skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps just me, but this "push left/right" advice messed up my understanding of counter-steer when I was learning and I found myself being unable to turn effectively. I would push the handlebars down or slightly forward and be able to turn but innefectivly.

Far better in my opinion is advice to simply "turn left briefly to go right". As in actually turn the wheel left, then let the bike balance by going right. Moto control explains it effectively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqyN5yy6I8
My theory is that bullshit jobs are one of the mechanisms by which large corporations maintain a protective anti-competitive moat around their businesses; instead of letting unused labor roam freely in the markets to potentially compete against their interests, corporations provide as many jobs as required in order to keep as many people's time fully occupied in order to minimize the number of people who can compete against them.

These jobs are of extremely marginal (or even sometimes slightly negative) value to the corporation in terms of profitably servicing customers, but their value in anti-competitive moat-making justifies the costs. Of course, this only works at scale if most big corporations act in unison.

As corporations find other, more effective ways to maintain their oligopolies, the reliance on this strategy diminishes... That may explain recent layoffs in the US? Maybe we've reached such point due to media monopolization and regulatory capture providing a more robust moat? The ability of free labor to compete against corporate interests is now so insignificant (odds are so bad for indie startups) that it no longer poses a threat to corporate interests, even in large numbers.
I've tried to push my employer(s) to offer the dual paths. Like you I prefer the HW-style process (and think they are a truer judgement) but I understand why some don't like it. I wish more companies would support either path.
Which is precisely why I don't understand the purpose to even have postmortems for 95% of outages. If everyone is aware of what went wrong and the issue is unlikely to ever happen again, what is the point?

Well, at companies of the size I work with it is to point fingers, make PMs feel more important, and give people talking points.
In other words, if I need those skills, the people doing most jobs are unsuitable.
> So from a market perspective, it makes total sense for a company to ban you.

From a contract point of view, merchants who ban consumers for charge backs are in violation of card association rules.

> refuse to follow procedure on how to handle the dispute

The merchant agreed to accept charge back rulings when they signed their merchant agreement. The chargeback process is a pain for consumers - they have to do a quite a bit of paperwork to file one.

> Statistically, a customer that uses charge back is a lot likely to end up using it again

A business that forces consumers into charge backs and loses deserves the charge back. Consumers don't automatically win. Source: owned an MSP for about a decade.

BTW, Visa, MC, AMEX and others can fine and ban merchants who fail to comply with card association rules (including chargebacks). Likewise, card associations can also cancel cards on consumers who file abusive charge backs.
> there are very few patterns in functional programming that cannot be replicated in mainstream languages

Well, off the top of my head, the only language that can do something like Phoenix Framework's "LiveView" is... Elixir (and by association, Erlang/OTP underneath), and... that's it, to my knowledge, because of these reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35026508
Plenty of malicious people are incompetent!
Seriously, this feels like reading leftist madlibs. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but half of the words in that specific order make no sense to me. It's all inside references to... something?
The M1 Mac mini with linux will probably end up being the best self hosting hardware.
Trinius on the PC will let you leverage other headsets.

Don't think it has any of the hand tracking with the camera.
LMK if you want to open a US-based office!
Just watched "MoonFall" [0] yesterday... Love AI-Doom-Porn-Movies like this...

Recommended watch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834426/
WW1 military rations, from https://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/memoir/ration.html

> British Daily Ration, 1914:
>
> 1 1/4 lb fresh or frozen meat, or 1 lb preserved or salt meat;
> 1 1/4 lb bread, or 1 lb biscuit or flour;
> 4 oz. bacon;
> 3 oz. cheese;
> 5/8 oz. tea;
> 4 oz. jam;
> 3 oz. sugar;
> 1/2 oz salt;
> 1/36 oz. pepper;
> 1/20 oz. mustard;
> 8 oz. fresh or 2 oz. dried vegetables;
> 1/10 gill lime juice if fresh vegetables not issued;
> 1/2 gill rum;
> not exceeding 2 oz. tobacco per week.

So, mostly meat, bread, bacon, and sugar?
True, was responding to the comment more than the article. That "morale" is contagious does not seem to me to be a particularly surprising finding. Nor that a person's mental health can affect their working relationship with someone and that person's mental health. Anyone who has lead groups of people gets an intuitive sense of that pretty quickly. And I think the author is trying to put that intuition on a more reasoned footing, which I think is a good effort, but mental health is rather hard to measure quantitatively so it resists this form of analysis pretty strongly.
> But it turns out that the engineer had a big part to play in this major failure as well.

> "For reference, the version that addressed this exploit was roughly 75 versions ago," a LastPass spokesperson said.

Quite the game of blame deflection going on.

Whether or not the employee was running an outdated version of Plex or every bit of malware known to man on their personal computer has no bearing on the company's security breach. How was the attacker able to cross the corporate security boundary? Did the employee have access to company/customer data from their personal computer? Was this in breach of company policy, or is this generally allowed? If the former, why was this access not monitored and flagged? Answers to all of these are conveniently skipped in favor of "see it was an old version of Plex, case closed".
There was interview with valve [1], and i'm pretty sure there will be no "steam deck 2" anytime soon. They want better battery and screen (tbh, my deck have pretty noticeable IPS glow in dark scenes), but that's it. So i expect "steam deck pro" to be like switch OLED compared to switch v1/v2 - better battery, better screen, same performance.

Also, keeping current deck hw specs will allow developers to focus on single device when optimizing game for deck. Some games (i.e. cyberpunk 2077) already have dedicated "steam deck" graphics preset. Some (i.e. sons of the forest) have steamdeck: true/false variable in debug window. Maybe we'll see dedicated deck support in some game engines? Who knows.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/23499215/valve-steam-deck-interview...
Think I found a bug! Left the tab (on Firefox mobile on Android) and then revisited it, and now it says: "Perfect landing, incredible, you can't get better than this" with a score of 102.3 (I'm assuming 100 is supposed to be the max score?).
How could they keep that in mind if you never said it ..
It's more that EY is the head of a Cthulhu cult, a dangerous organization like Scientology or Heaven's Gate and is moving towards increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric. Look at how his followers have whitewashed all criticism on Wikipedia and how on lesswrong they talk him the same way Scientologists speak of L. Ron Hubbard.

Journalists haven't confronted his cult for the same reason they were afraid to confront the Hubbard or LaRouche organizations. They just might slice up your cat into pieces. There was a brief window where their sugar daddy got sent home to his parents that they got talked about but in the ChatGPT age they are rampaging again with no accountability and no organized resistance.
You might be surprised how much startup time factors in. The last “blazing fast” Node test runner I tried had something like ~300ms of fixed overhead just to even start running a single test. None of that overhead is reported in stats, which is kind of understandable because it’s timing your tests, not itself. But 300ms just to get started measuring is a bit much IMO.

Anyway. Last I checked Bun still handily beats SWC (and ESBuild) on basically everything, and beats Node on tons (all?) of runtime metrics. Perf has been its foundational principle from the start, and every aspect of what’s under test in the article has been specifically mentioned as optimization targets by Bun’s creator. You’ll find many of your questions answered on his Twitter[1].

One thing I think is worth adding is that Bun’s perf obsession has been percolating a lot of optimizations upstream to WebKit/JSC. So even if you don’t ever adopt Bun as a server runtime, you or your users are likely benefiting from those contributions on the client.

1: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner?s=21&t=ZMU7ao_SpJj349QDow0M...
Having worked at a couple big tech companies I’ll say money isn’t everything in life. I’ve been much happier working at well paying startups with a great group of people making half the money.
Claiming that "a little more inflation" is preferred to "a bigger recession" is an opinion, I'm really not sure it's a consensus, though even if it is a consensus, it's not a good argument for or against it. I think it comes down to whether we soon realize we're near hard landing (recession) or no landing (ongoing inflation). As far as I know (though I'm really not well educated when it comes to economy), in the entire Fed's history, inflation has never just disappeared by itself without restrictive financial conditions. I think it wouldn't be hard to argue why a no landing scenario could be worse than recession.

As to the soft landing scenario, sure, it might happen but based on what followed past inflation, it seems unlikely (if I'm not mistaken soft landing was only achieved once in the mid 90's and with a much lower inflation than we see now.
> But accounting for cultural and biological differences matters

This could mean different things to different people

Lets imagine we have a perfectly objective, merit based hiring/admissions process. We could still have proffeshions with 1% women, or 1% blacks, etc.

This could be caused by culture, say no women want to be bricklayers or software developers. Or men spent insane amount of effort, like more than is logical.

There is still a valid debate, what do we do about this. Maybe you should not just 'let it play out'.

Like we should hypothetically reward people that work hard.

But recently we had some poor intern at Goldman literally die from overwork. He worked himself to death, died for like £30K salary, what a waste.

Should we really reward that? Should the company face some consequences if this keeps happening?

Obviouslt we kniw 'Back in the day' culture for women was such, that they would not be prepared, in skills and in attitude, to compete with men in education or employment.

If we never went for cultural change, it would still be that way.

It think it's really important that at early stages in life more people are given a chance to change course. That's what educational institutions are for.
A boy explained earthquakes, was believed only 30 years after he died
> have run into the problem that the receipt provided by the company is ambiguous (not sufficient by itself) because amounts were just specified with a $ symbol instead of USD/AUD

Claiming expenses is different to tax requirements. With tax you need the receipt as a record, but the general ledger actually records the amount in whatever currency you use.

For expense claims every company does it differently.
The entire point of my post is that Hanlon's razor is not a useful prior when the malice would be in service of greed.
Your case is a strong argument for remote work. Tech companies are kind of weird in that they all focus on the same cities, SF or Seattle, then NYC, Austin, Boston and then maybe they branch out from there. As if great engineers don't live in Kansas City. There is a lot of talent being left on the table imo when companies aren't willing to hire remote, or create more small satellite offices if they can't accept remote. There's a lot of great engineers working at say Lockheed Martin because that is the highest paying job around them, that would be a strong asset to any tech company.
The Secret Sauce of Indian B2B SaaS Companies
“Do you want fries with that?” but for out-of-touch tech people that probably don’t realise the similarities between themselves and a fast food line cook.
Well, do you see Apple and Microsoft arguing with each other like they did in the mid 90s?
> here are reasons it's hard to have an accurate, effective no-fly list and that list costs a lot to maintain.

There's also the part where the merchant agreed to abide by chargeback rulings and not ban the cardholder.
> If you want to save a person's login to make it easier for them to log in when they come back? That's not strictly necessary - consent is needed.

The consent is implied in login functionality. Literal example from same article you cited but apparently didn't bother to read in full:

> These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookie

Essentially if cookie is effect of user action that would directly indicate it needs storing state (cart, login, stuff like switching themes on page) it is "essential" to that feature and doesn't need consent.
Google is only now starting to think about approaching the level of maliciousness Microsoft achieved at their zenith. And yes, people are starting to boycott Google because of it. They should.

But boycotting things specifically because Google keeps shutting down projects is not the same thing. Boycotting for that reason is because Google now has a reputation of being quitters, and betting on quitters is just dumb.
Not really, going economically inactive is a rejection of the state of affairs.

But some patterns or modus operandi have been going on for thousands of years, albeit reacting more quickly now a days due to improved forms of communication.

>At airports people are employed to straighten suitcases after they tumble onto the baggage carousel.

People need to recognise slavery and not be treated like a dog.

The 1st world has its problems, but the planet has its problems, people need to look at things with a global perspective as well as a national perspective and read between the lines.

The days of a job for life are over, the days of working in one country all your life are over. The need to retrain and remain up to date is a form of cutting the fat, a variation of survival of the fittest, but still survival of the fittest.

Becoming cynical can be healthy a healthy attribute to have.
The over aching desire to get people worshipping money couldnt be more on display that ever before.

https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1524064/sex-an...

People need to make sure their lives are not stolen, because when you realise whats been done to you, its hard to recover from that. And as long as people continue to get away with stealing from others in legal ways, the fraud will continue.
As the other commentators said, humans are also black box. They can, of course, provide vaguely reasonable justifications but these often aren't the actual reasons and ChatGPT can generate reasonable sounding rationalisations on demand.
Agree, lately I’ve been telling people I’m too busy interviewing, they try to force it then call me back in a week and let me skip
You're talking about the "majority demographic" like they're some kind of parental figure. Like they have some kind of, uh, burden or something. No matter. By refusing to engage people who wouldn't even dream of extending their scrutiny of my theorized unconscious "biases" to themselves, I am doing more to advance the cause of muhnorities than ten Martin Luther Kings combined. I am ousting myself - a racist - from their community! What could be better than that?
The Option Pool Shuffle (2007)
You’re 100% correct, I think. But it’s notable that in that case, an extra functional programming language would make things worse by dividing effort, not better.
Rates are still well below what we had leading up to the dotcom bust. And corporate leverage is still conservative. It’s a very similar backdrop with AI leading the narrative this time around.
>making US FAANG salaries outside the US and not at any major tech company

Out of curiosity, what kind of non-FAANG domain are you in that pays soo good in the UK? IB? HFT? ML?

I'm asking since every single UK person on HN complains that UK tech wages are shit yet you claim otherwise.

What makes you the exception or why do you think the others would be wrong?

Thanks in advance.
Railscasts helped me learn Ruby on Rails during my commute. Thanks Ryan!
The annotated version gives a bit more context: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2302b/

Essentially the lensed objects show three very slightly different temporal views of the same galaxy. The time differences are pretty short in astronomical time scales - 0, +1 and +3 years (ish) - but since supernovae are extremely transient, it only appears in the T=0 image. In the crops, the supernova is marked between two horizontal bars, it's quite common in "science" images for the object of interest to be relatively unremarkable compared to the bright stuff nearby.
Diablo 2 did some weird things. Here is a post about its fake perspective mode https://simonschreibt.de/gat/dont-starve-diablo-parallax-7/
Thanks for the info. This all sounds pretty reasonable.
um, what?

Pretty common in FP languages to have implicit returns. A function HAS to return something. Ideally, a function is just a mapping between one value and another value. Wouldn't make much sense to have explicit returns.

For everything else there are guards, or just a simple if/else block. If everything is an expression (And if you are making an FP lang, almost everything should be.), the last expression will always be returned.
Can someone point out some person/groups of any prominence who are making the argument against AI progress because of to job losses?

(AI risk is an entirely separate issue)
This is one of those scary things with a cryptocurrency based society that I worry about. We want decentralisation (supposedly), but this is one of the benefits of centralisation where I can speak to and very my identify with someone with authority to access my funds should I happen to lose my password/key. Bank's provide this protection.

Perhaps I'm ignorant of other aspects/solutions. But this is my take with being solely responsible for access to my own funds.
We had a payment system for vaccination field workers in africa that stopped working, so people did not get paid. There was a section in the post mortem template that went something like

"what is the impact of the error: there is an angry mob with torches demanding to get paid outside"
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/art01_eb201504.en.pd

The balance sheet is used to direct effective interest rates intramarket -- not a separate knob.
Cookie banner is "meant well, turned out badly" law. GDPR kinda fixes few things with it.

Ideally browser should just send "do not track" and site should fuck off with tracking, no questions asked.
The L3 cache appears again in Windows, so it's clearly there physically on the die. But under the default performance tuning of the deck seems like it's not really being used. Possibly they are turning L3 off/down at runtime?
Have you used Broadway, its pretty fast.

I think people forget how expensive it is to serialize/deserialize data between machines/nodes.
Big tech includes more people, and pays more, now than it did in 2019. 2020 and 2021 hiring and offers were unprecedented. Things have slowed down, but this is no where near a dead, or even cold, industry.
> Keeping your software up to date as dependencies age and go out of support or the platform you build on evolves is not resume driven development. There’s a business and engineering case that can easily be made for that.

I'm not sure your false dichotomy holds. The definition of resume driven development is not whether there's a business case of not for a change, and the definition of legacy system is not the cost of upgrading it.

> Why are we switching to JS-Framework-De-Jour? Why are we using this graphdocumentjsondistibutedimmutablelog database all of a sudden? How does this improve the business? How do see a path to a positive ROI from this decision?

False dichotomies. You're assuming that not maintaining your software is free from cost or business impact, and you're assuming that switching to the latest and greatest does not bring any operational advantage.
GDPR and DMA that came out of EU internet regulators don't impress me. They make it more arduous to browse the web, reduce the revenue collected by open web (content sites), reduce the quality of internet services, lower the quality of ads, hurt user experience, and hurt businesses who're looking to connect with customers.

Looks like EU will be doing the same with AI, and risk locking these countries out of the benefits of AI revolution.
Suspected?
The Historians will Honk the Toots in Urbit, praise artificial scarcity, amen.
If I were to start a new application for Windows 10+ today, what should I use?
Unless you're putting money under a mattress, money in the bank or investments still circulates and creates inflationary pressures.
If you came up in a toxic environment that will be all that you know. Good people will come out of certain shops thinking that e.g. firing the bottom % of employees is just something you do and tank all their projects.

The perpetrators and victims are all the same people.
For a company as large and popular as Twitter, turning off their servers will be a CEO-level decision at AWS. And the conclusion will likely be that there's very little benefit in doing so. You're going to get your money from them one way or another.
It's a use of a synonym to make the writing more pleasant to read.
What if you're on a team like this right now but the job market is bad...
Environment and suggestibility could explain the contagion hypothesis.

There really needs to be a close proximity to the source; this means that online content isn’t really going to spread it. You need to be physically located in the environment near the people with depression and anxiety.

Also, you have to be easily socially suggestible and open to the input of others, on the level of mirroring and the chameleon effect.

Example: I worked for a boss with depression and anxiety. It never rubbed off on me, but his wife was highly suggestible and she seemed to mirror his foibles and idiosyncrasies.

I don’t know if I would go as far as the conclusions of the Rat Park experiment, but there is something to be said for a healthy, safe, and nurturing environment.
Interesting. I've been doing psychoanalysis for over a year now, and I have similar complaints: I know exactly what went wrong with my life but I have no idea WTF to do with it. It's like I'm just picking the wounds
For persistent logins, a simple “Remember me” checkbox is sufficient, see https://law.stackexchange.com/a/32157.

Analytics and marketing tracking cookies require separate consent, that’s correct. I would prefer websites to refrain from attempting such tracking completely.
Yeah with the opaqueness of comp, the same thing can happen in north america too. Someone beside you will be getting massively more RSU grants or something because privately management likes them more.

> Mediocre ones who think they're excellent are everywhere.

Absolutely