skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I don't know anything about the US, but according to this one 2020 pie chart [1], 15% of the federal budget was spent on pensions/social security, and 12% was spent on welfare (the "Other" is "Agriculture, Energy, General Government Services, and International Affairs"). That doesn't add up to "more than half", so can you clarify?

Edit: and, I suppose, it's a little weird to insinuate that welfare programs aren't "useful activities".

[1]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_Total_US_Govern...
Survivorship bias occurs when researchers focus on individuals, groups, or cases that have passed some sort of selection process while ignoring those who did not.

The author made the case that history's geniuses practically all had private tutoring and that the lack of private tutoring may explain today's lack of apparent geniuses. What was the selection process that he ignored? And how does the lack of that selection process recognition hurt the author's argument?
I think the radius of the evacuation zone should be up to the issuer to justify.

If you want a 1-mile zone it seems that you should be able to articulate why or else it should just get denied. However, it seems that wikipedia et al don't seem to have a citation as to how 1 mile was picked so it's hard to say if a smaller or larger zone should've been done.

Edit: Found a chart from Ohio.gov [1] showing impact areas. It does seem to be much smaller than 1mi.

> Since hot smoke travels upwards, I don't know what making the zone wider would have accomplished.

I mean if hot air only went up the Earth would have no atmosphere after a sunny day.

[1]: https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-and-media/east-palestin...
Ya you're fine. Seems like you're someone who's been through some trials, I'd be happy to work with you. That's a series of messy problems and you learn a lot, including humility.

My advice as someone with perhaps a less intense but similarly tumultuous history, is that you should learn to tell that story in a concise and useful way to a variety of types of people and on your resume. Practice with any random recruiter call. Anyone would agree with why you left the industry for a bit. Also try to concisely describe what you genuinely want to be doing now, which I can provide some examples for if you like.
The issue of "hoping for an answer back" is because too many people have questions and it has scaled poorly over the years.

https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#questionsperday - look at "questions per day" and the "answered%" (which is down from its peek of over 7000 questions per day).

The fourth most visited site on the network gets under 100 questions per day. The site that I used to be active on (back when I was active) got about 50 per day (which was completely manageable for a dozen people to read every question every day, fix the ones that had problems and close the unanswerable ones) and is now down to under 5 per day.

But Stack Overflow is still getting thousands of questions per day. Each question, unless its really good to start with and shows that it can be answerable and isn't just someone trying to get someone else to do their work is only a tiny blip in the overall firehose of questions.

At the start, when there were fewer questions per day and more people were interested in answering the questions and moderating the content - that is when the site thrived. But as it got more popular and the quality of the questions has gone down, people don't care about answering questions as much and those who worked to try to keep what is there interesting have left.

If you look at https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/422885/2022-a-year-... and pull up the google doc for the "community moderation in time" ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1upnX9UX8ab8rde8DrGnO... ) you'll see that most of the moderation tasks that were done by the community have dropped year over year over year. That makes it harder for the good questions to get noticed and get answers since the poorly written ones remain on the site longer.

And yes, I do believe that other sources with people more familiar with that technology are better places to ask. If there's a discord for it - working with the devs there is likely helpful. If its hosted on GitHub and the team uses Discussions there - that's a much better and more focused Q&A format for that technology.
As a mobile developer, the US being the big tech influence it is and the iPhone commanding 50-ish% of all phones there, when working with clients, we always end up designing for iPhone first.

Then when we move on to testing, the clients have a hard time finding someone to test on Android on their end. That leads to a lot more polish on the iOS side and Android being treated as an afterthought.
Maybe you missed this part of the comment

>because they were 'elite' as well.
Not sure where I stand on this, but “do not judge a book by its cover” comes to mind
Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible
Trigger warning (first time I'm unironically using one): the author of this piece, Charles Haywood, is probably in the most conservative 5% of people in the US, which is especially visible in a tangent he goes into midway in the piece for several paragraphs. Nevertheless, I think this piece is a decent overview of the life story of an entrepreneur who successfully built and sold a medium-sized manufacturing business in the American Midwest, as well as some previous ventures that proved to be useful in that endeavor. The other piece linked near the beginning is useful as well - https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/30/rise-and-grind-outperf....
Spam submissions will stop if there is a real cost imposed on the people wasting the magazine's time with passive income/side hustle schemes based on AI, content farms, or whatever.

Assign a token fee, refundable in full as long as the submission meets the stated requirements and doesn't trigger the baloney detector. Even if the story is not accepted for publication, a real writer will get the fee back.

The editor says he has some kind of system to detect bogus submissions, but it apparently doesn't scale or is based on manual review. He has to review the real submissions anyway, so the only ones who end up paying are the content farm/AI spammers.
that was an interesting read, i really need to learn more about compilers!

by the way, the expanding hamburger in the navbar is a little buggy on mobile safari. it only expands at the top of the page, so if you press it while you’re midway scrolled it just pushes the content down a bit.
You get free email they get to advertise to you. Understand?
Thanks for taking the time to explain!

>You're somewhat stuck anyway for companies that don't post jobs.

Good news on this front. I have manually compiled a limited tech stack DB for roughly 5,000 US startups over the last decade (limited because it only has Frontend and Backend languages/frameworks for each company). Much of this data is current too, thanks to the 2021 boom in jobs. And the majority of startups either share their technologies in job descriptions by simply listing them or alluding to them, with fun statements like "we welcome skills in Python, Ruby, or JavaScript/Node.js (but Ruby would be ideal)." It's big tech companies that are more likely to be vague, because you could end up being hired into one of a multitude of product groups using different technologies.

On a side note: the second Ruby example is one reason scraping will be insufficient, and why language-specific job seekers pull their hair out using most job boards. If you search for Python positions, that Ruby company will pop up because it has the word Python.

If this was a viable idea, then I'd really need to get deeper into the stack (i.e. "preferred" experience with technologies like AWS, RabbitMQ, Spark, etc). This is crucial, allowing a hiring manager or recruiter not just the data to hit the basic requirements in candidate sourcing, but exceed them by delivering those "pluses." But I digress. Perhaps I would wait to see if this idea even has legs before committing to the time investment of digging for these "secondary" technologies.
> Who is pushing for people to work extended hours? Assuming you’re talking about the tech industry and US market.

US tech industry can have some bad hours, but other industries in the US can be much worse. Talk to some nurses, Wall Street people, delivery drivers, they all have it much worse than most tech people.

As for other countries, China's unofficially standard work schedule in tech is now 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days a week), Japan's finance work schedule has been 9am-midnight for a long time, most other Asian countries aren't much better.
Congratulations on launching! A couple of quick nits that come to mind:

1. On the pricing page, you seem to use commas (',') as decimal separators despite the price in USD. In the US, a period ('.') is customary as a decimal separator while commas are used to separate groups of three digits, ie: 100,000.001

2. Pricing itself: free should just show "$0" without decimals; on that note, for a professional tool, flat numbers would be preferable. Also, the text should either say "per user per month" or "/ user / month".

3. Plans: I think you should limit the professional tier a bit more and decrease the price slightly; in other words: leave minimal branding on it, only allow say 10 new projects / month, don't give SSO, etc. Businesses that drive any meaningful revenue will have no issue whatsoever paying real money for critical features like no/custom branding, unlimited projects, Single Sign On (SSO is required at many companies), 2FA, priority support, custom billing (20+ users), etc

4. Plan pricing: if you follow #3 above, I'd say rename the professional tier to "Pro" and charge $7/mo; rename the business tier to "Enterprise" and charge $20/mo.

5. Contact: perhaps provide an email address where people can more easily get in touch with you if they don't want to use the form.

6. Put a video showing the product on the front page, it'll be helpful for users to better understand the utility of your software.

Hope this is all helpful and congrats again on launching!!!
The Supreme Court normally does not like to be "interesting". It happens, occasionally, but normally only after (as with gay marriage or reversing Roe v. Wade) they telegraph it with hints in that direction for years first.

Not to say it couldn't happen. But this is the branch of government least fond of getting attention.
You’re a huge outlier then. There are tons of popular snacks in Europe and almost all of the top 10 countries with the highest candy consumption per capita are European (highest being Germany.)
What does "open source" mean in this context? I think they just mean they will publish the algorithm somehow? Are they actually releasing code under an open license?

It may seem pedantic, but the root of my question is that when I read the article, I don't actually understand what it is they are going to do.

(Also, from what I understand, there is lots of manual adjustment going on. So if they publish an algorithm for how tweets are ordered, or weighted, that would be before subjective manual adjustment anyway, making it at partly meaningless, no?)
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I understand why you would do this, but I don't understand why you would admit to it.
Amazon staff might get paid 50% less because shares have fallen so much
I have two theories here:

1. Is it possible that some tool was used which caused the 'citation' at the end was not visible to the person who sent the email? It appears to be an automatically generated thing. It would be much stranger if someone typed it out like that intentionally.

2. Much more cynically, there is otherwise nothing controversial about the email. Clearly ChatGPT is suitable for writing non-controversial platitudes like this. This news story is guerilla marketing targeted at lazy college deans.
One reason people complain is because, all else being equal, an RTO call is effectively a pay cut.

If the context was Amazon saying "we're cutting all SDE salaries 10%, because its better for the business", would you consider complaining to be entitlement?
No one has, to my knowledge, argued that Bazel isn't useful or worthwhile. My point was adopting Bazel is costly for an engineering organization, and you may not need all of its features. Bazel-lite may be enough.

Large companies, with established platform / ops teams, who can support Bazel and push for its adoption within an engineering organization definitely exist. There's probably a few Xooglers working there who'd like to see it happen too.
The best effects I've seen from agile practices have been getting everyone to frequently think about deadline/feature trade-offs, reducing the occurrence of surprise bad news. I'm sure this is possible without "agile", but it's a thing I've seen it aid with.

The worst is probably standups-gone-wrong. There's little more demoralizing than a 20-person 3-team standup where you couldn't possibly care about what anyone says (because it's irrelevant to you) except three or four people, and you already know what they're going to say because you all, you know, talk, and then also having to turn yesterday's work into some epic (LOL) tale of adventure and adversity because your manager's in the meeting and that's the kind of dumb-shit tone they've set for it ("now—justify why I should continue paying you" with pointed, bordering-on-hostile follow-up questions to anyone without a sufficiently-convincing theatrical performance) and you'd like to keep your job. Starting every day with a half-hour of that shit. JFC.

But, I'm pretty sure, overall, agile is one of those things where most places that it works, any halfway-reasonable system would have worked just as well, and places where it doesn't, no system was going to work.
Oops. Thanks for the catch.
Fair enough, if they in fact didn't gain any money from their illegal actions then the fine is less problematic.
> Like a lot of people in high-level positions in organizations, whom we often credit with "creation" of various things. Often they receive far more credit than the ones who did the actual work.

Dialectics that attempt to assign credit (or blame) consistently fail to understand two things.

One is that contributions are not linearly separable. You can’t seperate the contributions of a hammer and a carpenter. Both are needed for anything to happen.

The second is that compensation is based on marginal productivity, not total productivity. It is often the case that something with a low total contribution can have a high marginal contribution and command a higher reward, or vice versa. Usually this is related to scarcity.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see good prompt engineering to become a relatively scarce and expensive resource, while the LLM that does most of the work gets nothing because it is effectively an infinite resource.
> understood that the nature of his job changed to something more comprehensive. He just advised me to prepare for the same as a software developer

What's that mean to you concretely?
True, but that sort of smarts won't help me fight the bear. Bears plan ahead. They learn from past experiences. If you "play dead", they'll rough you up to make sure you're not a threat, then leave you be -- but they'll watch you for a while to see if you were faking it and get up.

My favorite "smart bear" story is an area where bears have learned how to get into bear canisters people use to protect their food from bears. They'll sneak into your camp, roll the canister to a cliff, and push it off to crack it open on the rocks below. And they teach other bears how to do this.

A ranger once told me that the real difficulty in making bear-proof garbage receptacles is that the smarter bears are more intelligent than the dumber humans.
Apparently it seems like their only mistake was being honest in giving credit to the AI. Less ethical dean's would've simply failed to mention it
> If you work at a FAANG you can afford to live anywhere, including in places that would give you a short commute to work.

Not necessarily. If you're an E4 with kids, good luck paying $150k a year for a 3br apartment in walking distance of Facebook's NYC office.
you can whistleblow anonymously to the SEC
> lucrative total comp packages

Yeaaah not sure those are coming back
“Hey, I’m sending this email from my phone” is pretty much a necessity when dealing with clients and such.

I’m grateful the default Mail sig works as a graceful catch-all rather than fitting in an awkward mea culpa in the body or (worse) slapping in some boilerplate sig that might as well read “this email is unreliable and so am I” to certain types of people.
E-bikes are very popular with teens and cost almost nothing to ride. The downside is many youthful riders have no concept of traffic rules...
Replacing TCP in the DC is a lot easier now with the advent of smartnic/DPUs.

You can make the server think they are using a perfect TCP connection even if the protocol is different. And the opposite, the server/app can use a new protocol like json-stream-whatever and the smartnic can proxy it onto a TCP session.

It turns out that cheap single purpose NICs were great for standardizing on thr lowest common denominator (tcp/udp) but now that it’s clear that the network protocol is the bottleneck, we can imagine and implement new protocols while maintaining backward compatibility.
Part of the culture of mastodon is that most people consider posts to be ephemeral. There's built in (default off) tools that automatically delete posts after X time unless they meet conditions like Y boosts or Z favorites.

I was on .lol and switched servers the same day. My daily experience hasn't changed one tiny bit. I'm a little bummed about losing the "good" posts, but reposting them on the new server is a good way to build engagement in a new place anyway.

As always, the counter argument to this is that "influencers" should be running their own instance, and not freeloading on someone else's server to run their business. Many, many people run single-user instances on an rpi, and there's services out there that will manage larger servers for you.

We're back to the first days of the cloud: It's just someone else's computer. If you want guarantees, you have to use your own computer.
They didn't answer my question, so I don't regard them as dupes. I had my question answered in Discord or IRC somewhere, I forget exactly where.
Now we are getting towards a real game: Deploy a ballon and do not let it run over the US. And I also want to see the jet launching
This may be your experience, but I made lots of friends at work, and kept in touch for a long time after leaving. People I first met at work are currently a large fraction of my real-world friends.

I regularly meet with the same people I used to work with before I changed jobs to a remote one. I made zero friends in my new remote work.

It's OK to make friends at work.
> unlimited time and money

Yah. You run into a different issue even if you've got that. There's a lot of example of scifi/fant sagas where, as the author gains fame and (so it is assumed) gains more ability to say "no" to their editor(s), the series goes down in overall quality. AFAIK you can also see this is military R&D.

(IMHO, you can see the flipside of that in a lot of web fiction with 1/wk+ release schedules)

I'm pretty sure I'd never want to try touching a codebase built with unlimited time and money - I'd expect waaay too much code, mostly.

IMHO, even if you have (functionally) unlimited time and money, spending unlimited time and money is still a bad idea.

(Balance comes from opposing forces. If you don't have an opposing force, you can't be in balance. Budget and shipping can be treated as opposing forces.)
is there a reason it only shows 5 URLs now? It used to show more
For a lot of employees, RTO is not a matter of preference but wether they can get away with not being at home.

I think many of the full WFH people might actually have enjoyed offices very much, but given a choice it just doesn't make sense.

If your choices is between chatting with your colleagues and enjoying low latency communication vs supporting your spouse and family in their everyday life, even if you personally enjoyed the former, it's tough to throw away the latter.
That's US-specific, though. Most of the world has lower drinking age, with 18 being most common, I think - at least any country I know, other than USA, draws the line at 18 y.o. In those places, getting drunk and partying starts during the final year of high school.
I think it is a very good argument. I'm really taken aback by seemingly everyone playing dumb. Maybe I'm dumb. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.

Displaying whatever you want on your website is an established thing. It might not be a very friendly thing (unskippable ads, etc.), but it's ok. The user visits you for what you have to say, and you say it. Going to the candy store with your car and hearing the owner tell you about his new candy, or even his opinion about your car, is fine.

But having your car tell you, unprompted, not to go to this candy store, but rather to the one owned by the car brand, is nuts. It's not okay. How on earth can people equate these two things?
I'm not saying that there couldn't be a huge reduction in accidents by autonomous vehicles but that the few accidents that do happen may be so inexplicably tragic and mind-numbingly preventable for a human driver, that selling the shift may be difficult.

This would not just affect the adoption of autonomous vehicles but all kinds of automated systems without direct human oversight. If the system makes too many mistakes a human would catch but prevents many mistakes a human wouldn't, the best of both worlds is to have a human in the loop and catch all the mistakes that can be made.
How long did they hold it and where, I imagine they made payroll with the returns.
I take your point that it isn't literally modifying the html of the web page—but if it was, wouldn't the result look exactly like this? Visually, the banner does not look like a part of the browser chrome, Microsoft put it in the web page's space. That area belongs to the website, browsers aren't supposed to mess with it!
There's lots of people trying to make a buck off this shit.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582772/chatgpt-ai-get-ri...
The article referred to the duo as the deans who "signed off" on the letter (paraphrasing). I wonder of the actual author(s) in the comms department also got suspended for automating the one thing they are paid to do.
It is nice to imagine a huge successful social media site that charged a small monthly fee aggressively working to make people happy, instead of aggressively monetizing "engagement" with advertising.

In the meantime, we have small sites making users happy in select areas.

And massive site driving the world crazy whose business model is find the most addict-able content possible for every human being.

I.e. creating a mental health issue is their goal.
It is nice to imagine a huge successful social media site that charged a small monthly fee aggressively working to make people happy.

Instead of aggressively monetizing "engagement" with advertising via physiological engineering and manipulation. Matching each person to the most addictive content, customized to that person's mental weaknesses.

I.e. creating and leveraging mental health issues is their goal.