skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good news. L8 is now the new 7, thanks to rapid promotion in Amazon in the past few years, so the ratio is probably 3%, give or take. Joke aside, it's a fact of life that resources tend to concentrate to the top of a large company. For instance, partner engineers in Microsoft also enjoy great life. The real good news, though, is that wealthfront's CEO already gave actionable solution: join a blow-out small-to-medium company. The rationale is simple: what matter is growth. With growth comes challenging problems, career opportunities, talent density, and potential financial reward. That is, don't join FAANG, find a younger future FAANG. Of course, it's not easy, but it is definitely actionable and viable.
Yes,revenge(or rather a desire for reversion to the previous norm) might be part of the reason, however there might be another aspect which makes it more urgent for the execs

WFH is overwhelmingly popular amongst employees and has the most potential to be a topic tech workers band together on. Tech employees realizing that collective action can work genuinely terrifies execs. Therefore it's imperative to the moneyed class that RTO be normalized back as soon as possible before people start to organize. The weak job market just makes it easier and the upcoming interest rate cuts might dent that advantage a bit.
Maybe I'm misinformed, but I could never see Intel getting this contract.

AMD has extensive experience with high-performing APUs, something Intel, at least in my memory, does not have. The chips on modern high-end consoles are supposed to compete with GPUs, not with integrated graphics. Does Intel even have any offerings that would indicate they could accomplish this? Intel has ARC, which presumably could be put in a custom "APU"; however, their track record with that is not stellar.
I hear a bunch of companies are thinking of moving everything back to the office.
Productivity growth may be slowing, but it is not "down" in general. It's the highest it's ever been.

Is there a specific reason to believe Amazon would have less productivity than the rest of the economy compared with before?
It is sad to see such a misinformed take on a technical forum. You can already do everything you want. It will take some reverse-engineering work, but it's possible.

Similar things were said about iMessage interoperability with Android, until Beeper proved them wrong. They managed to reverse-engineer it, build a compatible client and clearly proved Apple's claims were BS (and no, this didn't lead to a mass-scale compromise of iMessage, contradicting fanboys' claims).

If the feature allows to pull up the iPhone's screen without any user consent, then it is vulnerable to begin with - the reverse-engineering requirement would become an insignificant hurdle compared to the value of such a vulnerability. Presumably however, there will be a consent step, either on the spot or prior (maybe it can reuse the cryptographic pairing mechanism that happens when the phone asks you to "trust this computer?" the first time), and no third-party (whether using an approved API or reverse-engineered) would be able to bypass it without the user intentionally consenting.
They updated their status page, looks like actions and pages are impacted https://www.githubstatus.com/
Not sure the title has the right framing.

It's hard to compete with AMD which is the only tech company to offer both x86 and a solid GPU technology that comes with it.

On top of that you have backwards compatibility woes and the uncertainty around Intel being able to deliver on its foundry.

All in all, this win would've been a great deal for Intel's foundry in PR, but money wise those were never going to be huge sums.
Mine doesn't seem to have any problem with batteries. Just "airways blocked" error no matter what I do and the warranty/support service isn't very helpful. So I'm looking for a similar-or-better quality clone (cordless vacuum with the laser thing) but with better service.
A note for engineers looking for jobs, based on this and about a thousand similar posts: If you joined a "remote" company that went remote during the pandemic, no, you didn't.

Look for companies that went full-remote before 2020, or after ~2022. Otherwise, it can't be trusted.
I don't know. Have you acted any differently? Whom have you employed? Did the money come out of your pocket? What were the rules?
Repairs (not maintenance per say) might be something.

I'm not convinced the chargers would be a problem, considering home chargers cost a couple thousand to install. As for infrastructure: can the building run a clothes dryer? Then it can probably charge an EV.

For repairs I'm sure the current LLVs have their own challenges. There's a good chance you can't find LLV parts in rural areas either. (Maybe they just swap them out and do repairs at the home base?) So EVs are not much different in that regard.
These guys have the best videos by far
I've been doing it nearly 20 years, and I'm very done with it. But I need to save for retirement and I don't have anything else I want to do more. So I'm just apathetically collecting a paycheck.

If you focus on the career part, you can increase your network and find a much less stressful position. Last two gigs I've had I wasn't even on call (lol, imagine!), and found remote work. So better opportunities are out there if you work at it.
> productivity is down

according to which statistics?
I find the overall assertion to be grasping at a counterpoint. Particularly,
1. The reference to "Medieval" labeling goes all the way back to the beginning when D&D overall was nothing but a seed and an experiment. Modern materials do not come with the same presumptive labeling.
2. There is good reason to not include all the trappings of life in any particular era, as the core of D&D is a set of rules, and all the settings are simply versions of content that work on top of it. There are many such settings and they decidedly do not come from the same time and place.
3. Many of the arguments take the form of "It's not ..." wherein the thing that is not explicitly medieval is also not explicitly not-medieval. For example, it's easy to consider the texture of towns and villages as we generally see them in D&D as operating within the tapestry of an explicitly medieval (as the author describes) environment, or within any variation thereof as desired by the DM. Similarly you could also say "D&D does not explain how to make ice cream accurately." It was never _seriously_ about being medieval nor seriously about making ice cream.
Chainmail drew heavily on LotR, in no small part because Chainmail was heavily influenced by 'Rules for Middle Earth,' and halflings were even explicitly called hobbits early on, there were explicitly balrogs, etc.

Gygax himself lists Tolkien and The Lords of the Rings in Appendix N in the 1e DMG.

After Saul Zaentz started threatening lawsuits about the similarities Gygax did a lot to distance D&D from LotR and Tolkien but in the mid 70s this was hardly the case.

D&D is obviously not just a recreation of Tolkien-esque fantasy, particularly since the players weren't even anything resembling heroes in the early editions and instead just adventurers trying to eek out a living, but the idea that D&D is anti-LotR is largely revisionism from Gygax and TSR trying to avoid a lawsuit from the person who owned the merchandising rights.
> line management was unable or unwilling to invest in fixing root causes of operational issues.

Sorry for an obligatory: there is no such thing as a root cause.

That said, that matches my general experience too (I left about 9 years ago). Unless the S-team specifically calls them out for any particular metric, it's not going to get touched.

Even then they'll try and game the metric. Sev2 rate is too high, let's find some alarms that are behind lots of false positives, and just make them sev3 instead, rather than investigate why. No way it can backfire... wait what do you mean I had an outage and didn't know, because the alarm used to fire legitimately too?

That major S3 collapse several years ago was caused by a component that engineers had warned leadership about for at least 4-5 years when I was there. They'd carefully gathered data, written reports, written up remediation plans that weren't particularly painful. Engineers knew it was in an increasingly fragile state. It took the outage for leadership to recognise that maybe, just maybe, it was time to follow the plan laid out by engineering. I can't talk about the actual what/why of that component, but if I did it'd have you face palming, because it was painfully obvious before the incident that an incident was inevitable.

Unfortunately, it seems like an unwillingness to invest in operations just pervades the tech industry. So many folks I speak to across a wide variety of tech companies are constantly having to fight to get operations considered any kind of a priority. No one gets promoted for performing miracles keeping stuff running.
This appears to be a Working Group item of the HTTPbis WG [0] which has a Zulip stream [1], a mailing list [2][3], a site [4], and a GitHub organization [5], thus lots of ways to send feedback. The Internet-Draft itself has a GitHub repository [6]. For this I think a GitHub issue/issues [7] would be best; some already exist now for issues in this thread.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/about/
[1] https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/225-httpbis
[2] mailto:httpbisa@ietf.org (I think)
[3] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/httpbisa/
[4] https://httpwg.org/
[5] https://github.com/httpwg
[6] https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions
https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/blob/main/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body.xml
[7] https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues
That sounds amazing!!! I would love to be part of a gaming community like that (in-person I mean) with party vs party interactions in a single unified & fluid unfolding plot. The closest thing I've read about to this (but never participated in) is the "Grand Quest" in Drew Hayes' excellent litrpg series Spells, Swords, & Stealth, which is still being written. The audiobook format version of the series is especially captivating. https://www.audible.com/series/Spells-Swords-Stealth-Audiobo...
Moderna's 'Off-the-Shelf' Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trial Data
Unregulated/ crony capitalism is a race to the bottom - whether that bottom be wage, time, morale or social discontentment.
I set out to build a SaaS, I accidentally made a Directory
the DMG has Pistols & Muskets, and there's also Laser Rifles in at least Rime of the Frostmaiden. They just tend to not get used cause they don't really fit in the rest of the setting.
The announcement said that the feature was pending FDA approval.
I wonder if Sony having to adapt their DRM/platform security strategy into Intel-world would've introduced a lot of friction.

This kind of thing is probably part of the motivation behind Intel splitting out a "Partner Security Engine."
Imagine a game that's supposed to played with a landscape orientation. Your left hand control (up/down/left/right) is located on the lower left corner. Your right hand control (A/B/X/Y) is located on the lower right corner. You are expected to touch two controls simultaneously.
Child support is nearly universally enforced at least on paper. The incentive is to divorce quickly after a high earner scales back to lock in the high imputed income. You see sky high divorces in recently unemployed persons as spouses scramble to lock in CS and alimony against their recent earnings.

These are the acts of calculated actors getting in on the take as incomes reduce, to lock in the income stream.
Safety is the thing we care about.

Let’s not get caught up handwringing about predictability since it’s very possible that being less predictive is safer overall.

We have the safety data to prove that Waymo is safer than human drivers, so I don’t think this predictability thing is that important afterall.
This year

I've been waiting a year for the summarize AI to (not) make it to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. It should be known that everyone outside of the US get a different product than what is advertised online and reviewed on YouTube.
Many people log into their Mac using the same credentials (Apple ID) that give access to the Health data, and in fact Apple makes it really hard or even impossible to use it without (you can't selectively grant access, you need to use a separate Apple ID but then you lose some useful features such as universal clipboard, etc).

This is again a misinformed take. Your Mac can already get all your iPhone's data from the cloud where it is synced without viable opt-out or compartmentalization.
NFtables – Packet flow and Netfilter hooks in detail (2022)
Genetic gifts don't trump thermodynamics (unfortunately).

>Please reserve your moral judgments.

This thread seems needlessly heated. How is it a moral judgement to say that some folks don't put in the effort to control calorie input? Losing weight sucks. It's worse the bigger you are. But they're not gaining weight by magic. They're consuming more calories than they burn. It is as simple as that (yes, yes, yes -- gut flora, metabolism disruption, vernal equinox, micro-plastics, etc. etc. There are plenty of variables that change the efficiency of the mechanism, but none that override the core mechanism.)

fwiw, Ozympic sounds great to me if people want to take it. Also great if they don't.
That's not a bad thought, but traditiona Mac keyboards didn't even have an "enter" key. (And nor do their current tenkeyless ones.) They just had a "return" key. The "enter" key only came around when the 10-key numpad was introduced, and it gave a different key code than the return key (which lives/lived where "enter" lives on PC keyboards).

I don't recall whether "enter" renamed files, and I can't check whether it does at the moment because all my mac keyboards within reach are tenkeyless, but "return" always has.
I think it's harder to quantify realistic work outputs in some settings, especially if work outputs have been skewed in recent years by people cooking the clock. In others I think they have observed a drop in work output. With the formerly very loose labor market I don't think there was much they could do about it before, but now they see RTO as an option to rein it in. I think if both sides of the equation more consistently approached things in a reasonable manner then both sides would be better off.
Ditto. AMD also reliably delivered on CPUs for the past 2 iterations of both Xbox and PS. AMD feels like the only choice for consoles at this point.
How does any worker manage that? Your output is, you're saying, a few hours out of 40 in a week. That's impossible for someone actually doing something -- surely only managers can get away with that.

If a manager thinks someone is doing that, fire them as your belief is that person is not contributing. Do their job yourself in the time you would have spent managing them, get a bonus for cost savings.

>Labor costs have risen

Call us when C-suite wages drop back to the comparative levels they were even 10 years ago.

Workers got a wake-up call. Capitalist still want to shackle them and beat the work out of them whilst they run off with the money.

Massive wealth gaps can't end soon enough.
Why do I get the impression that all of these FAANG-like companies spend billions of dollars of engineering reinventing partitioned databases, but with HTTP as the query protocol?

They talk about “granular field-level access” — that’s just a SELECT statement. They talk about separating the read only workloads — that’s read scale out replicas. They talk about Arrow and similar technologies that sound an awful lot like SQL queries.
A Post-Open World: contracts instead of licenses
> For instance, partner engineers in Microsoft also enjoy great life.

Sort of. Partner engineers got hit hard with forced retirement packages in the first wave of interest rate hike fueled layoffs.
Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative of most people on food stamps. Of course not.

Same situation here. Of course it's happened, some people have taken advantage of remote work. So what's the manager's excuse for not catching this?
Iptables Debugging (2010)
I was in the "office is a good thing" camp for a while, but having been forced now to do 3 days, then forced to move to an office an extra 20 minute commute away, I've changed my feelings on the matter. Spending 2-2.5 hrs in commute a day is a terrible experience when trying to balance a high pressure job with the rest of life.

I really miss hybrid with 1-2 days in the office. That was the best compromise all around.
Something similar from Moderna for melanomas has been discussed in the past on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38775439
The problem isn't that you shouldn't care about your company, but that caring about your company is going to be far less important in your day to day.

And yes, your team is one decisions away from being ripped apart, or you are one manager change away from being very sad. I'm sure many of us have been there before: From top of a stack rank to bottom due to a manager change, with minimal in-team changes.

So you can try to care about your manager as little as you want, but the changes will happen to you eventually. Embrace that you are going to have to change teams or quit companies, because no love for your company is going to help.

If anything, what this should teach is to aim for a specific level of company growth: Grow too fast, and you might as well be at a different company in 8 months. Grow too slow (or shrink!) and there's no advancement, and it's all internal politics, as the L7 who has been here for 10 years is probably not leaving, because they know that nobody else would hire them at that level.
That kernel panic sounds like a hardware fault just from first blush. Sounds like it's turning on some device but the device isn't responding after being turned on
Putting stops in places they needn't be trains people to ignore them too.
Intel Mac owner here. The writing is on the wall...
Important if true. What is your evidence?
That's why you barista FIRE. Build up that nest egg of $3m then quit to take a part time job at REI or the Amazon warehouse, working 20 hrs/week, and spend the rest of your time mountain biking, skiing.
Intel has Battlemage [1]. Presumably that would be the basis of the console APU. Their iGPU performance is actually getting good now. [2]

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/embargo-no-p...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/lunar-lake-i...
More efficient than brute forcing a private key, as you would have to do when you don't have the public key.

Sure, finding a private key whose public key's hash is given might be 2x slower, but Pollard's rho algorithm is 2^128 times faster.

Asymptotically, an additional hash at the end doesn't matter when you brute force. But it prevents you from using Pollard's rho algorithm, which does make a difference asymptotically.
> Maybe some trauma really is needed in your childhood to produce more drive.

There's probably something there in terms of overcoming difficult situations.

You can achieve the same thing though without trauma, just by doing hard things or being pushed beyond your boundaries.

Go for a swim and hold your breath as long as you can. Then, push yourself to swim a few meters past the point where you held your breath. Keep going for a swim, keep pushing yourself past where you're comfortable.

Make it a habit to do this in various areas of your life - there's your drive.
Yep, the tragedy is that the average tech worker has 'temporarily embaressed rockstar billionare' syndrome, and they've got it bad. They don't need collective action because their beautiful, perfect mind can do much better bargaining by themselves.

Carpenters know that they are labor and labor has value only when it takes it through collective action. Somehow tech workers haven't figured that out yet. When will tech workers catch up to carpenters? Hard to say.
Those scholar use a particularly racist definition.
Ask HN: HN in Weird Time Slip?
I stumbled into:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41519753

which is not new. I posted a comment in that topic, I think, at least over a week ago.

Yet the topic is showing as 3 hours old, and the comments, accordingly, as even newer; mine is 2 hours old, which is ridiculous.

[For future reference, I'm writing this comment on September 16, 2024]
I've been using linux since a long time (Redhat 5.2)

Much as I like it, its not as convenient to use on a laptop as OSX, for every day things.

Plus I like illustrator too much.

For a workstation, yeah, anything with more than one processor/GPU will be super fast on ubuntu.

But Gnome is a dick to use nowadays. very opinionated and an arse to configure.
A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?
Movie Companies Take DMCA Subpoena 'Shortcut' Dispute to Court of Appeals
Pretty well understood in the community that drives consumer diesel vehicles (Ford, Ram, GM) that the main failure modes are emissions systems (or the CP4 pump) The costs are astronomical as well. $7k for a DPF. What vehicles are you selling that aren't seeing issues?
"Someone" in this case is almost the entire automotive industry, among others.
Publish the protocol docs. That's literally all that's required from them. Actually they don't even need to - they can just promise not to sue anyone who reverse-engineers it and publishes a commercial client.

That's how adversarial interoperability worked for decades (and gave free software the ability to interoperate with proprietary formats, see LibreOffice for example) before abusing the DMCA and/or threatening legal action to take down compatible implementations became common practice. I do not recall of any security breaches as a result of this.

Apple are however not going to do that, because doing so would overnight destroy their moat around Universal Clipboard and all their existing interoperability features. So instead they make up some bullshit that non-technical governments and courts will take years to disprove, buying them more time to operate anti-competitively.

It is however sad to see a member of a technical forum gobble up said bullshit.
I always find it really strange when articles like this claim nobody is paying for generative AI. I can't find reliable stats on this but there are at least a million ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Does that not count?

It takes time for new advancements to get proliferated through the economy.
Hate to say it but Amazon was hiring the folks getting laid off from major banks a few years ago. They abandoned hiring only the best a long time ago.
I get it, being mind blown in this industry is getting further apart with time. It is just that the industry is becoming mature, we have picked most of the low hanging fruit and now it is a case of refining the refinded. Triple distilled design in action. More broadly this is a middle aged industry and unfortunately it is leading to some mid life crisis moments like metaverse, crypto hype and AI everything but generally it is still in decent shape, at least when you ignore some details.

The last time I was blown away by any tech would have been the first time using generative AI stuff, yes we figured out its limits, but just that feeling of being able to just type something and just have these thing created on demand was wild. The time before that, I couldnt really say, it has been that long. Maybe seeing realtime raytracing on commodity hardware and even that wasnt ground breaking.

In a way it us like the 10th season of a sitcom, we know all the characters and it is familiar but nothing much is new or fresh any more. The jokes are still fine and the catch phrases are there but it all just feels same-ish. That is ok so long as that is your expectation.