skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft just has really good PR.

I see exactly the same in Dutch government. Im absolutely not allowed to deploy on Google cloud, because of GDPR reasons, yet somehow Azure is never an issue.

Microsoft has been playing the government contract game for decades, and probably the biggest leeches of public money (next to some consultancies) ever existed.
Automatically classifying the content of sound files using ML
Because the device fits in it perfectly when being sent for repair.
Hmm, I think it’s more a managerial thing than a millennial thing. I don’t know a single millennial that wants to sit in open floorplan offices. Just because something happened when our generation entered the workforce doesn’t mean we were the driving force for it. Maybe millennials also caused climate change, as far as I know that started becoming a recognized problem around the time we were born. Expensive housing is on us too.
Another option in this space is https://netbird.io/

Unfortunately they still don't have an iOS client (which e.g. Tailscale and ZeroTier has).
LOL. Every investment program starts with a first step. AMZN opened at $35 a share. Buying 3 shares would be worth what, today? North of $100,000. Not bad, eh?
What’s YouTube supposed to do about that?
We have standards for acceptable risk. In the Chevron example, they were just ignored by the EPA.

Basically, every Chevron employee working with those products will likely develop cancer as a result.

Environmental issues are tough. It’s easy to focus on your dogs’ paw and not even be aware that people are needlessly suffering and dying to protect it.
> What could do with your data to make more money that they aren’t?

Nice try Sundar Pichai.
Working for me with Firefox on Ubuntu.
Photoshop isn't Electron and yet it is slow. So is it Electron that sucks, or inefficient software sucks?
The common use I'm referring to is similar to the OP, which is using it as a framework for assessing risk. In particular, aligning a team on the "known unknowns" is critical to building the confidence and alignment needed as a group to be able to deal with unquantifiable/inestimable risk.
> Turn off telemetry

I may be working from old information, but doesn't Windows 10 still have unstoppable, and unauditable, telemetry?
> He's right, include deaths of despair by overdoses and alcohol. It's way over the 'norm'.

> 68k in 1995. 158k in 2018.

Yet it's still not high enough to explain "Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older" or to support the claim "those who are happy enough not to off themselves in one given way or another will scew the statistics".
stop pretending that paying them extra money removes all ads would help

"Removes _some_ ads!" probably wouldnt sell as many subscriptions though haha
Ruby symbols vs. Elixir atoms – what's the difference?
Not like we haven't filled it already with misinformation and blog farm drivel. We need to judge both human and AI content by its utility.
Honestly, I struggle with this. I've made some 'AI' generated content, Multi-player text based rpgs with persistent generated content, stories, news articles, etc. I never released any of it- not because it isn't entertaining content, but because it feels shallow. It's almost like the idea of uncanny valley, but I'd describe it more as a hollow facsimile. I want to like it. I keep trying to like it, but I am not there yet.
Google search has become nearly unusable, while Microsoft’s core consumer products still seem OK - you can still install Windows 11 without a Live account through a workaround.

I can run games on Linux and do work on a Mac. Search is still a problem, but I am increasingly turning to ChatGPT for searching anything non current event, with Bing increasingly.

I was a full Google stack, Android, Home, TV, everything, for a few years. I don’t know about trust, but Google products just flat out suck with constant disappointment, and search is no exception.
Well yeah, it's a government job so it's probably going to suck money-wise; the guy I know ended up losing money I believe because he had to buy a lot of snow clothes and paid travel expenses on his own account.

Moreover, I believe he had a really bad time there because the population in the base was mostly military and they treated him like shit in the most military bootcamp style with physical aggressions and such. So, he ended up not completing the whole term. (This probably will depend on the country of course).
Macs already do this for other things, e.g. downloading updates. The feature is internally called "DarkWake" and exposed to the user as "Power Nap" (https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac).

I would note that there's definitely a reason that macOS hasn't attached anti-malware scanning (or similar things, e.g. Spotlight indexing) to DarkWake wakeups, though.

The other things DarkWake does are all IO-bound (network activity, disk activity) with a bounded workload size (the size of the update); while anti-malware scans would be CPU-bound (lots of hashing for signature checking) with an unbounded workload size (however much stuff you have on your HD.)

Doing IO-bound activity, just on some efficiency cores, in their base power state, for a minute or two, is fine; even if the laptop is in your bag, it won't heat up, any more than your phone heats up in your pocket. Doing "real work" in the same situation is not fine.
Not every video, but I do take your point. Some patreon supported channels even have no ads at all.
A lot of tech companies would pay for that vast trove of user data. There are possibly no better sources on usage for mass consumer software than what Microsoft has from the past few decades (Office and Windows in particular; the next best would be browsers and or various Apple software).

Why would anybody pay for customer traffic/browsing/shopping data for inside of a Walmart store? Nearly every retailer would pay for access to that, assuming the cost is reasonable. Vendors desperately want access to it.

Microsoft would be crazy to sell it openly. Its part of their competitive advantage, helping to protect $83 billion in operating income. They'd get tiny particles of revenue in comparison to the gigantic golden egg they're sitting on.
Due to strong demand, the salaries are also usually low. With tough competition and low wages, it takes a special character to be in academia.
And how would that behavior change on a non-Youtube/non-Google video website? Do you think content creators will no longer ask for sponsorship??
There are some advantages to using the web as a platform: it’s fully cross platform, completely sandboxed, easy to use, has good backwards compatibility so will likely work forever regardless of OS/browser updates, gives you good debugging tools, and means you can use it without saving it locally if you want
Terminally online behaviour. Completely unhealthy. None of these companies are going to have a significant impact on your life.
I think the part of the question that throws people is “most common”. It begins to sounds like a trick question, because it hat is the most common? Its going to very from code base to code base.

Maybe id the question was name 3 data structures, any 3 it might sit well.

But even so. The question did devolve into list of things somebody should know as a ex developer.
Don't lose hope, it's just a downturn. At previous company (a year or so ago) we hired 61yo who had gotten in to tech a few years before. He turned out great.
Terrifying, didn’t know there’s a second patch on the south. The census map in my parent post show this area populated by “predators” but not much zooplankton, so not sure what lives there. There’s also probably a bunch of debris from nuclear tests in this region.
This is France, it's "loser pays" territory, so you don't have the perverse incentive to enforce illegal terms through the threat of litigation.
Out of curiosity - if this is actually true (I doubt it - that is you will never have another tech job; not ageism.) What is your plan?
Nothing. It's clickbait.
Dan Luu has an interesting post about it as well.

https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
> The problem with amateur philosophers like you an me is that we want to talk more than listen.

that's some healthy self-awareness :) (for someone jumping to conclusions without bothering to read the introduction to the linked paper, and without knowledge of who read it and what they thought of it- which may surprise you).

I truly have no animosity towards you, I am even glad you engaged. But meta-social discussions with "amateur philosophers" is indeed not what I am looking for. Farewell :-)
Well, all bad practice will lose money only if such practices get public.
I don't entirely agree with your assessment, because Google still got caught flatfooted on LLMs despite years of fits and starts on various voice assistants and Gmail/Docs writing suggestions.
There are no moral megacorps and Google is bigger
Ad targeting based on vector queries of your inbox.
You could make serious money (say.. 3-10x of the amount you put in) by shorting companies and buying puts if you strongly believe this.
There are similar instructions on PowerPC (rlwinm) and bfi/ubfx instructions on ARMv8.
Not just browsers. (Other) Native apps have the same problem. For some reason we have elaborate permissions for all sorts of things but nothing remotely user friendly for various kinds of network activity.
You're right about that. And this is something I've been thinking about for quite some time. My rejoinder is that most people have a set of compromises they can make that might make them a lot wealthier than they think.

For example, a friend of mine was complaining that he had to work hard to afford a house. However, he was dead-set on a set of ideals and a location he wanted to settle at. Maybe part of that was preference, but it was clear that part of that was some sort of preconceived notion hammered into him by society and peer examples.

Instead, he could have aimed to buy a cheaper house in a smaller town while working/renting in the current town and just moved out. In my home town, even smaller houses cost at least 400K but there are plenty of nice places where the houses are 60K. So, buy one of those instead and move away once you've saved up enough...

By taking a month and seriously going through what's important to have a happy, "basic" life, most people will find things that they can give up, but that will make them happier in the long run. Like living in a certain neighbourhood, buying this or that, taking a certain number of vacations, having an extra child, a dog, etc.

Most people end up saving TOO much for retirement...and while caution is good, our society hammers this idea of an extremely consumptive lifestyle that these endless 9-5 jobs support.
I don't name names for privacy reasons, not because I'm making things up.

The Seattle Times reported in the 1990s that there were over 10,000 Microsoft millionaires living in the Seattle area, excluding housing. And that was when a million dollars was real money.

Ten thousand.

There's probably a similar figure for Amazon employees.
> In the past, I’ve been effusive of my praise of CNET, a news outlet that (along with Wired) pioneered digital journalism,

I'm sorry, I can't take anyone that thinks CNET and Wired is a bastion of digital journalism seriously.

It's well known that these sites focus on 80% profit and 20% Journalism. It's been that way from the beginning.
This is like complaining electric trucks aren't really electric because the lawnmower you transport in it still takes gas
An experience that allows you to cough during a classical concert
NASA mission to a $10k-quadrillion asteroid is two months from launch
> Think about the big infrastructure projects that some "dictators" do in some countries. It would make more sense for the dictator to just pocket the money, or distribute it equally if he wants to give it up. But these projects and their prevalence suggests another dynamic at play here.

I mean, ultimately infrastructure is an investment. Now, it might be a _bad_ investment; some infra projects don’t make sense. But there’s a fairly obvious reason to do them, and even in totalitarian countries many are good investments.
The thing you described (batterygate) happened once. It was a feature brought out on a single release and it still exists today.

It does not fit with the other narrative that phones slow down over time, or with the release of a new OS. People love to misunderstand it though.
>(The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees. So we might have just been mirroring the same biases the companies themselves have in their hiring processes.)

Kudos for the self-awareness but like others have pointed out, cmon.

This obsession with quantitative scoring for tests is a great example of a cargo cult science because you are doing all of these intricate little rituals that amount to nothing because you're simply measuring latent social phenomenon of hiring like-minded people. It's just statistically-laundered-bias.
It's fine semantics.

Google and Microsoft are different. The same: I am reluctantly using products from both. The different: Their history and their products.

However I don't think that you should differentiate your trust between them.

We should think about why Corporate does enshittification and how to prevent it.
I've long observed that there's actual real-time and there's marketroid real-time. Actual real-time has hard, typically small (milliseconds or smaller) timing windows that must be hit. Marketroid real-time generally means "faster and more responsive than previous batch-based processes" and can mean a response within seconds or a response within days.

When marketroids come up to you talking about real-time this or real-time that, it's best to not quibble about definitions. They live in their bubble and consider it rude to disturb them with technical realities.
Sorry, there was a typo. Astro is more focused on SSG than SSR. This is what happens when trying to comment on a phone keyboard first thing in the morning.
The distinction does matter. Racism is wrong because race is without substance. Your genetics don’t determine anything about you that would matter to people living around you.

Everything else is fair game. Having people in your community who don’t share your language, or your cultural context, etc., makes your life more difficult. Those difficulties are what cause Japanese and Chinese people frustration even with foreign-born Japanese and Chinese people. (Which is why you can’t chalk it up to “racism.”)

Moreover, that sentiment is not limited to China and Japan. Indians, Bangladeshis, etc., don’t want mass immigration either. It’s not as much of a political issue in this countries because those countries don’t have inverted population pyramids. I suspect most people in the Middle East or Africa would feel the same way if immigration were a major phenomenon in those places.

Now you can say “the rest of the world is just wrong” but you’re going to need more than that ipse dixit.
occams razor points to grift

sure there is some dodgy govt stuff going on, but tracking peoples activities and selling it on the open market is pure sleeze
There is no guarantee traditional program does not connect to internet, or run a bitcoin miner. So technically they are not better at privacy.

Web applications are sandboxed, available on almost all the platform desktop and mobile and does not require installation.
Could you also be describing George Boole's wasted efforts in algebra?
Does this absolutely prevent a page from saving information, eg local stiarge, and later transmitting it when you either visit the site or a Web page where it is iframed?
The question is: How much private repos went into copilot? I guess for specific software (how to use a commercial database? How to use some enterprise framework?) they'd find more relevant samples there, which might be worthwhile scanning.
Secret courts aren't an accident. "Whoops my hand slipped and I accidentally drafted thousands of pages of legislation!"

No, secret courts are deliberate and malicious. Hanlon's razor is for credulous fools.
For all of you hiring managers out there, what's your opinion on product-focused engineers? Is that a desirable trait? Or would you prefer a candidate who could care less about the product he works on and only cares about the technology?
Yes, but if you don't go for a year, it will tell you the opposite...
Your conscientious abstaining doesn't fix anything in the big picture
Nice! And good point. It works for both sleep and non-sleep power "nap."

There are different scripts for sleep vs mid-day rest. The main difference seems to be whether or not you set the intention to stay awake or fall asleep at the start of it.
Everything in archives pre-2021 is still untainted. All major social media, Q&A, code repos, and archive.org are timestamped. It taints future collection of training data, but not existing collection of training data.
You’re probably not used to thinking with a “sales” hat, but you are selling yourself. Find the contact of your potential manager (engineering manager or whoever) and find a way to directly reach out to them and pitch them and the call to action is a phone call.

Cut through all the noise. This is the way.
Practically this is definitely true. Only exception is someone with deep pockets and money to burn or if you podge it so bad that you inspire a class action lol.
From a dictionary, on the noun "tool": "something (such as an instrument or apparatus) used in performing an operation or necessary in the practice of a vocation or profession"

I was likening it to something like a screwdriver. I often describe what we do as making tools for others to live their lives and spread culture and civilization, so I understand your sentiment (although I think you are grandstanding a little). My comment, however, was personal and about what makes something a tool for me.

I'm also a fan of what phones do for people, and software in general; one of my fondest times working in software was developing communication/chat software and knowing a number of people who met on it and became partners for life.
How is this even allowed? If my tax dollars go to a federal effort to develop software, if it isn’t classified and it is released how can they restrict me from using it legally? I partially funded it even if it was only one billionth of a penny.
Don't trust the company. Trust the business model.

Eventually a company with great intentions will be dragged to do terrible things if it required to serve their business model.

Google will ruin their user experience (e.g. YouTube, Google) and push the boundary on user privacy in the interest of more clicks & higher CPM.
The world disagrees with you [0]

0: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-worked-with-vs...
Pay their creators not to insert ads into their content.
> At a well-run seed stage startup, engineers will often describe the work experience as intoxicating. At a larger company, the best you get is "enjoyable". Why does this happen? Is it inevitable?

Oh cool, I can work super hard to make someone else a bunch of money! What an exciting prospect. At least let me put on some clown makeup first
Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
Lack of Wernicke's and semantic representation similarity is a big difference for one
I love VSCode, I use Google Workspace for my domain, run a Mac and an iPhone (and use iCloud), a Surface Go 2 with Linux (quite workable), I host on all sorts of stuff.

Uncritically associating "trust" with a brand is a mistake. Microsoft are no more on the side of the angels than anyone else (and are very clearly on the other side in some of the legal positions they stake out, such as their amicus brief in support of Oracle against Google in the Java case).

Pick a sports team if you must, but don't pick a brand and support them loyally. Be an interchangeable consumer, because this is how they model your behaviour anyway. Maximise that.
I'm curious. What is "accolade-free code"? It's referenced and highlighted as if it had a link but it doesn't, and Google appears to think it's a hapax legomenon (or whatever the equivalent is for phrases instead of words).
my job search is miserable. I want to post a well thought out rant about my experience but idk how to do it anonymously without ruining my chances to get a job looking like a dick online.

Every part is horrible:

recruiters that don't know the industry beyond buzzwords. this is frustrating, they cant think outside their box "oh you havent done exactly this for 10 years, so i guess youll never do it." I dont think people know how bad of a filter these hr people are. I wrote code that handled tens of millions of requests a second, then you get "oh but were really looking for a sr backend api engineer, this doesnt seem like a good match" like what do you think I was doing?

random interviews with no clear goals. "system design" wtf is this, i have no idea what anyone is looking in these within an hour. you want me to design facebook in 45min on a clunky ui? it takes 20 minutes just to talk about some of this stuff. you have to hope to hit their random keywords, but you have no idea what it is. leetcode has been beat to death, that to is horrible. we need you to optimize this exponential algorithm on the fly. basically if you haven't seen the exact problem before, you are not passing these interviews. or you run into the sr engineer, been with the company for years, that seems stuck in their local maximum that's interviewing you, your subjected their random questioning and expectations.

the slow pace of everything. schedule an intro call a week ahead with a useless recruiter, schedule your tech screen another week out, now 2 weeks to get 3 engineers to screen you, talk with a hiring manager another week out.

> worse getting no response at all.

yeah, some company sent me an offline question, one question was write a k8s yaml file, right now, along with 2 other algorithm questions. like wtf was that looking for. no, i havent heard anything back. cant believe i wasted 1.5 hours on that. i dont think ill do any take home assements anymore, there is no guarantee anyone will look or respond.

the low balls, "were looking for a staff/team lead, pay is 140k" you are out of your mind with these.

I can keep going, the whole thing is horrible. thanks for reading my mini rant