skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>devs would make conflicting requirements for improvement. Dev A demands change A. Dev B wants change B. A and B are incompatible and neither dev will back down. Management of course refused to help settle the argument.

This was a problem in my previous job. Options I thought of:

1. Get a moderator. This is what we did. He did not just settle disputes - he did more than that. But it's good to have at least this role.

2. Have a total of 4 reviewers review the disputed section. If there is a majority, change it. If it's a 2-2 split, just leave it as is. (Team did not accept this).

3. Disputed code (whether changed or not) should have comments saying this vs the alternative was discussed in a code review. Why? Because if there isn't consensus, over time, people are going to keep changing those lines of code back and forth (some developer who was not involved in the review will decide to refactor - rinse and repeat).
The "lite" refers to things like:

- it only has b*-tree indexes
- it only has one index per-table source
It will absolutely never happen in the US but similar ideas are floating around France where there is real support and likelihood of something happening before 2025. The Accountable Capitalism Act is too complicated. The remedy here is quite simple:

* Tax share buy-backs into non-existence. All the available evidence indicates that corporate buy-backs help nobody but the corporate officers who authorize them.

* Make corporate dividends into pass through transfers. In fact, consider giving corporations that pass on X% of their profits a tax break.

* Severely lower taxes on options and share-in-kind salaries. This is probably the most important thing: you want to encourage corporations to pay their workers in equity.

* Ridiculous executive compensation is a problem in theory but it doesn't really matter, frankly, how a corporation divides its income payments. The only way to generate meaningful wages and wage growth for specific workers is to strengthen those worker's negotiating power. That means stronger unions. There's a lot the government can do to support unions but a good start would be making union dues tax free. In fact the government should probably collect and distribute all union fees. It becomes a standard withholding. Codetermination where unions get board seats is also good and has worked wonders in Germany.

* A Job Guarantee is perhaps the most effective solution but is somewhat radical. But there are incremental steps that could be taken in this direction. Tax breaks on worker training et al are the first step. There was a time, believe it or not, when corporations invested heavily in their workers. Today training is regarded as pure overhead and the result are workers that are, frankly, not that useful because they are over-specialized. The government should also provide tax credits (!) for personal expenditures a worker undertakes for their own training. This goes beyond expensive college courses: workers should be encouraged to attend conferences, seminars, workshops, buy books, and donate their skills in the service of charity. (Yes tax credits for open source.) Encouraging worker training and worker re-training through generous tax breaks would go a long way towards the structural unemployment that grips much of Europe.

The massive inequality that's drowning the West isn't really a problem of of corporations abusing workers. The problem is the governments who have willingly decided to serve the corporations and abandon the workers (combined of course with the insane desire to not build new housing in their major cities). The result is the most slack labor market ever and wages that have gone nowhere for forty years while corporations hoard giant useless piles of cash.
Blitting and rendering aren't too different. Blitting is pretty inefficient, too, particularly because many Wayland clients render on the GPU and give you an opaque handle to GPU resources so you don't have to copy pixels at all. And you can blit instead of using OpenGL or if you want, but it's still your job to do so on Wayland whereas on X the X server is doing it for you. You also still need to handle input, focus, multihead, etc all yourself.
WRITTEN LIKE A PIGS ODE TO A TRUFFLE...
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17764760
FAANG = Facebook, Apple, Amazon, N, Google.

Who's 'N'? If it were an 'M', I would imagine Microsoft, but nothing comes to mind except 'Netflix', which I don't consider to be on par with the rest of the group by any means.
TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: built differently for time-series data
Re 2: It's clear that some government has a great deal of latitude. The Constitutional question is whether the federal government has that latitude on a governance (not commerce) topic.
Your stat doesn't disprove that they "have skin in the game" at all.

First, your stat ignores pension plans. Second, the bottom 60% might only own 0.1% of all equities, but that might be 50% of their savings/pension plan. I'd call that "skin in the game".
If anyone is interested in other lightweight tools to complement a minimal embedded linux distro, check out Troglobit's GitHub repo: https://github.com/troglobit. He has a collection of tiny apps perfect for embedded systems, such as...

- mdnsd (not in Busybox),
- merecat httpd (much more full-featured than busybox httpd)
- inadyn dynamic DNS updater
- finit (IMO much nicer than busybox's runsv)
- watchdogd
- uftpd
- ntpd (with ipv6 support!)

He has been super responsive to requests as well.
See

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/china

China gets a score of 14/100 as opposed to Taiwan

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/taiwan

which gets 93/100.

In my mind we should "Look for the Freedom label" and use this as a somewhat objective measure if we want to have free trade with free people.
"very little Apple hardware" still means you own more Apple hardware than 95% of the world's population, including 99% of the people who manufacture it.

but it sounds like you have rationalized this somehow, so why shouldn't everyone else?
I didn't intend to suggest specifically "maximize shareholder value." I was referring more to if directors or officers breach their duty of care they open themselves to lawsuits.
It's usually not "leftist" anyway, it's just common sense. Workers should have some representation in their workplace since they DO ALL THE WORK. The business simply cannot exist without the workers.

Inequality declines as Union membership rises[1], aka worker representation.

https://www.epi.org/news/union-membership-declines-inequalit...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17755199
They should just take a picture of the muffler and make the testing center verify that they are testing the noise level with the same muffler that was being used.
Okay, I give approval for YC China to be in China.
I personally prefer LibraryThing. Goodreads has been very diluted, and there is a rather large amount of rating inflation there - the rating of a book is almost meaningless now.
People learn in different ways. Sitting in front of a powerpoint and a talking head isn't a particularly effective way of learning - but it's effective at disseminating information quickly to large groups of people.

I'm a visual and hands-on learner. Didn't get much out of lectures but learned most of it on my own using the textbook + online videos + working on problem sheets.

Sometimes I would work backwards - starting with the problem and then going through material to figure out how to solve it. This is what happens in real life - and it teaches you how to solve problems instead of memorizing solutions.

From my anecdotal experience, the people that did really well in school weren't the ones that excelled in industry after graduation.

Another tip is to take some time at the beginning of a course to go through the entire curriculum/textbook at a high-level. This way, when you navigate the course you will have a better idea of how everything fits together instead of just a random new topic every week.

You need to figure out how you learn best - what are you really good at? How did you get good at it? Start from there and leverage your strengths.
But they aren't. They are accountable to society through laws, regulations and taxation, and to their employees through labor laws.
Not only that, the GNOME Data Access (GDA) uses this and has virtual tables for accessing disparate remote databases (including LDAP), so we know this works. What u/usgroup may be asking for is for a bunch of virtual tables to be included in SQLite3 proper.
Dunno about Safari, but at least for me the Firefox one lacked two features:

An official keyboard shortcut for going to reader mode.

The option of having the browser send all articles to reader mode when detected as possible.
It's not clear that investors own a corporation, in the same sense that you own something like a phone or a house. The right of investors to make a claim on the resources of a corporation, or to direct its actions, are quite limited unless the investor is on the board of directors.

The corporation has duties to its shareholders--it can't defraud them, for instance--but those duties are actually quite limited. In most cases the remedy for unhappy shareholders is just to sell their stock.

The CEO doesn't own the corporation either, but the CEO can direct the resources of the corporation. In any sort of operational sense, the CEO only reports to the board of directors, not to the shareholders entire.
Cool - thanks.
Mind you, the maintenance burden and the dependency of the users on the legacy will be ever larger. Also - as things are digitized the opportunity for more and more digitization grows.
Everything in iCloud, including your encrypted messages, are easily accessible to Apple[0] and will be released without a fight, despite Apple's vaunted privacy stance. (Perhaps that social contract has some fine print if the CEO of your company looks at your files and decides you're guilty without wasting time with 'a jury of your peers' and all that nonsense.)

Android (with Google) offers the same functionality (AFAIK) as iCloud, but sometimes you just prefer that your private photos remain just that.

0. https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwm4ya/paul-manafort-may...
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17748776
Very cool :) On that note, I think it is great how much effort you put into making wlroots, sway and wayland accessible through your blogposts and the open development process.

While I have been busy and will be busy for a few more months I look very much forward to working through your posts and learning something about wayland and sway then :)
I think an important point in modern technology development is that to make anything of value happen, you constantly deal with dozens of various silos, each of which can be a lifelong specialty area. You have to learn to skim most of the time and be able to dive deep -- a bit -- as necessary.

We may be saying the same thing, but I like my way better :)
Server-Less Streaming Log Architecture with AWS and Golang
I expect better headlines from NPR. It seems no news organization is free from enticing readers these days.
> And I'm amused at the idea of loosening regulations on financial services industries ever has any effect other than a massive transfer of wealth from the lower classes to the wealthy.

Fair and that's the fundamental difference in our political ideology. I subscribe that the role of US government is not to transfer wealth or interfere with the free market. If I am in a room with another person and I have five dollars in my pocket and the other person has one dollar, am I suppose to give the other person two dollars to make everybody whole? The writer of this article and bill might think so.
>I often wish I could connect with people who are reading or have read the same books as me

LibraryThing has that feature, although the algorithm is not super smart. When I first created an account, I put in all the books I could remember that I had read. Then I clicked on the link to find other users most like me. The top one had a whole series of books that I had read and completely forgotten to add to my catalog. It was uncanny - I couldn't think of any heuristic - they were all mystery novels, and I had almost none in my collection.
Thanks michael! <3
> Corporate profits are booming, but average wages haven’t budged over the past year.

Why would they? Wages reward work. Profits have nothing to do with this.
>Considering Germany is an economic powerhouse this law probably isn't harming the economy.

Germany is economically successful. But here is few things for you to know about it: 1. the industry taxed near to the limit. 2. Welfare is not cheap by any means. 3. Germany is an ageing country, and the amount of welfare payouts will go even further.

I not fan of idea that a company can be public, nor the form of relationships in between its owners and management that evolved in the USA: 1. I find the idea that a man owning a single share of the company can sue the management to death for doing virtually anything. 2. The subsequent dominance of extreme CYA attitudes that American managers are famous for. 3. The fact that company ownership became an extremely bureaucratised thing.

I'm a big believer that a business must have an owner. My own experience working in public companies: an omnipresent atmosphere of "ownerlessness" and people not minding "leaving things broken" for reasons that they are not paid to fix them. Without a clear "boss" around, work tend descend into being a Brownian motion. And all of that gets progressively worse closer to C-suite offices, if the company is of type that changed few generations of management.

Words of my father: "a collective ownership of business is like life in family where a woman has 10 husbands, all trying to make love to her at the same time."
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759762
“Those guys get a little wordy” why id's Tim Willits still gets involved
It's rigged for the rich because with more capital to invest you can lower your risk. Joe six pack with $50k to invest is going to be at a disadvantage against players with millions who can hedge their positions with options and diversify.
Ask HN: Book on organizing engineering team / process?
I understand it's a strange question for HN, but please bear with me.

We managed to get to profitability and VC funding with a very small team using somewhat free-form process. Everyone did everything, fires were put out all the time. Now we have resources to change that.

Problem is that none of the founders worked in the tech company before (we come from research / academia).

The product itself is very technical and we definitely see the technical debt accumulating.

Right now is the moment to get way more diligent about how we organize the process.

We don't expect to hire an experienced tech manager right away (it's a tough hire) and would have to deal with a growing team of engineers for at least a few months.

Are there good book(s) someone can read about the organizational / process side of leading tech team? Code reviews, pair programming, senior - junior roles and who should do what. Scheduled VS "when it's ready" releases. Milestones, standup meetings. The kind of processes that were developed by the industry to help steer the tech ship?

Not asking about the books on general management and how to deal with people, mostly interested in the functional part of it.
It takes very little sophistication or resources to set up automatic savings into an IRA, invested in index funds. We should be teaching this in High School, but we don't.
Multiplayer fighting game with your own face in 3D
This is completely anecdotal, however, I find I don't feel like I absorb any information unless I can apply it to something. With more mathematical topics, I need to work through problem sets. With literature/history I need to draw parallels to other events. Figuring out how to put information in context is what helps me retain information. It is a struggle because this requires a lot more time and attention than wrote memorization but as with anything there is trade offs.
That statement is pointing out the existence of a feedback loop in need of dampening. It's not saying the market needs to go away, or that it only benefits a minority.

To imply it's a cry that the game was designed to be rigged is a straw-man.
Got it, so you're one of those "nowhere does it state precisely what I've typed, so you're wrong. Ignore the statement that is essentially saying the same thing" literalists.
>Considering Germany is an economic powerhouse this law probably isn't harming the economy

US median household annual disposable PPP income is around $34,000.

German median household annual disposable PPP income is around $25,000.

Note PPP means adjusted for cost of living, so that is not hiding the difference.

There is likely some differences in household makeup, etc., but it seems unlikely that any demographic difference is going to make up for Germans having ~25% less disposable income.

So somehow the US system is generating significantly more disposable income for its people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
SEC examining Elon Musk tweets about taking Tesla private
Steam Play compatibility for Wine seems to be coming
It's unclear. The article specifies that the figure (from 2017) includes indirect ownership, so that probably also includes pensions that have stock holdings. Their cited government source (from 2016) reports a 51.9% figure, so it's probably somewhere around 1/2 of Americans, including retirement accounts.
Illegal shows and music fests were common here on native reservations, in forests and abandoned buildings until overdoses happened so much the scene was killed. At the time Nicholas Sand was hiding from the FBI and flooding the local market with high purity lsd/mdma ect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sand When his lab was busted fake drugs started being peddled at these events causing enough problems the police and reserve police took zero tolerance of any unlicensed shows/raves.

I've also noticed in the beginning, when it's just people involved in that scene, there's no problems. It's when popularity of your illegal festival spreads and outsiders show up who have no connection to anybody involved that problems begin, such as meatheads who eventually turned up on a regular basis to these parties to throw punches, set fires and sell piperazine derived pills.
If the temperature wraps around to negative, doesn't that imply a maximum value at the wrap point? Do we know the temperature value at which it wraps to negative? Is it literally "infinity Kelvin?"
Oh, of course they do. So does everyone. If I don't do my job properly, if I have some duty of care that I breach, I open myself to legal action. So do you. So does the guy operating the pump at my local gas station.

But this seems to be going off-topic. I was talking about the myth that the law enforces shareholder value above all; not about people neglecting their duty in general. I did say "shareholder value".
depends. if you need to expose your data trough api your api will likely follow the relational model. it's then more convenient for the interpretation to happen in the presentation layer.

or, splitting hair, yeah if the ui needs some hierarchy rendered out of a flat table then the javascript controller should transform it before passing to the renderer.

depends where you place the cut at this point.
Companies should be owned and democratically controlled by the workers.
Really great visualization here, kudos to the author. Really makes is clear what's going on. Made me think that things like this could be useful in textbooks as well if they were more digital. Maybe in the next few years there will be a better way to integrate this kind of stuff into courses, I guess today they could always happen in lectures.
> There already exists a city with rich Americans living in it, buying overpriced Cuban sandwiches from Cuban people. Using that as a handy comparison, I contend that the median Cuban in Havana currently lives a nicer life than the median Cuban in Miami.

Have you considered asking them? Their answers might allow you to know their opinions, rather than presuming.
Exploring the Limits of Weakly Supervised Pretraining
While this experiment is too narrow to extrapolate to a business setting, I find it useful to have time to myself to think independently about whatever are the issues of the day. This is particularly difficult to achieve in an environment of constant verbal contact.

Of course, this is just a 1st. person anecdotal claim, so it certainly does not extrapolate anywhere.
Is there a direct link to the product?

What is the license for the videos?
>I really liked her better when her primary focus was enacting laws (or at least trying) that made it harder for people to get screwed by predatory business practices and gave them more recourse when they did. Stuff likes this makes me not want to vote for her though.

Giving workers power in their workplace is exactly "enacting laws that made it harder for people to get screwed by predatory business practicies".

You seem to be doing some circular thinking? Workers do literally all the work, the business cannot survive with no workers. Want to tell me why workers shouldn't have a say yet shareholders who do literally nothing except thirst for profit get all of the say?
>>My feeling is business people and economists are upset that China utterly refuses to follow neoliberal economic polices.

>>Typically countries that try to follow Keynesian economic policies get hammered by western central banks and monetary institutions.

This is a common trope/conspiracy-theory that's not substantiated by the numbers. Western countries don't follow neo-liberal economic policy, unless you consider an increasingly powerful and unaccountable regulatory state, growing social welfare spending provided at the taxpayer's expense, and interventionist central bank policy, to the tune of the Federal Reserve holding $4.5 trillion in assets now, "neoliberal".

By any broad-based metric of economic freedom, the West has been growing less economically liberal over the last 50 years.
Every outdoor party needs a huge bonfire! It's part of the ritual. Depending on your definition of "big", you might be able to get around the hot-logs-on-ice problem using propane gas burners - I've been using them for years to get around summertime burn bans and the risk of grass fires. It might not be as romantic as the traditional bonfire, but it's a lot better than nothing and it really helps keep people out on the dance floor all night. I started out with one of these, and the system I'm using now is just a scaled-up version of the same idea:

https://www.campingworld.com/portable-propane-outdoor-fire-p...

Seems like it might work for a frozen-lake party, since the heat stays up off the ground; you could throw a reflective insulating blanket underneath for even better results.
I mean, no, they're way closer than Spectre is.

They're both around how page faults are asynchronous at a uArch level on Intel, and not any of the other vendors. This and Meltdown don't apply to AMD or ARM.
The root problem isn't that companies are only accountable to shareholders. The root problem is that the shareholders of the large companies that are causing the income inequality the article refers to are not individuals any more; they're mutual funds and other financial institutions, i.e., other corporations.