skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Farming has been the default job in human society for thousands of years - and still is, even today. There's nothing special about farmers, they aren't geniuses, the work is not that difficult - it requires effort, care and perseverance.

And this shouldn't be surprising. Farming is a very human activity, and can be done by pretty much any human. You don't need to be exceptional to do it. In fact it would be ridiculous if you did - imagine if only 1 in 50 people was brilliant enough to become a farmer - human civilization would never have gotten started.

Praising something like this feels silly to me, much as when people talk about "being a mother is the hardest job" or similar. It's not. Being a mother is a common human experience, and most women go through it.

This isn't to say such things shouldn't be celebrated. The idea of celebrations around harvest or motherhood is appealing to me, but there's nothing exceptional here, and there shouldn't be. Simple things, regular things, things everyone can do or goes through are worth celebrating, not just the exceptions, the geniuses, the stand-outs.
The discussion seems to calm down a little afterwards if you follow the thread. Linus is actually making suggestions for Steven to try in his test setup:

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2401.3/04995.html
Block lays off close to 1,000 employees
How many of these businesses even existed 20 years ago? Or even 15 or 10?
Yeah exactly if anything we're seeing the beginning of the disintegration of the big monoliths (Google at least) who hoovered up everything in their path.

VC investment has ebbed, that's true. But maybe it will encourage businesses with a more solid path to revenue --even self-bootstrapped -- less hype, and more practical product oriented engineering. We can hope.

I do think a lot of us may end up out of work. Myself included, maybe.
I think I only once had to take a test to attend an event--and the company that handled the process claimed that records weren't kept. Of course, I had to submit proof of vaccination on many occasions including to my company.

I assume required testing was much more common in domains like healthcare.
I read about this explanation years ago. It's not novel. I don't remember where, though... It might have been from Feynman.
However on the flip side a user can be someone who downloads your app, pokes at for 10 minutes and deletes it. Not something I would call a user, but for apples purposes it works.
Catalan Numbers [video]
For one, HN isn't a monolith. There are plenty of people on here who agree and disagree on each of the topics you listed.

On the topic of social media, I think that there is a widespread belief that we could have tools that give us the social benefits of social media without including all of the toxic manipulative tracking and algorithmic feeds. Unfortunately the market has become dominated by a few maximally greedy companies, which sucks but doesn't have a clear solution.
I was working for the NL government on COVID stuff and the only thing I can say is that it's a shame I'm under NDA. It changed my view of the tech industry and I feel silly for calling colleagues in the past out for what I consider inadequate practices. As all were far above the mean.
My experience is that many large companies have problems that could be solved/improved with small fine-tuned AI services, but usually they are extremely cagey about disclosing which parts of their workflow are slow/expensive and would, therefore, be the best targets for automation and/or improvements coming from AI research. The cliche example here would be to automate processing of some paper forms. And it's cliche precisely because for most companies it would help them become faster and more competitive.

How do you plan to research potential problems to solve?

Would it be possible to publish and discuss those to-be-solved problems, so that hobbyists can also try their luck at solving them?

Initially, I thought that Kaggle competitions would be a great way to get the industry's problems into the hands of motivated problem-solvers. But I don't think I've ever seen a large car manufacturer (for example) as Kaggle competition host. So it looks like something is holding companies back.
So one could optimize an outdoor light location design to reduce insects?

Like for example an outdoor dining terrace?
Thank you! It's been a long time since I tried Task warrior, so I might be quite off. Two main things come to mind: I realized that most task management apps offered many features that fooled me into spending time on organizing my data instead of doing my tasks. Tags, sub-tasks, projects, reminders, due dates. For me (and it could be a very personal thing) all these features became a hurdle as I was spending time trying to figure out how to tag my task or rethinking my hierarchies etc. I realized I wanted a system that does less.

The second thing that comes to mind is the extensibility that comes for free when every task is a file. I can easily copy an email to my todo folder and now it is a task. I can delete a task with `rm`. The fact that the notes themselves actually have absolutely noting to do with the management system is something that I experience as a very nice advantage.
Lots of use-cases but to name a few:

- Interactive documentation (static website)

- Jupyter Notebooks without a server, great for education (Jupyter-Lite)

- Python app alternative deployment as static webapp
There are plenty of laws that only apply to companies over a certain size. Maybe force publicly-traded companies to publish a list of all C&Ds they have sent. Make it transparent who are the biggest bullies. A lack of imagination is no excuse here.
> But I remember HN being against sugar taxes, and other laws to help prevent it.

Aren't sugar taxes what led to the use of high fructose corn syrup, which is arguably worse than sugar?
> your best employees are the ones who have the most options outside of your company

Aren't these employees the most likely to get exceptions though?
I think this depends heavily on where you are and if you are just at a preschool or a 'coop-preschool'.

We do the latter, and I was parent teacher. Not a volunteer position: our preschool dues are lower because I worked in the classroom, in a sense it's a "paid" gig.

We had a very relaxed attitude towards personal harm. Getting hurt, crying, and getting better is part of the learning process. Not to say that we excessively allowed kids to get hurt, or allowed them to engage in explicitly dangerous activities, eg: throwing things, hitting kids.

But I did supervise some kids who wanted to "wrestle" and "fight"... I took it upon myself to teach them to "fight clean" and when people were down we would call a break and let everyone stand up and try again.

Also the prechool was mostly outside, and kids got dirty. Oh yes indeed, the mud pit was very popular!

This all btw is in San Francisco.
Agile is a philosophy, not a system. What we most know as agile is the result of systemizing it.
> Not really. You don't want to recurse down the tail of a list, as in practice that's a great way to overflow the stack.

The SICP book had a paragraph on the distinction before recursive process and recursive procedure. I can't remember which was which, but the point there was that recursive procedure could be an iterative process if it's written with tail recursion in mind, in which case it would not overflow the stack.
I would go to Taken levels of "yeah, I'm coming after you" if this happened to me.

Yet again, Humans are the problem.
Governments aren't fools, they generally don't just yolo a market sell order when liquidating seized financial instruments.
> They know more about how this stuff really works

That's really the key. I used to work for a very small company that happened to have an attorney as one of the owners (there were a lot of cooks in that particular kitchen!). One day he came to me with a letter from a large RAM manufacturer demanding payment for a license on some technology I don't even remember. His only question was "do we use anything they make as far as you know?"

"Nope."

"OK. It's just a fishing expedition." Balls up the letter, throws in the trash and walks away.
Any GitHub link for your code?
The removing of the app is not the problem. Apple requires signed apps before they can be installed. They retain the right to remove apps specifically for security violations.

This does not give them the right to block apps based on content or similar factors. You could publish a porn app that Apple would normally disallow. In this program Apple would not try to prevent that from being installed. If it started stealing user credentials, then their security provisions would come into play and the app would be removed.
Interesting. Maybe because I'm an intern at a big CA based tech company right now that's been pro WFH, but my timesheet will specify the regular and unpaid hours. It even puts the unpaid into a lunch category.

But then again, my internship feels like a job and I'm a bit confused. I do all the work with no direction, just report to my manager weekly and no training. Every internship I've had just feels like every job I've had except I don't get the equity and 401k that normal employees do. I've also always had to fill out a timesheet for every salaried position I've had, which seems a bit odd too. It's at least be quicker to fill out a checkbox lol.
> I want a phone I can use one-handed. 4 inches is the largest screen I could tolerate.

I also prefer smaller phones, but over the last five years I've found it increasingly difficult to find software whose UI are designed with even 4.7 inches in mind, let alone 4.0 — and in at least one occasion that has included the UI design I was given to implement by the design team of the place I was working.
Tried it. Slow, uses lots of memory.
Why do you think founders would prefer WFH? All the data seems to point to even small start ups pushing for rto
Does this explain why bugs seem to swarm at sunset? Because the sun is lower towards the horizon it brings the bugs towards the ground?
That's not at all my experience. I was and am much more productive in the office, and it has a lot to do with changing my environment to a place of work. In order of my productive environments: the office (decent private cubicles, not open concept) > coffeeshop > table at the park > home office.

Why is it so hard to believe that people like me exist? And no, it's not because I like to bug my coworkers or that I haven't considered improving my tooling or home office. At this point in my career, with my personality and demeanor, I get a lot of work done at the office, without the misery of trying to force myself to focus and be productive like I do when I'm at home.
Eh, the barrel plugs are there to drive back the assembly and have a full eject, as the plastic blanks are too weak otherwise.
To have more of that, you need personal connection. Flaming over a random teenager working at McDonalds for not getting your order right is not needed in the society. This sort of response is totally acceptable in say a setting like a team sport or the military.
"In name only" is an interesting way to say "literally re-engined 737s with minor tweaks to the airframe, in line with an incremental development".

Again, the whole reason the "software cludges" were implemented in the first place is precisely because it's more or less the same "hardware". The entire problem is that the 737 MAX family is in fact made up of 737s when they should have been redesigned from scratch. It's baffling to me how one could come to the conclusion that they aren't 737s.
Profit sharing works at every level, just the people at the top don't want to give a cut to those below them. So it's pure greed.
> learn things on their own as much as possible even if that involves some bruises and scrapes

One could even make the case that youth is THE time to learn the lessons to be had in bruises and scrapes, because they are valuable and kids heal like starfish.

Not counting developmental insults like head trauma, persistent environmental toxins etc but like falling out of a tree is usually better than being on a football team
When I got started I debugged using printf() today I debug with print()
I wonder how much it is like an aircraft - many many many dials and knobs, all with there purpose, but only a few needed in normal operation, or used once or twice a trip.
This is super great. The core mechanic is absurdly great and works much much better than I expected.

I also see that it's not an end-to-end language tutoring solution but a companion you can use to test your real-world language skills. Awesome stuff.

If you're interested in reaching out to real language schools, I run a marketplace for pre-college programs, Language Schools are like 20-30% of our business. Let me know!
Because the stakes are high. Nevertheless you shouldn’t take this personally.
awesome read
> The thermostat is analog and dumb, no code involved.

I'm not certain about how dumb something is if no code is involved. Just might be very smart to be able to leverage fundamental physics in such a way.

That said, analog processing can be subtle. Have you disassembled the thermostat to see how it implements PID?
EE promotion was a thing via local clubs for kids (aka future workforce to build missiles). But the choice of components those clubs had was limited, so if you find a schemtics for some cool device in "Radio" magazine chances are you won't be able to find all components for it in such club. This sometimes was even mentioned in the article itslef - like you need this transistor which is not available to general public, but "we all know where to get it ;)"
Regions that depend on tourism spend a lot of money on their beach sand. Even San Diego, CA where tourism is probably not even top 10 of industries by revenue, they replenish the sand that gets eroded every few decades. The process just started on the northern beaches: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/long-awaited-sand-rep...

They ship it in by sea on huge barges that are quite something to watch.
“The purpose of a system is what it does”
Can anyone with good experiences with a commercially-supported ACME stack recommend a vendor they’re happy with, where the stack was integrated into their own in-house certificate authority? I’m especially looking for vendors that have very good documentation and tracing introspection to let our own engineers who read the documentation rapidly troubleshoot the stack, and our own developers build robust integrations to the client to rotate the certificates.
There are a mixture of issues at play here.

People tend to underestimate collection capability and overestimate processing and analysis capability. The former greatly outstrips the capacity of the latter in practice. This is fundamentally a technology gap. For example, the open source stacks cannot handle the scale and velocity of the data nor the complexity of the data analysis required. The tech gap is qualitative.

A major driver behind the increasing use of open source intelligence (OSINT) is data freshness, latency of access, and the ability to easily do mash-ups of different sources. Use of classified collections requires a bureaucratic process to even know it exists, never mind get permission to use it, or to blend it with other collection sources. Furthermore, data handling restrictions introduce high data processing latencies at an architectural level. As a consequence, the classified collection may have amazing data but you may not be able to put it all together for days, which makes it difficult to use for intelligence analysis that is very time sensitive. OSINT, by contrast, is largely permission-less with few gatekeepers, so it has a huge speed advantage in terms of time-to-insight that can often provide more value than having exceptional data that you can't access quickly enough to matter.

Intelligence agencies have been trying to tackle these challenges for many years. It does not have an easy answer because it is a confluence of independent technology, process, and cultural issues.
Right, vaguely aware of that, but been a while. Thanks for correcting!
Most of the layoffs sound like middle management. RTO is everyone though.
ASCII Theater
I focus on what I can control and use people in power as instruction manuals for alpha when things line up for me or my network

If I can scare the legislature to pass all my riders in a 1,000 page bill nobody read, I absolutely will. I probably won't care what the pretext was, just that consensus to get something passed is possible for once in a decade, after everything I wanted died in committee the last 5 sessions.
Companies have little incentive to pick vendors that don't get other people's data stolen.

Imagine there are two vendors offering a service:

Vendor 1 costs $1 per unit of service, doesn't give a shit about security and will probably get hacked.

Vendor 2 costs $1.2 per unit of service because they care about security

Then if it's not your data that's about to be leaked, the "smart" (profitable) thing to do is to not look at the second part so you can pretend you didn't know, and pick vendor 1.
Cross platform app development using JS (TS). Quasar is the framework I use. I build my Android apps on linux but need macOS to build the iOS apps.
Ask for proof. Some employees are lower-performing and some need more structure.

"Can you push your work-in-progress branch so I can take a look?"

If they are consistently under-performing you need to structure them. Split larger tasks into smaller sub-tasks that are more tractable over shorter time periods. If a large task is expected to take 3 weeks, split it into chunks of 1-2 days.

That way if a code review isn't sent out you get a quick signal that progress isn't being made.

Remember that as the manager you have authority. They may chafe at being asked to do intermediate checkins and splitting the work into smaller quanta - that's fine, they can grouse about it with their friends, but they still have to do it.

If they are underperforming even within this structure, have them keep a work log - which is basically a 1:1 asynchronous standup with just you and them. Read this work log daily and, in combination with smaller quanta of work, it should be fairly obvious progress isn't made.

At all points don't hide the ball from them that they are underperforming. Tell them that they are underperforming but give them the resources necessary to improve. Solicit their ideas on how to improve and consider implementing them.

Some employees can be structured to improve this ways. Others cannot - you work with HR on that latter group.

But again: as the manager you do not need to see butts-in-seats to gauge productivity. More importantly, it is on you to set a benchmark for productivity and communicate to your team your expectation that everyone hits it, and alert them in your (frequent!) 1:1s when they are falling short.
There was previously a post with one subject that had tried this method, this study seems to have expanded the subjects for the bridge swallowing exercise

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36059247
S3 is truly the chefs kiss vintage Black Mirror season for me. I mean, San Junipero comes directly after it. Even in the quaint year of 2016 though, we unfortunately already had some close examples:

Amanda Todd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd

Tyler Clementi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Tyler_Clementi
What evidence is this?
They're not really cars. They sell navigational, entertainment- and seat-heating solutions. These things are used a few hours each day. A better way to think of them is like a transportation solution that you rent. Even big unrelated companies rent things.
Being a parent is definitely harder that being a software engineer if you want to do a good job. Same for being a farmer. It isn't the default job anymore for a reason.

You could argue more women nowadays don't want to be mothers because it's hard. Especially if that's the second job and unpaid, actually you have to pay lots of money to be a successful mother. So yeah, it's exceptional... that anyone wants to have children at all! Though that's quickly changing, too.
> To balance this, particularly your last paragraph I have the opposite viewpoint. The US government had ppp loans that were forgiven completely that effectively paid companies per employee. There was no reason not to over hire for a long period of time.

PPP loans were based on 2019's average monthly payroll[1]. They did not have an effect on hiring decisions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program#Lo...
sure, but if you're not generating enough garbage over the lifetime of the app for it to matter, why waste time collecting? especially is your collector is an old-school design that hangs the app for a user-noticeable amount of time...
This is about the EU, and in the EU it would be written 1.000.000. Since that could be confusing for US readers, they used 1_000_000, which happens to be a convention that Swift supports, so many Apple developers would be familiar with it.
I run my robot daily and every two weeks we pay someone to come clean. Robot mostly does a good job of keeping the floor clean during those two weeks, but it can't do the counter tops, clean the toilets or dust everywhere.
They don’t need the average consumer to buy it. It’s practically a developer platform. It includes a bunch of parts that have never been manufactured at scale before. Based on rumors, Apple is projected to produce 400k of these and already sold >200k.
So now we can blame the insects bad attitude rather than our artificial lights.
This explanation is in a Cricket Magazine I have from the mid-80s, so perhaps there's something new here also?
Typically you’d get that sort of thing at a quarterly report if it was actually material to the performance of the company and they had actual data. Otherwise it’s just a normal thing as far as I know to support an argument with data if you have it.
Under what conditions would you call this behavior "desire"? Would we need to demonstrate the impossible, that insects have a sense of self and free will?

Do insects desire food, or does the intensity of certain smells simply compel their mouth parts to start moving in a certain way?
Don't forget futures traders.
The OS would notify the app that its IP address has changed. The app can then send this new IP to its notification server, for future notification to arrive at the correct IP. No need for an Apple notification server here.

This would still require some cooperation from Apple, for the OS to receive the notifications and dispatch them when the app is not running. A long time ago, when there was no outrageously dominant players, the Internet industry would have produced an open communication protocol for this use case. Using the same protocol and the same notification server for both Android and iOS would be nice. Sadly, this is unlikely in today's Internet.
American Thought Control is the real threat to democracy.