skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple doesn't have PMs nor treat people that way, and has called non-managers ICs since approximately forever.
The key difference is that with proven correct code you actually have a formal spec you can prove properties about. Without proven correct code you don’t even have a formal spec. Just a bunch of random tests (if you are lucky) that may or may not match your informal spec.

And the argument that if you can’t prove your design correct then there is no point proving your code correct is a strange one. That’s like saying that there is no point writing tests because you can’t prove your design correct or guarantee that all tests needed will be written. Ehhhh nope. I have written and generated more than 9000 tests for a very large scale C++ applications that are used by large corporations around the world. And I haven’t had a bug in production for 5+ years. However I of course can’t prove that those tests cover everything or that my design is correct. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
"The reversion of the humanities and social sciences to religious preparation cannot coexist indefinitely with the Enlightenment mission of STEM instruction. Something has to give."

Well, I hope the author lumps the study of economics into that, a discipline that has a far longer history of tribalism/subjectivism with the addition of pseudo mathematics.

If you think about it, economics provided the original model for subjectivist study in universities. Nobody from the "anti woke" crowd seems too excited by that though, like the author they are terrified that their personal morality might not be quite so moral after all.
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While everything you say is true, this isn't really unique to Japan though? Shoving more and more work off to temps and vendors with much worse benefits than full-timers has become hugely common at large companies in the US and Europe as well.
That's an easy way to have zero managers and more problems than you started with. The vast majority of ICs are like children. It's not fun dealing with them. The only way one voluntarily takes on that role is for equal or greater pay.
Businesses are not people who get old, can't keep working, and retire. Businesses can borrow significant sums of money, issue stock, come up with a new product that can transform their revenues overnight, etc.

I know what you're trying to say but this isn't a great comparison.
siri sucks, but google assistant is already pretty good for the 90% of things I want it to do. a much improved google assistant would be awesome, and if I remember to use it within its limitations, I'm not worried about any of this "confidently wrong answers" stuff.
My company fired a senior engineer last year when we found out they had another full-time job. You might think "more power to them if they can pull it off" but they had a lot of sympathy from us because we could tell they were struggling, and it seemed smart to give them extra time to sort our their performance because they were obviously capable of doing better.
What’s interesting is that all chief surgeons were once surgeons, probably really good. So there’s idea that you have to do the thing to manage the thing.

Medicine is strange in many ways, but I think this isn’t a bad practice.

I’ve worked for non-dev managers and sometimes they are good. But I prefer to work for someone who at least once was a dev as I think they understand better what is possible and how to coordinate and lead.

When I managed teams I always tried to do something useful in the codebase. I don’t think it is possible to manage well and work deeply enough to make great software. But it’s possible to at least be able to do my own builds and at least test out different techniques.
The people being laid off have to go find another highly overpaid job. Somewhat distressing, to be sure, but in the scheme of what you're talking about, not really high stakes at all. Failure in the cases you're comparing it to usually involved death for a large number of people. The stakes are nowhere near the same.
Please don't use unrelated posts to help peddle snake oil.
https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
> What's next? Scanners only working under a subscription? Your Wi-Fi router or switches only working when a license is active (even your LAN)? Your chargers, PSUs or UPSes only being allowed to work for 6 months, before you're forced to buy a newer model? Needing a monthly subscription to use your OS or browser? I don't even know anymore...

I know. All of it, and worse, unless we fight back. And no, "voting with your wallet" is not fighting - it's retreat to not yet conquered ground, which is shrinking daily.
Even compared to tech giants?
I have a feeling this wouldn't work if it were an at-will contract. But I'd also never agree to a job if the employer was hesitant about being remote.
"Okay, fine, we'll make him an anthropomorphic phone dial. Or maybe a floppy disc."
> "You were used" implies you didn't get anything in return.

It doesn't imply that you didn't get anything, it implies that you didn't get enough.

> But if you got paid, maybe you came out ahead on the deal?

Workers almost never come out ahead on the deal. Company sees 100% revenue growth (as a result of worker's labor), worker gets a 3% raise. Company sees 10% revenue loss, worker gets laid off. It's the same story every cycle: the people at the top reap benefits while the people at the bottom pay the losses.

It's only in the business echo chamber that anyone is even saying what you're saying. Everyone else knows that layoffs are bad for workers.
This seems like the root problem, which frankly doesn't require one to think of VPs or execs as villains.

However, there are ways of seeing if people are doing less work that don't require forcing everyone back into the office.

* Regular check-ins.

* Measurable objectives.

* A culture of trust.

* Asynchronous, public status boards for fostering communication.

* Lots and lots of writing.

* The expectation of frequent video calls.

I have worked at remote only companies well before the pandemic and they had different organizational structures than the in-person companies.
This is how I operate when I have a close trust with my team and boss. But I have also been in very transactional environments where I was "ratted out" for my frankness!
That a huge company can be more confident in its future cash flow than a single human.
I see Kremlinbots are operating on HN now too...
An unusually high number of whales are washing up on U.S. beaches
No, this logic is not really well thought out.

This would only be the case if every employer was somehow part of an OPEC like organization and would all simultaneously require commuting.

What will end up happening is some of the best and brightest will make "remote work" a required perquisite for the next job search, and since they've got the technical chops, if a company can't meet that demand the employee can easily find work somewhere else that will offer remote as a benefit.
Big data is dead because executives are rewarded when decisions are reactionary and politically savvy, data doesn't enter the picture.
Crypto movement does not relate to bitcoin. Bitcoin was about preventing money printing and crypto is about every VC having his own private money system he sells token of

I didn't say decentralised timestamping is required for a social network or any blockchain needed
Eh, I don't think real estate leases are the motivating thing here. Execs/VCs are aware of the sunk cost fallacy, and leases will end eventually.
The levels are parallel but it’s easier to get promoted to level 6+ on the management track.
So fire them. Or bring them back to the office where they are going to be bored and maybe quit.
You can absolutely approach it that way, but AFAIK those are highly integrated but still discrete solutions. Temporal provides a unified model for these things instead of requiring people to stitch things together themselves. Due to Temporal handling all of the things, you also get additional value out of the centralization (you can see the live source of truth for any running business process).

I do agree that Temporal is heavyweight both in terms of the learning curve and deployment requirements.

For disclosure I’m the Head of Product at Temporaly. We know things can be better and we are working on it.
I'd be all for remote only if all those people were fired.

Why haven't they been? If your company's entire management structure hasn't noticed that there are a lot of people not contributing anything for a long time - or worse they've noticed and not responded to that situation - doesn't that just mean your company has incompetent management?

I've been amazed by some of the stories I've seen about the "overemployment" trend where people are taking on two or even three full time jobs at the same time while working remotely. I've worked mostly remote-first for a long time but I can't think of anywhere I've ever worked where someone who was only contributing at 50% or even 33% of what they should be wouldn't have been called out within days.

If nothing else a good employer that looks after its people would want to know if there was a legitimate and probably unfortunate reason for sustained poor performance. It could be a medical issue or maybe a bad family situation. Providing some kind of official support might be appropriate.

Of course if it really was deliberate abuse then management has to deal with that situation decisively as well. Given the dishonesty involved with secret overemployment the reaction is likely to be swift and brutal. If it's someone who just can't be bothered to do the job properly working from home then that's more of a disciplinary but not terminal matter. But one way or another management has to step in and do its own job if something isn't working.
A major tech company forces DEI statements on RFPs for outside vendors. They wanted stars by the names of the diverse people on the proposed team.

This stuff have been in the private sector for years now.
Even if Firefox and Chrome used Gecko and Blink with JSC, that's still a marked improvement from the state of things today. Most of what I dislike about Safari are its weird rendering issues, which would be solved.
By that logic, why not just put cameras everywhere, use image recognition tech to do all the identification and enforcement, from traffic violations to active warrants, China-style?
A bowl of beans at home is not the same as beans from Taco Bell of course.
That site’s methodology skews towards people who hit their monitoring service’s customers’ sites. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong but just limited to a certain corporate vantage point — every time I’ve compared it to server traffic it dramatically understated Firefox and, to a lesser extent, Safari. This got worse after tracking protection and ad blockers became more widespread.

Currently I’m seeing Safari and Chrome at roughly 50:50 and 60:40 for visitors across some large public sites. That’s the reverse of what NetMarketShare has, but agains I don’t think that’s malice or error as much as different perspective.
Because after fed taxes the states are left with a stone they can't squeeze blood from or at least not without pissing people off.

Secondly, there's a tradeoff here. If you take something out of the purview of the feds so that your state can do it "right" you lose the ability to force Alabama or West Virginia or whatever to do it your way.
Sure, but most people see $1,000,000,000 and think only of the incomprehensible abstract - they see huge; they don't see what the value means.

They certainly don't see the amortised cost across the decades long operation of a highly successful industry.

So it comes across as a far deeper cut than the stubbed toe that it actually is.
Even counting the (used to) bad software, Samsung is a more successful PHONE manufacturer, pick any metric.
Sounds like an excuse to me. Pretending to work in-office is only marginally more difficult than doing so remotely.
SEO crap ruined search, but you can still search. Asking a chatbot is going to be promoted until you won't have any way to source the answers, and we'll rely on a big corporation's version of reality on the basis of Trust Me Bro. Great timeline, excellent job.
Moreover, US nuked Japan twice and bombed civilians but there have been military alliance and good feelings (at least JP to US).

People know that beating closed Tokugawa shogunate and pre-WW2 regime were finally somewhat good thing so they don't blame them so much.
I tend to agree - Amazon was king but now I can usually find cheaper products on Ebay and faster shipping to my locale than Amazon. Unless its an industrial lego piece coming from China - but then the price is insanely better.

I can't figure out what benefit Amazon brings these days... They seem like the most expensive option for anything not mainstream.
Just because one knows of it doens't mean one isn't influenced/affected by it.
It's an assertion of an assumption, unless you've gone and measured.
Interesting take from a Googler.

Big data hype never felt to me like anything more than a hype campaign to help big tech research ML/AI.

Larry even rambled as much: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/larry...

It appears not all Googlers got the memo.

Everyone else is in the way of him solving big problems! Not like such work could not be distributed among technologists and researchers around the globe via the internet. Help Google do it!

I am leaning into “Deep Work” going forward; will slowly iterate on my own model creation and collaborate with like minded folks. I’m fucking done with intentionally empowering billionaire minority who convinced an ignorant political gerontocracy that minority is capable of magic.

Anyone prattling on with common tropes of “longtermism”; nation state nutters, religious, technocrats; are appealing to non-existent authority they see a a magical future for us! Give them your money to insure it arrives! They have zero ability to insure such outcomes and a lot of upside to making people believe such today.
It’s a Chrome problem with Firefox somewhere in the middle. It’s like 4 hours battery life difference on an M1, too, and since I use a hosts file for ad blocking I don’t think it’s just that.
What were the differences in organizational structure?
I disagree. The vast majority of managers are nothing more than people trying to climb the bureaucratic rank and are not truly helpful in multiplying the efforts of the mid-senior ICs below them.
New Clash of Clans classic server for legacy iDevices in development
How did you find out about his other job?
I actually recalled some that aren't just evolutionary biology: string theory (physics) and rational choice theory (economics) neither of which really deserve to be called theories if we are sticking to the strict definition, but yet scientists do.
I honestly don't know whether I love this game or just loved being a teenager with nothing better to do but play RuneScape with my brother all weekend. Probably both. I think about my adventures in this game pretty often.
It is called 'Up or Out' culture. It is practiced everywhere, even in the military. You don't see 50+ year soldiers, do you? Except may be in 'Top Gun' sort of movies, which just only proves the point.

You are supposed to retire or give way to top performers to take the top places.
Is it possible to do both?

I hear senior VPs like Craig Federighi, Jeff Dean, and others, still write code (maybe 1 day a week but still), but also call the big shots
But GPT’s can restructure copyrighted text to make it different enough for it not to be direct theft. It won’t be long till you can get an entire book, feed it in and prompt it to regenerate the book in a different style. Then what happens? Or what about taking books out of copyright, then prompting regeneration in a different style with a slightly modified plot?
If worlds can be built from a prompt, worlds will be worthless.
> Does that mean it is as useless as spherical cows?

Spherical cows aren't useless though. Unless of course you mistake the map for the territory.

As with everything in economics one side thinks the other is dangerously simplifying whilst they themselves are fully aware of the nuance.
In "Story" website section:

"This conjecture says that 47,176,870 is the maximum number of steps that a 5-state Turing machine can run before halting (starting from all-0 memory tape)."

So, we can run up to this number and either the machine will stop - and we'll go to the next one until exhaust the whole set - or the machine won't stop, and we'll refute the conjecture.
> I can't think of anywhere I've ever worked where someone who was only contributing at 50% or even 33% of what they should be wouldn't have been called out within days.

I’ve worked at 50% or less capacity at every place I worked at. I’d say as low as 25% even. Haven’t gotten called out, remote or not.
Literally none of those links mention SQRL.
Being able to use Fennec F-Droid was my primary motivator to switch off of iPhone. It's not perfect, but there are things it offers that iOS Safari does not that I consider to be absolute necessities for browsing the web. (uBlock Origin is certainly one of them, also WebM support.)
Still Teams and Slack are roughly doing what IRC does. Just using infinitely more resources.

Modern tech stack makes it cheaper to produce software, in a world where consumer don't give a shit and happily buy new hardware to run the worse software.
I have a folder right next to my bed. The only thing I need to remember is to grab the damn thing when I get up. I'll say it's a 90% success rate :)

But more importantly, you'll need to work on your assessment of "invariably". If you think all efforts are predestined to fail, they will. Get help if you can't do it alone.
I assume this might be available on the alternative app stores as a result of EUs rulings on anti-trust?
Yes.

In 2022 Google at 282 billion / 190,234 employees = 1.48 million per employee.

In 2022 Nintendo was 13.923 billion / 7,136 employees = 1.85 million per employee.

In theory Google might be more consistent, but the article was written in 2008 when Nintendo was 1.6m per employee in 2008 beating Goldman Sacks at 1.2m and Google at 600k.
They were $59.99 (and more) in the late 1980’s. Of course the media they are on has gone to $0 but the cost to bring to market is much higher. Much larger audience today of course.
You can put vinegar instead, right?
What does it even mean to look like all the other software on a computer? None of my software looks anything like any of the other software. A white background application with a menu bar and some dialogs would look more out of place.

None of that even applies to software used to remote control a robot and mostly used by children who's primary other computer is a mobile phone or tablet.
Minecraft probably comes pretty close for today's younger generation.
Improving actual "search" and not just returning ads, SEO, blog spam etc?

Maybe they have the answers for ChatGPTs incorrectness but not really sure I'll be reaching for a product which is imagining the answers as it sees fit?
yes. I used to think the Church had a honest disagreement with Galileo about heliocentricity. When I grew up I realized the Church never cared about orbits at all, what they care about is maintenance of status quo.

And then when I got old, I realized, there is even a reason that some people want status quo... because they have usually been around long enough to see society fall apart into anarchy and mass murder, so in their mind, they are doing the right thing.
The one I came up with for 6 rectangles (divide the square down the middle on one axis, then into thirds on the other axis) I didn’t see in the 245 at the bottom of the article. I might have just skipped over it, but that one seems pretty trivial to me, so if they missed it, there must be some issue with their method.

Edit: I think I misunderstood. They are interested in the number of unique ratios, not including different ways that rectangles of the same ratio could be drawn to fill a square. The pictures just show one example of how the rectangles of each ratio could fill a square.

For my example, it looks like they have a square that is divided into the top third and bottom two-thirds, then the top third is divided in half, then the left half of that is divided into quarters. That’s another way of fitting six rectangles of ratio 1:1.5 into a square, besides the way I described above.
What does this have to do with my comment? I was replying to the statement that

> If you live in most American cities, biking is basically a life hazard on par with smoking imo

That said, I used a bicycle as my primary mode of transportation in the Atlanta, Decatur, and Northern suburban areas for several years. It wasn't really all that bad despite a near-total lack of cycling infrastructure (this was before the Beltline).
They’re cheaper to distribute but not necessarily cheaper to bake at the highest levels.
If it's not ad-related, it will probably disappear at some point.[1]

The big worry is Google Cloud Services, which lose huge amounts of money. Google Stadia already shut down.

I just hope Waymo survives. It's close to working, but nowhere near profitability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
>I'm convinced that's more that games were very overpriced for a long time.

Dunkey (famous YouTuber) made a pretty interesting short video essay on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q

His takeaway that video game pricing doesn't make any sense, and never has.

$60 for a beautiful work of art that you'll remember for the rest of your life is the deal of a lifetime, whereas $60 for a forgettable, shameless cash grab is a complete rip-off.

I'm run a retro games business now, and the pricing honestly makes a lot more sense from an economic point of view. $300 for EarthBound is still a better deal than $8 for Final Fantasy XIII-2.
The reign of terror and wars happened after most of the nobility voluntarily gave up their hereditary rights. Even after the storming of the Bastille there had been very little real violence.
I lived in a townhouse complex in Sunnyvale which had either 1 or 2 spots per ~1500 sqft unit, and it was totally fine. Most homes were occupied by couples, most whose kids had long since moved out and a few who had small children. I lived in a two-spot unit and had either one (when I lived alone) or two (when my girlfriend moved in) cars during the ten years I lived there.
Check the list of companies using ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/introduction/adopters/
It’s a nice editor and old as hills
Working on a project with only 5% chance of launch is almost a guarantee that you will be at the front of the queue for layoff when the company decides to do layoffs.
DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike (2022)
For taxes, in US eCommerce transactions at least, that generally isn't possible until checkout anyway you need to know where you are shipping the order to apply correct taxes. For brick and mortar shopping, I agree, taxes should just be included in the label price.
I suppose that's true, I'm aware of some fallacies (such as anchoring bias) which don't seem to be changed by knowing they exist, and some fallacies which seem to change pretty drastically upon finding out about them (such as fixed mindset (as opposed to growth mindset)). I'm not sure which category sunk cost fallacy falls into.