skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the ideal situation would be for people to work in their own offices, with doors that closed, and short commutes. Easy to work distraction-free alone, easy to have group meetings and random chats.

But real estate costs have made this approach untenable, so something has to give.
This is not going to play well with open-space offices.
Nearly 20 years ago I was out to dinner with my girlfriend and who is sitting at the table next to us other than Kurt Vonnegut. He took a liking to my companion and basically pulled our table over to his as we listened to him regale us with stories. The man lived.

I can't say if he was universally nice, but on that night he was nice, charming, and a pleasure to eat dinner with.
> You could say the same about youtube, all you mention and much more

YouTube's discoverability is abysmal, so it's really not comparable. I use YouTube every day and have not had it recommend to me a new channel I'm interested in... a year? When I refresh my homepage, nearly one half of the videos stay the same. I've already seen 5 of them.

> I am sure its addictive as I see it clearly in other's people kids, but so is heroin

Well, I'm not praising its addictiveness, right? I'm praising the people that post on it.

TikTok is essentially Chinese spyware, and the quality of its algorithm is terrifying. But that's really it – it's just a good content platform, and its scale means its attracted great content. Ascribing all these silly qualities to it, like being in opposition to life, and similar to heroin, is hyperbole to the extreme.
Surely you can find something more recent than five years.
CMC is reporting $.9999, why?

https://coinmarketcap.com/
>people who are able to redeem who are incentivised to defend the peg

This doesn't make any sense. Either you can sell it for $1 or you can't. If you can then it's free money to buy tether from people selling below $1 and selling it back to tether for $1.

I would describe the relationship between tether and bf as more than "close" they have the same owner.
This was kind of my experience with reporting a bug to Google as well. Some years ago I managed to upload a SWF file to "google.com" which allowed me to do an XSS and access anyone's gmail, contacts, etc. I reported it and they just initially never responded and I had to constantly follow up. It was seemingly a simple bug to fix but it took them a couple months and they eventually only paid $500. Being able to exfiltrate data out of someone's gmail account always seemed high priority to me but I guess not lol.
Can nurses unionize? It seems like they need it very badly. They get the short end of the stick with everything in medicine.
What big 3? I can count at least 8 brands off the top of my head which sell a variety of vehicles. Tesla started relatively recently, and I have seen a few Rivian around. Kia and Hyundai made large gains in the last 30 years.
It totally depends on where you are -- some municipalities have their own EMTs, some are attached to fire, etc.
Maybe. Q2’s got revised up, not down. https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2022-08-25/2q-g...
The internet doesn't run on pre-shared keys. Asymmetric encryption is weak against wiretapping.

Otherwise there wouldn't be illegal dragnets (Room 641A, DITU, PRISM).
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That sounds like a security issue. Why are disk encryption keys not evicted in sleep mode? Seems like no apps should be running in sleep mode?
I'm upper-20's and been at it professionally for about 10 years if you count college co-ops; longer if you count craigslist websites to get myself a gaming computer as a teen.

My first co-op was gotten through my University's internal job board, and my first "real job" after graduating came from a part-time internship I took one semester.

I still love the actual development part of my job -- being pointed at a problem, mapping out a solution, and then actually getting into flow to solve it (and I'm damn good at it too).

It's all the other stuff that has started to wear on me (currently a tech lead at a small startup). The planning, the estimates, the never ending negotiations for trying to get more in without adjusting timelines. The recruiting, the dealing with unmotivated reports... and did I mention estimates / planning?

Going to stick it out a little longer, but at this point I think I was meant to stay at the senior engineer level at a laid back company.
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if you look at musk and his friends talking about how to restructure twitter it looks less incompetent. if you remember that he is under a mountain of financial pressure you can also see that these moves are for survival, not to make twitter more awesome. a decimated shell of a company is preferable, for someone who just massively overpaid for a non-growth company, to a much larger organization with higher cost structure.

I dont understand why he wanted twitter and I think the incompetence is in the way he pursued the deal, but once one is saddled with such a problem the steps to get out from under it (or at least minimize the damage) are clear. forcing employees out is necessary.
I'm a happy user of You Need a Budget. If the golden rule is "Spend less than you earn", the practical way to achieve that is "You Need a Budget".

I use YNAB because it works for me, but I've used paper and spreadsheets in the past. The key is having the budget so you can understand where your money is going. You aren't always going to stick to the budget, but by paying attention and classifying all expenses, you can better understand things going forward and then plan better.

I don't care if you make $35K a year or $350K a year, you need a budget.
As someone working at a company that has run several clinical trials, this really rings true, especially the segment on language translations.
Yesterday a friend working in an EE capacity told me he was laid off in the morning and by late afternoon was asked to come back as a contractor.

Meta may be trying to give Wall Street signals they are being prudent by cutting costs in the press, but actions are showing awareness that they need to double down to win.
At what point do we acknowledge that there is a systemic market failure and start trying to explore interventions and alternative arrangements? Hospitals are a public good, but hospital executives seem uninterested now in providing that good. So how do we fix that?
With FTX collapsing, many are eager to get entirely out of cryptocurrencies.
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I don't see how the timing is relevant here.
The lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that could change rules of AI
If I turn off bluetooth and wifi I want them to be off.
Companies not in the 'tech' sector employ a sizable population of software developers and IT people. The average NYT reader may not know or understand this. People see "tech" and think of the Silicon Valley startup, with ping pong and the lavish perks. Average consumers of news generally have a negative view of these workers, because they get paid very well to "do nothing" and sit at a desk, plus the generous perks/benefits. You see this in any conversation involving housing too. Tech workers move to low cost of living areas and displace locals.
Like Apple not patching macOS security holes on older versions: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/psa-apple-isnt-actua... ?

(This happened again with Ventura).
if you have a buyer (tether itself) that will always buy usdt at $1, then the price can fluctuate slightly in other exchanges but should always return to $1 since any fall in price becomes an arbitrage opportunity. you buy the 0.98 tether and sell back for $1, making 2 cents on the dollar. If the price keeps falling it’s because people don’t think they can get $1 from tether because they realize it’s actually worth $0. so you sell at the price you can get until the party is over. it’s not clear that this has happened yet, but it might, since tether has been extremely cagey about the assets it has backing usdt 1:1, so cagey you might suspect they are undecapitalized
What does "Hello World" look like in the silicon world these days? (Looking for a complete example containing everything necessary to go from code to tapeout, I know multiple answers are possible).
I read it as both, one person doing each: Early this week, I realised that some people had cross-posted my Mastodon post into Twitter. Someone else had posted a screenshot of it on Twitter.

I understand being unhappy about screenshot sharing, but my read is that even if only the link sharing piece had happened they would still be upset?
I suppose the risk is people could 'game' the system.

Person A finds the issue, reports it.

Then Person A secretly tells Person B about it (with no apparent connection), and Person B reports the same issues a few weeks later, but with apparent different code/description to look ever so slightly different.
I have the same feelings about climate change. Nothing's going to change until shit gets much, much worse. Too bad to ignore.
Yes, yes i do.
What if the code in question is a DSL? Something say that is syntactically python, but with a namespace defined through a narrow set of imports. This would be interesting to explore for end-user scripting.
Maybe some things should remain something done out of passion and not as one's entire day job?
A fair point, but with the FDA responses taking up to 30 days you burn a lot of runway.
Just to clarity - USDC is trading slightly above peg.

Meanwhile, USDT is below peg.

Def more concerning to be below than above
That's not a vaccine trial though, right? I'm figuring those need more participants and have more retention problems, as well as less risk of informed consent problems.
I'm worried that I need to be logged-in and expose my CC to use such service. Nonetheless most of us use Google Search in a similar way.
Haha, exactly :D And the required "Oh no that person looked at me, did I do something weird?"
This is necessarily not the case. The ML model has only been trained on things produced by humans, therefore its derived works. We have no idea what an ML model that hadn't been trained by looking at human art would actually produce, and whether or not it is creative.

Also it's pretty clear you haven't worked with many artists from that statement.
Dan O'Dowd isn't a rando gadfly. His company, Green Hills, makes software for high reliability, high security applications. I first used their products when I was writing a book about programming the original Mac in C. Green Hills make one of the first self-hosted compilers. He has been around and he knows what it takes to make software for mission critical systems.
> Look at all the macroeconomic indicators right now, inflation, energy costs, customer spending, etc., do you really believe we are not way into the wheels of a recession?

I think you left out unemployment from that list because it doesn’t fit the message. How many recessions happen with a 3% unemployment rate?

The economy is odd the last couple years. I don’t know that the usual data points help predict as well as they might normally.
There is actually a mechanism for creating money. It's debt.

The mechanism here is facilitating commerce.

A simple analogy is:
You're selling oranges. I'm selling apples. Bartering is inefficient so we invented currency.

I don't have any money right now. I buy your orange with debt, you buy my apple, the fruit is used instead of rotting, etc.

Essentially we only make a deal because we want what we're getting more than what we have. So we're getting something worth (to us) e.g. 130% of what we're giving.

So every trade multiplies the effective resource by e.g. 30%. Debt facilitates the trade, while simultaneously creating the value.

Up. to. a. point.

Without spoiling the ending that everyone knows is coming... crypto is not this. Crypto is not facilitating any (legal) economic activity. Nobody is taking this and buying machinery with a resource-generating payback period.
I've seen those videos of "an average day working at BIG_TECH" so it is no wonder they are trimming the fat.
> If someone forgets to lock their door and a thief gets in and robs them, do you think it's fair to "blame" the person who forgot to lock their door?

No, but let's say they've bought from a manufacturer who is not most well known for their lock mechanisms, wouldn't it be the user's responsibility to find a better alternative? You're to be held accountable for your part.

You're making the assumption that the average person thinks Google employs the “most well known software developers on the planet” – that's your subjective take, not anything close to common knowledge
> amounts of energy it destroys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics
This most definitely happened (also for private people).
Wait, 25% of all tether is held by binance? That's a lot. How much is held by other players like bitfinex? Does the bank run need to involve a bank run on exchanges to crash USDT?
LOL, I've never invested in any crypto for the record. This is the secondary exchange it doesn't directly interact with bitfinex, someone would have to gobble up 100k USDT minimum to attempt to redeem at bitfinex.
Just trying to rationalize, but if the "external researcher" was hired by Google to find security issues, google might have a requirement to fix the bug at its own pace.

I would personally be highly suspicious of a security flaw being a duplicate though. It's can be a very convenient excuse not to pay the bounty.
Interesting take. This reminds me of when people say that hate CGI in movies. What they really mean is they hate bad or noticeable CGI—a huge portion of CGI is stuff we don't even notice, like landscapes or city streets.
We want psychology/iatry to sort out the normal from the abnormal, but that doesn’t work: normal and abnormal are fundamentally social. This is a version of the is-ought problem.

In my experience (both as a walk-in consumer-patient and with friends who happen to be shrinks) psychiatry is at its best when it focus on functionality — can this person brush his teeth; can he walk among crowds (and not lose his virtue); can he hold a job, a relationship. Most gratifying for a psychiatrist in private practice (I’m told) is to watch someone go from Mozart-and-the-whale nuts to having a good career, marriage and kids.

Of course, in institutional settings people want to cure madness like one cures pneumonia. That’s fundamentally dehumanizing, though.
innovating is a meaningless term in ad tech companies. optimizing I think is a better word.
There are plenty of facilities where nurses are unionized (and it is almost universally a net benefit to both the staff and patients).
So you'd go out and refactor a major security sensitive component (which dates to time before your career most likely) in a span of a single month for an emergency security patch deadline?

That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in your risk assesment and decision making.

I'd do what Google did: rollout a patch that addresses the immediate danger and then backlog proper refactors over time.
> Key is in memory at all times after boot on all of those.

I would think it would have to be while the device is mounted and OS locked, but surely if you dismount a secondary disk/container the key is purged?
Everyone who reports a undisclosed bug should get a share of the bounty; this incentivizes them to stick to the embargo.

If too many people are reporting the bug before you fix it then you have other problems.

I also start to feel that at Google's scale bounties this serious should start doubling every month.
Yeah, in any given instance, "nothing happens" is true more likely than not. On the other hand, this is equally true in a game of Russian roulette. In both cases, "nothing ever happens" is not necessarily the right lesson to draw from the observation.

The nature of tail risk is that it seem completely impossible until, one fine day, it manifests explosively. Various other corners of crypto have recently been exposed to this lesson, often at some expense. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect more damage to the ecosystem before the lesson is well and truly learned.
Hey Matt ... would like to connect if you are still monitoring this thread.
I agree, but just to play devil's advocate if I discover a bug, disclose it, then tell all my friends to also file a report before it is filed they'd have to honor multiple bounties.

I, too, am frustrated that I've read far too many stories about someone reporting a devastating critical exploit and all they get is "this is a dupe" back without further explanation. Makes one paranoid that employees are working with someone externally, back dating their bug reports, and splitting the bounty.
It is a major security issue, and one of the reasons people running around with production access on laptops is insane.

It is hard to fix this too, because almost no background desktop processes behave well when they are suddenly unable to write to the disk.

Even if you solved that, your password manager has keys in memory, your browser has cookies in memory, etc etc.
I recommended rewriting the whole terraform infra code base in Crossplane sarcastically in the interview but my manager might be taking it seriously enough to want to see it implemented as a POC.
I thought we were discussing GitHub stars' correlation (or lack thereof) to donations. I don't see how usefulness for many people should be limited to software only. Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say.
> USDT is trading at 97 cents on several bourses, and briefly fell as low as 93 cents on the Kraken exchange.

Is bourses crypto jargon I'm not aware of?
"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you are thinking." -Leslie Lamport

Even though now speech recognition rate is really high, but I wonder how many authors use speech to write articles. The comparison may make sense. And I think there's few.
We have firefighters cross-trained to handle first aid so there are more people available in spread out areas. Often a fire truck is on scene faster than the ambulance. Once the ambulance is on scene, firefighters can assist paramedics.
In JavaScript:

let zip = (as,bs) => as.slice(0, Math.min(as.length,bs.length)).map((a,i) => [a,bs[i]]);
On SBF’s “rotation” of FTX wallets back in September
Coins don't return to the reward pool when somebody dies. A system of new aristocratic families based on who was an early adopter and held on to some BTC is not something I'm excited about.
Maybe they have enough liquidity for it, since it’s their scam? I guess that FTT/Binance situation created an additional demand everywhere. The same depeg was observed after LUNA(?) news spread, afair, on a similar market.
If their assets are not perfectly liquid (that is, not central bank money, and I'm not talking about “dollar” here, but deposit on a central bank account) then you're exposed to liquidity issue if there is a bank run. That's why the Fed has been created in the first place, to be the lender of last resort in adverse market conditions.
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Yeah what happens if sections of GNU GPL code are copied - surely that makes the new code GNU GPL?
This is a big list in our point of vue. We began with one device, then added a second one, then a third... We go step by step, for the devices and in our software developments, and are not in a hurry to satisfy all the wishes of everyone. People just choose what suits them best, that's not a matter of number of supported devices.
Did you come to Mastodon over the last couple weeks? Because a lot of the signal from the more interesting parts of fedi got lost over the twitter newcomers yelling how it is much better.

And like, from people I follow, most of the more interesting ones aren't even using Mastodon, but rather Pleroma, Miskkey, or some forks of those. It's a diverse network, not only in types of people, but also in types of software. I would suggest you explore it more after a month or so, after this twitter wave blows over and dies off once again, as there's certainly some very nice communities out there.
> It's not clear whether they run market-maker operations to pick up the spread between Tether and $1.

Of course they do.
sorry for you :-)
They are, they just aren't buying them back on coinbase. Tether don't manage the secondary market (cexes and dexes)

Though the minimum redeemable amount is $100k https://tether.to/en/fees

Why they are depegging is people are selling for under a dollar on coinbase (perhaps in panic); and Alameda Research (re: FTX exchange) who normally makes a ton of money doing the arbitrage between dollars and tether is having liquidity problems, so not doing it currrently.
Reminds me of their job interview process. So rigorous and must make sure they're hiring the most genius and committed people. Come in office for an 8 hour dog and pony show. You must memorize their cult sayings to make sure you are obsessed with the customer and everything is executed at the highest caliber.

Meanwhile, their UX is atrocious, apps have many things that frustrate the user and their design/UI is a joke.

It's 4 clicks to find out what I actually paid for an item in an order I made. How is that customer obsessed?
Maybe a bit of an overstatement, but it does make digging up streets in Rome a bit of a fraught affair from what I've read.
My comment was not highlighting ways in which Mastodon isn't a utopia and it certainly wasn't an argument to stick with what we've got. It is dismaying to think someone might have read it that way. I was trying to make some constructive criticism and analysing possible usecases and possible consequences, while very clearly requesting more information about whether the possible usecases are fulfilled yet or not.

> There are more trusted email servers than just those two. Fastmail, Apple, Yahoo all come to mind.

My comment completely survives this pedantry. In fact, I can hardly think of any way whatsoever that such pedantry weakens my argument in any degree, or could be thought to speak to any of my concerns.
Terrible headline but some intesting content.

Not sure I buy that being depressed or even suicidal makes you not "nice" as a general concept.
Par for course: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

It’s no surprise that after a decade of loose monetary policy, there’s a shakeout in capital-intensive industries like tech. That’s painful in the short term, but it’s a good thing overall. It’s necessary for capital to be better allocated across the economy.
My rules were:

1. Always pay off the credit card bill every month. Completely.

2. Mortgage payment < 40% of take home salary.

3. Buy the cheapest new car you can afford and run it as long as possible.

4. Never buy branded clothing unless on sale.

5. Maintenance costs less than replacement.

In summary be a cheapskate and ignore the neigbours with expensive doodads.
Very good article. The hyperlinks within are worth checking. Wonder when the "blanding" term first appeared and when it started becoming apparent. Related, the logo part is also covered providing other possible reasons in https://velvetshark.com/articles/why-do-brands-change-their-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040506).
They also have a page about their pros/cons: https://www.migadu.com/procon/

If nothing else, it's one of the more honest pieces of company writing out there, although some of the things could be dealbreakers for some people. I suggest that you check it out, it's written in a pretty straightforward and easy to understand language and lays everything bare.
Yeah imagine a person with a powerful position in technology having diverse interests and an unusual background.

shudders
As a former user who switched to Amex credit cards for all spending, it’s key benefit of automation is ruined.

I don’t think it’s entirely YNAB’s fault. But having to manually input each credit card transaction doesn’t make me feel it’s worth the monthly charge. Then it just becomes a spreadsheet.

EDIT: that is— the lessons are excellent and the mindset is important. But it’s monthly cost is another issue.
Yep, precisely.