skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me when working on large scale project, we have maintained strict quality control.
The PR wouldn't be accepted if it had even a tiniest bit of tech debt or a hint of creating one.
Less experienced developers were struggling to put the work in and our reviews have given them a ton of extra work, often the PR would look completely different from what was first raised.
But the resulting code quality was great and the product had no issues whatsoever. The customer service never had to deal with problems with the project itself, just typical billing or "how to do something as I didn't bother to look into manual, please lead me" stuff.
Then we had a new CTO who was unable to get the board to understand why things take long time. We got mandated to let all PRs through as long as there is reasonable amount of tests and they pass.
This is where problems started to pile up. More experienced devs were now spending most of the time dealing with production bugs. Then they were quitting.
Company also found a brilliant idea that it's better to hire 3 junior devs than one experienced.
From there project turned into unworkable mess, nobody wants to touch.
CTO got fired and most of the developers. Company then decided to outsource the whole thing and commissioned a rewrite.
Full Mechanical: The Panel Telephone Switch [video]
I'm gonna mention just the complaint that the employee saw his roles and responsibilities not restored after coming back to work from surgery. The surgery was for a back injury caused by moving heavy equipment with pallet jacks. First, correctly using a pallet jack should not result in back injury (SpaceX could be liable for not training him to use the equipment correctly). Second, removing the responsibilities that he was physically unsuited for (because he suffered injury) sounds reasonable (if those were indeed the ones removed) regardless of age. The employee mentions two: one using metrology equipment, and one using metal machining.

I have no opinion about the rest of the complaints.
Man I love this. And I miss this.
Yeah, create a sufficiently better work environment (including commute) than wfh. This won’t involve cattle pens or cube farms…. If you can’t manage this, find alternate employment.
Surely the LinkedIn count is including contract drivers that put it as their employer.

Their 2021 10-K document says "HUMAN CAPITAL Employees As of December 31, 2021, we had over 8,600 employees worldwide"
I've stayed ~ 10 years at a couple companies. I won't say things were always smooth sailing the whole time. But that was the point where things had really changed, I was in some combination of doing the same thing in my sleep or there really wasn't a role for me any longer, etc. (And, yes, in one case I had really liked the work--which ultimately set me up for the next job well--but the small company couldn't afford market rates.)
Yes.

Also, my 9-year-old daughter makes the same face when she is focusing.
"No" is an important word because it's the only way you can say "yes".
Imagine computers with only 1s and no zeros. Unless you can say no, you
cannot wholeheartedly say yes. An offer you cannot refuse, or a
question to which there is only one answer, are neither offers nor
questions. Schopenhauer made the general semantic observation; in a
world where everything is X, ipso facto nothing is X. Yes-men are
really "nothing men".
did you fall into the interesting work at netflix or did you have to build credibility by being there a long time.
Perhaps the same thing, but I think they built a solution in search of a problem.
Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint
>but reinstalling private offices in the growing legions of ghost buildings may be worth a try.

Or, you know, not going back to the office as many people insist they prefer?
It seems very IBM to build a useless crypto thing with a shipping company.
> Set in a futuristic Japan, the show will follow the hacker, Case, who after breaking out of prison agrees to do one last job that brings him in contact with a forceful AI.

Neuromancer deserves better than this. <minor-spoilers> Case was a has-been hacker who tried to steal from his employer and got his neural link or whatever fried and is looking for a cure. Why the prison angle? Is it to move away from the bad corps angle and move to a bad-cops/state one or what?
> obnoxious neighbor can result in one having CPS

I don't know if you were referring to this, but it certainly was front-on-mind for me. (There's a GoFundMe for their legal troubles if you want to donate. Please consider it.)

https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed...
I found out relatively recently that I look angry when I relax my face. It makes me sad to think how less approachable it has made me over the years. Maybe even lost me some opportunities where someone might have started talking to me or something.

I don’t care how I look while focusing on my computer screen, maybe that’s a feature. But I do mind how I look when I’m just existing in the world.

I now hold my face consciously in an ever so light smile and it has made a big difference. Especially when entering social situations like a bar or party. Damn you, Resting bitch face!
Ask HN: Math book recommendation for a long detached engineering major?
As someone who has done an engineering major in electronics and communication almost a decade back, have used calculus, matrix algebra, some probability for doing well in exams, but, have since then have not used them extensively, what can be good math book recommendations?

The engineering degree never taught proofs or logical deduction as such. Only the applied part was taught. But, now, I want to learn about problem solving, logical proof writing and higher math like linear algebra, probability, statistics, analysis, abstract algebra, etc. Mostly on my own and using online QnA forums. Problem solving and logical deduction is the ultimate skill I am after.

I would like some suggestions on that regard. The AoPS books seemed too easy for me and I am losing interest in them. I may require something a bit harder to keep me hooked. Solution manuals are a bonus to have, if at all possible.
The mainline curl repository* maintains code for supporting OS/400, AmigaOS, RISC OS, MS-DOS, Mac OS 9, and more that aren't even remotely POSIX.

What is a dead operating system anyway, and how is that relevant to the point that Windows is the hardest OS to maintain support for?

* See for instance the config-*.h files in https://github.com/curl/curl/tree/1c567f797bce0befce109bceac...
Obvious who's going to defend The Economist: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings
I don't think it's an accident that a principal at a real estate firm thinks the way to get people back in the office is to give them a lot more square footage lol. But more seriously, I think if you really think being in the office is important (usually for mentorship reasons) then the most important things are to figure out how to make hybrid work.
Blue Peter actually has a really good survival rate, most stuff from the mid-1960s onwards survives. Whilst this is perhaps partly forward thinking on the part of Editor[1] Biddy Baxter, AFAIK it was partly so older material could be reused in later editions to save money.

[1] The title of the "showrunner" of Blue Peter, so in the meaning of "editor of a newspaper", not "videotape editor".
Maybe we should use internet commenters who refuse to learn about a topic before casually suggesting we murder people over it?
I have never understood why companies don't just publish pricing. It too often means pricing is just a game they want to play, for both personal and enterprise use, and it's a game I all too often don't want to play. If pricing is not available, I almost universally move on.
I think the reflexive mistrust in all "establishment" papers, magazines, journals, etc is mostly due to the chatter about them on social media. People have fawning praise or ruthless scorn for an article, usually based on some combination of the headline and what everyone else is posting about it. Sometimes this bleeds into the traditional journalism itself, leading to media chasing meme/clickbait topics, but I think "we the people" are not as innocent as we like to feel we are.
Querying Supabase from the Edge with PolyScale
I had no idea the wire protocol was understood so well. Are there similar project to bridge, i.e. Minetest with Mineclone2 and Minecraft (java)?
This is an incredible achievement. The most impressive piece of GoL engineering I've ever seen!

Clearly, number of gliders is no longer a good measure of complexity of constructions. Perhaps one should fix a straightforward way to encode a set of gliders by position (e.g. using [1]) and orientation and take the minimum number of bits of such a description.

Just one question:

> 1274729 – build a DBCA and pass control to it

> 192584 – build a new constructor that reads stored data instead of live data

> The final 200093 bits get stored in the Binary Storage and Retrieval device, these same 200093 bits are counted below:

How come this adds up to 1667406, which is 1615 more than the claimed total of 1665791 bits?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_coding
He was convicted in Japan because everybody gets convicted in Japan, especially a foreigner. But he saw no jail time.
How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits
The block chain hype has been fascinating.

The (practically) immutable nature of a block chain is genuinely fascinating and arguably very novel and new but the only reason everyone got excited was because the value of Bitcoin went to the moon.

I assume there is some growth hack idea here somewhere.
Colour me surprised.

I don't think I have yet heard of an industrial use of bock chain technology that would not be better and more easily solved with a "traditional" database.

There has been so much talk of using it for supply chain tracking and inventory, but it only gives you more problems to solve. Ultimately you need someone to be the "authority" in business transactions, a platform built on a decentralised block chain would still need that for any of these logistics problems.

Even when you look at crypto currency use of the block chain, the vast majority of transactions are happening off chain on a traditional database via an exchange.
Why would you then not have the exact same issues reading those resources and focusing on them?
Yeah, I was wondering, with todays computing power, if it were possible to run outrageously large random Life universes and use some sort of software to look for "interesting patterns" (whatever that means).

Or are these "discoveries" being done by hand?
Sky in Australia is still owned by News Corp/Murdoch, while they sold Sky in Europe to Comcast.
Not OP but it's not actually on the profile, we cannot see it. I might be interested talking to you as well (depending on your location/timezone basically).
This guy over on https://indica.medium.com/how-the-economist-is-just-propagan... comes up with a healthy analysis of exactly that.
I find that manually editing or starting off the response is enough to steer it in a serious or ridiculous direction as desired.
Bringing Codecov into the Sentry Family: Where Code Coverage Meets Am
When I am in the zone and people talk to me, I have a tendency to turn around suddenly, startled and distracted.

So, I have trained myself turn around suddenly with a big smile and cheerfully say "How are you doing :-) :-) :-)

It seems ridiculous, but better that the alternative.
Im pretty sure if you look up the laws, that is exactly how private land ownership rights work.

I get that you are trying to make a normative statement of how you think things should work, but it doesn't help to deny the reality you live in.

I'm open to the idea that a different model of land rights would lead to different outcomes, after all, how couldn't it. however, I am not so sure that government ownership of all land would have the positive outcomes you do, at least not in terms of affordability. Would everyone be subject to eviction from their homes by a higher bidder? What happens to homes people built and improvements they have made when they are evicted?

What if those most able to pay high land rent are corporate land lords who can most effectively extract wealth from tenants?
No.

You are asking for extra manual labor that the bot was meant to handle.
The other definition was a quote from the FFmpeg guide this thread is about.
Ugh.. It shouldn't even need to be said.. companies überhaupt shouldn't be doing mass lay-offs..
Google is an advertising engine, not a search engine. Someone has to pay for Google search and users don't. Advertisers pay. And what is advertising? It is a way to convince you to spend your money unnecessarily.
Who's laughing now?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhosLaughingNow
I don't know, has he always been a cheerleader for Trump? There are some things he is doing now that I don't remember him doing before that suggest his political stance has changed.
It's not the physical space so much as the time. If you calculate _all in_ times for commuting (getting ready, travel, gas, wait, walk to/from transportation) most commutes are easily an hour on each side of the work day.

That's 10 hours a week.
Stalebot is someone wishing to tell "go away, you are not wanted here" but not having enough honesty to do it openly.

It is fine to disable issue tracker if you do not want people to file issues.

It is fine to reject feature requests.

But stale-bot is the most annoying way of doing this.
I think the thing that will suit you most is probably the FT. It's a similar grown-up feeling paper with a strong financial lean but still covers general interest news in a clear way. It's one of the few newspapers that I read that still has some longer form content.

I see that you're UK based -- If you still have an active UK university email, you can usually get a subscription for free.
See this page for details: https://enterprise.ft.com/ft-education-resources/licence-fin...
I am not happy for the economic downturn, as lots of people will lose jobs, more people will die of hunger, people will lose their houses.

On the other hand there is a silver lining in all the bad… all the useless over hyped techs will finally be seen for what they are
> I also enabled the GitHub Stale Bot on most of my repos, and let me tell ya—for a lot of people that seems to be a hot-button topic.

and for good reason. Reasons not stated nor addressed in this article, which I find concerning.

> Despite how much some people detest the stale bot, it—along with a more easygoing attitude towards my projects—is the best burnout prevention measure I've personally taken.

That's great: individual mental-health is more important. But disabling issue creation on all of your repos would've had a similar effect on burnout prevention, with all of the same benefits as stalebot & less of the drawbacks (no false sense of contribution created with users, no bridges built to be burnt).

> I enabled the Stale Bot because it was an admission of this fact: Unless I specifically mark an issue as a bug or being 'planned' in my roadmap, it's just not that important to me.

That's great in theory, and Jeff being a prolific & conscientious engineer, may actually work reasonably ok in practice for him. But it doesn't work this way for the vast majority of projects. For most, enabling stalebot is a measure to stave off disorganisation within the project, in which case they're not marking issues in a roadmap in any kind of timely/efficient manner nor really organising their issue queues well at all (as Jeff states here that he already is). Most issues that stalebot closes haven't even been looked at by maintainers.

If you don't have the time to look at issues, ignore them. I do get that psychologically this is tricky as many chase a "Zero Inbox" type of approach to issue queue management, but take a look at any mature well-organised open source project and you'll see unaddressed issues that are years and years old.

Maybe someone could invent a bot that hides ignored issues from maintainers - better maintainer filters. But as a user, I want to find those open issues & read the workarounds. I want to submit PRs to address them without having to keep track of 16 different issues opened on the same persistent problem that keeps getting closed stale.

This tool might work for Jeff but if it does he's in a tiny minority & it's irresponsible to advocate its use for everyone without addressing the well-known criticisms at all.
"Those praying for its awakening (basically, everyone in real estate) need office workers to return."

That includes the author, who is a partner at a real estate firm. The livelihood of these people is very much dependent on making sure their buildings are occupied - but for the would-be occupants, what's the benefit?

I have a private office already; it's in my house. It's quiet and comfortable. I don't have to deal with a commute or noisy coworkers, and I'm able to be extremely productive. My quality of life has improved tremendously as a direct result of working from home, and no "carrot" of private offices or "stick" of a forced return will cause me to give it up.
Any medium or large company can very easily find out current market rates.

If they focus on those, it wouldn't be "overly extravagant raises", just... "staying up to date".
Disco Elysium, Hades and CIV VI run really well on my MBA m1 (using a 4K display). These games are not as resource heavy as Dota2 AFAIK but I’m comparing them to my maxed out 16inch MBP from 2020 which acted more like a cursed semi sentient toaster than a hi spec laptop.
Just a PSA for anyone in the US, typically your public library will have access to digital products like Libby or Flipster. These products typically include access magazines (such as the Economist), newspapers and websites for free.

As to OPs question, I typically try to use an array of sources for news and try to support publications that I cannot access freely / through other means or feel strongly about supporting (such as local news and publications like Harpers).
> As a user, I can't think of anything more frustrating to spend hours or even days on an issue on an open source project that "welcomes" issues and contributions and then creating a detailed GitHub Issue only for it to be responded with with author's "No" and immediately closed.

The article also discusses that. Of course there are better ways to do this than just closing it wihtout comment, even though the end result is still saying "no" to it.

I have open-sourced a library that I wrote for an in-production app at work, and it got a little too popular for me to handle like most open source "consumers" (even though they don't pay me) expect.

Every time there's a feature/pull request, I not only have to think about if the code is correct, but also if it would introduce breaking changes in the way it is used in that production app.

It's very mentally draining to visit the issues page of that repository, because it's full of people needing help or wanting to contribute work. But I can't handle them all within an acceptable timespan.

Every few months I take half an hour to clean up there, and then the issues list is already filled with disgruntled users.

> The response to an issue of "contributions are welcome" or "you can fork it" are inappropriate because the filing of an issue is not a request to fix. It is an issue reporting mechanism. But too often, maintainers become chippy about reported issues.

I agree in hindsight that it probably would've been better to just turn off the pull requests feature when creating a repository if you can't commit yourself to the potential workload it creates.

> Saying no is fine but please be honest and upfront on a repository's README. If someone says "this is open source but it's mainly a personal project and/or library and I will aggressively close issues", then that does wonders to set expectations. And I think that's the key idea. Setting expectations, upfront, is the key to effective communication.

Most of the time you don't realize that you really can't handle all that workload when you're still in the "honeymoon" phase of the thing you're open-sourcing. What are you supposed to do when it gets to the point where it's just overwhelming you to even look at the issues list?
I rarely say no to customers in consulting and when I was working in the real world to managers or stakeholders.

Instead I gave them a choice. Every project has three facets - time, cost, and budget - and framed their asks in terms of trade offs.

As I’ve gotten more experienced, I can now add security, maintainability (technical people), legal risks, availability, ongoing maintenance costs, affect on future velocity, “bus factor” risks (“we don’t have time for training, documentation and knowledge transfers”), and is does the ask lead to a competitive differentiator (“does it make the beer taste better”)
I definitely read "can't" in the passage you quote as expressing something like, "I can't do this because I'm too busy"
"The Decipherment of Linear B" by John Chadwick is the story of how Michael Ventris, an architect with no formal education in linguistics and cryptanalysis, defied conventional (and his own) dogma and revealed the ancient Linear B script to have been used to write down the Greek language. This rewrote European history over night, and ends with a lovely section on what the now-readable documents reveal about the civilization who produced them.

Wonderful lessons therein on:

- thinking from first principles and following the evidence and solid metrics

- being willing to be proven wrong, and keeping an open mind in the face of new facts

- the value of open scientific collaboration

- resisting arguments from authority

- how fundamental skills and intelligence transfer across domains

Ventris did not have a Rosetta stone at hand, so he had to decipher the script from what he could suss out using statistical methods and building up an internal logic. It's also a fun story of a great puzzle.

It's a short and great book and was formative to me. There's newer books on the story that do a better job of highlighting the contributions of Ventris' collaborators (particularly the impressive Alice Kober), but Chadwick's is still the most concise and enjoyable, I think.
The primary problem is the insane cost pharma companies are allowed to charge for these drugs. Imagine the benefits to society if they could be rolled out cheaply and widely.
Please, please, if you have IBS, Crohn or other immune disease try infrared light or better the sun. Especially if you spend a lot of time indoor (engineer) if you live in the north or if your condition get worse in the winter.

I know someone who save his life that way. To me it clear up my winter eczema.

We need infrared to get rid of inflammation.
It’s scientifically proven, free, yet most people are not aware of it.
https://youtu.be/5YV_iKnzDRg
Cheaper than blame when there is a vendor snafu, compliance/regulatory risk and all that. It’s mostly a risk insurance premium.
I tend to agree with OP. Quality declined, I cancelled my subscription.
> the need for full global industry collaboration has not been achieved

therein lies the problem of (non-cryptocurrency) blockchain, sometimes phrased as " solution seeking problem".

had there been a will for "collaboration" (and in many cases there should be) one does not need to wait for this specific type of algorithmic advance to make it happen: existing databases, cryptography, networks and maybe a few human auditors in the loop would already offer 80/20 solutions.

there was always a chance that there is sweet spot, a particular bottleneck that some variation of blockchain would just be the right tool for. apparently that is not the case.
Sam Bankman-Fried says he is down to $100k
While that might be what's happening in some regards - it definitely wasn't by design. Your giving too much credit to policy builders and far too much weight to cynicism.

Occam's razor can probably finesse your logic on this one. You are adding too much complexity to the origin's of H1B to push your narrative.