skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, based on the replies here, maybe it's a somewhat generational thing. I was born in 89, so I remember 9/11 when it happened and the wars that followed, but it wasn't something that I put that much thought into. Similarly, I was barely out of high school and into college in 2008. My main concern was playing video games with my friends and trying to come up with excuses to skip my Minnesota History class.
It's not only about restictions on buying and selling, it's also about restictions on using (where, for how long, can it be inherited) which are dictated by the vendor.
> Highly scrum/agile focused people have brought up that sprints start on Monday and that starting the oncall on Tuesday makes sprint planning harder

Wait, what? Don't run your sprints Monday to Monday either. That's been the eventual conclusion on all scrum teams I've been on.
Continuous Integration Dashboard for Apache NuttX RTOS (Prometheus and Grafana)
other just think pirating is an acceptable way to stick it to the Man.
i think that’s a characteristic of a lot of PhD’s though - they become so specialized they become inflexible. i’m more talking about applied math into industry types. in insurance, tech, etc, i always tend to find the mathy people are faster, come up with unique solutions, and are more self motivated.
Torrents UX isn't uTorrent anymore, there are Netflix like UX solutions to piracy 2024. Feel free to pay, I'm happy to freeload off faceless megacorps profit margins.

I pay for YouTube Premium and Spotify premium, I'd probably pay for Netflix if I didn't need D+, Showtime, Viaplay etc... To access all I want to watch.
I was guessing stuff like counterfeit DVDs, which also doesn't really have much to do with torrenting
The thing is that filesystems are inherently statful, so the same test might trigger different edge cases depending on the state of the fs.
Exercising workers' rights in algorithmic management systems (2023) [pdf]
I agree voting with your feet is good and underutilized, but it's also extremely expensive for both sides. There's no successful group that didn't need feedback or even internal conflict (with healthy resolution) to be successful.
They do have domestic ferret mitochondria. The plan is to breed them, take only the male offspring, an cross those back into the original population (and thus get rid of the domestic heritage again).
Measurement is a necessary step but if you don’t think through the expected results first then it is easy to rationalize any results that a profiler provides (easy to lye to yourself).

I like the solid approach described in Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard L. Sites
> All of us are better with access to frequent informal communication, shared meals, and walking.

Back when I was healthy, I would have agreed with this. Nowadays, chronic illness forestalls shared meals or casual walks. Informal communication doesn't need to be over the top of a cubicle wall. It can be as simple as switching from Slack to Signal/Whatsapp/iMessage.

As with most things, cohesive dynamics are achieved by working with the tools and limitations that _exist_ rather than assuming everyone can relate in the same way. If I worked on a team where all the above were socially expected, I'd feel excluded and probably leave.

It's perfectly fine to acknowledge that _you_ require those walks and meals to lead effectively. And I'm sure that your non-handicapped team members appreciate it as well.

The rest of us, however, still have a lot to contribute and shouldn't be implicitly (yes) punished for not fitting into that mold. We're good engineers and good colleagues.
> The reputations and careers (and liability) of serious journalists rest on uncovering important stories

Maybe it used to be so, but not anymore. Now the careers of journalists (I don't know how to define "serious" without going into true-scotsman weeds) depend much more on ideological conformity and willingness to serve partisan interests and push the narrative that needs to be pushed. The ones that are not willing to do that - regardless of political affiliations - find themselves outside of the "mainstream" media, usually on Substack or likewise stand-alone platforms.
> Back then the expectation was that online you were anonymous [...] Back then the internet was mostly weird people, so most posts including the popular ones were weird.

What years are you referring to when you say "back then"? In the early 90s, which was "the old Internet" for me, the best contributors to discussions on the newsgroups I followed (comp.lang.c, etc.) weren't anonymous; they were well-educated people who used their real names, including academics whose signatures included URLs like http://example.edu/~jsmith. And their posts weren't weird, at least not on the newsgroups I followed.
Changing Dynamics of Labor and Capital
Talking about print debugging has reminded me of a time I spent two weeks using a sideways form of print debugging to track down a timing bug. It was on an embedded system, and the bug when tripped would take out the serial communications line: at which point I couldn't get any diagnostics, not even print statements!

An in-circuit emulator was unavailable, so stepping through with a debugger was also not an option.

I ended up figuring out a way to be able to poke values into a few unused registers in an ancillary board within the system, where I could then read the values via the debug port on that board.

So I would figure out what parts of the serial comms code I wanted to test and insert calls that would increment register addresses on the ancillary board. I would compile the code onto a pair of floppy disks, load up the main CPU boards and spend between five and ninety minutes triggering redundancy changeovers until one of the serial ports shat itself.

After which I would probe the registers of the corresponding ancillary board to see which register locations were still incrementing and which were not, telling me which parts of the code were still being passed through. Study the code, make theories, add potential fixes, remove register increments and put in new ones, rinse and repeat for two weeks.
My learning of prefix-dev tools
Interestingly, Diddy shares a cell (dormitory-style room) with SBF; small world.

> [Diddy] was arrested and indicted in the Southern District of New York in September 2024 on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for purposes of prostitution. He is awaiting trial in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. His cellmate is Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving a 25-year sentence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Combs
Ranked voting, for a start!
To be fair, whether or not this is "more harm than good" depends on your moral views.

> Crypto has been one of the largest wealth transfers ever seen.

Need a citation for this.

> With the level of criminality e.g insider trading, rug pulling, money laundering being unprecedented for a new technology

Not all crime is bad. I just so happen to belong to a marginalized group that requires crypto to do financial activities (e.g. commissions, donations for activist fronts). I am grateful for crypto's existence, even though like many (even in the crypto community), scams are disliked.

> artists, customer service lose work in favour of making productivity higher for knowledge workers etc

It is true that automation in general seems to increase inequality amongst education lines [1]. But the solution isn't to ban automation, it's to have equal-opportunity education (e.g. subsidies, retraining for obsoleted workers) and to financially support those that get left behind.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/faq_automation/#wiki...
Can OSSPledge Fix Open Source Sustainability?
You just listed things that are regularly resold.
It would be wonderful if the world could accept blunt feedback. It is certainly easier to give and more in-line with what most technical people would prefer. However, we work with humans, and we have learned an awful lot about how humans respond to language, especially criticism. The advice here applies to giving feedback to any human, not just superiors. As you spend time working with humans, you learn, perhaps slowly that what you might consider "fluff" is really about helping make your point. Being direct doesn't always, or even usually, work as well.
For more information: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/is-generative-ai-really-g...
Captain Miller: "I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger."

Private Reiben: "I'm sorry, sir, but uh... let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. What would you say then?"

Captain Miller: Well, in that case... I'd say, "This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. Moreover... I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhbObZEF0Mc
Saving Private Ryan
Fast breeder reactors seem to survive fast neutrons.
> If your superiors are unable to process no-fluff information, regardless of whether it's feedback or updates, they have no business lording over anyone and will sink whatever function they have oversight of.

You're assuming that the subordinate's feedback is sufficiently important to the business. It might not be. It might also not be important to the business if subordinates leave b/c their feedback is disregarded. I can imagine plenty of scenarios where a leader could still succeed while not giving a crap about subordinate feedback. It depends on the goals and the dynamics of the business, the leader's experience, market conditions, labor environments, etc.

> The reason you don't fluff feedback, or any information for that matter to your superiors, is described in basically every handbook on highly effective communication in organizations.

You can argue in your exit interview that you were just following handbooks.
> I’ve seen many teams in different companies led by Americans where simply pointing out that a plan will fail in a public forum is tantamount to spitting in their face.

I’ve been put into the “practitioner of the dark arts” bucket twice when I predicted with detail and accuracy why certain large projects would fail.

The folks in charge were offended when I presented my analysis, and they were just afraid of me after my predictions came true.
Most state AG's also have a consumer complaints division at which you can file a report, which is then forwarded to the company in question.

(There are cases, such as fraud, phone solicitations, and robocalls, in which you might prefer the firm not be contacted, but in the case of an established firm such as Amazon it's generally recommended you do.)

This both creates a record with the agency and typically connects you with a "concierge service" or similar at the company who will generally work to address the issue quickly.

Otherwise, parent is excellent advice.
At home at some point I get so bored I start actually working. In the office I mostly just gossip with my coworkers, which means that I'm not only wasting my own time, but also other people's. Having me at home is just better for everyone all around.
This is a lesson to us all, though. Like it or not — and it'll vary depending on your geography and industry and so on, I know — this is an issue of at least some proportion.

So, just be aware. Many of us are someone's boss. You might not feel like you're 'senior', but to them you are.

Be open. Listen. Don't react (immediately). Consider. Just stop and think for a second. Realise that these other people's views are, at the very least, worth considering. (They may, of course, be wrong.)

One of the most rewarding things I did before I left the corporate world was have a 26-year-old grad as a direct report. I was 46 and had 'Head of…' in my job title. She was as smart as anything and it was an incredible experience. Hopefully, for us both.
The alternative is that "not playing media you can't buy" is also an acceptable way to save money. There's so much free media out there these days that you could spend your life ethically consuming media without ever spending a dime.

I'm no snitch, so do what you need to do. But I feel this mentality of it being "acceptable" only further devalues art. And the endgoal isn't some utopia where we all make art for free. Just look at the mobile industry for this race to the bottom. Tons of "free" mobile games, after all..
People get promoted by "managing up," which you call "fluffing."
In my state you can get pulled over for holding a cell-phone during driving. It looks like Colorado (the state in the article) is starting to enforce this in 2025. [1]

[1] https://www.codot.gov/news/2024/october/new-2025-law-bans-ho...
> If your superiors are unable to process no-fluff information, regardless of whether it's feedback or updates, they have no business lording over anyone and will sink whatever function they have oversight of.

Maybe, but the title is "without getting fired" not "without being wrong damnit!". Unless you have a significant number of shares in the company you should care about your own employment and success over the success of the whatever function this person has oversight of.

> The reason you don't fluff feedback, or any information for that matter to your superiors, is described in basically every handbook on highly effective communication in organizations.

And that reason is...?
There’s a market for cadavers.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodi...
This is funny

Here in France, most of our power is from nuclear. This gets us really cheap power production, compared to our neighbors in Europe.
Hard not to be cynical about your response but do you believe most of the superiors out there are on this level that you specify? Would be a joke.
> it's also about restictions on using (where, for how long, can it be inherited) which are dictated by the vendor

Sure. Again, this is true for a wide variety of things. Many of which we commonly consider to be stealable.
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well, the bleeding heart "you make indies unable to operate" didn't work. So you gotta move to fear, no matter how bad the argument. Everyone responds to fear when done right.
200k/yr for an 800k loan should be fine. You'd have a 60-65k/yr mortgage. Your DTI would be under 36% so lenders would be okay with it, and you might have like 100k in total living expenses so plenty of savings buffer.

1M can buy a house in a very nice suburb in an excellent school district.
Ancient hot water on Mars points to habitable past
Likely always had. It wasn't "Jeff's email", it was "report an issue".

(Bezos likely could and did review some of the mail, but reports were connected to the relevant department.)
This isn't an accurate take, because it wasn't just America. There are lots of post-war "miracle" stories:

Italian Economic Miracle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_economic_miracle

Japanese Economic Miracle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle

Spanish Miracle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_miracle

Miracle on the Rhine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder

In all of these cases real incomes grew enormously. Yes, a big part of that was starting from a low base after the destruction of WWII. But I'd argue it was also a strong consequence of the technology of the time: the was an explosion in consumer goods enabled by new tech, but companies still needed lots of employees to create these products. In the past ~25 years I believe tech has instead allowed more wealth to accrue to a smaller and smaller subset of people.
Tech is a tool, and people should never forget that. It will be used for both good and bad, but it won't change the soul or morals of its users
Debugging tooling is a team/project level issue just as much as local build/run steps and coding-style. The effects are just harder than see.

Best practices and tricks for debugging a given project will impact things like:

* The overall productivity of the team.

* Writing guides and documentation.

* CI/CD scripts, such as preventing accidental leakage of print statements.

* How development environments are set up and configured, especially if there are containers or port forwarding or remote services involved.

* How team members collaborate when there's more than one person trying to diagnose a problem.

* Generally how you teach new juniors or experienced developers arriving with a learning curve.
illegally acquiring? Yes, technically. Otherwise it wouldn't be illegal.
> You just listed things that are regularly resold

Yes? I said "things that can't be bought and sold without restriction."

Are you saying it's not pirating if there's a resellable DVD available?
No wage. Only buy!
In my 13 years of experience, I would say it's never worth giving feedback to your manager. Either they are good and it's useless, or they are not and they won't learn from you.

I have come to a simple rule: if the manager is good, there is no problem. If the manager sucks (often that's because they lack experience, but it's all the same), just lie to them in order to preserve yourself. No need to have empathy for them: there is no karma out there. Bad managers usually have no problem climbing the ladder, even if it means making your life miserable. Work for you, not them.
And it's tightly regulated.
It helps route the mail correctly, and increases likelihood of it getting someone's attention.

Registered mail, return receipt, provides legal proof of delivery.
Also the nerds bully in the most lazy and untalented ways. They think they "own" somebody by writing lol or lmao with their takes.

Real bullies knew how to make it fun for everybody, so that even the person being bullied had to laugh at it. Nerd bullies are just anti-social and boring.
Not to mention their cover ups and distractions from far larger crimes - decades of cheerleading the 'war on terror', stirring up Islamophobia, ignoring Israeli atrocities, spreading climate change FUD, etc etc.

Saville was mind-meltingly evil, but in terms of the damage done, even he pales in comparison to Cheney, W, Obama, Netanyahu, Biden, Murdoch, etc.

Many people won't like these facts, and will reject them with prejudice. And that's largely because of corporate media :/

So yeah, the hypocrisy really stings when they try to blame online piracy for the state of the world. It's staggering weaponized hypocrisy.
> When someone tells me that downloading a song or a movie is like stealing, I usually encourage them to download a new car

Now do social security benefits. Or hell, money in a bank account.
The anime Chainsaw Man is about this. In its world, chainsaws are the Number #1 Most-power Devil. Even more powerful than Guns.

I wondered about this but it makes sense when you imagine trees as sentient. Chainsaws are extremely efficient killing machines for the most helpless and generous creatures on earth.
I agree with you that's how it should be, but experience tells me that everyone is insecure and it's hardly correlated with position and job security.

People lower down the chain are insecure because they could legitimately be let go at any time for any reason.

People higher up the chain are insecure because any loss of face is debilitating. Especially having failings pointed out by someone "below" them.
Going to their channel coughs up <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUleKnUUaGI> which is labeled as the prequel to that, and it seems[1] their "text2dragonforce" command is likely just there to make the video funny but the content was generated by https://suno.com/

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUleKnUUaGI&lc=Ugyty4kLtMj52...
corporation, no. the small people, yes. You can take a lot of losses when you have a billion dollars in the bank. Not so much when you got maybe 1000 (on a good day).
Oh, yeah that went over my head, that's actually pretty funny.
It's easy for people who face no real threat themselves to pretend to take the moral high road by refusing to invest in weapons manufacturers. Not everyone has that luxury.
It's exaggeration. You might not get fired but it will absolutely affect your raises & bonuses.
I feel like this metaphor could just as easily be about "cars" instead of "chainsaws". We do put cars in almost everyone's hands even though it has the same potential for dangers.

Even more so since I would assume more people die to car accidents then chainsaw accidents. But more people find cars useful to their day to day lives than chainsaws.

So I guess the question is whether these models are useful to everyone like cars, or just to a subset like chainsaws that still remains to be seen.
Plutonium does get sold, look up certified reference materials.
Surprise, that's what you get for ... half a dozen worth of streaming services these days with none sharing their catalogue?

It's not that hard. Spotify and Apple Music both have all the music one can ever want, why the fuck didn't the movie/TV industry consolidate on Netflix... greedy morons.
And that's all hinged in the expectations of the intent of the question, if it is attention to details, the real number scenario is completely reasonable. If it is not, you can pick apart these types of puzzles and seem overly hard to work with.
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As a Norwegian just above 30, I guess I'm a bit outside. But my impression is that most people don't pirate movies or music to the same extent we did when I was younger. What's being pirated now is often live sports.

Watching Premier League costs about $75 a month. Why? Do the multi-millionaire soccer players really need that much? What happens with the sport when a whole generation of new fans can't afford to watch?

I also wanted to watch the Alpine World Cup today, but due to weird licensing issues with winter sports from Austria it's not on any channel I can buy.
Friends, in this economy? Surely you jest.

There was a brief post COVID period where we hung out. It got a lot harder to contact them when almost all of us got laid off in different companies. I still do reach out (I was laid off too. I think I was the first in my circle), but it quickly became COVID hard again.
So are cars, it’s still a sale and actual ownership.
> Down side: Your peers aren't as smart, and your peers are really what push you to work on interesting projects.

This outweighs pretty much everything else for me.

Your ego either inflates to infinity because you're a big fish in a small pond, or you get depressed being around really incompetent people.

Every lecture I have is booked for 300 people but only 20-40 people ever show up. And yet everyone complains that the courses are too hard.

Is it easy and low stress? Probably. But I feel like I'm being driven into mediocrity.
I'd strongly recommend you accept that level of hassle.
It's not surprising that numerals in Arabic script (or other human scripts) aren't handled in most languages. Languages are developed by people for some community. If a language is developed in an American-English community for developers within its context, what is their purpose for adding other communities?

We're seeing the network effect in action. Programming languages influenced by other perspectives will need to interoperate with operating systems written in the dominant paradigm (C, assembler that assumes English opcodes and ASCII - English hexadecimal) until that other perspective writes all the foundational software. That's quite expensive in time and money.

As far as feminism is concerned, it's not clear that it's a _feminist_ perspective that's helpful, as opposed to _being thoughtful about other people's experience_. Retaining the contributions of women to the state of the art is necessary, for sure, and that can affect the entrance and treatment of women in the field.
I felt more like a Russian tbh, but fair enough
AI PCs make users less productive