skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its sus that Ohio would ask for or need federal assistance for what amounts to a very localized emergency solely affecting a single town in a single state.

This is dismissive. I don't believe it's a proper categorization, at the core.

Ecological disaster that results from a train that crossed state lines, directly affecting citizens, casually appears to be a federal matter. The state is not expected to have spending and resources to cope with this type of disaster. Scale is just one quality of concern. Intensity is another. Responsibility is another. etc.

https://www.fema.gov/pdf/about/fy08_fema_sp_bookmarked.pdf

> Mission:
Reduce the loss of life and property and protect the Nation from all hazards, including
natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters, by leading and
supporting the Nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management
system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation
I am not aware of any pre-employment arbitration agreement which specifies a specific arbitrator. Most specify that a member of a specific group or association must be selected. I doubt that most employers actually know much about the individual arbitrator who is selected (ahead of the selection).
Chomsky’s universal grammar is a modification of Harris’s Operator grammar.

Harris’s operator grammar was based on set theory however Chomsky was enamored with formal logic and ran in that direction. Also, Chomsky became famous while Harris didn’t.

Operator grammar is self-discoverable and he published a full description of English grammar in the 1980’s using this theory and an extension in the 1990’s which generalized to other languages.

It is not fully deterministic (final word selection and ordering is probabilistic), but it is much more convincing to me and in line with how we understand brains to work.

Over the last 20 years Chomsky has begun to fall out of favor because it’s just so complicated and requires external structures, etc.
I think the scammers plan to get kicked off, they get one good campaign out and then get kicked off. Then show up as a new customer with a new name and new payment info, but upload the same list(s) and start spamming again, over and over in perpetuity.
not to be pedantic but there likely was additional attrition and hires in the interim, without exact head counts there's little way to properly state a single number so why pick on it?
The very notion that you can’t lean over someone’s shoulder and say “hey can you help with something” is a massive failure of remote.

The subtlety of human communication and merits of simple vulnerability exchanges really detracts from team development.

And whilst I do get to see my team - whenever we meet it’s to discuss the “big” stuff and not actually do our daily work, thus we don’t get to learn from each other.
The Rock Trading interrupts operations due to liquidity issues
That's the most frustrating part of these return to office announcements. The reasons for RTO are never based in rationality. It's because management has a feeling that certain things will improve.

Also, it's often just a layoff in disguise.
Just because they can do whatever they want doesn't mean the public needs to be kept in the dark about what influenced their decisions. The public deserves to know more about why Acosta thought Epstein was an intelligence asset that deserved such a deal.

> “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
And yet the numbers show that companies that continuously delivery updates massively outperform those that don’t. You claim to make decisions based on a company’s engineering practices but I can guarantee that you have no idea about the engineering practices of any companies that you do support actually are.
I used to remember doing a thing where people would be taken from a team and sent to another for a while. During that time no contact with the original team was supposed to happen. Was supposed to help deal with some of the bus factor kinds of problems. Anyone still do that?

Harder when so many are let go though.
Thats why you use precommit hooks with secrets scan.

Maltitude of those.
Indeed, in this case ESRI is talking about deep-learning based single image superresolution. With multiple images, even something as simple as shift-and-add can recover details (and lower noise in the picture), but you do require having multiple images. Video being a sequence of images, with large or small movement in between frames, can be an ideal source for robust SR algorithms. To complicate things further, there are deep-learing based multi-image SR algorithms too.
Roblox is working on generative AI tools
The point your missing is the email was never the point of the comment, it was the fact that Amazon's practices have turned them off from Amazon. The recruiter email was just building a context that many of us can relate to. You've picked the least relevant portion of the comment to focus on.

Again, "I won't work at X because Y" in a conversation about X doing Y is pretty clearly on-topic.
It sounds like FEMA normally steps in when there had been mauve property damage, which isn't the case here. They may need help, just not the kind they provide.
Disclaimer: work at AWS

For the record I'd prefer a work environment that's closer to maybe 1-2 times a month in the office.

> Most developers are self learners (that's how most people learn to code anyway)

I don't think that's true. If you poll the vast majority of people in intro to CS class, most people never coded before. I recall it being a small minority at least back when I was in school (> 10 years ago).

There's also stats comparing before WFH and after of how long long it takes someone to onboard properly/be productive (forget the exact stat/KPI, mix of survey/commit stats?) and it's extended by a few months. Now that might be due to bad on-boarding since it wasn't a remote-first, but if that still exists years later it is interesting

> People collaborate better in person: Bullshit, a lot of developers collaborate better through text

Agree with that. I really wish we would write better docs and have more of an async setup

I do genuinely think there's aspect/learning that is lost/slower in the last few years, but that might be because we haven't really thought about accepting "remote-first" and trying to shoehorn what we already had into WFH model.
"Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
Great opportunity to test your db backup process. :)
EU Bans Toilet Sales to Russia
Shit is about to get real for Russia.
I've been in a couple of companies that went under, and had held serial layoffs. (For example, when I started at Atari in 1982 there were perhaps 4,000 employees, and when I resigned about five years later there were less than 200).

Towards the end you start to wonder who the lucky ones really are. Not kidding.
That sounds like a good principle in managing oneself too. Work in feedback for every mini-milestone into your work rhythm.

Training the subconscious to do (automatically know what to do next, want to do it, get on it) is the self-management goal.

Do something measurable, and arrange things to experience some meaningful response to any milestone.

I may be doing this when I design and code in different rooms of my house. Obviously speed isn't the main point of either task. But my subconscious definitely registers "I completed an actionable part of the design" as I move from living room to my study to code. And vice versa.

Helps that this mini-milestone context-switching "feedback" is a natural part of doing the work. Part of the flow.
As I understood it, a court order is not a warrant. A warrant requires probable cause, a court order does not? I may be wrong.
Has anyone used Pomerium and is it any good compared to Tailscale or Twingate?
You must know about becoming a first time voter after being on the sidelines? Same here after seeing Seymour Hersch being denigrated and attacked just because some don't agree with his point of view, especially after he has done so much for our country, its ideals and founding principles. I'll take your comment at face value and assume you don't hate on first timers. Otherwise you would fall into the same category of an ad hominem.:)
or they're so undervalued because their systems never hiccup so they never get to be seen as the hero. They get laid off because "They work on this stuff that is not high priority" ...
But companies like twitter, until it was taken private at least, heavily depend on growth and adapting to emerging trends. You might keep the platform 'running' as is, but not more than that. I don't disagree that companies have people not pulling their weight but when there are large layoffs, the future of a company is, as the kids say, 'sus'. (Did I use that right?)
The circumstances of Epstein's death are highly suspect and make no sense at all.

I entirely agree. On the other hand, a lot of people insisted Epstein had been done in by the Clintons, (without specifying how of course), ignoring both the fact of Barr as AG being ultimately responsible for his safety and Epstein and Trump had a long-standing social relationship. So a lot of people who were 'just asking questions' seemed to be highly selective about which questions they were willing to entertain.

One can generalize from this case to the wider moral panic underway at present about pedophilia. A great deal of it is in bad faith and aimed at injuring political opponents rather than making anyone safer or figuring out the truth.
I don't think that what you're saying is true. It is my understanding that plaintiff lawyers often use the prospect of legal costs at trial to extort a large number of small settlements from large organizations. Arbitration costs are usually much less expensive than either side's legal fees, so covering those costs to avoid the prospect of a trial is advantageous to the employer (and the plaintiff).
Why are you guys talking about a bail-out? Is there any talk of that? Not as far is I know... As far as I've seen that only happens when there is a systemic/ high contagion risk...
>But a public company with stockholders shouldn't make decisions like this.

Yes and all people should be decent and look out for each other as well.
This is going to be hard. Amazon doesn't offer much at the office other than milk, tea, coffee and bananas. They will need to be less frugal to convince me to come to the office.
In the future we'll interact with people online, who post pictures and videos of themselves to the internet, who will participate in Twitter spaces, who will video call you, but will never have existed in the first place.
It will be completely automated with no human doing anything. You will think they're human, because they act human. You will be in long distance relationships with them. At what point do we give them the same legal status?
Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
To be exceedingly pedantic, I think GP is using the phrase “not to be pedantic” as a magical incantation intended to make the pedentry following it not pedantic, the same way people say “no offense” before saying something offensive, or “not financial advice” on YouTube videos that give financial advice.
One previous submission from 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484398 - July 20, 2019 (5 comments)
Harris, Chomsky’s advisor, published his operator grammar over the decades and one of the key features was that it is completely self-discoverable.

Probability and observation are all that is required to understand a language.
The only thing that annoys me from Namecheap is that their API isn't that good. You can't just update a single record, you have to update the entire zone.

Updating the entire zone just to automatically set a verification token (like for Let's Encrypt) is too risky.
The British switched from coffee to tea because their monoculture coffee plantations in what used to be called Ceylon died from blight. Their plantations were the descendants of 6 plants. A disease that affected one coffee bush affected every coffee bush.

The Irish Potato Famine happened because their potatoes were descended from a single handful of potatoes. As a result, a fungus that affected one potato plant affected every other potato plant. About a million people died from that.

The corn blight in 1970 resulted in the loss of 1/3 of the US corn crop. If the weather hadn't broken, up to 85% of that year's crop could have died. 85% of the seed grown back then used Texas Male Sterile Cytoplasm as part of the hybridization process. In response, the US government created and continues massive subsidies for corn production. This is why high fructose corn syrup is cheaper than cane/beet sugar, and why HFCS is so widespread in US food production.

One book that covers the history of monoculture failures like this is Altered Harvest:

https://www.amazon.com/Altered-Harvest-Jack-Doyle/dp/0140096...

One book that covers how prevalent corn is in American food production is Omnivore's Dilemma.

https://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Mea...

The banana flavor used in candies tastes nothing like Cavendish bananas. That flavor was based on the Gros Michel variety that went economically extinct in the 1950s.
They used to be, but re-orgs done during the pandemic when WFH didn't consider geography, so now maybe one or two? Also, she is a UXD, not SWE, so her role is really different.
I love Rust but I am still looking for the perfect blend of the two camps.

One the one hand, Go/Node/Python/etc doesn't scratch my itch for the strong type system (sum types/tagged enums mostly) and on the other hand even though I like prototyping in Rust I really miss things like a REPL, more terse syntax, and a bit more expressiveness.

I think OCaml is closer to my ideal but the ecosystem isn't quite there. Maybe all it needs is time.
I don't disagree that it's small scale approach, it's just the language of "bottom up" and "scaling gracefully" that I disagree with. The setup in the article will work only at very small scales, and then you'll probably have to rewrite most of it. The setup I provided works at very small scales as well (arguably better), but can be progressively updated as needed (but only as needed - for example, there's no JSX support for now, but it could be added later if it became necessary).

And in a situation like this, I don't know that I understand the value in avoiding a build step simply for the sake of being able to say you don't have one. This isn't one of those situations where you're saving time by removing the build step because it's not actually building anything here, just rewriting a few paths and adding essentially the same import map. It's probably even quicker overall because it does the reload for you.

Likewise, you're overstating what tools are actually necessary here. It's not "17 tools and 30 dependencies", it's two: one (NPM) to manage dependencies, and the other (vite) to provide the dev server and set the imports up correctly. Everything apart from that is up to you to install as you wish.
I think a lot of Babel is for people who haven't kept up with caniuse statistics and don't realize that the "low water mark", the "well supported baseline", has moved to something very close to ES2021 or more recent. To be fair, Babel is explicitly targeting some of those developers that prefer ignorance and don't want the mental overhead of actually knowing what browsers support and like having "just use the presets!" attitude. I think some of them would be surprised how extremely little most of the standard presets do in 2023 because there are increasingly few things to downlevel.

I have especially long been of the strong opinion that you never need Babel and Typescript. There's nothing that Typescript supports that it can't downlevel itself and tslib is a much tinier runtime dependency (if you choose to have Typescript import it rather than embed it in place) than any of Babel's runtimes (including their core-js dependencies) even when a bundler is tree shaking most of it out today (because caniuse statistics say yagni).

It still amuses that for instance the create-react-app "best practice" in its Typescript template is to use Babel for type stripping and downleveling and delegate the Typescript compiler only to type checking. No wonder people find modern pipelines bloated. To be fair, I get why CRA likes the conceptual simplicity that both of their core templates use the same Babel presets and pipelines given to them Typescript is still the opt-in "extra".

(Also, I have no problem with esbuild doing my Typescript type stripping and running tsc as a separate pass in esbuild pipelines, but esbuild isn't pretending to do a lot of unnecessary downleveling in 2023 and adds no further runtime beyond the parts of tslib it bundles for you. It's mostly just Babel's extreme complexity that I find redundant and unnecessary and its labyrinth of presets that don't actually do much in 2023 but give the impression that they do.)
One credit due to Twilio is very friendly to remote besides perhaps the pay tiers. But everyone's doing that. They never mandated return to office, so that's in their favor too.

iirc the context of the article you're referring to is more of Tesla, Oracle moving out of California
Honestly I don’t know what to do with this tweet + HN thread because it leaves little room for actual discussions and a lot of room for misguided guessing.

Unless someone from the org comments here, which I doubt considering the animosity HN has at VR or Meta, we’ll never know why oculus didn’t work like that, if it was a real issue there or if Carmack is exaggerating, if it was an issue are tweets like going to help the org rethink itself?

The only signal we’re getting, from the outside, are the releases. I had the go and the quest and the gap in technology between the two were amazing.

I don’t know about quest to quest 2, or quest 2 to quest pro, and I guess we’ll see what the quest 3 delivers. Maybe other people know?
I have great respect for John Carmack but this feels like a very unnuanced take.

Lead time isn't about "startups", it's about code complexity, side effects and blast radius.

The time it takes to push code when you have 10 use-cases and 1,000 users, is very different from the time it takes to push code when you have 1,000 use-cases but 10,000,000 users. At that scale, it takes A LOT of effort to keep fix times small. It isn't going to occur naturally.

Some times the effort to keep that fix time small may not be worth it, some times it might.
The cost is higher because of all the branches that are scattered everywhere to check return codes. With exceptions there's a check at the place the error is thrown, but that's inevitable. There aren't checks scattered throughout the rest of the code, which would otherwise reduce icache utilization.
How are you calculating that? If I plug 22k into a random auto loan calculator like https://www.bankofamerica.com/auto-loans/auto-loan-calculato... I do not get 650 a month, I get 421 with the current high interest rates.
"Arbitrator" here means "the organization the company uses for arbitration", which'll have a set of training standards etc. they tend to have. You shouldn't get wildly different results with different individuals within a one.
When craigslist was brand spanking new I found a ruggedized 1/4 height rack that looked like it was surplus military.

My second stroke of luck was that the hall closet in my apartment had a corner in it that would exactly fit this rack, telephone wiring junction box was immediately above the rack, and all of the house wiring was straight Cat5 runs from there, so a few new outlet covers and some cable rejigging and we had internet everywhere (but only 2 pair where the phone plugged in), terminated at the rack, which was partly muffled by winter coats. You can't push a lot of BTUs this way, but you can do a few.

My solution before this was to hide a tower PC behind the couch. For the right kind of couch and the right vent holes, you can eat an awful lot of ambient noise by using major furniture. There's lots of space out there for things like this.

I also tried at one point to build an air filter that would fit under a bed (less noise, no floor space, fewer dust bunnies.
I guess they forgot that sports should be fun.
They keep adding them until they need an internal library to manage their collection of feature flags.

Then after a while they graduate to feature flags as a service (of which there are a bunch of cloud services trying to have a go at)
Asking ChatGPT to Design Its Next Generation, ChatGPT 2
I don't remember this quote exactly, or whom to attribute it to but it goes something along the lines of "throwing two unsolved problems at each other doesn't create a solution".
On Demand Pictures from Space
Or working with better people, particularly those setting the requirements. The worst code I've written/worked with has always come about because of unclear/unstable requirements.
The Titanic's wreckage was supposed to be completely gone by 2030, according to a study, because of bacteria that eat metal.

https://www.businessinsider.com/titanic-shipwreck-disappeari...

What's become of that? We have less than seven years to go. (taps wristwatch)

Another fun fact about the Titanic is that while it lies 3,800 meters below the water, it lies at the bottom of a continental cliff, as you can see on this map: https://doyouremember.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/titanic...

The Titanic's journey would have taken it West, so it would have continued to sail over deep waters for hundreds of nautical miles, but the place it happened to sink was situated just off an underwater peninsula in the continental plate.
We love using rust on the backend at https://mayhem4api.forallsecure.com/ and in our CLI. If I were the decider, I'd choose it again. Rust is a hurdle to learn, but the confidence you gain from the type system is fantastic. I've worked in other projects with different, looser-type'd languages (no names! no flames!) and despite good testing coverage, the confidence on release to prod is not as high.
Please don't break the site guidelines. It's enough to provide correct information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I worked for a company for 3 years after half my team was laid off. In hindsight I clearly should've quit, but yeah the folks laid off and collecting that severance were definitely the lucky ones.
> Perf is easy when you have AWS credits.

I get that the point of this article is that launching > sustaining.

But I have a horror story about AWS credits for startups: a friend's startup got their account suspended for a couple days when their Credits ran out, they started getting billed 5 digits (as they expected), and Amazon's fraud detection detected this as an anomalous billing pattern and suspended them! For transitioning from AWS credits to billing!?

Considering all their operations were running in AWS, and they were providing a HW-critical service to their customers, it was bad.

This was late last year. This was despite getting reassurances from their AWS rep that the transition would be smooth.
My guy, you are not going to become royalty no matter how much you lie to everyone in your life. There are many jerks who live in the gutters and prisons too, far more than ones who live like kings.
I wouldn’t suggest people are dumb enough to move, but people are certainly dumb enough to make widely inaccurate conclusions (as they have done here).
Does that mena he believes that there might be a tiff in Taiwan soon?