skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Amazon's RTO policy correspond to their mostly Asian-Subcontinent H1B workforce? Is this a strategy to get rid of those few American citizens that are still there and replace them with indentured serfs who won't argue with management?
speaking for myself: i stick around because of the my soon-to-vest RSUs and because they gave me an official remote work exception. both of them are ticking time-bombs though.

1. I've got like $110k vesting this November. After that it starts to dry up quickly. $50k in May 2025 and another $50k in November 2025. After that it's basically nothing, unless my PCS next year comes with some re-up.
2. The remote work exception is indefinite, but i'm worried that if I'm one of a few remote employees on a big team that are all mostly in-office, I'm not going to really get as many opportunities otherwise.

Long story short, I think my time at Amazon is coming to an end soon, but I'm still sticking around for now.
Maybe there’s a similar post to be written about whether to start a blog and write essays? It works for some people, but for me, writing an an article that I think is good enough to publish (even on my obscure blog) takes all day and the extra effort doesn’t seem worthwhile, compared to writing comments and sharing links.
Reddit has closed off, Google is licensing their public records now. Recent content doesn’t show up when searching on e.g. DuckDuckGo and their robots.txt denies all traffic. https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525...
employment is just a business transaction, i don't believe people should tie their sense of integrity to how they interact with an organization that would fire you with zero notice and not even tell you why
The key in this quote is: "in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong"

100% intel screwup.
Can you expand on the Japanese context?
But would it have enterprise-level security?
Amazon always needs bodies. So whatever ban there is, they will “make an exception”..
TBF zstd runs most of the gamut, so depending on your settings you can have it run very fast at a somewhat limited level of compression or much lower at a very high compression.

Bzip is pretty completely obsolete though. Especially because of how ungodly slow it is to decompress.
Yeah, I never got the perspective of the people who said otherwise. It's wild how throughout my life I've met people who put 50% of the entire population into "can't be friends with them" group. Maybe I'm just lucky, but all of my male friends have women friends and vice-versa. Grew up in different countries as well, so it's really cross-cultural if one puts a bit of effort.
> My conclusion

Are you saying you understood something? Was it genuine? Do you think LLM feels the same thing?
Isn’t this also the case with the Zimmerman PGP case never making its way to a court ruling?
The realities of how humans interact. Going for a cup of coffee and asking a colleague to join is a different act than asking a colleague to join you in a Zoom call.
counter-take:

if your food stores used to be 800m^3 of grain, and you manage to increase that 1600m^3 of grain, plus 5000m^3 of rabbit shit stored in the room next door, did your food supplies get better or worse?

almost nothing on the internet, in category terms, has gone away.

lots of new stuff has arrived, perhaps (perhaps) in volume outweighing whatever one might consider good.

i suggest that it is far from clear that this means "the internet is worse".
Few notes:

- ALL the focus is on asset allocation and ordinary people surveillance, nothing on who control AND OWN the controllers, or the "AI" mentioned;

- smartphones, mobile connectivity the key to make people pay the surveillance, obviously for the profit of the controller.

Instead of FTTH to focus on stable and high performance links to WFH focus on mobile surveillance, I'm curious why we IT workers do no agree a MASSIVE, WORLDWIDE STRIKE asking for mandatory WFH for all eligible jobs "we run the nervous system of the society, we build it, we will not be flesh-based bots of some manager in a smart-city lager", and focus on desktop computing instead of mobile, because here happen anything else.
>The problem with choosing Nvidia is that they can't make an x86 processor with an integrated GPU

Can't and not being allowed are two very different things
To me, much of what has been said about Waterfall is a strawman. Firstly, the idea that no-one ever iterated doing Waterfall is just not true. The idea that Gantt charts are some sign of evil is, IMO, misplaced. Like all tools, they can be used poorly - but so long as you keep them regularly updated, they can be quite powerful.

In a prior job, another dev - a lovely guy - claimed that Waterfall projects always failed, which was news to me as I'd worked on dozens of them and none had failed.

I feel like the take home message is perhaps that we tend to mythologize processes and make them into caricatures of reality. The actual truth is always more complex and more nuanced. Which, ironically, I think is kinda the point of the Agile Manifesto. At any rate, I certainly feel that most people I've ever met who think that "doing scrum" is Agile are less agile than the people I used to work with doing Waterfall. It's not about processes, its about people and interactions.
Not to be that guy but all packages are touched by human hands. Probably 3-4 people on average at each stop on a tracking status page, and that's assuming small items like flat envelopes and small boxes are grouped together into giant bags throughout the process.
Coming into this thread late, but one thing I wished to see in this discussion is the mention of the truism that I first read here:

Successor languages must have full (or at least broad) compatibility with the language they're replacing. Look at C++ itself; it started as a C transpiler, and has some of the longest running C compat of any extant language. Same goes for TypeScript, which is fairly widely used in production, I think even moreseo than Rust, for all the hype it generates,

This is an interesting proposal for that reason alone; it would allow a slow and deliberate conversion process, but also would allow safety standards to include language like "no unsafe blocks allowed unless proven safe"
Are you looking to hire additional engineers?
The problem is that we are making life harder and harder for people to do things for free, due to the privatization of everything. With more commons, people are more likely to create high-quality things for free.
LSD?
Sure, but it's a narrow kind of justice in service of the type of society they would like to live in - one which doesn't happen to have any social safety net, public services, regulations, professional licensing, etc.

And again, I think it's great that they took this case, because it's egregious. But, I just don't support their broader agenda.
I have a Daylight tablet on order. I find it interesting that products like ReMarkable are adding color e-ink, while companies like Daylight are actively removing color.

This does make me wonder more about the Daylight panel and if they could enable color through a software update to enable things like highlighting. Of course, at some point it would defeat the point of the whole company, becoming just another tablet for mass consumption.
Depending on your appetite for risk and in/stability, you should not have trouble finding work at a start-up (FT or consulting). Doubly so if your db-focus touches on vector search.

The timing is a tricky one, though. I personally know folks who were able to demand a premium for their past Amazon work experience but that cachet will fade quickly as people start jumping ship over this stupid, regressive policy.
Can this be fixed? If it can't be fixed, can we get around it?
Cycling is how I've met most of my friends and acquaintances in the bay area. There's an absolutely massive cycling scene and it covers MTB, gravel, road, and random fun things like bike parties (SF, East Bay, and San Jose each have their own ones).
Pervasive findings of directional selection as DNA elucidates human adaptation
Full title: Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation
sure, and there's also local fire fighting, St. John's Ambulance, State Emergency Services, Men's Shed's, etc. There are community groups all over, in this part of the world at least.

* https://dfes.vol.org.au/

* https://careers.stjohnwa.com.au/volunteer-page

* https://ses-wa.asn.au/the-ses/

* https://mensshed.org/
I'm not seeing the connection with Bethesda, am I missing something?
This is sensorwatch.com and it is nice. It has been around for a while.
Personal integrity should not ever be in play when you’re talking about amoral objects like Amazon.

When I command my computer to remove a file, I don’t think about the morality of destroying things. I issue the command and it does it. And I know my computer doesn’t care about personal integrity as it churns through its instructions. Amazon works the same way.

These companies are all lawn mowers, just like Oracle. A lawn mower just cuts grass and does not deserve or respond to things like integrity and personal honor.
the current rate is 5.5%. everyone is expecting 25-50bps in a couple days.

under what pretense can you assert that it'll drop another 200-250bps by the end of 2025?
There are also plenty of more liberal churches out there, especially if you're in a city. Even in Arkansas I found a church or two that I found more reasonable.
If you want to write a book wrote one (out two or three). It has never been easier. Just be aware that it is a marathon not a sprint. I have a bunch of anecdotes about folks who have done well publishing their books.

If you don't want to don't.
This is calling out to a proprietary API, it is not happening inside Colab.
Interesting project! It's great to see efforts to tackle high packet loss scenarios using fountain codes like RaptorQ. However, the benchmarks could use more clarity. Comparing Nyxpsi to TCP and UDP without considering factors like congestion control, latency, and retransmission strategies might not give a complete picture. It would be helpful to see how Nyxpsi performs under different network conditions, especially with varying latencies and in real-world environments. Also, providing more detailed documentation about the protocol's operation and its handling of issues like streaming and congestion control would be beneficial. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
The last part is key IMO - there are communities where the activity involves spending solitary time alone with the other party, and that tends to be much harder to do stably with opposite sex partners without some kind of sexual relationship forming, regardless of other relationships.
Just use it like a tool…
The cover of the book has an Addison Wesley logo on it, and the hard cover also has a Pearson logo on it. So that name has some textbook companies backing up PragProg as well.

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-2...

It also DOESN'T have any indication that "The Pragmatic Programmer" is any sort of trademark, so who knows. Either way, IMO calling your own writing "X for Y" where "X" is a commonly known specific work, and "Y" is a generic term, just means that you've diluted your own discoverability into a very big pot.
Sure, that's why they named it Euromaidan and flew EU flags, because it was totally unrelated to the people's will to be closer to Europe. /s

It is true that it was a revolt against a corrupt regime, but it's also true that this regime was openly pro-Russian and Russian backed, against the will of its people.

You again have a big ol' blindspot for Russian corruption and meddling in Ukraine.
You've made up your mind a long time ago and arguing with you is useless, you're just crafting a narrative that confirms your faith.
It's not wrong, but "wrong" as both comments above had :)
Why do you think it was a confidence issue?
I agree with you, our small business pays around $1200 per year for 1Password for a handful of users.

Apple passwords doesn’t have to be ABSOLUTELY AMAZING to make financial sense to us, it just has to work well enough where previously we didn’t really have any free options we liked.
You have it backwards- it hadn’t made sense from the invention of the internet until 2020. I point to “teleworking” being a legitimate thing even before the internet was mainstream as evidence that the traditional office is a relic from the 40s and 50s typewriter factories.
Bug: the product is missing a feature that we want it to have
Bingo. You hit the nail in the head. Most people who have never been to the US will be surprised when they land as it lacks many features of the developed world (as in comparing to Europe and Japan). What the US has right now is particular access to capital that enables it to attract talent from across the globe. It also has a relatively open system, so you can trade. This made it possible for highly innovative and powerful companies to exist. If you remove these companies and this capital; something that could happen rather quickly (most of them are in Software), a US citizen will probably have the same purchasing power as someone from Brazil.
15GB for some crappy generative AI. No thanks. Will stick with Monterey as long as possible. This new generative AI thing may just be the thing to make me install Asahi Linux on my computer. Hopefully it's feature-complete enough soon.
> You'll probably get the money back

Unless you get a lot of press, and/or have someone like the Institute for Justice fighting on your behalf, that's not a given.

There's a playbook that local/state and federal agencies have.

If a local/state agency seizes your cash, then they can just kick it up to the feds. Then any suit you file will have to be against the federal government. This increases your costs and difficulty.

The local/state agency is fine with this, because they have an agreement (see "Equitable Sharing"[1]) to get 80% of the money back.

[1] https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/
He’s just referring to why a lot of dudes don’t consider ‘non-guy’ stuff. Because they’ve been trained that it’s ‘gay’, and that ‘gay’ is bad.
Stepping over each other was the point! :) But very good to know if I ever want to encode a little melody instead!
That's a US perspective right? I don't think that exists much in Europe?

I just got a 3 month freelance gig (Netherlands) and even that requires full time on-site for absolutely no reason other than "boss says so". There's also a housing crisis going on and they wonder why they have an open vacancy for literally 6+ months.

I guess it's better to watch it burn than to allow WFH.
That's awesome. As an author myself, I'd love to hear more.

Also note, that you are an outlier. (Congrats!) Folks listening to you should not expect those results.
Integrity is as much about the kind of person you want to be as it is about the beneficiary of your treatment.

Don't sell yourself short.
Thumbnailing with a Tigris Shadow Bucket
They have said it will work on Windows with iCloud desktop app installed.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/icloud-windows/icw7603...
Hi, yes we a run a dev shop that does it exactly so we will interview and do technical test task for yourself. We will also help with onboarding, HR, payroll aswell. Let me know if you would like to jump on a call. What's your budget for the engineer?
But…nearly everyone carries or handles some amount of cash. Is a bank teller continually triggering the dogs?
You’d be surprised sometimes. If you do notable things, women get pretty thirsty.
Or a few hours writing a script of they are well formed. (Possible even less using AI).
The film industry unions famously pushed to centralize all of the industry into a 30mi radius in LA (TMZ- thirty mile zone) [1], so it's totally possible to push for location-specific policies.

The Alphabet Workers Union has been fighting against RTO mandates for a while now, AFAIK. Not super successfully, but they've gotten some extensions and delays a few times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_zone
does anyone have any advice for finding remote roles?
I used to cycle alone which I love. I joined a cycling club to make friends but after a year or two gave up.

I found that you would not see everyone every week. So you would have the same superficial conversation time after time and not feel like a real connection was made.

The group had a core group of genuine friends, but they maintained quite an in-group which was hard to break into as a dilettante - you'd have to commit to doing group activities multiple times every week.

Also banter and stories seem to be how men bond which I find boring and difficult. Cycling clubs are mostly men but there were some women, but then do you seem like a creep if you try to inveigle yourself in with them?

The best connections I made was with lesbians, who I could chat to most comfortably of all. But in the end we were unlikely to be friends off the bike because our lifestyles were so different. Like how many straight geeky single dads do lesbians want in their friendship group really :D
> How is it that you think YC makes money in a body shop acquihire deal?

Liquidation preference.
If you or your partner are the sort of person who might cheat, then sure I guess. But I personally wouldn't want to be in a relationship where cheating was on the cards and we had to regulate our social lives to prevent it. I don't think that's healthy.

My husband and I have been in a rock solid relationship for over a decade, and we don't have any issues with opposite-sex friendships. It would be weird if we did because it would mean that we couldn't have any mutual friends and share a social life together as a couple. That seems really unnatural and unhealthy to me.
I will usually leave myself notes of where my head is at and what I was planning to do next. This way I don’t end up in that frustrating situation of knowing I had a path, but forgetting what it was. This is especially true on a Friday afternoon or before a vacation.
You should definitely quit!
I had to ask AI to summarize the rambling, but it seems like classic misgivings by someone who doesn't understand the tech. For better or for worse, these are the majority, so that will most likely become the zeitgeist anyway.
I think it's part of living in a society with rules and law. It also protects me from rampant fraud and theft and also helps ensure taxes are paid for the benefits I use like roads, hospitals, and education.
Lots of property tax
I don't see any evidence that they're against these things.

Care to provide some kind of citations?
A thought experiment, something you may not want to hear. Have you thought of playing along and see if you would actually like going back to office full time? Also, while you are at office 5 days a week, how about try to get to the next level before you switch? Many will leave (just like you are planning to) and hence it will be easier for the long timers to get promoted in an environment where there will be a lot of inflow of new employees at all levels.

I am not suggesting that this is the right way to think about your situation, but that it is 'another way' to think about it. Who knows, you might end up profiting from this adversity. Wish you all the best!
I think it becomes more clear if we call it by its more traditional name, “robbery.” Unless it is at something like a traffic stop where it is done using the implied or explicit threat of force by a police officer — in which case, it is called “armed robbery.”
These small incremental AI tools seem in isolation to be helpful things for human coders. But over a period of decades, these interations will eventually become mostly autonomous, writing code by themselves and without much human intervention compared to now. And that could be a very dangerous thing for humanity, but most people working on this stuff don't care because by the time that happens, they will be retired with a nice piece of private property that will isolate them from the suffering of those who have not yet obtained their private property.
He mentions towards the end he’s in Nashville.
You forgot: 3. vibration testing drive electronics and payloads.

But yeah, #2 is the primary benefit.
we find the idea of fine-tuning an LLM to triage and fix insecure code intriguing. However, we have concerns about the limitations posed by the size of the training dataset. As @tptacek mentioned, relying on "hundreds of closed source projects" might not provide the diversity needed to effectively identify a wide range of vulnerabilities, especially in complex systems like the Linux kernel. Incorporating open-source projects could enrich the model's understanding and improve its accuracy. Additionally, benchmarking the model by attempting to generate CVEs from open-source code seems like a practical way to assess its real-world effectiveness. Has anyone experimented with expanding the training data or testing the model against known vulnerabilities in open-source repositories?
> "In sum, the accelerated commercialisation of the internet, the dominance of media tech giants and the presence of bad actors have infiltrated content on the internet. The rise of AI further intensifies this, making the internet more chaotic than ever."

monopoloies and enshittification?

like almost everything, at the start it serves and is designed by it's users. then when money gets involved it shifts to serving the interests of the money people.

you see the same in so many other industries, films, tv, video games.
At a large scale I’d say no.

Because economic incentives will follow where people are and so if you try create something new it will slowly degrade over time. We’re seeing it happen again with the “fediverse” that is already starting to show signs of business people coming in with ideas for how to monetize it and it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a mess.

But at a smaller scale yes. Get yourself a personal site if you don’t already have one. Post content on your own domain. Make an effort to link to other personal sites. Create a blog roll. Join a forum since a few are still around. Or set up one if you want to create space for a new small community.
I disagree, it’s a different modality and you become too sensitive to be able to be really good friends with men.
Unpopular opinion maybe...

Just put up with it for a while -- then leave when a better opportunity shows itself.

I flew more than half the country to work for a financial institution in NY, and enjoyed it for 2 years. I got to see a different part of the country, and racked up a bunch of frequent flyer miles. Another contracted me, wanted to keep me as a FTE, I told them I wasn't moving. They hired me as a remote worker.
To add, depending on the context, this could also be a sign of controlling behavior. Policing who your partner is friends with is pretty classic controlling behavior, but insisting your partner not be friends with their preferred gender is also "normal" in certain circles. I don't think that's a healthy norm, but it is important context.

For instance, if someone's partner said they couldn't be friends with men/women, and then tried to create distance between them and their family, then I would advise them to leave that relationship immediately. That would be a dangerous situation.
Not really that surprising. The first iPhones were a big upgrade, the next ones less so. All technology reaches the point of diminishing returns, at which point companies find new ways of entrenching new types of technology into our lives, only to repeat the process.
Generative AI has a generally soulless look about it that is easy to spot and hard to explain.
> Horizon Forbidden West needing a much better GPU on PC to run at the same level of fidelity as the PS5.

not being expected to run with variable refresh rate\interleaving and accepting 30\60 fps in best case situations?
> novel commentary three or four years ago,

Chatgpt was released November 2022. That's one year and 10 months ago. Their marketing started in the summer of the same year, still far of from 3-4 years.