skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cofounded Hack Reactor, the coding bootcamp. (I'm no longer involved.) Your story is extremely typical, it's very normal to successfully do what you want to do, and you have way more marketable skills than you think. I recommend doing a bootcamp if you don't know what else to do; do a sales or recruiting bootcamp if you don't like code.
It isn't the same sized pie in both situations. There's shit that won't get done by my team anymore. I just sent an email to a stakeholder group telling them that I have to kill a valuable project.

It isn't like if Google fired 95% of people that comp for the remainder would hit $10m a person.
HN doesn't immediately ban people for wrongthink, that means we're all Nazis.
For instance my favourite reactor type - lead bismuth cooled fast reactors. They've only been actually used once, on the Soviet "Alfa" class submarines, and have some interesting advantages (lead naturally blocks gamma radiation, in case of a leak temperatures will go down and the coolant will solidify thus preventing radiation leaks, high efficiency due to the high temperatures, etc.), but are pretty expensive and impractical (the coolant solidifies if temperatures get lower than expected, thus you need specialised equipment to keep them hot/operate them 24/7).

There's also thorium, molten salt reactors.
Let me guess, you are using MS Word to compose these posts?
I've heard / read stories from people who tried really hard and failed to find jobs (both within tech, but unfortunately more common outside of tech). Unfortunately they don't get as much traction as people prefer to hear stories with a happy ending
I guess it depends on your definition of "exploit".

If OpenAI had to pay more, they would have gone with another option. It's challenging to work across time zones, across cultures, across language barriers. Working with folks in Reno, NV or somewhere in the southern states of the US would have been the choice for OpenAI at a much higher price.

It's a competitive world. On the surface the Sama founder knew that and realized the options were higher wages for these folks in Africa, or none. The choice of even higher wasn't actually on the table.
Orbital sampled it from the Butthole Surfers track.
I didn’t find this article that compelling. As a rule I tend not to listen to anyone who says “do better” in a serious context.
The Communications Workers of America (a union) already has lobbyists that are addressing issues affecting its software/tech members.
Where do people actually find career coaches that arent a sham?
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How much does libtool matter these days? AFAIK, distros `rm -rf %{_libdir}/*.la` without a care.
Elon almost certainly has enough money to keep funding Twitter until he gets bored with it and moves onto something else; which, granted, might not even take a year. It's hard to say what happense at that point but my guess is that he sells it for a fraction of the purchase price. Twitter has a big enough network that there will be something left in the wreckage that someone can try to rebuild from.

Bankruptcy could still happen of course, even if Elon still has the money. He might think that completely shutting down Twitter is less embarrasing than selling it for a 90% loss, Elon is still pretending to be a business genius after all.
Thank you for putting words in my mouth. Your inability to have a constructive, healthy conversation throughout this thread demonstrates why you've chosen a throwaway account for this. Enjoy your weekend.
Reminds me of a game I played years ago and they made a minor "tweak" to the code and a bunch of plugin mods no longer worked. Yes Turbine- Asheron's Call was much better with the third-party plug ins, but I still was playing AC even with my fancy UI on top of it. But funny when that change was made all of the cheaters that would set their bots to go camp spawns disappeared and the game got that much better. History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.

(Now release AC to the public so I can go back to Eastham)
And I would agree that it has been leaked, probably a lot, and that any halfway competent government intelligence agency in the world has copies if they feel they need them.

That isn't really a counter-example to my point which is just that it is stupidly naive to suggest that Maia is somehow exempt from these concerns.

If you want to argue that its all pointless secrecy theater, then I'd agree with that entirely.
Why do you consider it better to consult ChatGPT than to consult Google?

(OK, maybe it's easier, because Google gives you multiple places to look for the answer, and ChatGPT gives you only one. On the other hand, you get multiple answers from Google - if one of them is wrong, you have a way to check. If ChatGPT is wrong, you have to go somewhere else to check. (Or even if it's right, but you need to be sure...)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, who fled Nazi Germany in 1935 (while his family who stayed behind were killed in the concentration camps)[1], had this to say in "The Letter Writer"[2]

"What do they know—all those scholars, all those philosophers, all the leaders of the world[...]? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka."

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-21-oe-dujac...

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=WjTgvykUFNcC&lpg=PA9&vq=Tr...
That's the non-smart behaviour -- TPI stands for "Temperature Proportional and Integral" and is the basic behaviour to try to automatically modulate the heating output to maintain the set point without overshooting. While PID is "Proportional Integral Derivative" which is a step smarter again.

The Honeywell system I have seems to have gained extra derivative-based functionality recently too, which is nice :).
That’s great, but sometimes those tools fail to spot an error silently, where a compiler plus runtime checks usually won’t.
I believe $54k is for salaries in general across all industries. Mercedes is not a tech company so no reason to assume the discussion is about software salaries
Non-profit put to shame both Google/Microsoft, that's interesting to witness

What Microsoft had to show other than pump money into competition to grab some shares and pretend to be there?

What Google has to show? only promises so far

Mozilla is missing a huge opportunity, looks like they invested their wealth into the wrong pockets
This isn't a service outage; it was investment that no longer make sense in the new fiscal environment. Google's revenue went from $38.3b (Q2FY20) to $69b (Q3FY22), are you suggesting they should not have hired during that kind of growth?
"Painless" is subjective enough[0] that someone who genuinely doesn't care says "good enough" despite much pain and suffering. Makes me wonder about relative costs of these substances.

Point being, I believe that you are correct and that it's entirely possible the relevant decision makers simply don't care or, worse, recognize that they are being dishonest and don't care about that.

[0] Unless you can completely eliminate pain it's not strictly painless. Once you allow interpretation, you'll see questionable interpretations.
Ok, I understand prices for products are somewhat the same (although always slightly higher in Europe) but my main point is, because salaries are higher in US, it is easier to buy the same device here than it is there.

And I know salaries in California are higher than in the rest of the US. But also for other types of jobs such as construction work, compensation in US is higher than in the EU
Servers like it, customers like it, business owners like it, clearly we must get rid of it
> I needed to track how much I work and on what.

Why?
> I haven't used svn

Yeahhhh. Svn is centralized. You must be connected to the server to do any source control work. There is no local repository, there are no local commits. Every commit is global on the server. When you make a commit, it is pushed to the server and your coworkers can fetch it. You don't make commits locally and fiddle around and then push.

Also Svn doesn't have branches per se. You just use subdirectories. It does have facilities for merging directories and managing these "branches", but it feels real weird to be switching branches with 'cd'.

It's a very different world.

A quick read: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.cycle.html
> Hiring during a soaring economy and then letting people go as the economy cools is just standard operating procedure.

If that was true, it would be a last in first out layoff, which is not the case. From what I gather it doesn't even match with the performance ratings (i.e not straight out the bottom 6% of the "stack")

This is both a wage depression maneuver, and a meager 4$ bump in stock price. I'd bet my money it is a hail mary to prevent the CEO being outed in a few quarters.
You still have at minimum 30 years of work in you. So I would say mid thirties is still young. I've read it takes around 10 years to become an expert in a field, so you could become expert in three different fields.
The story was that Atkinson saw the Parc and it's GUI and said to himself "holy shit they're doing their graphics this way" and write QuickDraw based on that.

The Parc didn't do its graphics that way at all, and Atkinson (and Apple) got a lot of patents on his region code. That code is also why the Mac's graphics performance was so much better than everyone else's (until discrete GPUs came out). It's that fast.

Apple's software guys were really good back in the day. Their software-based floating point stuff (SANE) was faster and more accurate than Intel's hardware FP stuff for a long time.
Isn't this the point? Reliably, after diversity trainings White and Asian coworkers will tell me they feel alienated. Many South Asians in particular are ... whatever the opposite of woke is. A chud? Pretty traditional w/r/t gender roles, for example.

It always felt like a reminder that you're not supposed to have any politics at tech companies that aren't authleft. I thought that was the real point? To enforce that clade?
You mean the internet being actually lighthearted and fun (like it used to be) for 36 hours?
I was 33 when I left a successful automotive engineering career to start an ISP. It was a steep learning curve but in 12 months I learned a lot about networking. Then I went into network security. Have not looked back in the last 25 years.
I'd like to see a The Onion story about a third world person worried that the computer games they play are written by young exploited programmers in first world countries

Edit: I asked ChatGPT to write it for me:

Write me a story in the style of The Onion about a third world kid who worries the he is exploiting the young programmers in first world countries who make the games he plays

Headline:

Third World Child Struggles with Guilt over Exploiting First World Game Developers

Story:

In a small village in a developing country, a young boy named Ahmed sat huddled over his tablet, playing the latest mobile game. As he tapped away at the virtual farm, building and expanding his virtual empire, a feeling of guilt began to gnaw at him.

Ahmed couldn't shake the feeling that the game he was enjoying so much was built on the backs of exploited programmers in first world countries. He knew that the developers of the game were likely working long hours for low pay, all so that he, a third world child, could have a few moments of entertainment.

As the guilt grew stronger, Ahmed tried to put the game down, but found himself unable to resist its allure. He knew that he was complicit in the exploitation of his fellow human beings, but he couldn't bring himself to stop playing.

"I know it's wrong, but I just can't help it," Ahmed said, tears streaming down his face. "I wish there was a way to enjoy the game without feeling guilty."

As the sun set over Ahmed's village, the young boy made a silent vow to do whatever it takes to make sure that the game developers are treated fairly and compensated for their hard work. He knew it wouldn't be easy, but he was determined to make a difference, even if it meant sacrificing his own enjoyment of the game."

Ahmed's story is a reminder that in today's globalized world, the actions of one person can have a ripple effect that extends far beyond their immediate surroundings. While it may be easy to enjoy the latest mobile game or app, it's important to remember that behind every pixel is a team of hardworking individuals who deserve fair treatment and compensation for their labor.
Send me your queries to debug if you remember them.
I think there is a 3rd possibility in how tipping ends: people get sick of tipping and stop doing it. It seems like every single transaction asks for a tip these days. I tip heavily, but even I am getting weary of tipping so often. Most of the time, it feels like the tip shouldn't be necessary; the employers should be covering the cost of the employee. If people get used to declining tip prompts, it's possible that we see this change in behavior make its way into the restaurant industry.

At least for me, personally, I'm nearly at the point where I want to stop tipping entirely. It just seems so unnecessary and just another way that the capital class deflects blame for inadequate employee pay.
Twitter needs more lebensraum for its own APIs.
Sadly, JS weirdness interferes with value semantics:

> 0 === -0
true
> #{v: 0} === #{v: -0}
???
> Exactly, microservices make things unnecessarily complex and are often just a poor way for a team to avoid implementing design patterns, namespacing in a codebase.

This is simply not true. Microservices are a solution primarily to an organizational problem and secondarily to the problem of allocating and managing computational resources. The organizational problem is solved by the hard boundaries and loose coupling imposed by operating and consuming independent services. Allowing a team to own and operate their services allows them to have more control over all aspects of a their life cycle, reducing the scope of other stakeholders to what contract their interfaces need to comply with.

Those who naively shit on microservices seem to be totally oblivious to what it would be like if all we had were monoliths. We tried that already. It's awful, and we learned from that mistake. Well, some of us did.
Ha, I just built something similar for myself over the winter holidays. It's just a Google Chat bot duct taped to Google Calendar with a bit of Apps Script, but seeing how I spend my days visually has been extremely motivating in adjusting my routine and habits. Best of luck to you.
Definitely, I was a college professor through my mid-30s. I spent 3 years as a stay at home father, and then built an iOS app startup. The startup wasn't quite financially sustaining, but I bootstrapped my iOS app work to become a professional software engineer just as I was reaching 40. I developed in the Apple ecosystem for about 5 years and then migrated to cloud services. I am now a data engineer and very happy and fortunate to work for an enthusiastically Clojure-friendly company.
The odd thing is how specific to restaurants it is, and only a handful of other industries.

You dont tip in any other context. If you want the deluxe experience you order the deluxe option.

To me this seems wrong. If tipping were so great then why isn't it universal? What is special about restaurants?

Taxis/Uber/Lyft want tips. Same with barbers/salons/spas.

I know that the gray market is a big factor. Untaxed cash transactions under the table. But it is weirdly institutionalized and normal.

We have just decided to politely tolerate certain kinds of trivial illegal activity. But all-cash businesses do become a key vehicle for money laundering, and thus does have wider negative impacts.

It's not just that some low wage employees get tax-free funds. It aids organized crime.

I'm not exactly sure why it works like this, and contrary to the title this article doesn't really explain why.
When is a good time to start holding them accountable?
>The study makes educated guesses of taxpayers’ race and ethnicity from their names and zip codes listed on tax forms, then assigns probabilities, which it uses to draw conclusions.
People I will not listen to about the necessity of tipping culture: people who work in a restaurant and benefit from American tipping culture.
Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 Adds Eye Contact,Vignette Effects with Virtual Background
Yes, aware of the reference and hence the cringe. 'Attention is all you need' is a clever play on words for a seminal paper whose title directly related to its main scientific contribution.

Not sure that every other AI-related paper needs to copy this format, this trend is the academic equivalent of click-baiting (seemingly trying to associate with the Vaswani et al paper) and in my anecdotal experience the usage of this play on words seems inversely correlated with the paper's quality.
Did anyone notice the trend of dilution of candidate quality along with inflation of titles in the past few years? NLP engineers who could mention BERT but nothing else? Recommender experts who couldn't articulate the landscape of recommendation algorithms or their approach of selecting algorithms? Distributed engineers who could draw a few boxes yet couldn't explain or use any single concept in distributed systems? Tech lead who could barely recommend a concrete solution, let alone offering detailed analysis of pros and cons?

A reset in the industry seems a good thing for the health of this sector.
MIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers
"Its complex but you should try and separate your idea of “shame” from the concept of “consequence”"

Quite a lot of people are lately invested into the opposite, confusing those two, perhaps deliberately so.

For example, any suggestion that it may be unsafe to walk around totally drunk at night will be met with accusations of "blaming the victim", especially if the crime is rape, plus with (unhelpful) suggestions "you men need stop raping, I don't need to alter my behavior" - as if the perps were present in the discussion and inclined to take such suggestions.

Walking around totally drunk is unsafe for everybody, not least because all those self-inflicted injuries, but some people will deliberately try to silence such an idea.
It’s a two person company. Elon killed off the #1 source of revenue and refused to say anything for days. When they did, it was a lie.

Let’s say they reverse course again on Tuesday and say 3rd party clients are back.

Would you bet your entire livelihood and business on Elon (or whoever in the future) keeping their word?

That sounds ridiculously risky.
Every fact you are saying may be true, but “fossil fuels are a bigger cause of blackouts than renewables” doesn’t follow from the facts your gave, you’re just assuming it is true. That is the last thing I will say on this.
> Indeed, companies should tailor their licenses to the purchasing power of their customers, at LEAST at country-level.

The problem then becomes that users in ‘rich’ countries use a VPN to get the ‘poor’ country pricing.
> Maybe I'm missing that its usage started before that.

Afaik it wasn't used prior to it. While attention (and residual connections) were used with recurrent / auto regressive models, the paper showed that an encoder-decoder (non auto regressive and auto-regressive) architecture with just attention (and residuals) is sufficient to achieve great results given that you provide positional embeddings.

So prior to transformers it was RNN + Attention (+ Residuals), but the paper claimed that Attention (+Residuals+Pos Embeddings) is all you need.
Try Mastoot
Funny. I'm on Outlook and mine is (sort of) the opposite, most of the spam that comes through is @gmail.com these days. Seems like spammers are taking advantage of known trusted relationships between services to increase delivery rates to specific domains.
Yea, so weird. Why is the assumption that we must get rid of it? Why not make the Europeans adopt tipping for a change?
Which City Are You In? As Housing Starts to Look the Same, It’s Hard to Tell
I use Ramda pipe() all the time and use a descriptively-named intermediate/temp variables wherever I might want to write a comment
Exactly.

The one I used was an "inline" design, similar to the first photo in the wiki article. It was about the size and weight of a pneumatic ratchet, and used the same strips of blank cartridges that would be used for a nail gun - at least, I think they were the same, as I never had to source them.

I expect prion disorders would be the biggest concern re: disease transmission. Where I was, the entire batch being slaughtered was from the same herd, so I don't think it was a huge concern. The guns were sterilized along with everything else at the end of the day.
Make no mistake, tipping continues in America because most Americans like the system. If you don't like to tip, there are plenty of restaurants where tipping isn't expected; specifically those where you carry the food yourself from the counter to your table. If enough people hated tipping, restaurants that don't have tipping would eventually out-compete those that do. They may yet do so, but presently most of the public seems okay with tipping.

Anecdotally, the culture gap between America and Europe when it comes to obligatory tipping is wider than the issue of tipping. Americans seem to generally value superficial pleasantness more than Europeans do. If a waitress in America is having a bad day, people still expect her to put on a pleasant face for the customers, while in Europe people seem to think it normal that a waitress having a bad day would treat other people in a natural fashion, clip and surly. For my part, I prefer the American culture and try my best to reciprocate. If I'm having a bad day, I try to remain superficially pleasant when interacting with waitresses, or anybody else. My bad day shouldn't become somebody else's bad day.

Tipping is not necessary for that sort of culture, but I do think it helps to reward it, and washes out those waitresses that can't manage it.
Ray Croc, Colonel Sanders and others as well.
Sure. But that isn't the naive position that just because someone is Good(tm) that they will be careful with secrets. That's just the position that keeping secrets and having Kafkaesque bullshit is itself bad, so it doesn't matter, and the right thing to do is just post it on a pastebin hosted in Russia and call it a day.
> The employees who stay get paid more than if everyone stayed

As someone who survived numerous rounds of layoffs, that's not true. The employees who stay get to work more (under more job security pressure) but that's about it. It's not like the wages of the workers who get laid off are reallocated as bonuses for the remaining employees.
The plans in my state that you can buy on the open market are the same plans offered to local companies and the government for employer subsidized health care.

There might be some states where the marketplace has nothing good in it, often because that state's governor was so ideologically driven they refused free money from the feds to expand medicare style systems. American health care is HUGELY state to state, largely depending on how willing a governor is to actually help their constituents instead of virtue signalling.
Some places are fortunately seeing Dark Skies as a valid tourist asset to be protected

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Conditional Access Policies You'll Kick Yourself for Not – GitBit
"Naziism is used as a signal that this is not regarding "people who you disagree with"

Yeah no, that's exactly what this is regarding. Anyone who doesn't think exactly like me is a Nazi and because you tolerate people that don't think exactly like me you're a Nazi too.