skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've missed the advantages of having quiet working environments where nobody interrupts you, has noisy conversations right behind you, or is otherwise doing distracting things near you.

That's a pretty big advantage too.
If you can convince them to sit upside down while they work then you can turn them into a 10x programmer. The inverse of 0.1 = 10!
What makes you think WASM isn't without flaws, just because their advocates say so?

"Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...

"Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly against Spectre"

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...
Apple Maps is lightweight and confortable scrolling.
Only thing that is missing is the rating/reviewing system. While Google Maps have great amount of users who review stores and facilities, Apple Maps doesn't. It does integrate with TripAdvisors and some other services though, it's not confortable as Google Maps.
Zoom out. Excluding the tech stack, do you like and care about the product being built?

If you do, then that should be a sufficient motivator. If not, then prepare your exit.

Other questions to consider: Do you need the paycheck? Is this position beneficial to your long term career growth?
Mature companies can't afford being as fast as startups simply because their different size causes 1) a completely different level of decision inertia, 2) a completely different level of communication issues.

You're not working with 0.1X colleagues, you're working at a 0.1X company. If that's too slow for you but acceptable for your manager, talk with them about it; in the best case, consider yourself free to spend the henceforth-saved time doing something else.
No, it's not naive to think they could have done that. The right press release should have been "no risk of cancer from aspartame as best we can determine. We will continue to fund some research in this area to eliminate any possible doubt."
That's awesome

> this case, Rekor helped police to assess the route that Zayas’ car was taking on a multi-year basis. The algorithm—which found that the driver was routinely making trips back and forth between Massachusetts and certain areas of upstate New York—determined that Zayas’ routes were “known to be used by narcotics pushers and [involved]...conspicuously short stays,” Forbes writes. As a result, the program deemed Zayas’s activity consistent with that of a drug trafficker.

Years ago, when my girlfriend went to a different college than me, I drove 100 miles every weekend from my town to my state's capital city. I would show up, stay a couple hours, and then she would come home with me. At the end of the weekend, I drove her back. I did this every weekend. I wonder if the algorithm would think I was a drug trafficker
What the UK has going for it is that its population speaks the technology and science lingua franca, by default.
What is they? What is working for me?

I just gave an observation. If one wanted to do something with that observation, then I think it's fair to say that we should design our technology with the limitations of our emotional intelligence in mind. We cannot keep assuming that our emotional intelligence is infinite and can absorb everything we throw at it. Our emotional capacity is limited, and so we should acknowledge that and design our systems with that in mind. But, we don't.

By the way, nihilism is a valid approach as a philosophy and has several important things to say. It is not what it is commonly understood to be.
Find a few more jobs like this and retire at 40.
“The slaves must obviously be happy, or they wouldn’t be singing songs”
ok, but i am not interested in the linux kernel on the desktop, but FOSS on the desktop. just like android, it doesn't look like chrome OS is that.

you can just install Chrome or $FAVORITE_BROWSER on your favorite distro and then use 98% of the same apps ChromeOS users do -- they're mostly webpages

you could do that on windows too. which just shows that chrome OS is not linux or GNU/Linux on the desktop, but it is actually a web OS. like android, linux and even GNU is only there under the hood and not on the actual desktop.
You can't easily contribute to Apple Maps or add places. That's why Google Maps has much more content. Many people would love to contribute to Apple Maps, but aren't allowed.

On the other hand, these are the two wealthiest companies in all of human history. Why can't they hire people all over the world to improve their maps?
Work at whatever pace you feel like working and don’t pay attention to what others do. Leave to go somewhere where 5x productivity is rewarded. Get recognized for your immense output and get promoted or assigned to work on things that aren’t getting done otherwise.

The members of your team are not reporting to you, so it isn’t your problem, or maybe isn’t a problem at all and the “big” company has enough money and people to get done what needs to get done at whatever pace is normal to them.
In which country do you see ads in Google Maps? My Swiss phone (a Samsung) doesn't show anything of sorts.
In Salt Lake City, Utah the trams are free in the downtown area. You only have to pay if you ride it outside of there. That seems like a nice way to do it. People who wouldn't normally ride it use it because it's free. And then maybe some of them end up using it more often when they see how nice it is.
> Apple are total morons for not allowing crowd source of information on their maps.

This leads to false information and scams. There's a huge issue right now with Google Maps and airports; scammers update the phone numbers for airlines, attempting to scam users out of money.

Apple does provide business connect for business owners to manage their data on Apple Maps. It's slowly being used more and more by businesses.

https://businessconnect.apple.com
Advance profilers will access hardware performance counters that give insights.

For example, if your instructions are (on average), waiting 10ns per load/store, you know that you're operating at the L2 cache level or so.

Although it might be easier to get the count of L1 cache misses, and L2 cache hits instead. :-) Pretty much every event at the lowest level can be counted (although its sampling: only every 1/1000th instruction or so gets profiled when these profilers get turned on).

When you see that some branch is mostly unpredicted, you know to focus on that branch/if statement to figure out how to get the branch predictor to work.

If you see L1 misses or L2 misses, maybe you know to shrink the data. Etc. etc.
And, to play devils advocate, how about the other way around? How about employers who really want employees to succeed but employees who don't want to put in the effort? Or, how about employees who believe what reddit tells them: they are being mistreated/abused because they can't have it their way?

Based on my own personal experience, good companies want to be accommodating because they understand people truly are the most important resource. They strive for a good balance of company-vs-employee desires. Who knows, maybe I am just lucky; maybe my past 30yrs working for big-tech is an anomaly?
Guy I know used to drink diet coke decades ago. In the 80's he started getting bad reactions. Terrible migraines with tunnel vision. He'd be useless for hours. He was told at the time "it rots your brain." He stopped but it would continue if he ever accidentally consumed aspartame.

I never really knew what to make of it, and always wondered if there was a connection with PKU disorder.
You seem to have a misplaced sense of being part of a team when in reality you are a hired resource and should act accordingly
Sidebery without using trees because they waste valuable tab name space. Having more name space is a key advantage to vertical tabs. I use separate windows for high level categories and use the titler extension to name the windows. Sidebery doesn’t recognize the titles when you want to move a tab to a new window though. That’s one of a few pieces of kruft in my setup.

Mozilla sucks, but it is because all of this should be baked in, not because of pocket or whatever political thing that HN regularly brings up.

I have tried the vertical tab implementation in several other browsers and they are all inferior. Safari’s is hilariously bad.
Surely, you aren't complaining of peanuts in peanut butter, so can you share an example, and why the allergen presumably shouldn't be there?
Sorry to say, you're definitely not going to lure more users to public transit if it's always filled with homeless people.
And for an informative, trustworthy driver rating, you’ll need staff to adjudicate disputes
Make affordable homes and build shelters so they are not homeless
Not who you replied to, but: performance analysis, service worker debugging, indexeddb inspection

(I use firefox devtools primarily)
"Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that 'masks don't work', which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation."

https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...
Move to a different environment where you feel like everyone else is more competent than you
A testament to how open its old extension API was.
Has been bought out by Google though and it's now part of their enterprise products to install ChromeOS on non-Chromebooks.
Why do you care ? Do your work and get paid, the rest is none of your problem. If you care just bounce somewhere else, you won't change them.

It's a job, if the execs are happy with the output that's enough, not everyone gets a hard on from typing code all day long.
Before you attempt to do anything, first try to assess whether your organization and/or management has a strong “don’t rock the boat” culture. In my experience, an isolated contributor moving super slow might be down to the individual, but a whole team moving slow is usually due to systemic factors.

Attempting to create accountability or meaningful changes to velocity in a “don’t rock the boat” org is usually a one-way ticket to workplace politics hell. If you value building things, small-startup style, you will likely want to avoid this.

Finding a good manager who is willing to give you special-mission style projects to execute on quickly and effectively is often a far better strategy than trying to deal with widespread molasses speed dev culture. Even better, typically, is moving to an organization where the culture and peers match up better with your desired speed and quality of execution.
It will happen again.
Without the monopoly, it’s not really problematic though.

Ironically, this accusation. is almost always levied against Uber, which is not a monopoly, better than the competition, and competing with a monopoly! The taxicab monopoly was part of the reason prices were high and service was bad
"crazy gas taxes" - you mean the taxes that don't even come close to paying for roads, let alone all the other negative externalities of driving?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEuaCCV-zg
Or slack
Residuals go into the deep, deep pockets of people holding all the music: The Big Four. What happens here is anyone's guess.
The trouble with things that are supposed to be the next big thing is that, statistically, they are usually not.

Even if it is, the UK has a history of fumbling such things. There was a time when the UK was fairly clearly the world leader in civil nuclear energy (MAGNOX, AGR), airliners (in particular the Comet), and civilian computers (LEO-1), more or less all at the same time. This... didn't last.
> though I think Brave is probably still a good recommendation for users that don't want to go through the effort of installing an ad blocker

Is that really the only reason to install Brave?

Starting to wonder if I should just set up a Firefox that bundles uBlock Origin by default with a brand new name.
Fixing inequality obviously makes the country richer since wealth is concentrate amongst so few, redistricte that wealth to those who can't participate.

All of these things make people better off somehow.
> The point is that the entire model deployed by VCs is to profit by disrupting the marketplace with predatory pricing, and leave the losses to the suckers who buy into the IPO.

That certainly rings true. But, I also think it's true that all the information you need to assess a business is right there in the public filing. So, at least in theory, enough information is out there to let the VCs keep holding the bag. Right?
Compared to where?

It's a large-ish, English speaking country, with plenty of other countries nearby, that isn't North America.
Happiness is not a metric that the US prides itself on. The only metric is money.
We are on firefox 115 now mate.
Unless you're a boss you can't make the kind of changes in the team that I'm guessing you're hoping for, if you point this out in a rude way you might antagonize the situation and curb your potential career growth at the company. I would advise that you raise it in a factual manner with your direct superior and focus on what is expected of you. If you don't see an improvement then look for another team.
> I would imagine the venn diagram in the us of people with electric cars but no smartphone is pretty small.

So you do need proper route planning, charging point information and range prediction anyway. What would be the benefit of completely outsourcing this to a smartphone? Is having one additional device really going to make things easier and less brittle? Why shouldn't this be done by the car if it can be done by the car?

> Now I warm up my car by going outside and turning the key. My wife's car has a remote starter. Why do I need a screen or app in my car?

You don't need a screen or app in your car. You need the app on the smartphone. That's your remote starter.
Look no further than /bin to see how strong such conventions can be. Mnemonics, function names (and filenames too!) were short because memory was super expensive and likely the first resource bottleneck you'd hit while building anything significant.

What you grow up with is what you consider to be normal and I totally get it why you'd balk at strstr or other cryptic names (or LDA or ls, for that matter) but to me they look perfectly normal and are part of my muscle memory. See also: QWERTY and the piano keyboard for mechanical analogues.
> it's quite plausible that TS is one of only a small number of languages that you know that all your co-workers will be proficient in.

If by TS you mean Javascript with ": any" tacked onto the end of each variable, then perhaps. Actual TS proficiency is rare, in my experience.

But if proficiency is a concern, you're not going to slap any random web developer on a command line tool project. It is an entirely different skillset. Amongst the developers proficient in command line tools, I expect the common language they are familiar with is typically not TS.
Electric Race Car Charges in Almost the Same Time It Takes to Refuel
Downvoted for not parroting Democratic Bay Area values. We will be contacting all FAANG companies and everyone listed in Crunchbase to let them know your an anti-vaxxer.
“Competition is for losers” has been the driving mantra of SV for a decade, led by Peter Thiel.

This isn’t hidden or a secret, it’s literally the open known, repeated plan and has been written about for decades.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-...
Ditto. Every car I've owned for over 20 years has been a stick. It's not more work than an automatic at this point and it's not forcing me to pay any more conscious attention to the road.

I can carry a full technical conversation while I heel-toe to rev-match the downshift into second at 60mph so the engine braking bleeds enough speed that as I throw it through the corner into town and lose a bit more momentum I hit the city street at exactly 30mph and can shift back up to third and tap the cruise control and coast to wherever I'm going. I'm not going to test it, but I'm pretty sure I could do it drunk and with one hand.
> worker's rights (it's literally worse than the US)

This seems very incorrect given that the UK has stricter laws around dismissal (the bar for losing your job is much higher), better minimum wage laws, more legally mandated holidays per year, paid time off for sickness, parental pay etc. - very basic things that the US doesn't have, at least not uniformly across states and industries.
SPACs are just a legalized instrument for fraud, let's just say that. How else can you describe a system specifically designed to bypass the S1 vetting process? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-chief-financial-...

And, I believe what you are saying is that in the current "business model" the scale is the product - not the product itself.
In order for a country to be developing, it has to develop itself first. If we look at the pace UK develops, a better term would be a stagnating country.
Most people in the UK who are 30 or over remember.
CLIF wrappers are a bit less painful for python in my experience. https://google.github.io/clif/
I had a working theory about this when I used to be like you.

There seems to always be a finite amount of completable work at any workplace. Let's say for purpose of your example it's 72 story points worth of work.

By completing about 30 story points yourself in a 4 member team you might inadvertendly end up taking work that could be comfortably completed by your team mates leaving them with work that is either very challenging or work that they are not motivated to complete.

At the same time they see you overperforming and basically "carrying" the team. Imagine yourself in your next job, after this experience, having a team mate that is able to do 400% of the work you can do.

Would you fight this teammate for the finite amount of completable work or would you sit back letting them do all the work ?
> Go, Rust even Zig are better choices

This is a joke, right?
Someone recommended to me TranscribeMe: https://www.transcribeme.app/en

It's a bot that you add to WhatsApp or Telegram and it transcribes your voice notes to text, I use it when I'm in a meeting or when I can't hear (nor want) voice notes!
they're not necessarily 0.1x programmers. at big companies risks and their impact are disproportionately higher than at startups, which unfortunately causes most engineers to be overly cautious. every change is almost non-trivial. it also doesn't help that sometimes even long tenured engineers can't inspire confidence that a change could be safely made. of course there are legitimate cases of 'coasters' but my general experience at bigco with a proper bigco culture is one of people avoiding catastrophe at all cost.
>You can't easily contribute to Apple Maps or add places

yes you can, you simply select an item on the map and report a problem. also they already hire third party agencies to add data to the map
Britain isn’t a developing country, it’s a regressing one.

Public services and government that used to work well now don’t, and opportunities that everyday folk used to have they now don’t.

It’s still a nice place if you’re in a good career, but the long term prospects don’t look good.
Thought that’s what they meant by “ruin it.”
It sucks. I don't have your experience, nor the answer, but I'd search for a different work environment to avoid degrading.
This article is missing an important part in the relationship between the developed world and the developing world which is exploitation. When companies start offshoring to the UK for cheap labor or taking its resources for pennies on the dollar we can start calling it a proper developing country.
http://decwars.com

It may still work... Still loading over here...
>>> No one inside or outside the team seems to be batting an eyelid about this

So, everything looks good from a org stand point. Maybe you are looking at the wrong metric, or maybe you are not a good fit for them.
Investing in defi protocols can be confusing.

With dezy, you can access different yield strategies all in one platform
You need to find another team. It sounds like the culture you work in is not for you.
By the way, it sounds like you are frustrated with how companies work in general. You should read this excellent essay: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-....

Under this loser/clueless/sociopath framework, the skilled engineers at many organizations (including yours, it seems) simply are highly paid "losers" with cushy benefits (I do not mean this as a personal insult!). Your colleagues may have an experience-driven grasp of this and are acting rationally, in a way.
I worked at tech-team-of-one startups for years.

I wonder if you picked up any bad habits, like forgetting how to work on a team.
Meta announces a new multimodal AI generative tool called 'CM3leon' (pronounced as 'chameleon') for both text-to-image and image-to-text generation
How long have you been there? Perhaps not long enough to run out of steam pushing so hard.

You need to work sustainably at a big company. Because there's lots of road blocks to frustrate you. Managing frustration is a skill. Working at 50% capacity is a tactic.
WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer
Yeah not a great look, maybe science isn’t the truth after all
Exactly. No matter what it always comes from somewhere.
The rest of the G8 I would presume.
"It's a marathon, not a sprint". I've only ever heared this phrase working for a big corp during my first large incident response engagement.

Having worked both at startups and large organizations, I can tell that there are two extremes and neither are healthy.

It seems like you got used to the constant crunch time that startups use to burn faster through their usually young human resources. From my experience, noone can sustain that pace without getting burned out or/and (willingly) compromising on their spouses and personal connections outside work.

Looking at the bigger picture you might realize that there are different point of views what progress means. In big corp it's usually about getting rid of/around obstacles, while startups focus on growth, happy VCs and other metrics that mean very little to a big corporate machine that by itself got enough intertia to keep moving even if it doesn't hit those metrics.

Conversely if your current business is running on billable hours. Finishing earlier and providing unrealistic client expectations might activly hurt your employer.
> Just copy/clone the dotfiles, launch neovim and run a command to update the plugins and everything is good to go.

The last time I did anything like this was back in 2016, where I'd cribbed a relatively customized vim config that my boss had rigged up for python and C++ development. I spent so much time troubleshooting plugins and integrations across the various systems I was trying to do development on, I've been burned out on "just install a plugin and update stuff."

Even now, working with Ruby and VS Code, I feel like I have to troubleshoot my plugin stack once every other month because some behavior isn't working quite right. I loathe the idea of ever having to set this up on another machine, and I miss when I was a Mac developer who just (had to) use XCode. It was flawed, certainly, but the base function set Just Worked.

I used to have the stomach for having to chase down config issues and customizing my esoteric editor, but now I get extremely suspicious whenever someone says something like "just copy the files and re-run the install command". It's never been that simple in my experience.