skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the general idea but disagree strongly with the execution.

Highly paid tech workers are still workers, albeit ones that tend to lack class consciousness because they think they're on top (until they get fired en masse to save profits).

Management earning wildly disproportionate salaries should share first. Management is worthless without labor, yet is responsible for choking workers from their fair share.
It’s not as clear how macros affect performance.

You can write macros that are very declarative but generate very hairy code that you wouldn’t necessarily write by hand. The result might be much more machine optimized.

Sure, you pay some upfront cost for expansion, but generally speaking macros don’t hinder you to write fast code, they just give you more options and trade offs.
I belong to a local astronomy club, and was part of the "Light Pollution Abatement" group for a while. But I had to stop: persuading people that light pollution matters and that something should be done about it is almost impossible. Even some of the comments here indicate to me that few people really care.

So why do I? It is not just to see more from my telescope. It is because this is part of a very broad problem. The problem? That humans on this planet have not even considered how we can live in a state of stasis with this planet. Weather catastrophes, insect decline, crop failures to pollination problems, shortages of seafood: these are all symptoms of the root problem, and light pollution is just one more symptom.
Google linux zero page.

The results about the page at address zero and the results about the page of all zeros are about equally common.

The page full of zeros is used constantly when processes allocate memory, and is set to copy-on-write.
> it's just a quick courtesy call to the airline to let them know you're an international fugitive from justice

For the return leg, you check in online, download your boarding pass, and ignore it.

You "had a flat tyre on the way to the airport", or similar. In these situations, telling the truth doesn't help.
they got rich through connections, they are not genuinely smart. go figure.
Third-party clients don't have firehose access.
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Growth stage startup CEO here. At the end of last year our board meeting was a pitch from outside investor director to founders recommending a 50-75% layoff, despite several years of runway. The capital class is despondent that the stock market has melted, and the solution is to pull the ladder up and nurse wounds. In my opinion, companies are all responding with their own values informed version of what their financial stakeholders have been urging them increasingly to do.
How do you judge where technology has taken us? I'm half your age and hate most of it since ~10 years.
You're interacting on an open forum with people from all over the world, who couldn't care less what ideas are considered permitted or not permitted according to your local party line.
Maybe one day we'll get smarter motion detectors (like a camera and a computer[0]), that can watch a larger area. A light that only turns on when someone is nearby is an even better deterrent.

[0] And hopefully they don't require an internet connection and send all video to a central location.
Those are some impressive numbers. While it seems clear that you can get interviews applying through websites and recruiters, I'm amazed by how effective networking is. Any suggestions on how I should manage that? I add people on LinkedIn, but that's about it. Don't really socialize or make friends with people at work.
I have no inner monologue, unless I'm specifically thinking about what to say or write. Language is non-essential for thought. It's a way to map thoughts into a communicable form, but it's not thought. The concepts language describes exist independent of the language.

Interestingly for me this translation of thought into language is much slower for writing than it is for speaking (with typing intermediate but closer to writing). I was diagnosed with Dysgraphia[1], as part of that evaluation I was given the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Third Edition (WAIS-III) when I was 16 years old, it gave me a verbal IQ of 147, a performance IQ of 125, and a full-scale IQ of 143. So I think I'd serve as a counterexample (sample size 1, though I know there are others) to the "left side of the curve" correlating with a lack of inner monologue (at least for this particular measurement, there are many others). Perhaps it goes the other way around, and the people who have to slow their thoughts down to translate everything into language are the left side of the curve, but more likely they're uncorrelated aspects of cognition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia
Politics is the art of meddling the state’s stewardship into people’s everyday life. Otherwise, it’s just heads of state talking together and no-one dares or feel empowered about managing the directions. But if you decide everyone should paint their bikeshed yellow? if you make everyone yell at each other for a mask? if you make one group believe their future depends on their siblings not consuming resources? This is politics.
I think you're switchtracking me.

I'm saying that governmental policies have allied the poor and the ultra wealthy to the detriment of the middle class. GP was saying American dev salaries are too high, when really they are not the issue compared to how many tax breaks 10MM+ individuals have gotten.

Investors have bought up 40% of the real estate in some counties in the US. That's ridiculous.

When the government allows for predatory behavior by companies and the ultra wealthy that lowers their responsibility to society that is not a burden for the middle class to bear.
Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect commercial lawyering
I'm building something right now that is a reverse bidding platform for image acquisition and labeling (company makes a solicitation, workers bid) where you get paid per accepted image and label. It will open to US labor first and might take up to a year to expand to India (assuming you're there).

If you want to be an early India user (paid) put an email in your bio and I'll get in touch. If you can program though data labeling might not be the best use of your time.
For some more serious alternatives, I have heard of many people finding doas to be a drop in replacement. Furthermore, I've heard some people suggest neither doas nor sudo, but instead using an SSH server to gain root access to your local machine. It could listen on localhost and use key-based auth to allow root logins...
Yes, the one who has a close connection to a leader in the industry is my manager at my current job, who knows about my idea and has expressed excitement about it as well. They also have a lot of insight and experience on the business side, which is essential for me. Plus, we work together closely every day already. But our current company is doing well, and seems poised to continue growing. One of the options I've considered is pursuing this with them after exit. In the meantime, I suppose I would just slowly build the parts that I can myself.
How does a Rust beginner know what actix-web even is though? In Go the net/http library is discussed early on when learning Go.
it's particularly obnoxious because LED lights can easily be made to be about the same place on the spectrum as the sodium vapor lights - it's just costs a few pennies more and has a slightly lower light efficiency so typical cheap short termism type thinking gets us the blue cold tone LEDS
Seems like quite a bit of cynicism here. You can be friends with people you work with, and you can remain friends after you leave. You also don't have to be, do whatever you want. The thing you can't disagree with is that you spend most of your day interacting with them somehow, particularly if you're not working remote. That means you lose most of that social interaction when you work alone in a room.

None of this was a criticism on choosing to not be friends with people you work with.
You don't need a passport to board a flight to Mexico... passport numbers are enough from an airline perspective.

You might have some trouble getting out of the airport, but then again, running out of an emergency exit with pre-planned outside help, you'd probably be free and on the run for a while.
>crybabies

Ironic comment.

>Rub their faces in it

None of that's gonna happen. Deal with it, lol.
They aren't putting much real thought into it.

Beyond the barest basics, 99% of the time the only thing that's genuinely relevant is whether or not the team wants to work with the candidate. Almost nothing else that is relevant is even knowable until after they're actually working. Exceptions only prove the rule.

It's a sham but I guess it makes someone feel like they've contributed value somehow.
ThankYou for writing this.

I grew up in a mining town in Eastern India, where I’d see 100s of dump trucks ferrying coal to power coke oven batteries to reduce coal to coke.

The coke would be then sent to neighboring steel plant. There the coke would be used to “reduce”the ore to steel.

IIRC, it was the blast furnace that took the coke and melted the ore.

Been a while, but reading your post rekindled those memories.
The most interesting part of this article to me (from mid-2021) is the view of the world's most valuable startups:

- ByteDance $140b
- Stripe $95b
- SpaceX $74b
- Didi $62b
- Instacart $39b
- Klarna $31b
- Epic Games $28.7b
- Databricks $28b
- Rivian $27.6b
- Nubank $25b

Times change...
Posting a la your second paragraph is not cool on HN and will get you banned here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is this in accordance with those services’ TOS? How can you be sure you won’t get banned?

For instance, I remember hearing that Discord banned users who used alternative clients.
FTX guy literally owned by proxy rights to a yacht. I seriously don't get why he didn't flee the island as soon as he knew the jig was up.
Let me rephrase it using simpler language, then:

All business is about taking advantage of someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions.

The baker is taking advantage of his customers' need/want for bread. The customers are taking advantage of the baker's need/want for money.
My position is to remain highly skeptical of this story. The single source of this entire anecdote comes from a book written by A&W's owner at the time (Alfred Taubman) that is left almost intentionally vague and has a clear conflict on interest.

The book makes a lot of unsourced and unverified claims about how A&W's burger tasted better than McDonald's in blind tests, and a bunch of other claims about how A&W should have outperformed McDonalds, but all because Americans are too stupid to know that 1/3 is larger than 1/4, A&W failed to capture market share and that's why they had a major decline in the 80s.

There is no other source for this story whatsoever other than the literal owner of A&W. The marketing firm (Yankelovich, Skelly and White) never released any details, no one else at the company ever wrote about it, and there's no way to independently verify any of these details to really understand what actually happened.

As an FYI, McDonald's had a third pounder burger on their menu for 6 or so years and never seemed to have any issue with customers reporting feeling ripped off because of it. They removed it along with all of their premium menu items as part of an effort to simplify their offerings.
It should not take "spy cams" to reveal the standard operating procedure of a fundamental part of our food-chain.

I eat meat but I also believe that animal welfare is important. You can't do that in ignorance. Anybody and everybody who wants to know where meat comes from should be able to see how their meat lived and died. Given the mixed interests between parties, wouldn't it be easiest to just have public CCTV in all areas of slaughterhouses?

Anyway, CO2 poisoning is a horrible way to kill something. Mammals have a blood-acidity panic reflex. It's objectively cruel. As others have said a pure-N2 environment would allow them to expel CO2, and just faint and die from hypoxia, calmly.
May I add another method: block fine-pruning of transformers (pruning while fine-tuning) ?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04838

Using blocks allows to keep good performence on GPUS, while giving some flexibility in the pruning pattern. And when removing entirely empty rows and columns the pruned matrices are actually pretty dense, so competitive with structured pruning for speedup, but less "aggressive" on the network during the pruning process.
Disclaimer: I am the main co-author.
Downward-facing, low pressure sodium lamps [1] used to be quite common in areas near major telescopes, as they are mostly monochromatic; for these, I don't think they were specifically designed for these areas, as much as they were an older lamp type that, when it was realized that newer lamps (eg, high pressure sodium) would be much harder to filter, ended up continuing to be used. It seems that, likely because there is so much experience developing methods to filter out light from LPS lamps, LED replacements have now been specifically designed to mimic them.

San Diego used to have many of these, apparently because of Palomar. There are a variety of arguments about safety and especially perception of safety that often leads to them being replaced with brighter, non-monochromatic lamps, though, depending on the political clout the telescopes have in the area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp#Light_pollut...
That's just makes this decision more harmful, both to the people Pichai and Alphabet management just wrecked their lives, and to the long term prospects of Alphabet the company.
Twitter has been profitable in the recent past and could be again. Drama was not necessary.

I think your claim on profitability is flat out wrong. If you think that's the case, what are the exact numbers you are imagining that would make Twitter profitable?
I'm not talking about government regulating anything. Or saying all company structures should change, just that there are other options. When the company structure is formed instead of a S-corp/LLC structure there is something called a workers cooperative where the workers/employees have say in the company and its direction. I've only read about it so I'm sure there are legal structures involved for that setup. This isn't discussed in any business schools from what I gather so maybe some examples would help: https://institute.coop/examples-worker-cooperatives

A solo-dev starting contract work is a great example. They are the owner/operator of everything, profits, losses, direction. Say their work expands and they hire 3 other people - do those people have a say in direction/projects/clients and share profits/losses or are they just assigned tasks and paid for them? Think of a workers cooperative as more like a farmers coop where everyone gets a share of the literal fruit/veggies coming from the farm because they all worked it and have equity and they collectively decided what the crops were for that season.

Tech companies with stock options/RSU's for individual contributors are equity without any say in the company direction. If that company ends up laying off people because of bad management decisions (hiring too many, bad economic forecast, random projects, etc), the people hurt are the employees who had no say in the direction and usually the bad managers stay or have golden parachutes. Like I said earlier, I'm just suggesting an alternative structure perhaps one that doesn't answer to shareholders demand for infinite quarterly growth.
Ramping down means multiplying the cost per kWh generated while ramped down, at a time when that kWh has depressed value. Ever turning it off means multiplying the cost of every kWh produced while on, in proportion to how much time it spends off.

All this is because absolute cost is not much affected by whether it is producing.
> For instance, some people report having no inner monologue

And some people have more than one voice in their head.

It would be interesting to compare the total number of voices in the collective heads of humanity with the total population to see what the average number of voices is in a head.
That is true for federal prisons.

For state prisons, where the majority of criminals are incarcerated, 62% of prisoners are there for violent crimes.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/prisoners-2021-stat...
I felt exactly the opposite.

Having so many interviews makes you feel more relaxed for every interview because you become numb to it. You don’t care if you flunk your FAANG interview because you already have a good chance with a mid-sized smaller company, which makes you even better for the FAANG interview.

I did over a dozen interview loops when I was looking last year and I felt great and at the top of my game.
The answer is to socialize and make friends at work.

People who try to “Network” artificially won’t see great success.

People who are genuinely take an interest in what others are doing, and are intentional about meeting once or twice a year for coffee to catch up, are the ones who can call in a favor in the way described in the blog post.
Despite the downvotes you are spot on.
Twitter is down to fewer than 550 full-time engineers
The fine will almost certainly be different for the guy going 100.

If they catch everyone going even 5 km/h over, I suspect people will fairly rapidly adjust their driving speeds.
Those files you get from `curl | sh` are just whatever happens to be on their internet-facing server (or any CDN server) at the time, whereas signing the actual package instead of the tls certificate for the https connection means that package building and signing could have been done entirely on a secure/isolated machine. Using `curl | sh` you're rolling the dice that the web-facing server didn't get pwned. Using signed packages means you don't care if the web-facing server got pwned.
She got pregnant as she was awaiting trial.
is there something actually stopping you?
Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway (Walter Cronkite, 1958)
I guess the story for doing web in Rust is different today, its a little easier, but as someone new to the language, how do I know what Actix is, or who maintains it, having watched that scene a while there was a weird scandal with Actix a few years back, the lead developer just quit or something? But on that note how do I know which web framework is best for Rust for a beginner? If I'm coming from Django, what framework gets me the same experience? I've gone through Actix docs before, and their docs were completely out of date form what cargo installed for me, it was confusing and off-putting, I didn't bother with Rust web dev for years after that.
Depending on the airline, you might be able to get the taxes back on the flight you didn’t take too.
And now jagged edge is singing “hey where the party at” in my head, and if you know that song the party was 20 years ago and you missed it.
Sounds like you’ve landed on the wrong path of the last of Erikson’s stages.
Oh yeah hey Jeremy! Yeah devnz was not my cup of tea lol, I think I only lasted a few weeks. Good to see you around.
The ironic part is that I didn't break any RSS readers! I broke URL parsers in chat apps, scp, and for command line arguments to `tailscale serve`.
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2022
I wonder how much PHP source code is publically reachable out on the Internet because people would do this without realizing that modphp wouldn't treat it like a PHP file anymore, so an HTTP request to it would cause it to dump the file's source code.
Why don't US companies pay foreign workers US wages? The answer I come up with is that they chose to hire workers in disadvantaged situations(relative to opportunity and local labour laws) to reduce operating costs.

To me, using people in disadvantaged situations to reduce your operating costs is inherently exploitative.
I'd rather be tortured by al qaeda than go through all that. I wish someone would write an article on how to hack this process. There's always a back door. Then again if there were I wouldn't be sharing it here.
Airlines really hate accounting for one way passenger flow.

This is actually an interesting problem in the crypto space as well with things like remittances.
my favorite way to plumb an old / unmaintained program or workflow is to put some emoji in as an input parameter, and see where the logs start exploding
> Airlines also do it to prevent people from "gaming" the system. People buy multi leg tickets and miss parts of the flights purposely in order to get higher airline status and points, or just to get to one city cheaper. Sometimes, they take roundtrip flights on the same day back and forth to gain points and airline flyer club status.

Late last year I flew aaa-bbb-aaa-bbb-ccc-ddd across Europe, all in one day, for exactly that reason. Five flights across four separate bookings/tickets. The connection at ccc was the tricky bit, not only "connecting" on a different ticket (so not really a connection), but a different airline alliance.

They design the system, you follow the rules. Unintended consequences aren't really your problem.
Look into beta blockers. Also used by stage performers for similar reasons.

https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/generalized-anxiety-disord...
Dams are geographically limited. You can't just build more of them. A fully decarbonized grid's ability to build renewables is largely determined by the availability of hydroelectricity for dispatchable power. Sweden gets ~40% of its electricity from hydro, another 40 from nuclear, and 20 from intermittent sources.
are you suggesting it would be better to be on the lamb in remote parts right under the noses of the gov't attempting to be avoided? how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf and these were guys that loved the idea of living in the wilderness. how well do you think little ms pampered would make in a cabin in the woods?
WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
I end up hovering a lot on slack to find out the translation. And thankfully Siri reads them out loud to me when I have my airpods in.
New York got it wrong on cybersecurity and the right to repair
It's rather memetic in a way, everyone thinks everyone else knows best when it happens. Then the mimeses becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and private liquidity starts to tighten up even further than the tightening because of interest rates.

I'm guessing the decision makers here are sometimes aware of the irrationality of the snowball effect, but bet on it being irrational not to copy it before the market reality hits them and they have to make even deeper cuts in future.
> If you learn British English as a second language, that’s the accent you have.

Depends what you learn from. If you learn English from the British then sure. As you might in Europe.

But if you learn from Americans, or even from American TV, well, that's what you'll learn.

There's no one "British" accent though, people learning English in a region of England or Scotland do and should pick up the local accent. What works is correct, speaking like a local is what works.
If I want to build a UI and the language I'm using has a supported (yet limited but thats okay) UI stack, I can feel confident that it will not go unmaintained like third party packages for UIs. Also a lot of the UI stacks import other UI libraries in C++ or C which doesn't really make the benefits of Rust shine through.
You're not wrong, at least based on the demographics I've seen.

But I bet if you said "pwease emoji" or "bottom emoji", much of the same group would probably get it.

Though maybe "pwease" would this and the fingers.
No. It depends on the market, but if it is what's known as a "round-trip" market (typically international itineraries), it shifts to become "often" the case.

Airlines are all about price discrimination. Leisure travellers benefit inordinately from this behavior.