfarm Business Sector Labor Productivity!
You should always ask for your expected hourly rate for take home assignments. If they think it's too much, obviously they will low-ball you. And if they agree, at least it's not a total waste if they low-ball you anyway.
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This here is the real secret.
Really just seems like candidates don't want to do these negotiation process.

I was surprised with how much I was able to get away with negotiating my first tech job. It was a little bit of back and forth, a recruiter was involved, and I could just poker face my way into a six-figure job.

If they say 200k are you want to just say 250k and see if you get it.

Like everything it's just quicker and easier if you rip off the band-aid and just do it.
I was hoping youtube and facebook falling on their faces trying to implement censorship during the pandemic would make it clear the practice is a non-starter.

Why do people cling to this notion of censorship being a good thing? I feel like it's an attempt at a power grab with "won't someone please think of the children!" as the justification to the masses.
I would not wonder if you throw so much research time to a normal flu you will find similar things.
TANSTAAFL. (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.)

The downside of employee protections is that it makes companies more reluctant to hire. And also once hired, the salary to be offered is reduced to cover the estimated current value of the future employee protections. These are real downsides, particularly for young people who are trying to get a foot into the corporate ladder.

I have even personally witnessed a situation where a company evaluated a legal change to increase employee protections, and decided to layoff almost everyone in a particular country before the new law took effect. (The company was Pictage, the country was Argentina, and this was a bit over a dozen years ago.)

So I'll take the up front downsides of at will over the hidden downsides of employee protections.
If they get a warrant from a court, they can open the safe.

As the question is about granting access to accounts after death, it seems an odd worry. The government is also likely to get access to your data from your Google, Facebook, etc. If you have a server in the cloud, they can probably go to your hosting provider to get physical access.

So unless you have data in secret offshore servers in countries that won't cooperate with the US government, then a safe is not your weakest link.
That statement of "before the demise of Google Books" seems unnecessary. The next quoted bit of "at least until Sunday" might have been an attempt to complete the joke, but should be interpreted as the number of books changing rapidly according to the (12 year old) linked article.

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-...
That is not true in the least. Keeping corps honest about that requires legal action.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/electronic-arts-faces-overt...

There are legal, labor, consequences for cultures that expect more than 40 hours on average.
Instead of determining what is true they will instead determine what is false...

How does that not slightly represent a ministry of truth?
"Is [Metaverse] going to be a leap in humanity at the scale of the Apollo program?"

That is, IMO, the key question behind this entire discussion. Zuck certainly thinks so. I'm sure a lot of people at Meta and outside think so as well. And their detractors obviously don't.

There isn't going to be any consensus on whether Meta is spending too much money or not because ultimately it is a referendum on the concept of VR/AR/Metaverse itself.
If you're trying to hire for a $100k+ role, it should not be a problem to take an afternoon to look up job postings for similar roles and figure out an appropriate salary range.
Maybe they pay all the costs, but thats when there are tenants. The landlord is taking on the risk of being the one the bank will come to when a mortgage needs to be paid. And the effort of maintenance (and cost, then there are no tenants). All the tenant needs to do is show up and sign a check, they have no other worries. Thats the trade-off.
> you agree to negative interest for deposits (you pay the bank to keep your money).

You say this as if paying someone to take care of something for you is a patent absurdity instead of commonplace.
> Why do you say that these protocols are worse than Ethernet/IPv4?

Here's an example: I connected my nice expensive audio interface to my Thunderbolt port. It worked great! Then I moved a window on my monitor and all hell broke loose. In spite of the fact that it had way more than enough bandwidth to handle everything.

See, Thunderbolt doesn't have the ability to say "This tiny packet going to there needs priority and you need to break up those giant display packets."

Ethernet has solved problems like these in standards. They're not always implemented on particular chipsets, but they exist, and you generally can buy a product that has them.

Everything Ethernet has done and standardized has generally been for a reason. If you don't implement Ethernet, then you are starting over from scratch and will have to reimplement all of that stuff.

And you're probably not smarter than the guys who did it for Ethernet.

(If I'm being charitable: what's happened is that lot of standards tried to be more cost optimized than Ethernet. The problem is that transistor prices keep coming down. Eventually the price delta between Ethernet and <whatever> becomes inconsequential and you're basically left with real Ethernet and "kinda crappy" Ethernet at almost the same price.)
Can you tell me more about this tax credit that you supposedly get for unrented property that you own?
I’m the opposite. Never was a Musk fan but now that I see him trying to reform twitter I’m very impressed he’s willing to take so much flak for such a direly needed goal.
Thank you! It's almost exactly the same as real estate agents or anyone who takes a small % of a transaction: they are incentivized to prioritize throughput above (and often at the expense of) anything else.
I would be really curious to see the numbers behind this.
It’s not that simple usually.

Companies might not have HR hire until 50 people or so. Level of how much compensation levels or bands are figured out (and how big of a mess they are) varies in companies.

Even large companies, you might have variety of starting salaries, because you had to get the person in, which then needs fixed over time.

Also each new type of role you open, you might not have the bands figured out right at the time you write the job post. Your comp benchmarks might say 75th percentile is $160k. Then you talk to folks and seems like most are making $170k or more. Then you end up finding someone more or less senior but you would like to hire them and have to adjust the comp based on their experience while balancing it against other people and roles at company.

IMO comp is one of the hardest things to get right. You might do a comp philosophy that everyone gets paid $200k and you don’t negotiate but then you lose candidates and then overpay some people.

Then someone might still complain that if it’s fair that iOS engineer makes the same as Android engineer, even though market rate is higher for iOS engineers (and eventually the iOS engineers might leave to get a better paying job).
Similar things happened during the Great Depression. Many things made in that era before the war are highly sought after since the craftsmen who had jobs at the time were often among the best in their field.

Musical instruments from the 30’s are legendary.
You're implying that the "censors" would censor without limits, including complaints about them.
Or nationalize the documentation infrastructure. This is not a problem in the developed world. i give my doctor my tax ID and they can see my entire patient history, all of my medication, and relevant notes from other providers.
Delete the app and stop buying the cars while you’re at it
Five years later, is eSIM finally ready to take on the world?
WTH my man, not just Tornedo(Or whatever) and such are criminal, but any fraud or scam in crypto should also be considered criminal.

And I know atleast 5 banks with over 1 Billion in cap, went down. Not sure how that's not over 1 percent my man. But sure hell there are issues with Crypto as it stands.

Also I can for certain say more than 1 percent of fiat is used in illegal stuff. Not sure how crypto is doing so much better... When all I hear are stories of Hacks, Frauds and Rugpulls.

You can also use GNU Taler if you just want zero knowledge and mostly permissionless...
Note, this site imports javascript from about 24 domains! I wouldn't touch it without a noscript pole.
What You’re Saying When You Give Someone the Silent Treatment (2021)
ATMs use internet, but don't give too much control to the user.
Umm, you might want to read up on dopamine and how it works.
The Huberman lab podcast has a great episode.
Also, knot complements are an important class of 3-manifolds.
If you like this, I recommend "Big Dead Place" (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp...) by Nicholas Johnson, a garbageman at McMurdo.
Sadly the best training technique is to just keep trying, time and time again. If you have difficulty interviewing, you should interview even when you have a job, just to get more practice.

The first time you're turned down it hurts a lot, especially if it was a job you really were interested in - the fiftieth? Not so much.
Same as Mozilla Foundation ... they are kept alive by Google money, so Google can say that they have no monopoly on browsers.

Their side projects are money sinkholes. Would never give money to Mozilla.
A big issue with the annual upgrade cycle is that it becomes much harder for devs to test their games due to hardware fragmentation.
I can't speak for all business owner, but as a business owner I signed a 5 year lease with an option to renew...so I know my rent price 10 years out. My price only changes at the 5 year market and I knew it when signing the lease.

Who are these people where their rent changes 6 months? When we looked around these are fairly common terms...

I mean technically our rate increased last year so we are part of some, statistics but it's meaningless.
https://archive.ph/yujaQ
Also psychologically experimenting on their users intentionally making them unhappy [1], knowingly facilitating terrorism [2] and enabling race based advertising which blocked black people accessing housing [3].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/10/facebook...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/a-look-at-bo...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-racial-ad-targeting-multic...
very cool :)

can i get a clarification - when it says "in-browser" i hear "on-device" as in it doesnt call back to replit to get the predictions. i assume that's inaccurate?

for cost/compute purposes i'm wondering how small models have to get in order to run "truly in browser"
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Lets just stop calling them meta. They are still the evil facebook.
Indeed! Harder to hire, harder to fire. Like most such schemes, it advantages those already inside at the cost to those looking in from the outside; see also rent control.
This could easily be an accounting anomaly. Productivity is defined as real GDP / hours worked. If you shrink the denominator - say, by causing 25% unemployment with lockdowns - while also boosting the numerator with government spending, you get high productivity, which we had during the pandemic. If you then shrink the numerator (say, with high inflation, which translates a given nominal GDP to a smaller real GDP) while increasing the denominator (through record low unemployment), productivity will drop.

IMHO traditional economic metrics are not well adjusted to an economy where output is largely independent of effort or hours worked, particularly not when measured on a quarterly basis. I work for a (remarkably slow and bloated) tech company. If I choose to do nothing other than post on Hacker News, that will not become apparent in company performance for ~2 years, because that's the median time for a project to make it out to market and start having an effect on consumer behavior. The company could lay me off and it wouldn't affect the bottom line at all, but it'd boost productivity. Conversely, if I hire a new person, I don't see significant gains in output for ~2 years, but employment and hours worked has gone up, and so productivity is down.

The limiting case for this is algorithmic cryptocurrency trading with mark-to-market accounting (of which there was plenty in 2021). Here, you have computers trading virtual assets back and forth at ever increasing prices. Because prices are going up, the value of everyone's assets increases, and with mark-to-market accounting you'd show a profit. And yet nobody is employed and no real work is being done. Productivity is effectively infinite, but it means nothing.
Sure. But Musk is betting that Twitter is not profitable because of the people running it. And Twitter was profitable for a while before the marked management change in late 2018.
That's surprising; I wanted to make a picture book (with a bit of text the kids wrote) to send to grandparents and stumbled upon BookWright; seemed an affordable choice but was very surprised they actually included an ISBN with the little one-off kids picture book.

Maybe they're just sitting on a big block of numbers and just giving them away...
HN aside, most people don't have jobs that you can do more of at home than at the office / factory / lab / school.
Heck, with school it's quite obvious that "teaching hours delivered" sustained during pandemic, but "education learned" dropped by probably half.
Of course, I do prefer higher level constructs. Even then goto/if/switch are effective, readable solution especially if you use them within idioms.

The problem is when people start replacing low level statements with other low level equivalents. Or low level equivalents that are masquerading as high level. Which means they did not understand why you may want to get rid of the low level construct and only caused loss of readability for no structural benefit.
In a way it is a return to the days of playing games in 8 and 16 bit platforms. :)
GitHub Copilot Is actually Good
My wife went to a conference recently where she learned about copilot. As someone who produces a lot of open source code, this immediately started me on a rant, talking about how it was reusing people's code in a questionable manner. I also thought writing comments to create code was a gimmick (still do).

However, I decided to try out copilot to see what it was doing and what the hell. I'm actually surprised how good it is. I'm use it for python within pycharm, and I'm surprised how often it's referencing patterns in other parts of my codebase. It's also autocompleting tons of patterns that I need for elasticsearch-dsl and some other python libraries.

I guess I've seen a lot of hate for copilot but maybe give it a try? I still don't know how to feel about the code reuse, but I'm surprised it works as well as it does.
That 'feature' never made sense to me. "You always miss the advertising shots you don't take" when you force people to sign up first.
What incentive is there to develop properties then? So you spend millions on building a commercial property and then… you pay people to occupy it? What about rewarding people for building things? This is an asinine comment.
I think their algorithms make it hard to discover this stuff.

Another good set of documentaries is the "JPL and the Space Age" series by the NASA JPL channel. Also their Von Karman lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTiv_XWHnOZqFnWQs393R...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTiv_XWHnOZr-0Wz9ObrM...
>It's so rare for a superstar not to know their market rate as to be unlikely.

And you're getting this data from, where exactly?
What was the question? I don’t see any
Good to know, a noose and a quick drop would have been better but alas we have to read his drivel. Oh he got a 6 pack now how nice.
It depends on context. A discussion about "female singers" would probably be referring to gender.

It's useful to have an adjective equivalent of "man" and "woman", so people use "male" and "female" to mean that. My main point isn't to establish one meaning as more common, but to point out that there's not one "correct" meaning. Terminology around sex and gender are not neatly divided and it's not always easily determined what meaning people are using.
The only reason I was able to figure out how to use ExtensionKit at all was because of a chance encounter with an Apple engineer during WWDC that provided some needed information.

I'm sorry to disappoint, but ExtensionKit/Foundation do not make use of any Swift features in the way you describe. It's all just IPC (via XPC), so much of it is useable from ObjC, or even C!

Also, this does not provide a direct app-to-app communication channel. The extensions themselves must be separate executables and run within their own sandbox. I think the extension could communication with its containing app, but the system is not set up to do that. All your scheduling questions are really around how XPC works. The view itself is basically an image within your hosting app, so communication is entirely async to the other process.
If you're OK with your model for entrepreneurship starting with "first, be wealthy" then you can absolutely have restaurants that way - yes.
It's just the corporation friendly mass media trying to combat calls for better worker treatment/compensation. This is just the next single from the album that brought us "quiet quitting", "the great resignation", "millennials are lazy", etc. It's important for the backers of these media outlets to float these stories out there, lest anyone become sympathetic to workers in light of the facts that minimum wage hasn't kept up with either inflation or productivity, that corporations are engaging in profit inflation, that the fed is intentionally raising rates to wrest back some power from workers, and so on.
Try the article reader mode in most browsers first. A lot of these things keep the page content in the DOM, but just add garbage on top of it to make it difficult to read. In cases where content has been actually removed from the page, viewing the page source - not the current page structure, but the actual page source code that the browser downloaded from the server - can also work.

Disabling JS is kind of an extreme step since it will affect every open tab in the browser, so if you have something playing music or other audio in the background or something like Slack open and waiting for important messages, they will likely break.
Yeah that's the problem, those estimates are usually arounds zero it seems. I mean sure on paper it checks out to be most profitable and most of the time it also works in real life. But you end up with this rube goldberg supply chain machine that can't be stopped or you apparently end up with a cyclic dependency problem and you cannot restart your production.

We build structures to take a one in a ten thousand year flood or earthquake, but it's too much to expect corporations to keep more than 2 weeks of stock? Sure.
Cellular housekeeping process implicated in fatal neurological disorder
It's $5/mo for Twitter Blue and rumored $20/mo for verification.
> 1 + 1 != 3 only because we agree on notation to represent the real, physical world; "right" and "wrong" aren't in the same category, because they're matters of opinion, and for practical purposes on the time scale of individual human lives, might indeed does make right.

You're arguing over the meaning of symbols, whereas I'm talking about the underlying concepts. The map is not the territory. Right and wrong are not matters of opinion... unless you really do think that it's ok to rape someone as long as you're never caught.
I disagree.

"The Metaverse" is still fundamentally the same as other content/experience the same way 3D movies are fundamentally the same as 2D movies.

Being able to see a projection of someone in chair next to you does not really deepen or hasten the sharing of ideas in any drastic way compares to pre-internet vs post-internet communication.

If I had to guess, my suspicion is that direct brain-to-brain communication is the next epoch-definiting development.
JPEG XL is based on Google's Pik, and several of the top contributors to libjxl are on Google's payroll: https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/graphs/contributors
Understand how "just asking questions" has been co-opted by a group so thoroughly, that its use of a rhetorical or dialogue device associates one's self to that group. It's a well poisoned by bad faith.

Realize that people are generally able to tell the difference between authentic curiosity and Socratic-curiosity. The later, as you well know, involves asking leading questions to arrive at a predetermined destination whereas the former does not.

There's many more answers to this question, but leaving those there feels like a good enough place to start as any.
The Leica M6 2022: A Legend Remade with a Modern Twist
Montana is the biggest exception. It's only at-will for a 6-month probationary period, and after that, you can generally only be fired for "good cause".
It’s all about the money, great save work place with a really nice salary.
They don’t care a Bit about Wikipedia.
This. The problem with Meta is that nobody can confront Zuck and remind him that this is really a bad idea RoI wise. Zuck is unhinged and makes the decisions as he pleases even at the company of this scale.
Markdown is markup.

> Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. -- Wikipedia

> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). -- Gruber

Moreover, Markdown is constrained by the fact that it doesn't have a semantics, strictly speaking. It has a syntax, and that syntax is tied to the HTML canonical form of the document, which any valid Markdown file can be transformed into.

The fact that Markdown is written in extremely simple, easy to read (and brilliant IMO) syntax doesn't make it not markup.
One thing I can tell you is that in my first job in 1977 right out of university I had an office with a door that shut and quiet space to work, which I needed because I was working in assembly language and as there were fewer machines that developers, I had to debug code on paper. I do think this strengthened my debugging skills, in part because as machine time was rare I had to plan ahead for which interventions would get the most return on my time.

I had an office at my next job, too. Needless to say that's all gone now, except ironically the work-from-home has once again given me a mostly quiet workspace.