skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I think it's worth discussing this a bit.

Maybe there was a time when this wasn't true. I spent a lot of the 2010s working in San Francisco tech jobs. It was quite enjoyable and I just got back from a guy's wedding who I worked with closely 2012-2015. Three different startups, one mine, other two as an employee. All three crashed and burned.

I think there are three possibilities.

One is that tech is somehow different/exceptional and bound to stay that way forever. I doubt it.

The second is that we were always lying to ourselves, it was always just "a job", but we were all young, stupid, and naive. This feels too cynical.

The third, which I feel is most accurate these days, is that tech was different, but now is a more mature industry, and is, as you put it "just some shit corporate world". Maybe there was a time when it was genuinely true that people got "unlimited vacation", that "titles don't matter" and that the CEO ate with the hoi polloi. But I think those days have passed. Everything's different now. The people coming into this industry today are 4.0 GPA high school kids, not misfits tinkering with computers in their basement. Competitive parents no longer feel they have to justify why their kid is going into tech rather than law, finance, or medicine. Salaries have increased 3-5x (!!). Tech influences elections, mints billionaires, and controls many facets of American life.

The problem is that the attitudes haven't kept up. These days, Google, facebook, etc are just standard American megacorps. They are some of the most valuable companies in the world with huge lobbying budgets, and tremendous pressure to deliver shareholder value.

The simple fact is that margins always get compressed as industries mature. Google has been under greater and greater margin pressure over the last decade as Apple demands higher payments to be their default search engine, OpenAI starts to steal share, and more people head directly to Amazon for search results. Google of course is going to blame the pandemic for this, but the actual issue is long-term erosion of margin. It's hard to see how any of this is going to reverse course over time.
It’s quite disturbing, it’s it?
Looks like you are correct. I did not know about directed angles. Thanks.
>One example is the debate over whether Trump can be prosecuted. One side argues: Well, if Biden assassinated Trump with a predator drone, wouldn't you want him to be prosecuted and not protected by executive privilege? If not, Trump should be prosecuted.

We have an actual living former president (Obama) that ordered the assassination of an American citizen with a predator drone (and killed the target's 16 year old American citizen son as collateral damage) and virtually no one called for his prosecution outside of weirdos like me.
depends on the contract, some contracts have a clause for non-solicitation
https://archive.is/rLgDV
Jobs aren’t a complete solution. Especially not low-skill industrial jobs. Some of these people are incapable of employment. They need full time professional care. It is a mental healthcare issue. Since the feds gutted mental healthcare under Reagan they can fix it too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of...
That's ok. What percentage of the population do all of them combined apply to? Is it still the minority?

(The answer is yes, it is still the minority. Barely 13% of people itemize deductions and financial transactions like home mortgages and stock purchases are reported.)
The Phoenix Project is ok. It's just a simple parable to teach people about the benefits of ITSM and CAB.

However, I really wished someone would write something like the phoenix project but there's no happy ending. Instead, things just get worse and worse for all the characters, both professionally and personally.
You like the possibility of someone being placed onto your team without anyone who is part of that team having interviewed them? Maybe that does happen at some point, I forget. Long time.

If it doesn't.. I think I would absolutely hate that.

I don't interview people I know personally or refer or know from projects but I absolutely want 2-3 from my team to be speak to them and us do the technical tests.

But I'm an SRE and not a SWE and there are a lot fewer operation/platform people compared to the 6-10 dev teams of 6-12 people doing various languages one sre team supports so there are usually plenty of SWE specific people to bring on committees. My team is 6 who support 80 SWEs so there are just a lot fewer proficient IAC writers on staff.
Apple must allow alternate payment modes without imposing a gatekeeper tax. It must be consistent without exceptions (i.e. not just Amazon). The issue is not the gratuitous fee, it is the lack of choice.

iOS is more ubiquitous than macOS yet more restrictive--it cannot last. This entitlement is so restrictive -- it just seems vindictive. Apple's market share and success means additional responsibility. The argument that it's their App Store and therefore they can do whatever they want is a dubious defence. They owe their loyal developers more than this.
OK, so my criticism of Ackman is actually "infantile striking out at everybody within sight". He made a series of escalating tweets that were truly baby-like, attacking BI, and saying he was gonna tell their daddy (Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Springer, which owns BI) and when BI concluded they had done nothing wrong (the article was not motivated, and was based in fact) he just escalated further (threatening a lawsuit).

I have some sympathy for Ackman, but the methods by which he is achieving his goals undermine his own arguments.
> suggest a downward spiral involving substances first.

Anecdotally, as a person in San Francisco who's been in recovery 23 years, all the people I know who were once homeless became homeless because they were abusing drugs and alcohol. Sometimes mental illness was at play, too.

There's a strong selection bias in my sample set — they're all alcoholics/addicts (thankfully in recovery, thankfully housed).
it is a personal and cultural question, more than anything.

There are cultures where people will pick up litter and sweep the public streets, because they take care in having and keeping things nice.

There are cultures in which dumping your garbage on the street is normalized.

There are even times and places where people complete to die and sacrifice their lives for their their social group.
Grad school...with all the politics to match.
How about using

https://scratch.mit.edu/

?
"Per unit energy D-T fusion, the fusion reaction most likely to be viable near term"

Ok well, I see the use of tritium only as a step towards normal hydrogen as fuel in fusion reactors. Tritium as fuel is just the "easy" target and yes, it is in limited supply and causes problems. But "in theory" we could have higher temperatures and not be dependant on tritium.
In attempting to split the difference between two points of view, you validated one side as the one that values freedom and human autonomy over the other. That is subtle, and because it is subtle it can be effective rhetoric, but it is also disingenuous, but if you tell me you didn’t mean it that way, I’ll believe you full stop.

> I think rhetorically "..who choose to do business with them" is doing a lot more work than anything I wrote.

Dude, we’re talking about iPhone apps at the end of the day. When you’re at the level where you write iPhone apps for a living, you and your employer made your choices. If you’re only writing iPhone software in a way that generates income for you because somebody has a gun to your head, then first, I’m sorry, that’s really messed up and hang in there, but at that point in your life, your first concern probably isn’t Apple’s cut.

> Once an organization reaches a certain size individuals start losing meaningful choice in how they interact with it.

If you were talking about a sovereign nation with a standing army or maybe even a corporation with a standing army, or just a City’s police department, you might have a point here. In this discussion, we’re talking about Apple, and not all of Apple mind you, but specifically about Apple’s developer program and App Store policies.

> but you can't make other people concede that their point of view is merely a rhetorical stance.

Pointing out rhetoric isn’t for the benefit of the practitioner, it’s for the benefit of anyone else who comes across it.
Hilarious. Thank you.
Then learn how to respond to questions that are being asked out of politeness and bonding vs some fellow techie that actually is interested in gobbledygook detailed answers. You can talk about work and why it was cool/fun/horrible/frustrating to non-techies and still bond with them in your commiseration of being laid off.
Scattered Thoughts on Buying Software Businesses
"It's different this time, we have machine guns, rockets, tanks, drones and AI, while Louis XVI only had guns, which was easily overcome with dirty peasant's pitchforks" - elites probably.
It sounds like the Replit ecosystem would be a good fit.
Their economy is not growing, that's just GDP being boosted on paper by a war economy, as usual.

Dragging a bunch of people out of unemployment to go die in trenches or to build IFV's that get blown up 2 weeks later makes your GDP larger but your citizens poorer.
I'm trying to find a reading of the GP comment that is in Ayn Rand's favor, and I'm really not finding it.
Academic and research departments. PHDs researching in the private sector aren’t colloquially called SWE where I work.
I mean.. maybe. Lets see. My biggest worry is the dark patterns on the messaging apps I need to use.

Actually, I'll try out using then through the browser and see what happens.
I know someone who works as a social worker in a homeless shelter.

She is the sweetest young woman in the world.

It is a hellish job. I cannot even imagine her managing belligerent addicts. She would quit in a heartbeat.

These rules are in place for the simple reason that workers demand it
Don't forget inflation!
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This sentiment seems out of place on a site dedicated to startups. Targeted advertising is often an important part of growing a startup and acquiring new customers. You can't just ignore advertising if you want to create a billion dollar company!
What I find disappointing is that media outlets have failed to jump on the fact that, right before all the latest shoddiness was discovered, Boeing requested a safety exemption for another problem with these planes: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
My kids had an alphabet/animal book where each page had an an [Adjective] [Animal] pattern: "Breakdancing Bear," "Rollerskating Rabbit."

"X" was a problem. They ended up saying "Fox in sox."
Is this through a service like Gmail or self-hosting? The only phishing attempts I ever see making it through Gmail's filters these days have all been plaintext emails usually with a fake invoice attached.
As a customer of serverless, you do not have to manage any servers, that is provided by the platform. Even with a platform like EKS, the customer is still responsible for selecting instance type, OS/AMI and any OS updates. With serverless, the customer doesn't worry about managing their servers, they just enqueue tasks (function invocations) and let the provider worry about right-sizing instances types, OS updates, etc.
Again, for me it has nothing to do with brand loyalty—the only Apple device I use is the Mac that I have to use for work, and I regularly miss my Linux environments.

My reactions come mostly from perplexity at how many people so thoroughly misunderstood Apple's 30% fee as a ridiculously overpriced (10x) payment processor fee. That's never been how Apple or the law has thought about it, and the genuine surprise that Apple would insist on being paid is confusing to me.

It's up for debate whether the 30% was justified, but it was never in question that they'd want something.
The only credible reason I would see for AGI not radically changing the world is if it were limited by available power because of thermodynamic limitations.
Maybe the bigger lesson is that, beyond family and a few close friends, the world doesn't generally care how you feel?

You way of saying it is nicer, granted.
Yes, let’s teach one of the most successful companies in the world how to price their products and do business.
I saw "YOLK", as in, a weirdly drawn cracked egg with the yolk pouring out downward and to the left.

Of course, after reading through I'm convinced enough of the mainstream conclusion.
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They have loyal devs and a monetizable ecosystem for devs exactly because they have their policies in place. Apple doesn’t cut corners with short term thinking like your comment.
Meanwhile, the "groundbreaking" paper that the article links to has a sample size of 50 children, and the comprehension test accuracy of the digital vs print groups were 56.25% and 57.75% respectively, both with a standard deviation of around 28%. The researchers found that medium (digital vs print) influenced comprehension scores with a p value of 0.457 (aka, it didn't).

Nonsense article.
All I can think of is Yondo from Guardians of the Galaxy.
Again, you need to consider what you are paid to do.

Are you paid to care about "finding millions of real user passwords in the test database"? About caring how or whether your code is organized? About what should be happening in a unit test?

If you are paid to care about it, absolutely do so because that's your job. If you aren't, though, at most you should inform someone who is paid to care about it and then forget about it because it's not your concern.

Life is short and there is only so many waking hours in a day, so we need to budget them accordingly. If you can't bring yourself to be less passionate about your work even though you realize it's actually causing you and your coworkers problems, perhaps it's a sign you need to change professions entirely.
That metric doesn't work accurately even in the simplest case (buying an app), let alone for more nuanced transactions -- in-app purchases, subscription tiers, etc.

It's unclear how how Apple-the-middle-man can insert itself to effectively rent seek from customers/developers now.
Probably but by the time the conditions are well known it has started degrading already. I’m convinced that ending up at a place like that in the early days has a massive luck component, even if you are the sort of person who would trivially get in hiring bar wise.
Entrepreneurs like Restaurant owners can amortise their children.

Other than that, your kids will make other people rich
Scratch is the first thing that comes to mind;

If thats too basic for his idea - unity, unreal engine and godot are good hard options.

My suggestion will be for both of you to create a blank project, and then use gpt4 to understand the enviroment gradually.

My dad taught me scrath when i was about the same age and having access to chatgpt as a way to quickly learn how to do the things we wanted woul have amplified the experience so so much!
It seems to me that he's fine with what Apple's doing, he just objects to "bad cop, bad cop" as a court strategy lest a judge interpret that as intentionally anti-competitive.
Hey thanks! I've been wanting something like this for ages, and didn't really think about combining fzf with fd.

I've tweaked it to search a lot less folders (depth 5) and to restrict to a pattern beginning by X...

cd "$(fd "^${*}" "${HOME}" --max-depth 4 --type d --color never | fzf --select-1 --query "${*}")"

This makes it super snappy. I probably have waaay too many folders with similar names.
Let him?!

Like don't make this too complicated. My dad, when I wanted to learn programming literally just gave me some "starter BASIC program" and let me find out things from there. No internet, nothing. Oh and a set of like a gazillion 3.5" floppies with Borland C and a book accompanying it.

I made a super cool looking password entry screen with ascii art that was started by autoexec.bat before showing the start menu. Super secure lol (i.e. not at all but super cool and fooled all the other kids).

I'd recommend Roblox for him to start if he really wants to make a game. Zero math required unless he wants to do those parts. Lots of help online, in some cases probably from kids his age actually. And you can but don't have to program things properly instead of just using the UI.

Also, you didn't mention what his vision is. So we can't really say if 'let him loose' is likely just gonna frustrate him or what.

That said, one of the best learning experiences I had was when I broke the computer completely. I was playing around with those autoexec.bat settings and suddenly I could not get it to start at all anymore. My parents were gone for the evening. I had I think like 3 or 4 hours until they'd come back and I definitely didn't want to tell my dad that "I broke the computer". I tinkered and tried things for hours and like minutes before they came back I got it to boot into a DOS prompt again. I was so proud. My dad never knew. R.I.P.
Maybe don't lie about the santa to your kids though.
Pretty sure they pay the best out of any video platform. So jumping ship to somewhere else doesn’t make sense.
fascinating - thank you!
Your explanation is natural, even obvious I'd say, for today. Imagining though how people of the future would ask "Why all those people had to suffer and die in the cold?" your explanation given as the response to that question would sound like "They didn't have a right critical for their survival" - very unconvincing to say the least.

>Humans have understood, and enforced, "property rights" for quite a while now.

May be 10-12K years. Copyright has had only 500 years and is already in turmoil. The property rights may as well be just an artifact of scarcity, similar to how copyright has been an artifact of "copy". Thus with technological progress, space exploration, etc. the property rights may get completely changed or even completely disappear, at least those property rights that we today call so. And in several thousand years the current property rights and their power over an individual well-being would be a hard to understand puzzle. Especially if the future people will get even more capable of empathy and less prone to violence, greed, etc.

>If it was as easy as just building some apartments and walking away from responsibility after that, this would be a much easier thing to solve.

Again, in future it may be even much easier than that, and the future people would be looking at it like generation Z looks at paper maps (and that is just meager 20 years of tech progress - now compound such changes 50 times over 1000 years)
I don't think a prediction is truly a prediction when it's not being compared against a reference. It's really only a prediction during training; the rest of the time it's synthesis. But again I'll repeat my point: "I also wouldn't underestimate the power of token prediction". It's very well possible that accurate token prediction may be the only necessary fundamental ingredient to weather forecasting, writing a successful novel, compiling a pitch deck for investors, designing a chemical plant...

Humans can eat, talk, predict, reproduce, and wiggle our limbs and fingers, but it turns out that there's a lot of complex recipes that you can bake with those ingredients.
My team did. We had a fantastic test engineer (contractor) and hired him. We got no end of shit from management about it (hiring contractors is a no-no) but it was the right thing to do.
As I recall, there are examples of things you can purchase both on and off the App Store, and the prices are indeed different. Though that may have more to do with the off-store purchase going directly to the seller and not another app store equivalent.
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Even as a staunch capitalist and borderline libertarian, I am thankful for taxes, why shouldn’t I be? I am not going to celebrate it, but I don’t see it as immoral in any way.
Both Maps and Earth were acquisitions. MOST Google products are.

The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail. Maybe you can count Scholar but it’s really just a type of search.

Workspace was assembled from various acquisitions, YouTube they bought, Cloud is just a Jack Ma-esque “copy whatever Bezos is doing” initiative.

Most home grown Google products have either failed or been killed in the cradle. G+, Stadia, etc etc

20% was always a myth.
It's more nuanced than that. People who are homeless sometimes have preexisting conditions that caused them to become homeless (mental issues, substance abuse issues) and obviously their addictions just get worse.

People who are on the street turn to any kind of drug they can find to numb the harsh realities of living on the street. Alcohol and cheap opioids.

It would be a struggle to find a homeless person without some kind of substance abuse problem. Addict to homeless process, or homeless to addict process.
That's a distinction without a difference. `ifM` takes a monadic bool but it also returns a monadic value, in exactly the same way that `.await` can only be done within an async computation.
From apps. That Apple is hosting, and providing testing and updating machinery for, along with many backend services, SDKs, etc. What is the fair price for that?

27% is absurdly high, for sure, but you seem to be arguing from a position that it should be free...?

The other large discussion thread has already been linked with more specifics. The very short version is that Apple has been arguing the fees are to run their services, and the commission has historically been a convenient way to collect them. This is them collecting those fees outside of their payment systems, because legally they have to allow such a thing.

So you could release an app for "free" on the app store, and require side channel payment to really use it. You're just going to have to pay for the quotation marks.
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Harmonix is ending Rock Band DLC releases after 16 years, ~2,800 songs
I have access to card data in macOS safari that I entered on my iPhone. I don't double enter it. I do know if you disable security on the phone, you lose the card info and have to readd.
That's true, but all the air molecules entering a tube aligned with X axis have negative momentum along X. You'd think this means the total X momentum of all molecules become more positive.
We lived in the same time. Each person can talk about their own experience, a man has better advices for another man.

You're creating drama where should have none. His life advice to himself is to not focus too much/too early in women (or sex, love, ...), this is a great advice.
Their economy is not growing, they're just dragging people out of unemployment because they're in a war economy. That makes GDP numbers look good but in reality they're getting their citizens killed and using a bunch of production capacity to build vehicles and weapons that get destroyed a few months later, they're getting poorer.
Yeah people look down on me when I talk like this. It’s like you must love it if you’re going through it.

I love my son but caring for a child from nine a.m. to eleven p.m. is exhausting.
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson deserves to be much more prominent in these lists.