skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience crossing eras; the tools have improved, and there are still some amazingly brilliant people, but the amount of overhead and the ratio of top level, passionate builders has dropped meaningfully. I have had a priority project stuck in legal hell for six months because it’s just a morass of logistics. The project is benign but it doesn’t matter. We are ossified.

I look at it as somewhat inevitable considering the path the company has taken, but it is certainly different. We are cranking out money and that’s fine, but it is a change.
Yep - it's a few blocks from where I live. It seems to attract a fair number of tourists.
I started on pixel 1 and now have a pixel 4a. My wife has been thru multiple pixels as well (3 and 7). We've had zero issues.
> USA centric culture, if you are not in USA at Google and don’t have a big presence in a location it’s a bit like swimming upstream, it’s easy to feel isolated, sidelined or on the flipside overwhelmed with late meetings

It's like the fourth time I read/hear this. I understand that it's a tricky one to adress.
Huh. That's concerning.
Notice how almost all of those are just a variable name or a number on a line by itself. Those being valid programs says very little about Perl as a language.

A few semicolons being okay in a mix with the above doesn't say much either, and the couple gnarliest examples happened to hit #, the comment character, so the rest isn't even being treated as code.
Yeah I live a few blocks from it and it's still open.
> What if a candidate said $110k? Would you still offer them $160k if you felt they were worth that? Or would you take advantage of this newfound information and offer them less than what you thought the job was worth to you?

I will answer from the things that I control, but yes I would offer what I believe their value is to me. The number given to me by a candidate is just the conversation we have to ensure we are in each other's ballpark. If my budget is in range and your performance in the interview is good to excellent you will be getting good to excellent pay in my organization from my say on the matter.

But there are absolutely things I don't control. E.g. my company participates in regional pay adjustments on salary.

Negotiations provided other competing offers are things HR have effectively full control over, at best I can recommend an uplevel for exceptional talent here to keep in budget for a particular role, but this is determined sooner at the evaluations stage.

The process to uplevel may require input from other managers in my org, my manager, and my skip (maybe even my skip's skip which is pretty much C-suite) to approve depending on experience so its an uphill battle even for me to do this.

Lowest friction is to bring you in at the level I have approved and then get you promoted within the year, but this would likely not be ideal for the candidate as on-hire package items would not be adjusted. OTOH, given a certain level of visibility and impact, you would be eligible for special awards and extra bonus pay which would likely exceed the amortized scheduled of an uplevel on its own for a single year.
Still doesn't work with Firefox (at least not on my Macbook).
A good point indeed! There are certainly grumpy controllers and a time for discipline, but there is a strong culture around continuous improvement and safety throughout aviation. A phone number from a controller is not nearly as adversarial as, say, getting pulled over by highway patrol, even though in a lot of ways the two events are analogous.
I don’t get all the spring hate here. Spring is a great framework, and the sheer developer mass means it’s easy to hire developers that can quickly be onboarded. It’s definitely opinionated, but a lot of the opinions are correct.

I think that rust is missing something like the above, and the attempt is appreciated by me.
Huh. I'm not sure you've been replying to the right person. I've never talked about the n word.

I don't have inside info on how they tackle these issues, but I imagine it's an especially tricky problem when a word isn't hateful when used by a minority group, so they probably can't ban all uses of a word, otherwise you'd risk silencing a whole group of people that are "allowed" to say the word.

Anyway, in the US "free speech" is primarily important to us in reference to being allowed to criticize the US government and it's officials.
Low-end EEG kits exist.[1] Probably easier to start with that.

My favorite toy in this space was Nekomimi in 2012 - cosplay cat ears connected to an EEG sensor.[2] It sensed "resting", "active", and "surprised". I saw some girls wearing these at a convention. Someone called out the name of one of them, and her ears popped up. Only the one, not the others.

It was a good idea, but too bulky. 4 AAA batteries plus huge ears. Someone should do that again, more compactly.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/NeuroSky-MindWave-Mobile-Brainwave-St...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurowear
>However, until such data breaches regularly lead to severe outcomes for subjects whose data was leaked, and those outcomes can be causally linked to the breaches in an indisputable manner

Which means nothing gets done because it's pretty hard to prove where any one misusing your information got it from. My identity was stolen after breach but when I took it up with entity that lost my information, they were like "Prove it" which of course I couldn't because people who did it to me were never caught.
In that case you get to the opposite problem. It is entirely possible to democratically legislate democracy away as long as your group holds power for long enough with a super-majority.
If it's outside democratic bounds, what is being preserved is not a democracy anymore. Why preserve it then? So it serves autocrats better? "We must become fascists so other fascists don't take over" is not a very convincing principle.
The RFD site is open source: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd-site. Only some RFDs are public though (I used to work at Oxide)
Same. But I somehow doubt that Elon paid a premium of 1000% for Twitter for free speech.

Its more likely that after he scared away all the advertisers, him doubling down as "champion of free speech" was the only face saving act

If you think about it, paying $50 billion dollars and then within two years ending up with a company worth 95% less isn't very smart.

Sure Elon might be a centi-billionaire but a lot of it comes from Tesla which also is struggling.

For the little guys, his loss is a gain for us all. I especially love that he openly supports Trump
My guess is they want VB6, not VB.NET.
Tagline for future HN comment annotation bot.
I just did a project for a YC startup and we reverted to postgres from duckdb+sqlite for concerns enterprises might not see the local file combo as mature / professional.

Really excited about the idea of being able to have everything under the postgres umbrella even with sacrifices.

From the engineering side I have nothing but good things to say about duckdb.

I opened up the database to the frontend (it's an internal reporting tool not unlike grafana and I filtered queries through an allowlist) and it was pure delight to have the metrics queries right next to the graph. Very rapid iterations.
The challenges of creating your own products [video]
Riots definitely aren't "expression of speech", that's nonsense.
Idk about the US, but I'd be surprised if people didn't know the Chinese phone manufacturers like Huawei or OnePlus
Agreed. No argument there.
I think a version of this video that used a semilog plot [1] for wealth, included specific suggestions for how to overcome economic inequality (like [2]), and skipped the snarky tone would be useful. I am all for reducing economic inequality, but found this video annoying and not useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-log_plot

[2] https://taxjusticenow.org/
Memory palace (2000 years old and counting).
> the years when Google was mostly considered to be the good guys and given the benefit of the doubt

It's been interesting to see the tech and public zeitgeist shift on this.

Lesson: if you're going to be popular for killing a king, be careful how similarly the thing you place on your head starts to look to a crown.
Wormhole William provides an APK: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile/releases...

On Windows and Linux, there’s RiftShare which has a gui: https://riftshare.app/
That sounds fairly similar to the onset of my migraines, and the auras I see. At first my vision just gets slightly blurry, but then I get swirling patterns. Generally that lasts 20-30min, and then the headache follows. I have found that taking a multi-mineral (which does contain magnesium) has reduced how often I get them significantly.
Doing more research, everyone seems to agree Fidelity is the most handy when it comes to using a brokerage like I would a bank. Their 2% all-around cashback Visa credit card is also admittedly nice. They outsource the banking aspects, though.

On the other hand, Schwab has an actual bank as a subsidary if I do want to use them also for banking, which is great for feeling reassured as a client/depositor if I want to diversify my current banking with US Bank.

Schwab also has those AMEX tie-ins, which is again reassuring because I really like and respect AMEX. Yeah it's just marketing, but damnit if it isn't effective. :V

Though either way I'm not concerned with the finer points of brokerage-banking or investing right now because I'm not sure if I will get into the whole investment money games beyond a Roth IRA. Maybe I will, but I can worry about that when I get to that point.
If your take is “gosh, I don’t quite know what you mean about the racism (and more) problem on the free speech site X fka Twitter” you’re either very sheltered or you’re one of the people comfortable with the whole thing and it’s an act.

I’m going to choose to assume you’re just a bit sheltered and leave this comment thread, since you’ve already stated you’d rather not discuss anything with me
They think they can win a nuclear war?

These people are batshit crazy.
Articles like this speak to the importance of things that "just work".
so this is like use of (in a different species) light sensitive patches of skin instead of the eye balls (lenses) that most animals on earth evolved ?

interesting.

even if this does not immediately replace traditional cameras and lenses... I am wondering if this can add a complementary set of capabilities to a traditional camera say next to a phone's camera bump/island/cluster...so that we can drive some enhanced use cases

maybe store the wider context in raw format alongside the EXIF data ...so that future photo manipulation models can use that ambient data to do more realistic edits / in painting / out painting etc?

I am thinking this will benefit 3D photography and video graphics a lot if you can capture more of the ambient data, not strictly channeled through the lenses
No doubt it's still being maintained. Older frameworks though end up being a sort of "other thing" that some engineer get's saddled with, probably not the squeaky wheel among their bugs, sadly.

Personally curious though about the PDFs. If you could share a link I'm interested.
That's what the Law demands.

I don't personally agree with all of it.
You seem to have described Google pay and its tokenization scheme.
Also, you know, there probably aren't that many posters on HN who worked at AT&T in the 60s...
Thanks for recognizing what SRE/SysAdmins have to deal with all the time.

I think in general that type of experience would help Developers be more empathetic to the operations side of things. Those fires often come from trade-offs made in development.
>11. Sorry, can’t reset password to your current password

This sounds like an erronious error, ie the error message displayed is not the correct error message. There was definitely an error but the error was not that you tried the same password as your current.

I hate erronious errors with a vengance, because they not only break user workflow but they break helpdesk work flow as well then it gets escellated to an engineer who quite often cant fix the actual erronious error but knows what the actual issue is and fixes that anyway.. meaning the erronious error never gets fixed and will mow hang around to chew up everyones time all over again.

such a silly way to waste so much time, over and over.
Renting a movie with Mom and Dad was a special kind of excitement as a kid.

Walking around the store, looking at all the covers to try and figure out what we were going to watch. Usually, you had seen a preview for any given movie, or had at least heard about it, but there was still a lot of "rolling the dice", especially if the actor was famous: I saw Battlefield Earth because the cover looked cool and I liked space sci-fi, but the movie itself made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
> (If) you commit a crime through what you say, you can and must be held accountable. No one is being prevented from expressing their opinion.

Freedom from speech isn’t the “right” of the people to express opinions. Freedom of Speech is a an explicit restriction on what the government is allowed to do after you speak, and more precisely, in response to unpopular speech.
That's an arm's length transaction with a counterparty you'll never see again.

An employer-employee relationship lasts for years, perhaps many years, and requires the employee to act as the agent of the employer, repeatedly.

Would you accept this kind of thing if you can help it from a potential future spouse?

Come on.

They're welcome to try this stunt. They're also welcome to lose their best candidates who would have been most loyal after showing a lack of capacity for loyalty on day zero, and instead select for only those candidates who are equally disloyal in return.
This is US companies in general! Never work for one in another country; if you can help it. All decisions will be centralized to the US head office and require face to face. Communication is generally terrible.

I’ve worked for European and Asian owned companies, and they seem to be able to handle distributed authority much better. For the “land of the free”, it sure seems like US companies run on a feudal system.
Consider giving desktop Linux a go. Linux Mint and Fedora Workstation are good starters these days.

Windows is a sinking ship.
They could instead go with increased or specified special liabilities for content spammers.
Ditto. Been using it for years to transfer very large files to friends when throwing them up on my webserver will be too slow.
My definition of poverty has been that you do not have enough money to meet the basic needs of yourself and your family if you have one. It is not just because you have less than others.
but the work that Googlers do most of HN can do

its the proximity, pedigree, profile that you have to fit to get in to Google

I'm happy for those that made it. Not everybody gets to work for Google. But the work they do are no less challenging or more important than what the rest of us do.

If anything FAANG has contributed greatly to the American Firewall of Algorithms and have destroyed an entire generation's ability to reason and value common sense.

I remember this quote which I can't remember who said but "if they are paying you a large salary, what they take from you is far greater"
Exactly, which is why it gives you a leg up on everyone who isn't willing to live in a major metro.

If you're raising kids, you probably want this anyway. What kind of schools and jobs are they going to be able to pursue without moving far away otherwise? What kind of hospital systems will you and your elder parents be able to access as you grow old otherwise?

I've come to peace with the fact that major metros have significant economic gravity for anyone with a long term time horizon and a focus on family.
Thanks for that, it is amazing!

> In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject 'walks' through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items.

> A variation of the "method of loci" involves creating imaginary locations (houses, palaces, roads, and cities) to which the same procedure is applied. It is accepted that there is a greater cost involved in the initial setup, but thereafter the performance is in line with the standard loci method. The purported advantage is to create towns and cities that each represent a topic or an area of study, thus offering an efficient filing of the information and an easy path for the regular review necessary for long-term memory storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Faxes have longstanding legal backing and case law. Research points to UCC 1-201(37). Not a lawyer.

Digital certificates could potentially fill that gap but there are technology hurdles in terms of familiarity and ease of use and additional infrastructure. A fax machine can be plopped down and hooked up to a POTS. It’s not encrypted but how many are really listening? It’s a bit of security by obscurity I suppose.

Digital certificates issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) could provide a higher level of security and authenticity. Digital signatures are legally recognized in many US jurisdictions.

I am not sure how many people have MFA tokens to meet the definition of “something you have” to associate to “something you are” plus faxing just works. Juice worth the squeeze?
Yes, you obviously can fit 10 TB of data onto a developer laptop with 10tb of external storage. However you’ll run out of disk before you run into Postgres issues.
San Francisco's Millennium Tower owners could face $10k fine for open windows
I was a fax server administrator in the early-to-mid 2000s in the forestry industry, and though we didn't have to justify fax usage to the company, I often advocated with my fellow techs on why fax was still relevant. We communicated with small sawmills and even logging camps where the only method of communication was a telephone line, and dialing a phone was the extent of a logger's high-tech knowledge.
I'm sorry I can't as I've signed an NDA

but if you think these new generation of AI tools are some innocent augmentative processes you are gravely mistaken. What you describe are the previous generation of AI tools which were using you as training. What you will see come out next year will be a truly reckoning force.

Not even Indians are safe.
I wonder if Tetris an inevitable invention, and it would have likely been created within 15 years of the birth of video games, more or less the same, no matter what
Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings
After trying out a few options, I found that https://rapidesim.com/ is an excellent choice for a secondary SIM, especially for Europe and the Balkans. The support is impressive—super responsive—and you even get a UK number with free calls to other RapideSIM users. I've recently discovered the eSIM world through Hacker News, and it really feels like the future.
I don’t support anti terrorism because I put myself in the shoes of victims of terrorism. I do it because I think terrorism requires harsh responses to maintain norms against political violence. So for example I would abolish the TSA because I’m not afraid of actually being the victim of a terrorist attack.

It’s possible this sentiment is punitive—I just want to see terrorists punished—and such a response isn’t necessary to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence. But I would submit that extreme responses to e.g. Islamism is important to keep a real threat to order at bay. We’ll probably have a real A/B experiment with this in Bangladesh now that Hasina—who was doing a good job crushing the Islamists—has been overthrown. Will Bangladesh turn into Pakistan in the absence of that enforcement? We will see.
When I worked at Google I immediately sold my stock and diversified. In hindsight that "cost" me at least $2MM. At a subsequent employer I held the stock, determined not to make the same mistake again. That "cost" me nearly $100k before I realized that the new employer's stock was not going to do what GOOG did.

Anyway, congratulations to those Googlers who "picked" GOOG by not selling their GSUs and who made out like bandits. You certainly got lucky, and nobody should expect their own employers' RSUs to do the same.

Googlers from the past ~15 years are comparatively filthy rich. Imagine having had an opportunity to miss out on 8 figures of stock returns and only be left with 7 figures because you followed sound financial advice. Bruce Willis is no doubt dabbing his eyes on Memegen.
“You clearly copied your response (twice) as it has no personal intonation as do your defensive posts. I guess you'd rather write out the defense of your copy and paste?”

I really have no idea what you are talking about.
I think it's shallow and not because it's short. To me, it just sounds very typical: "I joined Google back when it was fun. Now it's more bureaucratic and less fun. But I made a ton of money on the stock." I think there have been countless blog posts from Ex-Googlers like this. It's fairly shallow.

And it is worth noting that a lot of the bullet point lists do start with "I made a ton of money" in as many words, which is also just not very interesting to most folks, though it is certainly very relevant and important to the writer.
I mean it in the context of being able to criticize the US government and its officials. I think that's what most from the US think is why free speech is so important.

Hate speech is a slippery slope that I'm not knowledgeable enough in to speak to more in depth.
The EU does not require data to be hosted locally, though.
> What are we going to miss out on if art's purely commercial?

Opinions that are commercially unpopular, and the larger and more diverse talent pool to generate art of all sorts.

Patronage is a corrupting influence, and I'd feel much better about most art being funded through public grants (even via a baroque allocation system) than by Starbucks.

Because it's funny, labor organization never seems to come up as a theme in Starbucks-sponsored art...

> If anything, government funded art is a recent phenomena

That's stretching the truth a bit, or are we not considering the Catholic Church or Medicis government? Or not recent?

(to pull the most pop-culture examples, without delving into the actual royal courts/republics)
Is this with the “temperature” parameter set to 0? Most LLM chatbots set it to something higher.

It would be interesting to try varying it, as well as the seed.
> And, yes, c*ender is a slur. It's only ever used by its opponents and in a negative context.

What on earth... "Cisgender" is as much of a slur as "cislunar" or "cisalpine". And who are "its opponents"? The opponents of being cisgender? Are you trying to suggest that trans people are against the existence of cis people? Have you considered spending less time on Twitter?
That's a lot of vehicle for hardly any cargo though. If it gets stuck in a bad way do you have to dig up the street?
I take Magnesium Glycinate as a laxative but have reached 500mg per day and it's not enough. Too much already, or is it safe to take more?
I don’t buy either of those reasons. First, I’m only asking if I’ve failed. They should already know that. Second, my “candidate experience” isn’t being improved by evading a direct question. The problem is, the company doesn’t trust their employees to use their discretion. That’s a bad sign in my book.
Like most people - nothing.