skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand your question in relation to my statement. I'm trying to imply that these people abuse and harass people because of their morally reprehensible position, and they're identified and targeted by the "bot" or other people and labelled by their position, not because they're abusers. Even if they didn't abuse or harass they would still be condemned for their position, or maybe they wouldn't be. I tend to lean on the former.
A mentor once taught me that all actions taken by a company's people should be focused on making money, saving money, and saving time. This is mostly a sniff test for "does this thing we're doing make sense in some obvious way." When sniffing the value of any given team's Agile process, I usually find a notable lack of attempting to make money, save money, or save time. Often I found people are very good at spending money, wasting time, and being completely detached from how they actions contribute to making money in a meaningful way.
The issue is specific to certain locations. Here's a research report authored by the largest bank in Canada on the point: http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/_assets-custom/pdf/20171221-ha.p...

Ownership costs in Vancouver and Toronto are sitting well north of 75% of the median income for individuals in those areas.

This isn't a made up issue caused by young kids eschewing spendthrift habits and buying all them dang newfangled iPhones rather than investing in equity building houses. It is an issue with the ratio of home prices to local median incomes.
I have dealt with this off and on for years. My relationship with my smartphone has always been love/hate. I actually even did go to a dumphone for several months and enjoyed the disconnect, but the lack of maps and a camera ultimately sent me back to the smartphone.

Now I try to swap SIMs over to a dumbphone for vacation every summer and go to remote places for other trips where there just isn't any cellular service. Nothing like being so disconnected you have to walk 15 minutes to the nearest landline phone.

Edit: I am curious, as an engineer, what others are doing from an on-call perspective when it comes to no smartphone. PagerDuty handles SMS alerts nicely and I'm starting to explore Slack/IFTTT. Hangouts is a big missing piece. There are just a few things like that where I'm concerned about being too disconnected.
My personal favorites: 'downsizing', 'to better serve you' and 'you are important to us'.

There's nothing new about this though, at bank I worked for in the mid 80's (Chase Manhattan) there were plenty of such business bullshit words. I wished I had thought of cataloging them.
NOOP?

It would be really efficient, too...
Very interesting. We've actually just implemented Driessen's workflow methodology in our own startup just one week ago! Got Flow sounds interesting, but I wonder how easily it will integrate in with our current hive of branches.

Our old technique was essentially to have a branch for each submodule development, and to 'git rebase' and re-use old branches for bug fixes and enhancements to those modules. Now that we have rolled out a full code review process, along with AWS CodeCommit and CodePipeline that allows us to deploy different branches to staging and production, we are busy revamping our branching processes to fit the Driessen model, and I wonder if Git Flow will slot in seamlessly with that??
Nice to know who is rate limited. The HN mods don't say why.
It looks like the FCC approval pertains to a device delivering ~10W at a distance of 0.5m in the 900MHz band. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm...
I really, really like Step By Step in Esperanto by Montagu Butler. It's the best introductory textbook of any language that I've read. It's composed of maybe ~1000 or so very short lessons (each is about a paragraph), so it makes it very easy to make a little progress every day even if you only have a couple of minutes before bed. There's a nice mix of reading, translation exercises, pronunciation exercises, and grammar.
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While I find your post informative, I don't agree with your last statement. Bitcoin is designed around the idea of burning energy (in the form of energy-expensive computation) as "proof of work." This design decision is certainly a valid point of criticism of the system.
Back in the day, a friend of mine had 3" disks for the ZX Spectrum +3 with CP/M.

So this is a possible way to try out CP/M on real hardware, after finding one in workable state.
"The con goes like this: The impersonator lifts an online photo of a Jew, Muslim, African-American or other minority — typically one with clear identifying markers, like a yarmulke-clad Hasid or a woman in hijab. Using that picture as a Twitter avatar, the bigot then adds ethnic and progressive descriptors to the bio: “Jewish,” “Zionist,” “Muslim,” “enemy of the alt-right.”

"False identity forged, the trolls then insert themselves into conversations with high-profile Twitter users — conversations that are often seen by tens of thousands of followers — and proceed to say horrifically racist things...

"Using a crowdsourced database of impersonator accounts, carefully curated by us to avoid any false positives, the bot patrolled Twitter and interjected whenever impostors tried to insinuate themselves into a discussion."

While I see your point about accuracy and don't necessarily buy the "carefully curated" part, I wouldn't describe the described behavior as "spam" either.
I don't know. Showing up when they're not doing anything doesn't sound like a good way to check that they are following proper procedures when they're actually working.

And assuming their workers are working normal hours, Friday would be the least intrusive.
I'm not sure why alexi23's comment is dead, but it's very poetic.

"The Shipping Forecast turns our landscape into a slightly ethereal world, inhabited by communities we are connected to but know nothing about “I feel chastened on nights like this when I see storm force 11, and think there are people out there contending with that weather, putting their lives at risk in pursuit of their livelihood – be it in the navy, on fishing boats or just lone travellers.”"
Agreed, Polly has some great voices as well.
Can you share some of your actual notes?
Great article, until the very end when it sounds like he wants to come up with with some anti-bullshit bullshit.
However I really did enjoy the read especially learning about the history of bullshit and how we got here.

I think the fundamental problem he mentioned has to be solved - "As factories producing goods in the west have been dismantled, and their work outsourced or replaced with automation, large parts of western economies have been left with little to do"
This is the key issue. There just isn't enough actual productive work to get done in many jobs and people can't just leave when the work is done due to being payed by the hour or being seen as lazy by their coworkers and bosses.

I'm not smart enough to give solutions to big general issues like this but I certainly see it as a problem in my own life. I have no idea what people actually do in most jobs these days and therefor when trying to decide on my next career move, I have trouble estimating how competent I would be when considering a job. Also it seems hard to develop any real skills in most jobs these days other than learning how to fit in and bullshit.
However, those skills do not transfer to a new position with a different 'culture'.
I've mostly worked blue collar labor type jobs in my time and had a clear task to complete but you end up getting pushed around by management types and are at great risk of personal injury for very little compensation. In my last job at a warehouse I worked my way up from a temp labor grunt to getting pretty close to management but I couldn't handle it. The higher up I got the less there was to do other than bullshit consumption and production, by the end I wanted to just go back to working with the guys on the floor (but again you aren't making enough and risking injury every day). I hope to find a job that I can actually do things and gain clear skills over time, but if I can't figure that out I'll have to become another sellout bullshitter since I'm not getting any younger and my body isn't gonna be able to handle the hard labor in the long run.
The reason reach out is used is to give the individual being asked some autonomy / responsibility in the action.

Eg if you ask someone to call bobs surf shop and they don’t answer they might stop there or call back later. If you ask them to reach out they might go down there and see them, set up a meeting, speak to a friend that works there, etc.
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You don't know how good you have it. Try using Inkscape on a Mac.

Before Electron, the quality of the average cross-platform app was generally atrocious. e.g. lack of support for retina displays, menu bars attached to the window, system fonts totally missing, non-system file pickers, ugly homegrown font rendering...

Electron is amazing and as much as people like to shit on it, it has raised the quality bar considerably.
"Di'" is a poetic rendering of "Dio", or God.
How do you get an improved outcome for cancer if you can't afford treatment?
engineer w/only soft skills = management. Managers have their value too, but you can't only have managers.
Here is my reply the last time this concern came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927069
I don't think it's helpful to conflate "microservices" with "dynamically-loaded code". Many, many programs have a plugin system that can completely alter their behavior while having all the characteristics of a monolith - single process, function calls rather than a message bus, central control of flow rather than decentralized, etc.
Oh wow. So microservices are dead already. That was quick!
One has to admit that there's something amusing about 'conservatives' (in quotes because I don't want to throw everybody into a group with Bannon et al) demanding diversity for its own sake when it's about representing their views in areas like the Silicon valley.

We've kind of made a 180 degree turn where people who liked to go on about absolute truths and so forth now demand inclusion simply because they are excluded, even if that exclusion occurs for completely benign or healthy reasons.

There is not a great liberal conspiracy that makes Bannon's views unpopular, it's just that his culture war is as unpopular in a successful melting pot as young earth creationism is in a room full of physicists. His views are not violently suppressed, nobody wants to silence him for spreading a truth only he has access to, it's just that people are simply tired of it.
The problem is that the bot has only a single voice against a whole community.

Twitter trusts the numbers, in a sense, it is very democratic. Trolls are simply very good at strategic voting.
I'm currently spearheading a survey looking at whether Silicon Valley is hostile to right-leaning folks. We've had over 350 respondents from all ideological backgrounds who work in tech in SV. Here are two of the qualitative responses we received - which in my view shows a very different side to the perspective you've expressed:

-A self-identified liberal mentioned they experienced “repeated calls, from managers and non-managers alike, for people to be fired for the political views they expressed” and “several managers admitting or encouraging the use of the company's performance review process to punish employees for their expressed views, on the pretext that exposing their coworkers to those views represented a job performance issue.”

-A young man commented, “I checked ‘conservative’ on the alignment form even though I'd have described myself as liberal five years ago. My views haven't changed. The change has come from the left, which has started what I can only describe as a reign of terror. Scientific is hate. Silence is a microaggression. Dissent is violence.”

These are anecdotes, yes, but our forthcoming quantitative data shows conservatives and religious folks are upset not because the fringe viewpoints of white nationalists are banned, but rather because they fear voicing views most of America considers within the Overton window.
I’ve stopped calling these “soft” skills, especially when hiring in the last year.

They’re anything but soft, and no less important to a team.
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YMMV but "Alexa turn on my lights" works for fine for my Hue lights. I'm using the Hue skill.
Tindie takes 5% and passes on the payment processing fee (~4%). :)
"ask" ?

"can you reach out to Carol and see when that will be done" vs "can you ask Carol when that will be done?"

Ever since Walking Dead came out, "reach out" evokes thoughts of hordes of zombies grabbing for me.
It only seems that way for those who don't understand it:

- Synergy: savings due to economies of scale when joining organizations or due to vertical or horizontal integration

- Deliverables: whatever product you agreed to deliver at the end of a project

- Alignment: getting a bunch of higher ups to agree on something

- Collaboration: duh

- Circle back: when you're trying to get a lot of the higher ups to agree (sadly, through individual meetings), and one of them has big concerns, you have to relay that to the other higher-ups

Programmer phrasing all sounds like bs to someone who doesn't know it. "Let's do our daily scrum standup and get the scrum master and the product owner to agree on the architecture for the data storage module".
Because not everyone use emacs maybe?
It is possible that some of the noise (non-medically relevant changes) could be filtered algorithmically, and conversely conditions might be able to be picked up that might not be noticed by a normal provider. Physicians use those tools to diagnose disease all the time, that's why there is a thermometer, scale, and stethoscope in every doctor's office in the world, I don't understand how these tools aren't useful.
The problem wasn't houses, it was that the loans. It can't fuck the global economy, but car loans sure can screw with financial institutions that throw caution to the wind and start giving the equivalent of NINJA loans for cars
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Report mentioned in the story: https://democraticautopsy.org/wp-content/uploads/Autopsy-The...
I suggest watching the clips of meeting scenes from the BBC show W1A: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=w1a+meeting
Broadcast from Droitwich Transmitting Station[0] on 198kHz using amplitude modulation, still with large vacuum tubes at 500kW in order to reach shipping in the large area of ocean around the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Transmitting_Station
At the end of the day, all of these phrases aren't that bad, as long as you don't overuse them. eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAaWrdMf-j0
Looks like we found a new Turing test.
So what makes the radio waves magically drop off the face of the earth after .5m? And who allows 40 dBm (much more if we're talking at .5m distance) in an ISM band?

I mean, that test report is making a lot of assumptions and setup constraints that are now magically not present in the video..
> and deleted the following apps: Twitter, Hacker News
> Hacker News

How does one “delete the Hacker News app”?
There is considerable wisdom in this response.
If you are going to dismiss impersonation on such an ephemeral platform, why do you care about spamming?
Kaizen terms used in teams or organizations where kaizen is definitely not being practiced as a general philosophy. At a previous employer, the only time anyone ever actually used the word kaizen was to describe management being tied up in day-long meetings debating the nature or source of some problem.
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"diverting their attention to their strong aspects"

"instead of hard skills coming from years of practice and suffering"

Kinda like you did there? ;-)

Anyway, this is an essential soft skill to have, and one that I suspect more techies exercise than they give themselves credit for. But the response to it is pretty simple: "Alright, if this organization doesn't value the skillset I have, I'll go work for an organization that does, doing a favor for both you, me, and that new organization." After all, why waste resources on something you don't need? The whole point of a market economy is to self-organize so that everyone gets the maximum amount of value out of their skills & talents.

I've pulled this card a couple times (not even as a negotiation tool, but because I honestly wanted to know if I should be spending my time on something else) and gotten back a "No, no, this is actually really important to us, please don't leave or stop doing it."
> But if a patent relies on a small difference for novelty it is likely to be a narrow patent or otherwise easy to design around.

Sure, if you're an omniscient being aware of every patent in existence and well-funded enough to defend against the people who have "patented the internet" (or what have you).
Having a frog on your account most definitely does not mean you are a Nazi, but yes, the identitarians do meme Pepes that are racist.

I am familiar with the author, he's a drama queen, but he's not incorrect there is a huge wave of antisemitism in the world. It's a daily battle. Ben Shapiro got a lot of racial abuse too, but its just part of living in a world with free speech.

Most antisemitism comes not from Nazi sympathizing identitarians, but Muslim extremists. It's a real problem in Europe, and it's good to discuss.

I really reject trying to delegitimize Trump supporters by throwing them all in with the alt-right. As a Jewish Kekistani, it infuriates me. I don't like identitarians, but they have a right to their views. I want everyone to be very clear on what terrible views they have so they don't get power. This sort of schlock in the NYT just makes things convoluted and people less likely to be able to discern who is friend, and who is foe.
>I’d received the second-most abuse of any Jewish journalist on Twitter during the campaign cycle. [...] As a result, I’ve become something of an unintentional expert on alt-right trolls and their tactics.

Red flag: Blind man about to describe elephant.

Not to be hasty, I didn't stop reading there.

I stopped reading once I found out the author thinks he's moving the needle by ineptly fighting a blatantly-obvious disinformation campaign. On Twitter.
I agree. But twitter seemingly categorized it as such, maybe not spam to a singular user(s). But spam in the sense that it's volume was overwhelming? Maybe there is that many neo-nazis? I'm just not buying into the same things you are.
I don't have a research background, and I know not to feel good paying $60 for a pair of tweezers. What prevents procurement from buying from Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/Tweezees-Precision-Stainless-Steel-Tw...
Given amazons spotty history when it comes to quality- product-piracy e.g. - this will be hacked and used to plan burglarys and during extended periods of absence. I shall be interested to see what PR Guns amazon has laying in store for that day.
Concluding that we need an "anti-bullshit movement" to get rid of bullshit is missing the forest for the trees.

Bullshit is organizational self-deception. Comfortable statements intended to insulate leaders and followers from uncomfortable problems.

In other words, bullshit isn't abnormal; it's natural. A reflex to maintain the status quo while the surrounding environment decays.

And, the greater that decay, the more wool must be spun to pull over our eyes. It is said that, in North Korea, the only state organ that worked every single day during its great famine, was its propaganda department.

In my view, calling upon employers to have the courage to be genuine, to think and talk in more authentic ways... will give birth to yet another management fad. A movement shouldn't center around some vaguery, nor should it rely on each individual's moral fiber.

Instead, a better approach would be to determine what bullshit is the everyday kind versus the kind concealing systemic failures in our present and future society, e.g. "Bullshit jobs" -> Basic Income, or "Corporate Social Responsibility" -> Tax Avoidance .

Finding and solving the latter would reduce the need for, and thereby existence of, the more unbearable bullshit. Attack the disease, not just its symptoms.
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None of the things my grandparent mentioned are externalities.

The cost of energy consumed is directly borne by the people mining the bitcoins. The costs of the power gluts should be being directly borne by the customers (I'm pretty sure it is in Germany, I don't know about California).

The energy market is distorted by government interference, sure, but the costs are clear and (unless the regulators are doing something really stupid) being borne by parties with skin in the game.
> bitcoin is quite intentionally designed to encourage ever-higher energy consumption to "secure the blockchain"

It's designed to have have an average of 10 minute blocks using the feedback of cumulative proof of work over a given amount of blocks compared to a difficulty parameter.

The only reason it uses more energy is because people believe there is money to be made in mining. They will be wrong sometimes, and right sometimes, and equilibrium will be reached intermittently. This is called a market.
How much of the hatred of business speak is driven by resentment of the fact that the business people usually make more money than the people they supervise?
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> I often see complaints about Agile and SCRUM met with, "You're just not using it correctly."

To be fair, this is true a lot. Agile has quickly become "whatever you were doing before Agile but now with stand-ups and kanban boards."

The real problem with Agile is that it's kinda stupid to assume that companies will radically change their development process and that they won't just do "whatever we were doing before but with a couple bits and pieces from this other thing."

It's way easier to keep doing whatever you were doing before and just say that it's "Agile." See, for example, the number of teams that have long-winded standups even though that's pretty explicitly discouraged.

> What would not have helped, or been in any way productive, would have been spending time trying to figure out how many "points" my tasks for the day are worth. I still don't see how that system is actually different from just using hours beyond philosophical arguments.

Totally my take on the whole point system, but:

They're definitely related (hours and points), but basically the whole idea is vagueness. Figuring out if something will take 3 hours or 5 hours is kinda meaningless, because you really have no idea until you get into it. Saying it's worth "5 story points" might suffice as a rough representation of that 3-7 hour chunk.

If it ends up taking 20 hours, oh well - good to know for next time!

The idea is not to bicker over whether something will take 3 hours or 5 hours or 7 hours, but to just slap a vague label on it as "low-to-moderate difficulty." It's supposed to save time in that regard.

> Basically, I prefer a more focused and leaner version of the approaches.

I think any reasonable Agile advocate would tell you to discover what's working for your team and what isn't, and to adjust accordingly.

The point is mostly to move away from that extremely long-winded waterfall process and move towards rapid iteration. Story points and stand-ups are just tools for accomplishing that (by estimating velocity and having regular check-ins).