skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sub-contracted to a blue chip manufacturing Fortune 250, who everyone has heard of. Before COVID, I was strolling through the cubicle warren, and really noticing all the things pasted on to every carpeted vertical surface. No matter where you stood, you could see 2 or 3 copies of every notice: local office news, flyers about insurance, community volunteer efforts, secondary education programs, etc.

I suddenly realized that, in this company of ~60K employees, there was a veritable small army of people who were involved in this effort: designing, printing, having printing done, hanging, taking down, etc.

All of that is gone now. Some companies are getting through this economic turndown by simply slowing down hiring, and reassigning people from jobs about which people ask "yeah, but what do these people actually do?" If we get through the end of next year's first quarter without a layoff, I'll give props to senior management.
Not only do they negotiate better prices from manufacturers and suppliers, they sometimes negotiate for better products from manufacturers. It's the opposite of Amazon, where the item breaks the first time you use it, or its planned obsolescence is measured in days.
They do do this! When you're on a question, for example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30081275, click on the answer sort order drop-down and select trending.

I've also seen the trending sort automatically applied on certain questions.
> it's not obvious to me that it is though.

Their recruiter portal stuff is pretty complex, which doesn't really show up in the twitter comparison.
The biggest losers on the dotcom crash were actually the failed networking companies "selling shovels" who had many 10s billions invested and then went to zero. Only AOL/TW was really comparable to Worldcom, Globalcrossing, with the $100B failures of Nortel and JDS/Uniphase.. Pets, Boo, Flooz etc made a big ad splashes, but were actually pretty small (single digit $B).
I personally feel powerless, or that it requires a huge amount of work to have a significant impact.

If what you say is true, It could be very persuasive to inform about the expected impact a single person could have by just doing X.

For example, describing how contacting MPs work, why would they care about what I say? giving a specific example, with rough estimates of number of people that need to contact or if it's more important the words chosen to achieve impact

I would be interested in reading a good blog post describing the expected impact of activism in politics, especially on topics that I really care about, like privacy and freedom.

I want to know what powers I have to change the things I care!
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Being polite in answering questions is pro-social.

It's a more pleasant interaction when someone is polite. -- Whereas, if you get rude answers, you'll be discouraged from participating.

Asking good questions is pro-social. People are going to be more willing to help if the questions are well thought out. -- Whereas, asking in an anti-social way discourages people from helping out.

It's still possible to ask questions even if you get snarky responses back; and it's still possible to answer lazy questions... But in either case, it's easy to see why people might not like that.
This is a great way to think about it, thanks!

This sounds roughly in line with Twitter's (circa 2021) at ~$700k, but a long way from MS/Apple/Google who are all in the $1-2.5m range. Even Amazon is at ~$500k and has many low paid workers, so would likely be much higher if focusing on the tech/product/etc side. It's not terrible, but maybe a little low?
You severely underestimate the technological complexity of stone age life.

(Much of it has been lost to history and can't be reproduced anymore.)
At this time it works with server-side rendered / static pages only and does not execute any JavaScript of the website.

The data extraction function of your script also runs aside the crawler, not inside the page.
Go as a language is generally not sophisticated enough to do that sort of thing.

A counter- and/or example of this is what Service Weaver does to try to bomb builds when generated files are older than their dependencies.
The 24 hour test was with a sub-scale prototype at low altitudes. It turns out that testing a small aircraft in the thicker air at these altitudes matches some important physics of the larger aircraft (Reynolds number).

Perhaps unexpectedly, climbing to 20km altitude isn’t too large a problem from an energy perspective. In a typical energy cycle, the aircraft has low battery in the morning, so if we launch with a full battery charge we have plenty of extra energy to climb up to altitude.

Prime Air - definitely a serious project, but I’m sure Amazon didn’t hesitate in milking the PR! Making a reliable drone delivery service at Amazon scales certainly isn’t easy. That team is still going strong and I’m sure we’ll see more from them as they ramp up commercial deliveries.
> but I’ve never seen the point in those

The one points card I have actually is a Marriott card which obviously only works with Marriott, but Marriott is everywhere and doesn't restrict scheduling options so it was an easy choice at the time. I used to travel weekly for work and the hotel was on me for reimbursement whereas the airline was on company card, and Marriott was the preferred booking option by my company so it made a lot of sense to get the card. The math at the time for that was like 5-7% when spending the points at Marriott plus a free night for what was an $85/year card. Useful for personal travel.
As a contractor, Windows 365 is incredible. Give me it any day over VPNs, Citrix, VMware, etc.
I actually never thought of it like this. Thanks for the analog.
But that IS part of the problem. Obviously without looking back 12 years for a day to day practical result (but still looking that far for long term economics concerns.)

A "normal TV" now is a smart (spit) TV which compromises privacy and viewing experience and durability - but which is sold massively cheaper than a plain TV as defined perhaps 6 years ago. You have to dig hard to find a plain TV and it's more expensive. Do you count "smart" as a positive hedonic feature? Or do you count the effort necessary to find a plain TV in the price increase of a plain TV? Do you compensate for much other price increases just because a "normal TV" is now much less expensive and (allegedly) more hedonic?
You mean September 2021, right?
Foresters have been complaining for years that they are not allowed to manage forests the way they should be. Every time they try to start a fire to burn of underbrush someone goes to court to get an injunction against it.
The lesson being, watch out for Hittites?
why? so their kids cant have relevant ads?
> Not legally.

Call the police, nobody cares.
Universal health care is important, necessary, cheaper than our current system, and I support it. But it's a completely orthogonal concern to the state of the tech economy.
>360

I meant 180, of course :)
> if your trading expected value is negative

However, if you take the formula, assign yourself a positive trading edge and a large positive expected value you can justify placing whatever bet you want as a mathematical certainty.

The most un-spoken about thing in all this is how exactly they went from +100bn to -8bn in a year.
So YC is getting into defense contracting now?
My intention wasn't to dismiss viewpoints, my intention was to highlight what I view as fallacious arguments.

I can agree that there are those who do not consider the costs of running services, but I have never seen someone suggest that services "cost nothing to host".
> F*k you if you avoid taxes, especially in a country like Germany where society paid for your university studies etc.

People can move in from other countries, you know.
My guess is that they'll introduce tiers where your current price gets much less access. Presumably this will be done when customers have no where else to go for the titles that they want. Customers will get angry, many tweets will be sent, many articles will be written, maybe MSFT will even issue a statement saying they will pause the plan until they can "better communicate the value to our customers". Then, they will jam the plan thru anyways and their customers will deal with it. This movie is a remake.
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Motion (YC W20) is hiring staff front end engineers
If it's a one-off then you rarely need randomization. For scheduled tasks, you often want randomization so that your fleet of servers is not all doing the task at the exact same time. Think "start between 2am and 4am every day".

You can work around it by picking an offset at install time like scheduling for 3:17am in particular on this server, or by putting a random sleep into the job, but both of those obfuscate the actual scheduling intent.
“instruction encoding is by necessity serial. Or is anyone proposing we should switch to higher-dimensional code”

That is sort of a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word

If you have multiple instructions grouped together like this you could think of it as being a 2D array of instructions
If it were anyone other than Signal:

Today's headline: We Have No Evidence $Product Is Vuln

Tomorrow's headline: Hacker Releases Data Dump From $Product
> What makes C a fundamentally unsafe language is that conceptually minor errors have conceptually unspecified consequences of unbounded magnitude.

There, fixed that for you.

Everybody knows that these scary stories can happen (even though almost nobody has seen them happen in the wild). But for the most part they should be seen as a combination of (typically, obviously) buggy code and compiler optimizer defects, rather than fundamental defects of the language.

> Integer operations can be defined to be safe. Whatever integers you pass to your maths operation, you get an unsurprising integer back.

There is at least 1 arithmetics teacher disagreeing with you.

There is no point, and let me scream again NO FR**G POINT, for a zero divide to return zero. I want it to crash.

And I consider it a compiler defect if the compiler proves that a zero division is happening and proceeds to do a strange optimization instead of reporting it.

It's a fine line to walk though, since there is also the case of legitimately assuming that it doesn't happen, and not emitting the code that triggers the crash. There probably should be compiler knobs to tune the behaviour.
> The chart that shows about 90% of NATO's expenses is covered by the United States?

It doesn't show “NATO expenditures” it shows defense expenditures by NATO members, which is a very different thing, and the US share it shows is a hair under 69% in the most recent year shown, which is not “about 90%”.
Interesting. I was always told as a kid that technology would make the world better by reducing human workload. Automation was supposed to make hard labor a thing of the past. Humans were supposed to be freed by technology to follow their dreams.

The reality is that our oligarchs have used technology to follow human dreams, so humans can keep working.

AI's autonomously impersonating humans should be illegal. No disclaimer. It should be against the law. Full stop.
Those are orthogonal, or are you implying lack of VCs create those conditions?
I'd like to see a tool, maybe a Cocpit-like or a wrapper around SSH, that would build Ansible playbooks for you as you clicked around or typed commands.
I find it mildly infuriating when people repeatedly use the phrase "like". What part of speech and grammar is this called? I perceive it as interrupted thought from unpreparedness.
At least for Roku, I recently found and had good luck with https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
You seem to be confused, the data isn't being deleted so that no one else can consume it. It is just being annotated to be excluded from the EPA's evaluation of whether stricter pollution controls than already implemented are necessary.
Regarding the desktop metaphor: Magic Cap is actually not a good example for the desktop metaphor in its original sense, which is really about a stack of overlapping documents (windows). The desktop metaphor is about managing a stack of papers on a desktop, not about the desktop itself or any tangible appliances on it.

(Probably, it should have been the "stack of documents metaphor", as opposed to the "office metaphor", which can do perfectly without this, as shown by Magic Cap. Arguably, "stack" was a concept already much discussed in a totally unrelated meaning (as in LIFO buffers), which may well be why Alan Kay rather avoided this. Kay's term also puts an emphasis on the OS providing the larger tableau for this to happen. But this tableau is notably an abstract one and not tied to any real-life experiences. According to Kay, it's "like magic".)

Regarding linking pages (like individual paper documents): Mind that the anchor tag is a two-part expression. It marks a specific location in the abstract, serial document stream and allows other documents to link to this specific location. (This is also, why it is not the "link" tag.) It is only in the absence of a named descriptor (hash, fragment) that a link defaults to the top of the document. (Also, mind that previous system like NLS already took a radically different approach to the organization of documents, more related to unfolding building blocks than to any monolithic document.)
I think high quality code equates to better security, even though such code is not by itself a panacea for security.

Here's a neat resource for OpenBSD's mitigations, some of which were/are novel, though it may not have been updated recently (2019):

https://isopenbsdsecu.re/mitigations/
You don't need to go full nomad, just spend half a year + 1 day out of Germany.
The constant fetishization of endless mindless entertainment and the relentless persuit of these unbeleivably vapid technology directions seems to insinuate an almost utter contempt for people’s intelligence and any sense of a better future.

It seems like every kind of company in leadership position cannot help but constantly invest in the most deeply pessimistic future visions of humanity consisting of nonsensical but very low cost babbling celebrity talking heads.

What happened to Asmovian visions of the future, or Roddenbury inspired visions of cooperative societies?

Meta is one of the worst offenders in this sense.

Their products invoke the fat, clueless floating people who have outsourced all of their responsibilities to an incompetent crew and merciless AI on a ship, constantly entertained as they float through an endless consumptive universe just like the movie WALLe. Like it seems like they watched that movie and said, “welp i guess we found our corporate direction.”

It’s gross and I really am starting to despise the pathetic visions of these deeply controlled and pessimistic corporate visions of the future.

I didn’t build a career in technology so we could build a bunch of worthless crap that makes society worse. What is this shit?
I would be perfectly happy paying for a browser (60% or more of my computing) if it was aligned to my incentive (better extension than safari’s and no third party like pocket)
The real problem is that too many people has a preconceived notion that profit-driven corporations are economically rational. No, incentives to grow in size are everywhere from individual middle-manager careerism all the way to boost-numbers-to-look-good-for-wall-street exec careerism, like good luck having a juicy IPO on a 50 man crew.
Thanks for Pythagorean cup analogy, interesting read. I didn't know such thing exists.
This site states that its main reason for not working with the openbsd community is they don't like their politics.
The Largest Greek Manuscript?
you avoiding "the game". it's easy to say that it's not ethical decision (given the circumstances, how much ethics could be in play).
could you please write 5 bullet points about how this state should have reacted. You can make those 5 bullets also ethical, if you think that it's a must
Stack overflow for teams with an ai bot intregation that trains on external sources would be the killer app though.
Google aren't exactly a struggling small business
If you go to any startup founders gathering, I typically wonder "I am usually the biggest weirdo in the room. But in this crowd I feel among the most normal people ".

And it's still true for the later stage startups as well, but indeed it's the most prominent at the seed stage. There's really just a lot of weirdos among startup founders.
For me, that cookie is a red flag that my blocking of Google Analytics has failed somewhere.
This was a really nice way of browsing someone's music at a house party. This was largely pre-streaming, and during those days a MacBook hooked up to a stereo was a common fixture at after-hours get togethers. Flipping through Cover Flow was like flipping through someone's records – you got a sense about a person by flipping through their music collection.
I think you are vastly oversimplifying what has been said or why it works the way that it does. I really recommend you read the design document and reasoning, as it is rather clear why they are doing it the way that they are. If you have a cogent contribution to the discussion, please do share.
Pretty soon, we'll be forced to wear glasses so that companies get revenue when we look at something copyrighted.

I understand copyright holder's complaints. Maybe we can meet in the middle - reduce copyright to 5-10 years.
Brother recently adopted the same anticonsumer tactics as everyone else
LinkedIn for Business makes LinkedIn much more than Twitter in respect to product offerings and in terms of support, marketing and sales as those are much more important when dealing with business customers. All of those products need to be developed, supported, updated, etc. The teams doing that however also need to be managed, so additional HR, Managers, etc.
I think it is just that all of these different departments quickly add up to quite a significant amount of people.
There are states with much lower taxes that also pay for education. Why should Germans pay so much?

There are people who didn't go to university doing business too.
I have an analog weight evaluation neural net in my own skull. It runs fine on a few Snickers bars.
Analogue's next project is an accurate, hardware-emulated Nintendo 64 replica
I personally find that the second example has poor readability even if you are familiar with the framework/pattern. I've worked on codebases that use each of those patterns, and I greatly prefer those where all of the routes (and ideally the auth middleware too) are defined in a single top-level routes file.

IMO it makes it much easier to get an overview of the overall functionality of the app, and to find the code which implements each route. It's also a lot more flexible if you ever need to support routes which do not fit the conventional pattern of the framework (perhaps for legacy reasons).

You can of course still use dependency injection, etc with this central route registration model.
It's like a bookstore that allows anybody to walk in from the street, browse the shelves and read books on a couch, but then says that you're only allowed to do any of this if you also make a purchase or politely listen to one of their employees give me a sales pitch. Well unless they get the cops to arrest me for trespassing, I don't care about their rule. I'll browse their books, read a few, and walk out without buying anything if I please.

If they don't like this, they can turn me away at the door. But they don't, they let me and I'm not signing any contracts with them, so fuck their rule.
Just because Reddit is throwing handfuls of money at Google to prop up their results doesn't mean it's a better resource for programmers. In fact, it's completely, utterly the opposite. The programming subs are just getting caught in the crossfire. It's also one of the main reasons I finally switched to DDG permanently.
they were elected by god /s
When you hear someone say something like that, what they mean is get involved with the related community on Reddit, or Discord, or a forum.

SO had various communities and they were quite helpful for the time, and if you hung around for a bit you got quite a good group.

Most of that has (sadly, imo) migrated to Discord.
There are:

+ Invidious, FreeTube, yt-dlp for music and videos

+ Internet Archive for loads more films, shows, music, University courses in their entirety, etc

+ Metager/Qwant/Ecosia for search, Duckduckgo for image search

+ Anna's Archive, Libgen, etc, for books

+ External hard drives for storage

People apparently so concerned about ethics, I suggest considering setting up a monthly donation that goes out directly to people actually working on behalf of the public.

Depending what you're into, that could be the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive, or any of I don't know how many other projects working on specific cool free software projects, operating systems, and the like. Tor, Blender, Guix, Debian, Arch, Freenet, MediaGoblin, Peertube, Mastodon. Whatever, there are tons of things.

If you give money to Google and Amazon (buying books on the Kindle) and tell yourself you're helping "creators", well, you might be falling victim to a vicious false dichotomy. Try this book, or a talk from Cory Doctorow about the book first to whet your appetite https://chokepointcapitalism.com/
Sure, to get $100 in rewards you'd need to have spent $2,000. It's not life-changing but $5 is still something, and I imagine Chase/Amazon save >1 million a year from people not doing this.
It's called a filler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics)
Well yeah. Twitter doesn't get a cut of what the user makes by posting their links on twitter profile. Wouldn't surprise me if they banned any mention of it and OF and other other sites.
Citibank analyst dismissed for lying about meals expenses claim under €100 limit
I've seen a similar trick on HN, with some basic bash aliases:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25070300
For me the product listings of the junk products are so offputting that I never buy them. For products from reputable manufacturers I look to other retailers first because Best Buy, Adorama and other retailers usually get me packages in 1-2 days whereas slow Amazon gets me packages in a slow 5 days.

Checking out on AMZN means rejecting a “free month of Prime” offer multiple times now, which is one more reason to avoid AMZN. They offer 1000 benefits of a prime but don’t say a single word about shipping now because they probably know I canceled my Prime because of slow shipping.
I don't know about LinkedIn, but a comparable company would be Indeed - something like 12-15k employees. The majority of the company is sales & marketing. Their customer base is basically every company in the world, so having each sales person nurture a few dozen to a few hundred relationships is not uncommon.
I have a soft spot for the Nintendo64: it was the first console I owned until the Switch (I PC-gamed and then didn't game at all in the interlude) and I paid for it as a teenager using my first major paycheck.

Pretty awesome to see hardware emulation with 4K output and analogue TV filters.
They don't have to.
Excellent question, this sounds like an enabling technology for mass surveillance on a much larger scale. Creepy.
I'm absolutely certain that the private equity monstrosity that paided almost $2B for it a couple years back is fervently working on this to recoup their investment.