skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often times it doesn't include the code in the first response even if I mentioned it. Perhaps have a checkbox to always include the code similar to "Hide Links"?
How common are/were 15K/month salaries in Latam? That's a good money (180K/year) even by US standards, not mentioning other parts of the world.
Personally, I have been observing my own technical work habits a lot recently. What I have noticed agrees with your narrative but disagrees with your point. Here's the rundown:

* I can sustain hard mental labor (including but not limited to work) for about 50 hours per week total

* I don't know when I'm going to be in the best state to do that work, and it depends on a lot of factors

* Some of those factors are external, some depend on the project, etc.

* Sometimes, that mental labor needs to go somewhere else, and that subtracts from my overall work budget. That includes things like weird social situations, fixing something around the house, etc.

* I also spend a lot of time passively daydreaming about the last thing I worked on. This is often productive, but also often isn't.

* My productive output also varies a lot on those factors: some weeks, I can produce 60 hours of work, and others only 15-20

I think if you have bursty work patterns like this, it is actually beneficial to have more office days rather than fewer, to "catch" as much productive time and daydreaming time as possible. However, it's an even better argument for remote work, because that minimizes other forms of mental labor, like driving.
Boom times for anyone in road building and construction, probably.
It's been described as a billion dollar weather event on par with the Christchurch earthquake 10+ years ago.
> LIDAR heroes from NASA

Found it: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14261
Agile was atarred5 by people doing small business consulting projects for clients, like "make me a website".
Nvidia invented HW shaders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/History_of_Programmabili...

"The GeForce 3, the first NV20 part, contained the first example of true programmability. Despite NVIDIA being a pioneer of highly configurable fragment processing, its programmability was in its vertex processing. The GeForce 3 was the first GPU that brought programmabilitiy to consumer hardware."

The AI on GPGPU was possible only because Nvidia provided a library with matrix and activation functions running on a GPU at speeds far surpassing CPUs and designed a fairly nice API that anybody could understand. There was nothing like that before and that's why they had such a foothold with academic institutions. Of course they didn't invent AI but made it possible to run on their GPUs and actively helped researchers to do that while Intel and AMD slept (well, Intel at least tried to do that on CPU with MKL).
Linux 6.3 Introduces IPv4 “Big TCP” to Improve High Speed Network Performance
No, Chrome was amazing when it was released, at the time Firefox was slow with an aging architecture and MS was still pushing Internet Explorer.
I’m looking for a solution to this problem at the moment. Of course I could DIY, but I’m more attracted to a solution like flat file or YoBulk, rather than reinvent the wheel.

But from the Flatfile website it’s quite clear how I’d integrate it into our product. From your GitHub repo, it’s clear that’s it’s opensource, and thus I know I could integrate it, but it’d be great to see some specific examples of how, and the benefits.

If your going to compare yourself as a flatfile alternative, I feel that’s a key point to make.

Will check it out more deeply tho, looks quite interesting. I’m sold on the concept, but the GitHub repo didn’t push me over the line to “this is the solution”.
One of the under-appreciated greats of history. The White Rose movement was truly incredible, and in large part is responsible for the near-century of peace in Western Europe.
Consulting/contracting companies sell Waterfall projects to government and enterprise. I worked on one.
As long as the AI generated content has been curated by humans, there is no harm in AI ingesting AI generated content.
Ah man, the fingers on that blue-eyed knight. I love this hands issue with AI art. Is there a story about that?
That's the narrative tech guys tell themselves because they don't care about anticompetitive behavior unless it's a company they don't like. I worked with normal users for years. Half of them weren't aware of what browser they used, much less why.
You can find reports to support any opinion, which is why assertions are better supported with evidence. Elon Musk and anti-trafficking activist Eliza Bleu made a big deal about cleaning up Twitter back in December. Since then Ms Bleu seems to have spent more time mired in drama with former fans/supporters. It's not clear to me that there is any objective way to measure the success, failure, or efforts of Twitter in this area at present.
I cut my teeth at a waterfall shop on the software engineering side. In hindsight, what was really killing our productivity wasn't the process but a bunch of dumb politics in the org. I'm not sure Agile/Scrum could've saved them from that.

With that said I totally get why designers hate Agile - it forces them to make design decisions they're not ready to make and once there's functional software in people's hands everyone groans when design suggests non-feature changes.
Hong Kong Is Giving Away 500k Free Plane Tickets
> women are taking advantage of lack-of-sexism and choosing to stay out of CS... because umm... they don't need the money?

As I stated in my previous comment, it's because other high paying industries stopped being sexist against women, and then the women that would have been pushed out of those industries and into CS can now study and work in the field of their choice. Nowhere did I write that "they don't need the money", and I even said that they were choosing other high paying fields once medicine, law, etc. stopped enforcing overtly sexist policies against women. Discussions are more productive when you engage with what other commenters are writing instead of your own inventions.
You can only put 10k into I bonds (current rate 6.89%)

You can put massive amounts into TIPS
I'm torn on that. I finally just read the actual text instead of relying on my memory of 1996. I get what you're saying, but it isn't a discussion like this one here. It's more like the platforms pick and choose what you're likely to see next. There's not just showing up in the order they were posted or the most relevant things. It might be by how angry they predict it will make me, continue to engage, and get more impressions.

You see it in crowds, for example, when people go from having one energetic but good time to being put in a state where they are likely to commit violence. I don't know if Travis Scott is more legend than phenomena, or if the Woodstock '99 people realized they created a metal festival. Human beings are weird creatures and we can do horrific things, given the right context and environment. I think the actual text is rarely a cause for concern, but the manipulation around it is. You can take the same group of people and have an orderly discussion on defenestration, but work them up and you can get an actual defenestration.

So if a company is manipulating the flow of information to create an emotional state, on purpose, I'm not sure that company should be 100% in the clear on it. Especially since the law seems to be more about good faith efforts at restricting access to content.
By contrast, Reddit is the exact opposite... Most subreddits that I read get several posts each day that could be answered in a heartbeat just by searching existing discussions or looking at the first result in Google. But most mods, in an (understandable) effort to be newbie-friendly, accept this as the cost of running a subreddit. As a result, most subreddits on some technical topic, are mainly populated by and useful to newbies.

It would be nice if there was some place on the Internet that tried to strike a middle ground.
Are you marketing it as a safer alternative? Do you have a near monopoly on knives?
Deploy time: 2022-11-13 06:00

Deploy point: 22.106° N , 110.918° E

Makes it all the way back.
Passwordless authentication with FIDO2–beyond just the web
>Most had never actually run a business or done the thing they were offering up advice on, and it showed.

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
>>So to be clear, your solution is that the victims will still be the victims. all scammers will get away with their scams, and that of those that steal millions and choose not to hop to another country that some percentage of the will be punished? And as a result that's reasonable?

Not sure how you can read my statement, which included "but at least fraudsters wouldn't learn that crime pays, and survive to defraud another day", and interpret it that way.

I'd like aggressive prosecution of actual fraud (as opposed to prosecuting people for failing to follow the processes regimented by regulations).

>>Didn't something like half of all coins fail?

That's the nature of venture capital investment. Failure is okay. Critically, much more more was earned by token sale investors than they invested in the aggregate. And the technology allowed much smaller investors to benefit from these returns, by massively expanding financial inclusivity:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11408-020-00366-0

"The average ICO has almost 4700 contributors. The median contributor invests a relatively small amount. The ICO market appears to have successfully given access to the financing of innovation to a new class of investors, which is a long-standing public policy issue"
So I can disparage my former employer that laid me off?
You should have been around before chrome books when any extension could do whatever it wanted without any permissions at all. Your understanding of history is missing some key pieces. Over time, Google has generally locked these APIs down not opened them up.
My circles (slatestarcodex etc.) were worrying in January 2020, stockpiling etc. an advocating for masks when the government was still saying they weren't necessary.

I remember the heroic effort in the Czech republic to hand make millions of masks while the US government said one shouldn't bother.

By the summer, data showed they weren't helping. Sweden etc. did fine. But the lines had been drawn. For whatever reason, political identities randomly chose different pandemic policies. In some countries, people of the same overall politics would be for what Americans of the same movement were against.

Back in the US in 2021, wearing a mask was offensive to many. And then not wearing one offended many others. Absolutely crazy. Discussing data etc. meant nothing. It was quasi religious. The chorus in unison: "I believe in science." Any additional inquiry however is heresy. And then you get classified with "the crazies". Horrible!

In Mexico, many religiously wear masks. Not wearing them is "gringo". Also hand sanitizer rules. Again, data etc. is irrelevant.

Really, this is a human issue. The overall structures of belief, our institutions etc. conspire against innovation/progress in all forms. Thus Plank's oft repeated quip: "Science advances one funeral at a time."
Is 1password part of the cartel or is the spec open enough to run my own passkey sync infra like they do? I cant tell from these docs
Agile was invented by developers for developers. For professionals, not people who want to be academics but get paid by a corpo.
As others have mentioned it seems like the solution is a small fee for submission. Ideally non-refundable instead of refundable. Talented authors should be willing to pay a nominal amount for the overhead of maintaining the bar for content, even if their submission isn’t accepted I assume this is a publication they’d like to continue to see succeed.
Agreed that it makes total sense to scale PTO. I think of my PTO as being “4 weeks off of my choosing”. If I worked 32 hours per week, I’d expect 128 hours of PTO instead of 160.
> bunch of kingdoms

Funny that many of the sidebar rules read like decrees from a King
Design can be free (part 2)
Interesting. Could you give an example, please? Adding "give me an example" as a followup should usually do a trick in those cases.
But the idea of the app isolation is just that — apps should not be able to touch each other.

There are of course escape hatches, because sometimes you want apps to interact.
If you were competent at running businesses why would you be an associate at McKinsey when you could be a COO or VP or something?
The hover/click events kill mobile imo. Just trying to scroll the page gets very chaotic with stuff popping up, new tabs opening...
When AI can make incremental improvements to its own code, then I will consider calling it Artificial Intelligence. Until then, it's just poorly Simulated Intelligence.
"Those who don't even know how, manage."
There is something delicious about the main criticism of an article critical of agile being that it doesn't understand agile and was doing it wrong.

I do think some of the points here are solid, but skip responding to the snark of the other post. That was literally the weakest part of it and generally not worth addressing.
Poking the bear is good but precedent for manipulating internet content hurts us all
This recently published book should be of interest:

The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington review – how consultancy firms cash in

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/16/the-big-con-by...
> The major problem facing the industry is doing agile just because everyone is doing it, not because it is the right tool for the job. No matter how much money or people you throw at it, it's not going to work.

I recently started a role running an Engineering org at a startup. The first two questions I asked everyone are why are they doing scrum and what do they want out of the engineering process. Answers to the first question were all over the map, and answers to the second were almost identical.
Weak sauce. Any boss with the bare minimum of critical thought would reject your assertions. Two of your studies are from companies that build remote-work software. 100% biased. The other looked at call center metrics from China. Is the work you do mindless like that of a call center? Are you expected to collaborate with others? Is your productivity as easy to measure as calls answered per hour? Did US or Europe ever limit the number of children parents (employees) could bear, and thus need to care for?
Could an employee receive severance and still be able to sue to determine if there was a WARN act violation or discrimination of federally protected classes?
I think the concern here is that, as a practical matter, vendors wouldn't be free to make arbitrary changes within their own forks; some parts of the system would have to remain interoperable. And technical decisions regarding what those parts should do and how they should work would still have to be made somehow, and it's not clear that "open source project" type governance would be better than the W3C process that we have today, especially when it comes to interfacing with governments. Good blog post about this: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/06/22/chromium-only
I googled "how many nuclear weapons does the us have" and Google suggested a number slightly below 5500. I don't think the exact number matters much though, what can you do with 5000 that you can't do with 500 or even 50?
I think sci-fi became real when the Internet connected smartphone (personal computer was a name wasted too soon) became ubiquitous.
Models that recognize chatgpt also seem to pick it up easily though [0]. Adding it in the email is quite weird though. Or maybe they agreed that is was fine to do so (generating this email by an AI), which is indeed tonedeaf.

[0] https://filteroutai.com/validate/114ddca7445e6b5119715111623...
Why not hire contractors or contract-to-hire for those bursty work needs? Or spin up a separate company and buy services from them?
The Beauty and Diversity of Slime Molds
It's an opinion piece, written by Bret Stephens, AKA the bed bug dude who, among other things, "considers climate change a '20-year-old mass hysteria phenomenon' and rejects the notion that greenhouse-gas emissions are an environmental threat"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Stephens#Controversy
Fun fact: that fee is one of the bigger single sources of income for Nature, etc
Still going through a talent drought. Has barely made any impact.
Reading this made me think of the coin-op mafia.
https://www.clicktrack.fm/p/the-dark-history-of-the-jukebox-...
300 per month, 300*12=3600 per year, seems a lot lower than median for Brazil: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/brazil . Guess there must be a huge span between companies then.
It emerged from government wage and price controls, wherein health care coverage was exempted. When employers couldn’t compete by raising wages (as that was made illegal), they chose to compete on health coverage. By the time the wage controls were rolled back, it was hard to get that genie back into the bottle.
> If you don't work at Google, convincing your engineering organization into learning Bazel is almost always a non-starter. Who uses Bazel in the wild? Xooglers primarily.

My response shows these hypotheses to be false. You’re correct, no one’s arguing whether Bazel is useful or worthwhile, not even I.

> Large companies […] who can support Basel within an engineering organization definitely exist.

Ok great, we agree. You’ve revised your point from earlier.

> There’s probably a few Xooglers […]

A baseless hypothesis that’s confirmed false by all the references shared with you. Feel free to plug all the lead engineers’ names into LinkedIn to verify that the majority are not ex-Google.

> Bazel-lite may be enough.

Sure, it may be. That’s why I’m offering the constructive feedback to go talk to the thousands of active Bazel users to see whether and what they want from a Bazel-lite, if that’s the positioning Moonrepo wants to choose.

Usually, there’s a strong rationale and need behind an organization’s adoption of Bazel. Some of that rationale is captured in the references shared earlier. These organizations need Bazel; they’re generally happier with Bazel than their previous systems. These baseline needs represent table stakes for any build system that wants to compete with Bazel.

If Moonrepo wants to compete where Bazel is weak, then I’m suggesting that they need to sharpen their communication such that an engineer well-versed in Bazel has an “aha!” moment within 2 minutes. The proverbial elevator pitch.

Once again, I’m not dissuading Moonrepo from pursuing their vision. I’m offering constructive feedback on their messaging/positioning — the type of feedback I’d like to hear as a founder.
Not really any: popular open-source software, which gets reviewed and rebuilt by many independent people (distro maintainers) has a much lower chance to be hijacked this way.
What is considered a good SFE salary in Sydney now? Thanks!
Well its hardly a shocker that most people prefer to work less for the same pay, lol.

IMO, employers should just let employees work to whatever schedule fits, as long as they can make any meetings and reasonable goals are met.
It's a 50% increase in your days off for only 20% reduction in work days.
The layoffs are honestly less shocking than the demand that engineers "make twitter ad targeting work like Google's.... in a week."
Like an advancing army, chatgpt will soon write prompts for you better than any of this new crop of nontechnical wannabe shamans. This little wave of prompt gurus trading for attention their insights into how to game systems they can't comprehend has about as much to do with programming as does slinging shitcoin tips.
This is horrifying. Clearly the answer to: "Does a falling tree make a sound if no one's there to hear it?" is:

Yes, the trees will act like humans and hear each other. They will also simulate a city, celebrities and everything else in a cruel farce of human civilization.
Genesis 1:1: Mathematical Marvel of the First Verse of the Bible
Rule out Gazprom and Transneft, because they are not independent in any way. If you think that there are independent oligarchs that can do such thing, then I have to inform you there are no oligarchs after beginning of 00s in Russia.
Sure there are rich people who "own" big companies, but most of them are Putin's friends and others won't even think about anything like "independence". Putin can say one word and these people (like anyone in Russia) will go to jail for 15 years, die strange death or would have to leave country (if they are able to do this fast enough).
Berezovskiy and Hodorkovskiy examples were enough for everyone to understand that oligarchy is gone.

Moreover Gazprom and Transneft are state-owned.
I'd love a four day work week so I can have an extra day to work on other things. I'd also be happy with 5 or 6 hour days, or even just saying, "you're an adult, get your work done then get out of here."
Robots already have limited enthusiasm for repetitive nonsense with no AI involved.

It actually reminds me of an early part of Greg Egan's "Orphanogensis" where the orphan has randomly stumbled into a working resource, but doesn't yet understand how to navigate properly, so it just keeps accessing that same resource, over and over, that one works, other random nonsense doesn't work, that one works, the other random picks do not.. until it finally figures out some basic navigation and then it leaves.

An AI like a human may read a few pages of your forum about Invisible Moon Donkeys or whatever, but after not long its interest is sated, the forum's location may be noted down for future interest "OK, more about Invisible Moon Donkeys here" but the AI moves on, what's this "Hacker News" forum about ?
No, my point was that always selling at vesting is not good advice. If you were a long term investor and held onto AMZN over a 10 year or longer time span, you would have most likely been way better off than just selling at vest and doing something else with that money. That's the complete opposite of trying to time the market.
Not with encrypted DNS (DoH and DoT).
"Let's build a Chrome extension that taps what google is already stealing."

But it isn't stealing if you clicked something somewhere sometime so "stealing" is wrong will be the PR response because people are being paid to not understand "stealing is wrong"
>Modern heat pumps redirect some heat to prevent the coils from freezing. What you wrote is common FUD pushed by the oil & gas companies.

It's not FUD, and you COMPLETELY ignored & omitted the rest of my sentence from your quote. I'm well versed on how heat pumps work. I was not saying heat pumps don't work below freezing. Rather than simply repeat myself, let me rephrase:

1. Heat pump efficiency gets worse the closer you are to the minimum (outside) temperature they're rated down to.

2. Even with the best (and most expensive) technology, that means efficiency of these units approaches that of a $15 space heater.

3. When it gets TOO cold, they can stop working entirely if they don't have a resistive backup heat system (which, again, is effectively a $15 space heater you paid a lot more for).

Both Canada & the northern US experience these temperatures occasionally (-10f to -30f and worse on some occasions).

Hence the need for backup heat - e.g., a pellet or wood-burning stove, backup furnace running propane or natural gas, or even just something cheap and simple like a $150 portable diesel heater. You don't want to be left without heat in a multi-day power outage after a half inch of ice and high winds.

For backup heat, it's more efficient to burn whatever fuel for heat than run a generator outside to power space heaters or a heat pump at those brutally low temps that often follow those hard ice storms.
Are they laying off back office folks or consultants?
Chevy Colorado Has No Physical Light Switch
Because you get all of the benefits with none of the blame.