skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nice, but still many things to be improved:

- iphone mirroring keeps going into "paused" mode, showing a "resume" button

- iphone mirroring doesn't unblock apps that need face Id, e.g. whatsapp says "passcode required" without prompting for some form of auth (auto auth is enabled, but no luck)

- iphone mirroring is not really "mirroring": one cannot use both app and phone at the same time, and see what is going on.

- window tiling shortcut requires dragging a window first, Rectangle is much more flexible ie the window only need to be active

- UX for security got worse with "ask every month". Apple doesn't trust us knowing what we're doing, ie there should be a "trust forever" somewhere if I want to

- tagging people in Photos is still extremely buggy

- sequoia is hard to spell (when googling for info) (just me? lol)
But what if it was designed to be a quarter tone flat by another flexing musician?
Yes, making sound choice is hard, just as our life often hinges on a handful of choices. That said, a coworker of mine mentioned an algorithm that seemed to work: first you pick a company that solves a problem that fascinates you and that has people are you willing to work with. You can check LinkedIn for the employe profiles, and you can rely on friend recommendations. The bottomline is, you minimize your chance of regret when it comes to choosing a company. If the company folds, at least you get to work with interesting people, build friendship, learn something new, and work on something fun and meaningful. The second second step is to rely on math. Give the company a time box, say 2 years. If the company does not have satisfying momentum in two years, then jump ship. Note it's about growth and momentum, however you define it. Everything else is secondary consideration. In 10 years, you will have 5 times. Now, the chance that you will succeed at least once 1 - P^6, where P is the failure rate of the companies. Even if the failure rate is 30%, you success rate will be 99.76%, an almost guaranteed success. And now, if you always join a top-tier company in the corresponding sector, your chance of success will even be higher. There are two catches, though. First, you need to be able to switch job whenever you want, so leetcode hard and study hard in your focused domain of experience. Second, 2 years of experience hardly can be enough for progressing your level of expertise, so you will have to work like hell to make 2 years of experience worth four years, instead of having one month of experience repeating 24 times.
> If you or your child were sick, if you had some sort of house emergency, if you were on the road seeing customers or partners, if you needed a day or two to finish coding in a more isolated environment, people worked remotely. This was understood, and will be moving forward as well.

This is Amazon having it both ways, which is what a lot of companies are doing. You can work remotely 'sometimes,' with a secret definition of 'sometimes,' operating in the background.

I found this paragraph to be somewhat galling since, like, if you're sick you shouldn't work at all, you should be focussing on getting well. Ditto if your kid is sick. Raising one or more whole other human/s is a super important thing. One result I saw from the pandemic is fathers doing more of the childcare, and what full-RTO like this fundamentally does is shift that dynamic back to where it was before.

Shame on Amazon.
I'm not sure why I would work for Amazon. Had plenty of opportunities to work for other other companies that paid well enough. Maybe not as much, but who cares?
So, limited yourself?
The meme that “China just copies others” is pure hubris. CATL builds the best batteries in the world. Is that not innovation?
Sure. The motivation of forming a firm over a collection of contractors “is to avoid some of the transaction costs of using the price mechanism” of the market [1]. Put another way, it’s the power of intra-firm communication and trust. That’s what you’re getting at in celebrating camaraderie and flexibility at start-ups.

When a firm is small, i.e. below Dunbar’s number, that intra-firm communication is implicit. Above that, however, at least some communications must be mediated. Unless one wants pure fucking chaos, that mediation requires formalised communication. We call that system bureaucracy.

Once you have bureaucracy, you’ve lost the benefits of implicit communication. A large firm must thus either lose that culture entirely or constrain it to the top of the firm: elite group of fewer than 150 people, often much fewer, who have the flexibility to operate outside the bureaucracy and the camaraderie to trust each other with that power. (Or, again, pure fucking chaos. Almost every generation has shining examples of business leaders who want a big workforce with no bureaucracy.)

The former, bureaucracy all the way down, is conventional corporate management. This is where unions found their footing. The second, bureaucracy except at the top, is the “modern” way. (“Founder mode.”) It, more than traditional management, screams for unionisation because it explicitly creates a two-tier culture where agency is reserved to one side.

Note that I do not believe in antagonistic unions. They need the power to act, but ones with a trigger finger will put their companies (and themselves) out of business. The question is whether they’ll do it faster than the current crop of founders and VCs. Given the current state of Silicon Valley, I’m up for giving it a try.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
DBX – Lightweight Database GUI
Hi everyone, OP and engineer behind dbx, here’s a bit about the tool:

Key features

- AI-powered Query Editor (bring your own api keys)

- Table Editor/Viewer

- Schema Visualizer

- Command Palette + Hot Keys

Why build another db client? ... the space is crowded, so what makes it stand out?

There are mature apps that handle complex tasks, this is a lightweight and simple alternative with emphasis on ux.

What dbs do you support?

PostgreSQL. I'm building SQL support and should have this live in 2 days. SQLite next.

Will you OSS?

I would love to but I'm struggling to see a solution that balances open sourcing the product and capturing value.
I planning to OSS a dockerized web-based version similiar to pgweb. Our feature roadmap is public here https://github.com/orgs/getdbx/projects/1
As I mention, this is just from my personal experience. I would expect Amazon doesn't make a decision like this without significant internal data, there is a lot of money to be saved if someone figures out how to do work from home.
Amazon has been a known "do not work there" employer for a very long time. At least since 2008 in my recollection.

Yes there are people here who consistently post on Amazon threads that they enjoy working there. I even know a couple such people personally. But it's always with the disclaimer "you need to be in a good team". OK but is there a field in the offer letter that denotes "Good_team: TRUE". Nope.

So you can like the idea of competing in "The Hunger Games" while trying to write and fix code. Or not..
True but if you're referring to the fact that you can play Xbox and Xbox 360 games on newer hardware, I believe Microsoft has a team that has to individually patch these games to work for newer hardware.

Sony does something similar I believe with their new Classics Catalogue as part of their most premium PS Plus tier.
After three lines and probably 15 balls it started screeching at me.
Starting CPAP tonight. Wish me luck!
In case you're curious -- computer scientists have been trying to simulate/predict weather over half a century and it's led to some really awesome math/compsci discoveries.

If you've ever heard of the Lorenz/Butterfly Effect/Strange Attractors, those chaotic systems were discovered because of a discrepancy between two parallel weather simulations. One preserved the original simulation's calculation train while the other started off with simply the previous results (out to like 10 decimals) and suffered from a rounding error and thus both simulations diverged hugely.

Lorenz was trying to simulate weather by subdividing the atmosphere into tons and tons of cubes. Really interesting reading/video watching tbh.
Main reason for sleep apnea - in my opinion - is deformed/degenerated fascia in the neck aka head forward posture. It's the disease of our modern (sedentary) age. SA is only one symptom. If you heard this the first time please feel free to ask. I'm always astounded at how common these CPAP devices are. Truly frightening.
I'm all for workers right, unionizing, and not letting companies take advantage of you. If remote work is something important for you, you should make that clear for companies that wants to hire you.

But I'm sure there's plenty of people who would gladly trade their tyranny for a well paid office job in a safe part of the world. I'd also like to add that American tech workers are pretty uniquely well off, working in an office for a fifth of an Amazon paycheck is the norm for a lot of us. Nobody likes to commute, I'm not defending unnecessary mandatory back to office policies, just adding some perspective.
Dexie supports observable queries, but it operates on IndexedDB rather than plain JS objects: https://dexie.org/docs/liveQuery()#vanilla-js
I assume you haven't read anything written by Vance, because magicians in there are so much more like wizards, especially in the '70s, and arguably still today, than anything Gandalf ever did. Such as their continual quest to amass more spells and their memorizing of The Excellent Prismatic Spray.

If you read the books D&D lists as influences, it's pretty obvious where most of this stuff comes from.
Why did amd win the console business? It seems that even though they weren't number 1, they were always on most consoles.
The business doesn’t survive if it’s split.
Quite a lot apparently considering how often I have to bypass gatekeeper.

I don't really see how the average user is positively affected by these changes - it's not like they will accidentally open terminal and enter random strings infinite monkey theorem style until they hit sudo spctl –master-disable.
Ctrl-click was at least possible to stumble over, but I see no good reason not to at least provide a .plist setting to re-enable that behavior. Except to bully more devs into getting signing certs.
It depends on what you mean by "what happened". If what you're talking about happening to those companies is how much money they make, you're totally right.

That said, your reply is a bit of a non sequitur. The thread is largely about answering the question of "why do you work at Amazon?", and I haven't seen anyone saying the answer is because of how much money Amazon makes. I also haven't seen anyone say they quit because Amazon appears to be on the same financial trajectory as GE or Boeing.

I bet you a tonne of people would agree that there's a culture shift away from valuing the experience of the boots-on-the-ground operational folk at all of those companies, which is why they don't want to work there.
cool stuff. would like to see statsitics about the patterns that get generated.
How do you bypass gatekeeper now?

How often do you have to re-authenticate your existing binaries?
Is it just me or the balls aren't quite on tempo? Even the default 1/s feels off, wobbly and not steady. Chrome Android.
I'm in a similar situation, but no hardware involved. Just the flexibility to juggle the kids at pick up times is godsend.

I have much better no-interruption stretches of programming which yields better results overall.
Some companies have used this "technique" to reduce their headcount without having to fire people. Maybe Amazon is doing the same thing.
In term of tracking sleep, is there any alternative with better battery life? I don’t mind other sport tracking functions.
Some companies used this to reduce their headcount without having to fire people. Maybe Amazon is doing the same thing.
javascript should be renamed to LavaScript

sun microsystems - sun -> lava

java volcano -> lava
I thoroughly approve of legal weed because when young adults can't get high on weed they buy more dangerous drugs.

Personally I never take it.

I do think if you use it more than once in a while you're wasting your life. But hey, it's your decision.
Not sure if it is broken, but I took the opportunity when upgrading today to say No and just disable it. The product is EOL anyway, there are a few upstarts in the open source world, and I am hoping the best for Apples on-device SLMs (or oss ones) mooting the requirement for OpenAI.
> Would you say a man that spends 40 years working 60 hours a week, alienating all friends and neighbors til he has no friends or anyone that respects him, no kids, no partner, and a group on ex employees that hate him for squeezing them to work under market value?

If you accept a job that’s your market value. If you think you’re worth more, get a higher paying job. Or don’t and pretend that you were squeezed into working for under market value.

The guy employed people for 40 years. Not the worst thing in the world.

Not everybody values the same stuff. Some people like what other people call work. Some people don’t need friends.

> Is he a success just because he accumulated 3x the capital he set out to when he started his business at 20 years old?

If at 20 years old he said his goal was to accumulate 3x the capital before he dies, then I couldn’t argue that by his definition of success, he succeeded.

Hopefully he doesn’t care if I think he’s a success.

> Then dies suddenly alone

We all die suddenly and alone. We’re alive and then we’re dead. Nobody comes with us.

> Would that be a success by most people's standards?

Who cares what most people think?
> But overall I had a really great experience, there was a strong sense of “ownership” on the stuff we built due to how teams are expected to be run. We owned all the infrastructure ourselves, costs, QA, deployments, technical decisions, you name it.

This is one of those terms that drive me nuts, because actual ownership implies revenue/profit sharing, decision making, and property rights.

Sounds like you're getting all the responsibilities of ownership, but none of the tangible benefits.
Does the author mind if he shared his Emacs configuration? So beautiful!
Which major apps (chrome, google meet, zoom, tuple) have actually done so yet?
That sounds more like moving the goalposts. The claim (via sarcastic comment) was that people do not simply push code that they do not understand - and I provided a counter-example. No-one in that conversation disagrees that that's a bad practice - but until and unless I have full mandate to hire and fire whoever I want to work with, or to change jobs at will, I'm going to have to work with people whose development practices I disagree with.
US government agencies still have some of the lowest RTO rates in the country (compared to other employers) precisely because of federal employee unions.
My friend's job pays him enough he could lease his own office near where he lives.
He has all the "toys" he needs, space for his own research and he doesn't have to waste time to commute.

My view is that offices were a thing because there was no technology to do otherwise and back then equipment was too large / expensive to be kept at employee's place.

Now only reason to go to office is to artificially maintain property value so landlords don't lose money.

Often the owners also have shares in the business and influence this return to office aka sustain my property portfolio nonsense
My 2018 MBP 15 is the i7 model, while it gets warm it never had the overheating issues the i9 models had. I also had the battery replaced under AppleCare about 10 months ago so it still gets 7-9 hours of battery life.
Tons ICs on here saying how great and productive remote is for them. But, we rarely here the same from managers. Of course, there are more ICs than managers, but the skeptic and manager in me is suspicious of remote work (in the general case).
“Just seems a bit heartless” which, from everything I’ve read about Amazon as an employer, sounds completely on brand.
Went looking for fountain codes, was not disappointed [1]. It's a shame these have been locked up for so long -- there's a lot of network infrastructure that could be improved by them.

The patents are hopefully expiring soon.

Generic tornado codes are likely patent free, having been expired for a few years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_code

EDIT: looking a bit deeper into this repo, it's really just a wrapper over the raptorq crate with a basic UDP layer on top. Nothing really novel here that I can see over `raptorq` itself.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/raptorq
I know what you mean.

There's a huge retrojection problem going in a lot of fantasy right now.

I really wish authors would write books that authentically described an alien society, rather than wish casting "vague liberal fantasy with different clothes"(usually liberal, but libertarian authors do it too, same problem, different lumps under the clothes).

Now, I wonder: would that sell? I dunno.

But I might scream the next time I read or see an "other" society dumping duty for individualism as per European upper crust romanticism. Again.
Infamous iPhone hacker geohotz joined Twitter for a three-month internship where he planned to fix search. He quit after one month having accomplished nearly nothing.
Intel foundry business to make custom chip for Amazon, chipmaker's shares jump
Ask how much they pay and the itch will be gone in no time.
again, i keep asking: which apps have actually switched to the new screen sharing API and which apps have not?

does zoom, chrome, google meet, etc still require this?
> Just seems a bit heartless.

The writing has been on the wall for a while. Aside from that, Amazon decided to convert their workforce to work from home rather quickly, and shelled out the money and the effort in order to actually achieve that.

> Remote jobs just allow a team to be more robust and dynamic to life changes.

If you weren't hired into a remote job then you don't have much a right to expect or demand this.
Basically just a bunch of stories about how NYPD decided to stop enforcing weed laws and the aftermath.
I tend to not really care about these things as long as powerusers have a way around it. Yeah, it'd be great if everyone was technically literate, but most people simply don't care to be, and I think that's okay?

IMHO there's a huge difference between no freedom for anyone (iOS) and secure-by-default, freedom only for powerusers (macOS / Android / Chromebooks / ARM Windows devices) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Take this with a grain of salt but I read on a similar Reddit post the return to office is mainly due to the tax incentives the city/county/state provided Amazon for having their offices located there. The Reddit user made a claim which Amazon could only receive those tax benefits if their workers actually worked in person at the location.
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I can see this being a valid argument for return to office for a lot of corporations, if its actually true. The tax benefits are too good to pass up and in office has been the status quo forever.
The GPU is "AI hardware", and current PS5 already has it.
That is definitely one cause of OSA as is micrognathia and other craniofacial abnormalities, but it remains that the most common cause is fat mass constricting the upper airway - even if that person has completely normal craniofacial development and proper posture.
I don’t look for mentions, but how could i miss this thread ;)

The new authoritative link is <https://rbg.systems>; a DNS registration oversight has that spam parked on the old site :(

I still dream about taking that project back up. Maybe there’s some way to find funding for it… otherwise i am currently looking for a job (if anyone reading wants to hire me :)

Check out https://www.dbos.dev/ for a different take on “persistent OS”, i think it’s neat!
I’m curious: what, in your experience, was the root cause of this contempt? Other skilled professions can make decent money as SDEs do. Is it a love/hate thing? Feeling like the tools could easily not need them if they had sufficient gumption and will?
On the other hand, we often create over-engineered solutions because taking the simpler route would require us to rewrite existing cruft, which is often just more expensive.
Twisted fibres capture more water from fog
Well I'm sure Bezos will appreciate that this is a nice A/B test: will Amazon end up losing business to remote friendly competitors. My guess is: eventually yes. Considering selling some of my AMZN now.
The meetings between engineers are rather unstructured. I hadn't really thought about what meetings between business types would be like. Decisions get made in those that affect whether the company is a viable going concern. That makes for a very uncomfortable line of reasoning.
But they are using the property, meaning it is keeping its value. The whole point of RTO, so that investment funds, landlords don't lose money they put into commercial property.

Really people forced into office for no reason should at least be given share of the gain they make for the owners.
I've heard it explained as "It is like finding one specific grain of sand on an earth where all grains of sand on earth are earths with sand." Even shuffling a deck of cards has more arrangements than stars in the universe.

If technology advances enough to brute force that many keys in a reasonable amount of time, then every other password and security technology that uses cryptography will also be compromised. It's just a 2x sha256 right?
> It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this

"gets wise to this" how, exactly? The EU can certainly set conditions which Apple must meet to ship a feature. They have no legal grounds whatsoever to demand that Apple ship that feature to Europe, specially modified to meet their exacting requirements.

How would that even work? One way to comply with the EU's demands that a product work a certain way, is to not sell that product in the EU. Is your stance that EU has a right to force companies to sell their wares in the EU?
Several of my neighbors work for dispensaries, and those who don't, enjoy smoking the sensemilla, as it were.

The legalization of cannabis has taken an amazing path. The establishment still doesn't accept it. My bishops are railing against every measure on the ballot. My landlady prohibits it. Every physician I've encountered, especially in psychiatry, hate it with a white-hot passion.

I think it's quite unusual and notable that despite legalization, cannabis has remained resolutely separate from pharmacies, regular physicians, and health care as it is. Around here, you go to a special doc, get your prescription/card/permission, go to a dispensary and get the goods. So, it's out in the open now that the Establishment doesn't like cannabis because cannabis is competition. It has very little to do with its effects or judicious usage by sane people. Cannabis is unpatentable, and therefore it's unlikely to be regulated or integrated with the pharma system of synthetic drugs.

It's so weird to have a single-drug healthcare system parallel to the mainstream one. Will dispensary systems diversify as other illicit drugs are legalized? Will they grow to become their own branch alongside naturopathy, homeopathy, etc? What will become of psychedelic treatments for mental patients? The future is weird, and I'm staying sober!
The whole article seems unfair to Intel. They didn’t lose the contract because they didn’t have it in the first place. I think your analysis is correct. They win a little if they don’t get the contract and they win a lot if they do. It was a no brainer to bid on it.