skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Management problem is an engineering problem. Management is how you engineer your organization.

I don't know how big the organization the author is working at, too big in my opinion, too big in complexity.

What I observe, could be wrong

- the team "writing" the service is different from the team "fixing" the service. It is like letting one guy write code, the other guy compile code, but on a team level. Feedback of quality is lost.

- "Then I got lucky and intercepted a few of the zanier ideas". It is common in tech companies nowadays, but I think is really not ideal, one party for ideation, one part for implementation. This is not making full use of engineers in my opinion. Give me a recipe, I cook for you. Engineer can be both chef and a cook, but people seem to be happy being a cook. Feedback between ideas and implementation is lost.

- "The surprise came later, when the biannual review cycle ". If it is performance review. It is too sparse. Engineers might already be gone and good luck keeping the service up

- "They wanted to give this person some bullshit sub-par rating". Lacking objective measurement. Maybe that's why they run the review biannually. Subjective rating is time consuming. I imagine it having to compile "evidence" from various source, and give "justification".

You always want the feedback be quick and whole. Code compilation fast, test run fast, CI/CD fast, HTTP return fast, usage gathering fast, the feedback about whether your piece of code is useful fast, the feedback about team's performance fast. In engineering, we take for granted that things can happen almost in real-time. But in management, somehow feedback (reports, performance) need to be "compile" X times per Y period. In engineering, we somehow have the thinking that abstract only when the code is repeated the 3rd time. Hence we avoid abstracting the wrong thing. In management, we often form an abstraction (team) based on some vague notion on how things are compartmentalize. Oh yeah let's have 2 frontend and 2 backend on the completely new recommendation feature. That's the team formation. Engineering and management have a lot in common
When business can affect polices in there favor. Good luck with that. You can see how well Gov. regulation is working out with John Deers control over farming equipment.
I don't think this is entirely comparable as there never was social capital attached to being left handed. Some do think there is with gender transitioning though.

There are parents that transitions their 4-5 year olds. I doubt the kids would meet any clinical diagnosis or that it would be possible to diagnose at that age.

You can expect a higher percentage that will be diagnosed with dysphoria compared to the former baseline, but I don't think we only see that effect. Perhaps it is even the smaller component.
Eh, on SICP, I use the textinfo one:

http://zv.github.io/sicp-in-texinfo

A lot of exercises are redone. If you are using the first editions, you'll need to use an X server
to play with the pictures. The 2nd edition might be done with any R5RS interpreter.
This is called having "intrinsic value".

In the event that all Apple shareholders want to sell, there will still be a market for it because Apple produces goods and will do share buy backs and give dividends. There will be a discount like you said, but the intrinsic value is there.

There is no intrinsic value in bitcoin or 99% of crypto.
That's only for the nano ones which I personally have never used.

My large USB A Yubikey is in my pocket, with my keys. So unless someone is mugging me or also stealing my pants, nope.
His former boss lit that dumpster fire. https://scobleizer.blog/2006/06/28/wow-vic-gundotra-leaves-m...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/vic-gundotra-the-father-of...
If you have your own office at home and a dedicated adult even kids are not too much of a bother. Sure some occasional screaming and crying.

Two boys and one girl squad.
I feel you. God I wish there was a company taking ownership in building, selling and supporting a batteries-included Desktop Linux distro where all these quality-of-life niceties that are working so well by default on Windows (and MacOS?), would be working out of the box on Linux without any user maintenance or need to read tutorials or wikis, and also be tested together on various hardware combos so that I have assurance that one of those components updating wouldn't brick my system.

I'd pay a $100-200 yearly subscription for such a Linux distro.

I remember wasting over an hour trying to get hibernate working on my company provided Ubuntu laptop and failing miserably. Or Gnome not having the option to disable the touchpad when an external mouse is plugged in, and the extension made to fix this not working because I'm using Wayland. I love Linux on the server side, but I just don't have time to deal with frustrating bullshit issues caused by this bazaar-engineering on the desktop side, even if it's FOSS. I'd rather pay and have something that works.

The closest thing I found was Gecko Linux (based on Opensuse Tumbleweed) or Nobara Linux (based on Fedora) but even there YMMV.
That's an often repeated falsehood. While there are costs shouldered by the public [1][2], they are similar to what any industry gets. In the following, I compare 2013 costs with the 400TWh produced in 2013:

* Research costs, which are partly funded by private companies and partly funded by the state. These projects currently don't focus on the current infrastructure but on potential new projects. Same as any domain, before a new industry can exist, there's research to be done. With about 784M€ [2] in 2013, that's just under 2€ per MWh. Spending was always within that order of magnitude ever since 1957.

* The surveilance authority is publicly funded, just like any regulatory body. In 2013, it cost about 217M€ [2] which is about 0.5€ per MWh.

So, as you can see, the money spent by the state on nuclear energy in 2013 barely registers compared to the power produced by nuclear plants the same year.

[1] https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/themat...

[2] https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/EzPublish/201405..., p. 135-146
I doubt it, because I have a similar issue at my kids' school. Kids must either enter a parent's vehicle (which must have a paper or other sign with the names of the kids being picked up on display) at the drive-through pick up, be picked up in person, or get onto a school bus or other approved after-school service. They cannot leave, basically, without an adult who takes them. I was shocked when I found out about it.
> imperitive!
> If yes, good luck burning out while blocking your own career progression.

Is there a career blockage if you don't stick around? The more you do, the more you learn, the more you learn the faster you do, the faster you do, the more you do.

> management won’t want to promote them out of the situation

Management can pay a higher salary to retain them. A vertical career into management is not for everyone.

> they will ruin their health through stress, and then the consequences of returning to 1x workload and being an “under-performer” will follow anyway.

Doesn't look like that if you leave a paper trail of everything you do.
Apple has been anti-WFH from the beginning, which led to their director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, resigning.
Amazon was previously very WFH-friendly but their CEO, Andy Jassy, recently announced RTO.
Meta and Google have allowed a high percentage of their employees to WFH.
Microsoft has a lot of in-person roles in Redmond.
The source[0] has a more clear description about what is being currently exploited:

In the end, the Internet vendor used the above-mentioned series of concealed hacking techniques to achieve:

Concealed installation, increase installed capacity
Counterfeit boost DAU/MAU
Users cannot uninstall
Attacking Competitor Apps
Steal user privacy data
Evasion of privacy compliance regulations
and other suspected illegal purposes.

[0] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P_EYQxOEupqdU0BJMRqWsw
you'll be in trouble if everybody takes their money out.

Every bank would be in trouble if everybody took their money out
See also Walking Skeleton https://wiki.c2.com/?WalkingSkeleton
...and for every single Protoss structure warp-in.
Stuck != Force
Then Goldman has more faith in the future value of BTC than seems warranted.
I guess everybody that DID go ... aren't around here to tell :D

Public services announcement:

GO fishing, do not pass GO and collect USD200 going into I.T., go straight to fishing!

My perfect spot: a damn on a winefarm, angling there would be.... blish
>No, you are not cynical, you are spot on. Crypto gains are worth nothing until you change it into currency. The same is true for stock gains.

Actually, stocks are slightly different. Because stocks are based on an underlying real company producing real services and goods, it's worth something even if you don't sell it. This is because stocks can pay dividends or do buy backs.

Crypto does not pay dividends or do buy backs. If they do, they should be classified as a security.
I have been that guy, unfortunately nobody stepped in to prevent me from being thrown under the bus, and it ended up with me departing a company where I otherwise loved the people I worked with. It ultimately ended up being one of the driving factors of some burn out, that in working through made me leave engineering altogether for a different role. This can happen especially in startups, because you're always resource constrained, growing faster than you can handle (you hope), and everyone wears multiple hats. That is all fine, generally, it only becomes a problem when you never (after several cycles of hiring) get help to remove some hats and/or you end up being held responsible for failures outside your control due to that situation.

Now in a different role, I make it a point to try to identify teams that are overloaded, shield them from unfair expectations, and advocate for additional resourcing. If you bother looking, it's generally pretty obvious, but most managers are focused on managing up, not managing down, so ICs at the bottom are ignored unless they're a source of waves that come back through management onto their chain.
Huh thanks for the input.

As mentioned below, G.A.S. stands for gear acquisition syndrome. Could be a good or a bad thing, depends on how you manage :D
Honestly it's just a honeypot, the main focus is on creativity and showing that you can do music without most of the fancy stuff, which of course are nice to have :)
If you have $250,000 in the bank then you are covered by the FDIC and will be made whole.

These VCs must have more than that and they can lose it. The usual scenario for a failing bank is that the feds will try to merge it with a healthy bank. Could be a bloodbath though, they could get a bailout, could be the end of ‘big money’ backing crypto and crypto adjacent stuff.
that is correct :D
Language models don't encode meaning. They "encode" the probability of collocations between lexical tokens. Such collocations are correlated with meaning, but they do not "encode" meaning. We don't know how collocation of tokens is related with meaning, we don't understand why certain words, in a certain order, mean a particular thing and not another, and so we don't know how to model that relation.

For example, suppose I give you a dictionary of a language you don't know. Could you learn the meaning of words in the language, by reading their lemmas in the dictionary? Note that words in a dictionary are collocated with explanations of them, not just other words, or tokens.

I'm Greek, so suppose you didn't speak Greek and I gave you a dictionary of Greek, where you could find the following:

Αβαρκαμαξας: ιμιά καρός μαύρα φούμαρα σαχλαπαράκατα μαρακαφούλες.

Can you tell what the word "Αβαρκαμαξας" means, just by looking at the dictionary entry above?

Obviously you can't (and you can't translate it in Google Translate either because it, and its explanation, are completely made up and not even real Greek). In the same way, just matching tokens with each other based on where they appear next to each other in text doesn't say anything about their meaning.

We don't know how to encode meaning. Statistical language modelling is exactly an attempt to represent language, without having to tackle the problem of representing meaning.
Let's be honest, we don't need it. But it's nice to have blinking lights huh
Current. E.g. the camera cursor is used by the screenshot tool (cmd-shift-4, then space)
The point isn’t how to secure the CA’s private key. The point is that this is a separate system that is probably easier to secure. Physically, it’s probably in a data center. If you want to, you could have the CA key loaded into memory at boot time with a removable USB drive.

That key should be easier to protect than a private key on an end user computer, Secure Enclave or not.
That's first time I hear someone would be praising Gtranslate, while they improved recently and they are catching up with DeepL, DeepL is still by far superior to GT, everything else is in completely different league (i don't have experience with ChstGPT). Btw. Reverso should be using same neural model as DeepL and provides also interesting results, though both DeepL and GT are superior to Reverso.
What if I lose this yubikey? This is stupid. My passwords are locked inside of my head.
This is great. I hadn't heard of it but currently building a research mapping interface for a non-profit and will use it. Interested to know if anyone has suggestions for public aeriel/ satellite tiles. I use ESRI via a dev account which is largely great (extensive hi-res) / best value (??) I've found so far - in a semi exhaustive search. Also the Allen Coral Atlas basemap, CC'd from Planet, which is limited to reefs (and 5m) but fantastic for the mission, not just the licensing. But I'm sure there are alternative solutions. Not in need of up-to-date imagery, but would love to find e.g. a publically released AWS tileset that is updated on a biyearly basis or so ... Am I asking too much :))
No more TikTok on federal government smartphones
Yes, it’s not new, but big fluctuations between day to day can be big news. Until recently actually the stock markets have been doing pretty good YTD.
Can you uninstall Apple News from your iPhone? You can't — worse, you can't on MacOS either. Every Apple News link you open will be sent to Apple with the Apple ID you logged into your phone with. This isn't the case in Android.

> And unless you are running a deGoogled phone, you are still being tracked for ads.

No more so than on iOS. I can simply not log into a Google account or use any Google apps on even an Android phone produced by Google. Better, my app usage won't be tracked by Apple or anybody else for ads. But we're going off on a tangent — the original point was having ads shoved in our faces.
Can any of you suggest a nice tutorial or something for rendering maps for self-hosting at much higher zoom levels? Many of these examples are for larger areas where zoom level 10 is sufficient, but I make hobby maps of mountain bike / hiking trails where the displayed area is only ~10km wide at the most with lots of fine detail. Thus, my maps tend to be shown at zoom levels 12-18, which is much higher than any of the free tilesets.

(Ideally I'd like to take a sane style, tweak some things like making paths clearer and offsetting the text labels, then making tiles. The Thunderforest maps are exactly what I want, but tiny and local and self-hosted.)
It is my personal experience at my own workplace. I literally saw with my own eyes that if I don't force employees to have a proper work environment, then they won't set one up by themselves, only to get back pain a few days later.
My World of Warcraft account had been secured by 2FA 10y earlier than my bank account.

The good thing is, the launcher app on _my_ PC got the feature (a few years ago) that I only need to use the actual 2FA fob once every few months, not every time I login. It protects me against the most common case (someone logging in with my account/stealing my account) while not getting in the way at all. Unless someone breaks into the apartment, but I'll take that risk.

Still wondering what's wrong with most orgs not even offering the user the choice of "no 2fa/2fa everytime/whitelist this one device for $period".
I suspect google actually is using their LLM tech behind the scenes to summarise pages to show better results. I’ve noticed the on search snipits seem to know the exact bit of text on the page that answers my question.

But they don’t directly show you generated text because it’s still kind of whack.
Please enlighten us. I figure the company is likely
Amazon, and it’s some core service like EC2 given that underpins basically everything and has different agents running on each box that are handled by different teams like CloudWatch?
Of course, the issue is that the intelligence community often assesses things as high probability when it later turns out 100% of that assessment was based on faulty intelligence planted by an adversary (counterintelligence), or informants lied because they would be paid more for better-sounding intel, or a bunch of intelligence was just completely mis-interpreted by analysts, or the intelligence agency themselves just lied because it was politically useful and they haven’t faced real consequences even for directly lying to Congress…
I solve the issue of forgetting my key by having a key constantly attached to my keychain with a keychain clip except when its in use with my notebook. This means that I have three keys - one on my keychain, one on my main computer, and one for backup.

Also I have my passwords synced to my phone, which could serve as a mobile backup in a pinch. I currently have it configured to require the key, but I should probably change that now that I think about the possibility of losing the key.

Using the key is more convenient to me than not using it, because it saves me from having to remember and enter a long master password.
Undeniably, there’s a large sub-set of the crypto space that’s incredibly annoying and toxic. I do my best to avoid them as it’s just noise that does very little to help the cause.
First of all, thanks a lot for the reply. I didn't expect to get an answer by the actual authors of the feature :)

I think it's not really about the keystrokes (though { } is harder to type on my keyboard than ; ) but more that this technically opens a new class block, which gets treated as such by build tools, IDEs, etc.

E.g. formatters want to put the braces on different lines by default and are generally tuned to put class blocks front and center - because with all the other occurrences of class blocks, that's the sensible thing to do. With records, it just undoes the neat "just one line" property.

Yes, you can add custom formatting rules to stop that, but that's additional effort - you also have to ensure everyone uses the new formatting, etc.

It's also more cognitive effort to parse the code: Imagine the GROUP BY clause were mandatory in SQL and if you didn't want to use grouping in your query, you'd have to write something like "GROUP BY 1". Certainly doable but makes queries harder to read.

> type declarations end in `}` while statements end in `;`.

That rule already has lots of exceptions, e.g. methods are not type declarations (like you said) and neither are initializers. Nevertheless, both use braces and leave out the ; at the end.
That implies people leave it plugged in, which is not advisable. Also ignores the fact that these keys have certain phishing protections. 2fa will fail when you're on a cloned phishing page, so you can't enter your totp code in a fake site. I use mine ALONGSIDE a traditional encrypted pw manager
I've danced this dance at some point, I wanted to do things right and "reward content creators". Then I gave up.

Paying money and having to install a proprietary browser and run proprietary software to stream low-quality video (not download, or move to a different device), if the company deems it available to you at that particular place and time.

Meanwhile torrents let you start watching most content in under 30s, at whichever quality you'd like, in a convenient mkv you can stick anywhere.

No thanks. I'll stick to patreon and buying albums to assuage my guilty conscience and reward content creators.
The Bank of England explains why the fractional reserve mental model of banking is not really accurate. See
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
That’s part of WebAuthN[0]. Some services like AWS will not allow virtual U2F keys to be registered, but most places do.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...
Printers suck. They should be awesome. But instead, the print quality hasn't really improved since 1999. The last notable feture: tabloid size ink jets came out a decade ago. Printers still have paper handling issues, and inkjets still waste tons of ink unclogging print heads. All the innovation goes into lock-in and marketing strategies for consumables. The silver lining is that most printers have a Linux drivers these days.

I was a big advocate of Brother printers, but the last one I bought in 2020 has been plagued with paper jams and the cyan ink leeched into the yellow internal tank. So I now have a tabloid format scanner + B&W printer. I almost dread shopping for a printer because I feel like I'm entering into an abusive relationship with a loan shark (really, $75 for ink for the $200 printer?... or cheap toner! yeah! Oh, the developer unit costs more than the printer... Boo.)
Indie Games >>> AAA Games
Software engineer 2 is a reference to level, not when they were hired (doordash was big by then)
> only have the vaguest awareness of what SV Bank even is, and no reason to care one way or the other.

https://www.svb.com/account/y-combinator
Silicon Valley Bank Stock Plunge Sends Jitters Through the Startup World
Military companies and organizations can drum up support and make more money by creating a sense of fear out of other countries. There is one obvious country that these organizations are aiming at to get more funding.
Why I Started My Own Design Agency
As an entrepreneur and design enthusiast, I have always been fascinated by the power of branding and design in building successful businesses. Over the years, I have launched and scaled multiple startups, each time honing my skills in branding, web design, and social media marketing.
The Dot Essay (1923)
I’d love to participate. We are cloud kinski, the best space alien band on planet earth.

We are harmless space aliens who want to be DJs. DJs are the most successful assimilating musical force. Unfortunately we cannot DJ so we must play synthesizers to imitate humans.

Our last big show was to a crowd of 600 at Fusion Festival. We successfully assimilated 30 earthling audience members.

Find our music on all earthling streaming platforms, and check out live footage on youtube

https://youtube.com/@cloudkinski
To be specific, quoting the website:

> The first version of the compiler was made 2015 - 2016, attracting a fair bit of attention in the programming community. In the spring of 2017 I rebooted the project, rewriting it in Haskell (it used to be C).
A lot did. Apple had regular recruiting events down the road from Mot HQ around that time (2004-2006), specifically to poach Mot engineers.
Sure, nobody said there can’t be vulnerabilities in the Secure Enclave or similar options.

The default alternative is globally-readable plain text.

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good/better.
SVB Races to Prevent Bank Run as Funds Advise Pulling Cash
I doubt anyone with an office setup like yours would hate going to the office :-)
Big Tech Is Now Developing Powerful AI Brains for Real-World Robots