skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make the best coffee table book.
The Joe Rogan experience definitely worked for Both Spotify and Joe
Yep. Maximizing fuck-over of employees.

Tech workers need to stop working for corporations they don't own, aren't seeing the profits of, and who will just throw them away at any moment. The solution are businesses in the form of employee-owned co-ops and organized labor.
Maintaining a large worldwide music/podcast delivery platform. What do you think they're doing?
> Sometimes I don't understand how jumping from winamp to spotify goes from a handful to 10000 employees. Winamp + audiogalaxy (ah memories) probably covers 90% of spotify use case with probably 10 engineers, then just get some suckers to curate playlists for free.

The complexity is not the player, it's the whole business... Winamp didn't have recommendations, tack on another 100-200 people working on data to surface those. There are close to a 100 markets being offered content with licencing deals, each with different regulations.

There are internal platforms, infrastructure, development, each platform requires team(s) to maintain, and develop them.

What's the size of the largest tech company (with a single product) that you've worked at? Just so I know how to translate how larger organisations work to a worldview that you have experience with.
The grammar is poor in places suggesting human editing, but I'll bet 10 bucks this is mostly ChatGPT too. OP testing a new GitHub code walkthrough tool? 1 day ago OP professed being quite familiar with ChatGPT's capabilities. OP, next time just give us a link to your tool's beta analysis of the repo.
There is also the Netlib (Fortran) MakeMake script - 1987: https://netlib.org/alliant/makemake

But there has been a C makemake version in 1996, I have used that IIRC.
Indeed 'self-help' information by itself won't do anything. Getting disciplined = (behavioural) lifestyle changes.
It's like reading about different types of exercises. Postponing it, not doing it. Yet the bar is so low to do a SINGLE bodyweight squat (while brushing teeth, waiting for something in the kitchen etc). Do one everyday. When you do one, you will do multiple. And just like exercise; Doing almost anything is more important than doing the 'right' thing.

One element is to get into the habit of building smaller habbits. These are to overcome the smallest resistance, by combining, replacing, or removing activities / triggers;

* saying 'do it now' (out loud) to yourself anytime you realize your are postponing
* 'just do it' and 'the obstacle is the way' are what i use to overcome my social angst for silly things. (including the embarrassmentfor this cheesyness :D)
* 'weather is irrelevant'; ALWAYS go out for a walk in the morning, get coffee or bring it. This will have lasting effects for the rest of the day.
* When going to bed leave your phone in the next room. (it's easier at this time then when you are on it)
* Having internet free time (router off, phone in a different room); you can read something slower a (e)book, or listen to downloaded podcasts on a non connected device
* find better interests / hobbies (higher value / exciting / soothing)
* do some yoga / stretching while watching anything
* take the stairs instead of an elevator, add some extra floors.
* set just 5 mins for any task. you might end up doing more, but at least you started.
* (video)call someone you like on a regular schedule, or do something together (Virtually or otherwise)

Bigger intervention ideas;
- actually get into a different pattern for a week or longer; without internet, stay with someone else, or stay at home but clean the entire place. Go outside 3 times a day. Do light exercises. Eat different food.
- talk to a psychologist, even if it's a one time thing.

You can't outsource YOUR passiveness, to someone else (a doctor or a product). Start small, with both the physical and mental.

Small changes may not overcome your bigger issues / fears, doing SOMETHING regularly is the first step. You might get to a slightly better state from where you can make new decisions.

Im sympathetic to your feelign that it might be ADHD - and you might need help for that. But I feel like you will need to make a start yourself anyway
For me it wasn't just about society. In the UK in the winter we only have 6 hours of daylight. So I would be sleeping through that for a week and basically living in a dark world. Not only is it thoroughly limiting as there's so much you can only do in daylight, it just seemed really "wrong" and caused depression to set in very quickly.
Were these blind tests?
Clearly not working on the core functionality of the app - heh.

This seems to be some megatrend with the big tech companies. Hire on ~10k staff, ignore your core features, ???, profit.
I found it difficult to understand.
Walking around in the sun for a couple hours every day has made it impossible for me to stay up at night
yeah here https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665398-Backi...

> Backblaze will backup external USB and Firewire hard drives that are detached and re-attached as long as you remember to re-attach the hard drive at least once every 30 days. If the drive is detached for more than 30 days, Backblaze interprets this as data that has been permanently deleted and securely deletes the copy from the Backblaze datacenter

It's a real fucker like if you have your stuff in storage for a while and then reformat the drive and then try to download everything from Backblaze (what I do every time I get a new computer), only to discover it's not there. Left a REAL bad taste.
Ancient methods were lost because...earthquakes?
Really enjoyed this too.

Most of all the author's gratitude toward the patient fire chief
whose leadership example he praises.

We could do with more of this in cybersecurity.

We're all surrounded by insecure software and defective devices
churned out by companies chasing a quick profit. We're mired in
complexity, non-determinism and broken systems. The experts who
designed them throw up their hands in confusion. And we're hamstrung
with laws and policies, which despite their laudable intentions only
beget twisted systems filled with perverse incentives and loopholes.

How do we solve this? Blame employees! And then humiliate them! Make
our cyber team into a punitive, even vindictive internal police force?

Karen from HR is sobbing into her cardigan sleeve because ICT caught
her out in a "Phishing drill". Now she'll have to go on a humiliating
"this is how a computer works" course - despite the fact she was
programming before her IT manager was born. No doubt she'll get her
own back in time.

As ICT and cyber teams we could learn a lot from more traditional
organisational culture.
i think most people never make it past the title.
You don't have to know Ruby for this to be useful to you. The tool converts markdown to roff files.
Could you add an exception for law enforcement? There are 600,000 missing persons reports annually (especially concerning when a person is being prevented from calling their loved one) and it would make their job easier and could start with a very small consent question. Feel free to email me if you need any more background or information.
I think there is nothing cool about engineering in this. Its comparing electric power train at its best with ICE at its worst, the Porsche will eat that truck up on a track and it wouldn't be a fair comparison either. Can the Cybertruck beat a Taycan while towing a Taycan?

Its a marketing stunt, looks cool at a shallow glance but its deceptive and pretty uninspiring if you think about it.
How is it recognized then?
You have a very idealized view of BigTech. You don’t work any harder at BigTech than anywhere else. I’m not saying that the work is easy and there aren’t crunch times. But if you can deal with corporate BS - something you have to deal with at large companies that pay a lot less - and you have the skillset, you don’t work any harder there than you do at most other companies.

Well Amazon is a well known shit show (been there done that)
Not OP, but I really don’t know why you would need that many people.
A shame EQGroup tightened their security and we’ll possibly never see the other examples.

But probably for the best, considering the havoc EternalBlue caused.
The amount of mental investment to write by hand versus type is significant.

Technology assists are still rather primitive for English (you can’t argue with me on this it’s the hardest language due to amalgamations) but lazy gonna lazy.

My thesis paper on file from 20 years ago already set forth a curriculum to address literary learning deficiency. Oh well. Point being is I’ve practiced the hard way and if you only know assisted methods I will eviscerate you. In fiction, I will always be better than you.

Hey Alexa, how do I spell schadenfreude?

Note: I have 100,000 hours in literary pursuits ranging from reading to writing to critique. Often mocked for my English degree. The truth is English is a wonderful weapon far beyond the grasp of the commoner and I will use it.
Beautiful. This should be the new educational standard for visualization of complex topics and systemic thinking.
Yep. Business theater. It's about stepping on the necks of working people to suppress wages and "teach them a lesson" they probably won't learn.
Zero. I just have this list in my mind of things I want and have to do sometime.

I realize that won't work for anyone. But I have much less stress if I don't have a strict plan at all.
Nutrition: The Emperor has no clothes
For me too.

Next.js was never really broken for Firefox for Linux in my experience.

Through some "hidden" settings, disabling JS, and proably quite many plugins can brake things.

The only thing which tends to be often "broken" for FF in my experience is often CORS and Mic/Camera APIs, ironically in case of CORS 100% because of bugs in non standard compliant websites and for Mic/Camera it's more complicated but most common websites simply refusing to work with FF without even trying (and if you trick them into believing it's no FF often working just fine...).
It builds a Android APK with one line of comand line on a fresh install linux to begin with (Thanks to Felix) thats pretty cool.

Id say the main use case is to move dependencies from a project file to the actiual C files that have the dependencies, This way if the dependencies change all projects that use the file have their build process automaticaly updated. It also removes the need to list the files included in a project since this is information that already exists in the .c files.

Any time you have to define the same thing in two places, you have the risk of them not beeing in sync. This way there is only one canoical ground truth. Source and build process can never be out of sync.
Funnily enough, to get the "crap sound of 8-bit" you usually needed a 16-bit computer (the Amiga). But that's nothing compared to the "crap sound of 1-bit", i.e. playing sampled sound using the PC speaker. I still remember thinking "how is this even possible?!" when I first heard it...
Sounds (heh) like a improvement to me, tbh.

But who am I to condemn these loud bugs to extinction just because I don't like them? Instead I choose to live where they don't occur (California).
According to the README, this is not the Stuxnet source code. Rather it's authored by people mentioned in the license by reverse engineers from the binaries. The real source code would probably have lots of juicy interesting things revealing how it was developed.
I mean, yeah. How many engineers do you need? 5-6 for the backend, 3-4 DevOps, maybe some more for the various frontends... say, 20?

I can't imagine the whole thing can't be done with between 30 to 50 engineers in total.

And everyone else, what do they do? Cold calls to the entire planet to go subscribe, or what? Also alright, some lawyers and "compliance" people, financiers, marketers,...

Don't know. I'd struggle to fill a roster of 200 people for Spotify.

> Clearly not working on the core functionality of the app - heh.

Sadly, yes. That they become so tone-deaf is something I'll never condone though I do understand why it's happening (or so I think: is it the gobs of money that make people comfortable and disconnected from the bread and butter of the company?)
People also use Apple Music, Shopify etc on non-mobile devices as well as IEMs on mobile.

And for those lossless is a massive difference.
>I know a guy who applied for a backend position who was rejected because even though he rolled out a Spring service from scratch that passed all integration tests, the interviewer complained about how the service did not commented the controllers

yeah, and though the job advert says "spend 1 hour on this", you find that 1 hour isn't enough. And yet, the interviewer will pick up faults "you didnt finish this"
I feel her pain. My 4 year old girl asked really nicely to play "the flying game" (Microsoft Flight simulator 2020) the other week. I got her out of the bath and we were both looking forward to playing but it the downloaded a major update which was still running when I started work the next morning.
The annoying thing is: If you also want to download an updated full installer app to archive elsewhere, then it has to download that and the update.
Well, Android was the more obvious implication, but I bet you know that and disagree.

Which is weird because many manufacturers don't restrict flashing a different rom, and even with standard Android you have more access than iPhone gives you.
Can't listen natively on my lametric time!
No, and frankly, the increased search and lookup time when my colleagues can simply string grep them on their computers is a a handicap.

That said, I have never been able to take notes on a keyboard. I also find that physical notebooks not only are in practice much easier to search, but I also have the impression that the fact all your note pages physically still exist (and not "disappear" after you change pages) helps recollection.
> For example you can't have more than 2 levels of parent/child tasks (compared to Phabricator which has no limit)

They're deprecating Epic and introducing Parent right now in Cloud. Probably to solve this.
Is it? The nuclear fallout of a plant may linger for longer than any destruction done by the water of a large dam I would say or do you mean something else?
I have a degree in English lit from a second-tier state school (admittedly, a very good second-tier state school, as these things go -- my favorite professor/mentor was a UC Berkeley grad in medieval studies). My wife has a degree in mathematics from the University of Washington -- generally considered a top-10 math program in the US, and a top-50 university internationally.

I work in a front-office engineering role at a successful quant hedge fund, after a decade working in FAANG and equivalents. My wife is a stay-at-home wife/fur-mom.

Incidentally, I also graduated with total debt of about $13k, which I paid off six years after graduating with my first paycheck from Amazon. I know several other people from my English program who are equally successful -- one who graduated from a top-20 law school, one who was the lead narrative designer for Halo: Infinite, several software engineers.

Let's stop this stupid argument about STEM vs. humanities, and talk about integrative learning. (And, let's stop treating university as job training -- but that's a harder battle.)
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Mint has degraded in the last 10 years and likely shouldn't be easily recommended anymore. After the buzz came the maintaining issues.

I am not a fan of Ubuntu on desktops either and have no idea what PopOS is.
In addition to the technical work of keeping the servers running and the infra reliable, there is probably a great deal of work getting content licensing deals, working on marketing, managing the whole edifice, and stuff like that. They need a huge number of content “suppliers” to get basically every song in every country. They undoubtedly have a large number of developers working on apps for every platform, keeping up with all that attendant complexity.

On top of that, the company wants to innovate and probably has teams working on hardware and whatnot.

Whether it’s efficient is not clear, but most people there probably work hard on their particular daily grind.
The whole JS/npm/react world is a black box to me now. If someone told me I needed to sacrifice a chicken to get a website working I wouldnt be surprised...
Except in this study they were comparing writing on a paper to writing on a tablet so it seems that somehow the fact that the writing happened to a piece of paper makes our memory better and its not just the act of writing itself.
> What are all these people doing?!

Ensuring Spotify can smoothly operate globally
> I think the real victims here are the Lobsters community members.

And yet Lobste.rs members aren't the ones complaining ad nauseum about it.

> the people whose respect I'm earning.

I'm not sure there's much danger of that with anyone who reads through all this.
> wouldn't observers on earth just end up wrongly believing they are seeing a different type of an element?

It would be very very very unlikely. The spectrum of an ionized atom is not just a single line that you could easily mistake for another: there is a sequence of lines for each electronic level.
There's also a lot more structure when you have molecules: in this case you also have lines associated to changes in the rotational and vibrational state of the molecule, and these also combine with electronic transitions to produce even more lines with characteristic spacings. For example, the simplest molecule, H2, has such a rich spectrum some people spent decades in the 50s to fully characterize it.

> is it possible for gravity or other forces to produce spectral lights of similar elements than the original one or is it a very unique fingerprint not similar to close by elements?

Yes, there's the gravitational redshift: it affects light emitted near a massive object such a black hole and it has been observed. The effect is very small, but I guess it could potentially shift the frequency of a line of element X to near the nominal frequency of a line of element Y. However, the redshift applies to all lines, so it's very easy to recognize you're looking at a shifted spectrum if you see more that a single line.

> Also, if gravity can bend light (blackholes), how come it cannot attenuate it?

To attenuate light you necessarily need some kind of dissipative process, so light has to be at least partially absorbed by something and its energy converted to something else.
In a vacuum this is really not possible. Maybe with the inclusion of some very high energy process like γγ → e⁺e⁻ or the gravitational equivalent of pair production, but these are really way out of the energy ranges of molecular and atomic spectra.
For what it's worth Spotify is the most popular podcast platform in the US, with 25% of the userbase: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/podcast-listeners#podcast-p...

I'd say that gamble in particular worked. Not so sure others will though, audio books feels like it will be a dud.
> 9000 employees. My gods.

These are probably not all devs/engineers. Usually, selling services/products in multiple countries mean, dedicated legal, HR, accounting replicated in nearly every location where no common treaty exists, and management in large tech tends to have too many levels and adds up quickly as well.
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I write D fulltime for my small company, published a framework that 4 other small companies use (or have used). D is really nice for the small ISV, but is also prepared to handle massive codebases (deprecated, packages, gradual typechecks, clear deprecation policies).
How few executions (or partial?) could one get away with?
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They sell their non consumer gaming hardware for multiple times the profit. As llm usage keeps increasing I would not be shocked if Nvidia exited the consumer gpu market as it becomes smaller and smaller part of its business.
I can accept that... if it's said how exactly.
Well, whatsapp reached 1 billion user with only around 50 employees
Would you mind elaborating? In particular, do you refer to the technical people ("no need to take care, even if I mess up no one will blame me") or the managers ("those cowards just want to avoid being accontable for their mistakes by blaming the process")?

My last company had a culture of blameless post mortems, and also a strong culture of accountability, so definitely no one would fit the first definition. And the company was too small to have non technical managers.

My current company (big corporation) officially supports blameless reaction to incidents, but internally has a strong culture of cover-up and blame ping-pong, but I still cannot think of anyone who would believe "blameless means no accountability". It just comes from deeply ingrained habits (lots of people do their whole career inside the company, lots of them even getting their masters at the company's own "university". Behavior is hard to change when everyone comes out of the same mould). I also think it comes from inadequate processes: where in the previous company the postmortem was mostly a meeting done by and for the technical team, my new company has a strong culture of "escalation meetings", where the highest managers quickly get drafted in, which obviously has a strong influence on the capacity to conduct an open and blameless process.
Leaving F-Droid
That's where manjaro hobs in. Nearly as bleeding edge, same repos, AUR but somehow less prone to total system failures on updates.
Are you suggesting that I am unable to imagine browsing Reddit at age 50?

Seems like you’re too unimaginative to consider a younger perspective imo.
Maybe because mistakes are less expensive on a tablet.
> Also, I have heard of "Carthage" from all those movies like Gladiator ... Somehow it escaped me until my 40's that Carthage was founded by people from what's now Syria, and the city was in what's now Tunisia

At least accordingly to myth Carthage was colonized from Tyre, which is today in Lebanon.
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