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Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1 with manager?
I work in a company that has suffered from many organizational issues in the past and present (basically bad management making bad decisions and slowing them company down). The issues I would report in a 1-on-1 could only be fixed at the C-level, so it's not productive to talk about them. Everybody knows what the issues are but there's a lot of inertia and I'd rather focus on the technical.

So I don't have much to talk about in 1-on-1's. It's clear what work I have to do. If that benefits my career or not, it still needs to be done, so what then? I get along with my coworkers (sure, they have weird ideas from time to time but I'm one to call them out in a 1-on-1 or demand something be done, it feels arrogant).

I'm told 1-on-1's should be more than just status updates but that's all I have to talk about.

Manager starts 1-on-1 with "What you got?" and I'm dreading these meetings.
Elon Musk is hardly starved of hero-worshippers
Jeez. probably could have done with a "don't open this in work" warning too...
>Yeh I know its not supposed to happen but one Uk maker had steering wheels that could come off whilst driving

Steering wheels come off in MANY race cars, IndyCar it's basically a necessity so you can get in and out of the cockpit.

In the case you mention it just sounds like design incompetence.
What you fail to internalize completely is that we are lucky they let us travel at all. That's where we are as "citizens" these days. We keep giving up rights and then you want to complain when things like this take place?
You probably mean the first 7 books narrated by Gerry O'Brien.

https://www.audible.co.uk/series?asin=B00HJB1GP6
I was recently talking with some folks at an incubator about a website I was building, and one of the technical guys suggested I consider switching to serverless before launching (and I thought it was a good suggestion).

Serverless is an easy way for startups to overcome one of the harder technical challenges: scalability. This is purely anecdotal, but the majority of startups I've seen - including my own work - do not have the time or expertise to build out robust auto-scaling systems. They also don't have the money to dump onto a bunch of servers they can fall back to when needed.

But auto-scaling is arguably more important for startups than for well-established companies. Thanks to the unpredictablity of some random high-visibility influencer or journalist sharing your product without notifying you, it's easy for smaller startups to suddenly get hit with traffic that they can't handle with whatever infrastructure they have in place. Sometimes you only get one shot, and if a hundred thousand people hit an empty 503 page on their first visit, they may not come back for another try. Serverless design greatly mitigates that problem.
I think a new BFDL would be a worse-is-better solution than all this play-government formality, to be honest. It seems to be an effective system for many languages, including Python in the past.
Is GTK intended to be the programming environment aimed at typical developers? Writing object oriented code using lots of boilerplate C macros seems quite a bit more tedious than using a language designed for object oriented programming from the ground-up. At the very least will GTKmm be a first-class citizen?
I have plenty of files in /var/lib/ that are not owned by any package, same in /var/log/ , /var/cache/ , /etc/sysconfig/ and other directories - their parent directory is owned by a different package than the ones creating these files.

I'm not arguing that a decent package manager is a better than none - but they are solving all issues you claim they do.

Pretty much all OSs, including windows, have ways to view which processes has a file open
This comment section is proof positive of why the Steering Committee was a good choice.
I have been having the exact same thought. Lately, it's been too much work, it says 'failed, try again' until you do a bunch of them - cars, traffic lights, bicycles, etc. It makes me mad.
Maybe being a little bit too cynic, but markets need consumers to 'renew' their products. Otherwise, how can you have never ending growth and capitalist wealth. It's all tied together, pre-planned obsolescence comes with our current economic system.
I would gladly discuss this opinion with any sensible arguments and nuances.
Slightly different purpose, but it's a reminder that Omnia Turris exists:
https://omnia.turris.cz/en/

100% Open hardware, comes with OpenWRT and it is easy to modify

https://forum.turris.cz/t/high-performance-configuration-upd...

https://forum.turris.cz/t/omnia-on-steroids-project-your-opi...
Uhmm, it is self organizing as well as transparent. This is why the rule for changing governance rules (including itself) is simple and transparent. To keep relative stability, it has a built in buy in threshold.

There is a difference and fine line between freedom of choice and being overwhelmed by options, especially irrelevant ones, even more so if all competitors are essentially fake and owned by the same company. Looking at Unilever and Nestle here for example.
Are there sections on ethics and respecting an individuals privacy in there?
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One of the things with Lambda etc is that while they are cost-effective (and flexible) when a business starts, they also can also lead to lock-in (not just with the serverless functions themselves, but queueing services etc). A few years down the track, a business may find themselves spending quite a lot of money with Amazon, and being unable to move away without a major re-engineering effort.
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He's a continental philosopher who specialises in political philosophy, a topic which is very relevant to methods of governance in society (most generally) or smaller units (like programming projects). In particular, his concern in this scope is questioning the extent to which critiques of current methods of governance and the organisation of society (e.g as highlighted by the Frankfurt School's critical theory) are relevant to any future methods, and whether questioning government philosophically rules out a bureaucratic governance.

In particular his position is interesting in contrast to others in the anti-authoritarian Marxist tradition.

I hadn't heard of Hakim Bey or TAZ, so thanks for pointing that out to me.
Smells of "real communism hasn't been tried."

I quite like the Swiss model of democracy. Taleb argues that the focus on small matters and diffused democracy avoids centralization of power and provides a lot of their famous stability.
Regulation makes things safer. It destroys competition and raises prices.

Seems like it was a reasonable trade off in this case.
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But a smartphone is not blank. What does 'blank' mean really? It's choke full of apps, whether you want them or not, from the factory. If you just use it to call with (as I do), then the only activity is a shortish call log.
Exactly. As someone who is on the board and used to be the chair of a non-profit, rules and procedures tend not to matter much. Until they do. You hit some edge case where people seriously disagree and things like voting rights, proxies, the process for bringing an issue to a vote, etc. suddenly matter if you don't want to just leave decisions in the hands of whoever has the loudest voice and/or feels most entitled to having the final say.
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Just a reminder: anyone that is on the TLA's shitlist will have their phones combed through as soon as it hits american networks(possibly others).

This is more or less a form of intimidation at the border.
>It would be a waste to ask 4 questions when 3 suffice to predict the last answer with good accuracy. //

How you ask a question can perturb the answer. If an axiom is that you're determining static elements of personality, then you'd need to ask about the same facets in different ways to avoid skewing the analysis.

"I am quick to react?"

vs

"I take time before reacting to make a measured response"

Both a priori sound positive, so people will tend to "somewhat agree" (as the answer format of these things goes), but they are seemingly antithetical.

Of course they're not really antithetical they're just shallow questions that aren't really going to discern much of your personality. People can react quickly/slowly according to the needs of a situation. Maybe the value is in measuring perceptions of one-another, despite the ease with which we are misguided.
This does not close nor stifle creativity at all, unless your point is that any majoritarian system does so. There is a balance involved, too much chaos and everything explodes.

You're free to fork your own python like language and get buy in as long as you do not infringe the trademarks. Or make experimental branches and proposals.
I wonder if programming languages might be considered a type of a project where comfort of members is of less importance than other goals (mindshare?).
Is this really true? Does this work in every kind of war or Moon-race? Control is important, but so is individual initiative. The front line needs the latter the HQ needs the former. That's why "aligning goals" is the important thing, not just rules for power's sake. (That's authorianism of course.)
Kudos! What do you think are some good resources to learn/get better at elixir?
Excellent now we can continue our path to global tyranny
I use Magick.Net with ASP.NET Core 2.2 https://github.com/dlemstra/Magick.NET It is a popular and well known image processing lib.
> but until path tracing times are measured in minutes per frame, as opposed to the hours or days they are now

How about realtime on a consumer PC ;)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69642

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75720

To make things clear, these 4k intros are not at all representative of what is done in the film industry. It is made possible by using very simple mathematical shapes (a sphere or 8 cubes). But that's still bonafide pathtracing.
Two things, based on my experience (we migrated from Heroku to Lambda in 2016, so been there for a while)

1. you don’t need to worry about reserving capacity, so you don’t need to pay for growth you expect to happen, or worry about not meeting a spike in demand if it happens

2. Most of the operations stuff (apart from packaging) is included in the price, so things like monitoring, alerts, dead-letter queues, traffic shifting beween canary versions, failovers, balancing... and it’s priced per request, so this comes to effectively free if you don’t have a lot of traffic.

The big catch is that you don’t control the containers, so there’s no session stickiness. Getting the benefits from Lambda requires re-thinking how you do sessions and storage.
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This only works in popup windows. According to the guy who made this website [1] this is to stop cross-origin communication, which is quite interesting. But it also has the effect that if you force popup windows to appear in tabs rather than windows then you do indeed burn the feature with fire. And IMO it's worth doing anyway, because no one has the right to open a browser window on my computer except me. It's possible in FireFox by changing browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 in about:config [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/QFZ-pwErSl4?t=558

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066799
I am worried about how much access was given to Palantir.
Today, instead of building a glitter bomb, I donated $100 to a local animal shelter.

You're not making the world a better place with mindless pranks no matter how sophisticated they are. You'll have to actually do something positive.
> Serverless is an easy way for startups to overcome one of the harder technical challenges: scalability.

Only as long as you (like Amazon's post) don't have a relational database in that architecture graph.

Serverless makes it way easier to scale your application server logic, but not necessarily your persistence layer. If you choose a relational database, you can run into peak load problems where you can't scale the database fast enough to meet huge spikes of load. It's completely up to you to either set a processing limit somewhere, or avoid persistence layers with peak scale problems.

I look forward to the day when AWS Aurora Serverless Postgres is in GA, but until then, if you want to deal with really bursty loads (like suddenly going from zero to thousands of simultaneous requests scaled out across Lambda when an ad runs), you either have to manually scale things up ahead of time, or be prepared to deal with Aurora Postgres cluster failovers and outages. You can't go from zero to huge on the relational database side without minutes/hours of infrastructure changes (or huge ongoing bills for capacity you're not using.)
To be clear, pas's comment is replying to an earlier version of cousin_it's:

> Correction - that's how organizations work when their goal is making members happy. If the organization has an external goal, like winning a war or putting a man on the Moon, it needs to be more authoritarian.

(EDIT: cousin_it's comment changed again while I was writing this, somewhat closer to the original. Anyway, probably just keep in mind that any now-nonsensical response may be to an earlier version.)
I would think the biggest concern with "Serverless" would be vendor lock in. If a large portion of your SaaS product is "serverless" it's going to be very difficult to move when company A raises their prices, or company B comes in with a much more compelling product or price point.

Admittedly I don't know enough about the details to know how big of a deal this could be, or whether there is work toward a universal "serverless" standard. But I don't want Amazon/Google/Whoever suddenly raising their rates 2 years from now causing my startup to go under because the margins are so tight. And for those that say this will never happen, look at what Google just did with their Maps pricing.
Network events will probably not make or break your startup. So relax on that front.

Focus on the product and clients. This means speaking to clients either over email or in-person (or on the phone? not sure if there's an voice app).

It sounds like your nervous and worried about how everyone else is so busy. I could infer that you might not value what you have to say which could come across in conversation. People then won't listen which creates a negative feedback loop. Try to figure out how to break that perception.
I think it has more to do with musk's criticism of journalists that sparked the hate they have for him.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999374720368689153

Earlier this year, the media put out hit piece after hit piece on musk after musk criticized them. Seems like years ago though.
I think opacity set to 0, you didn't knew but you saw the ad and this will count as view?
There was a cat and mouse game with adblockers and websockets a couple years ago, but I'm not sure how things work now.

Is anyone keeping an annotated list of annoyingsite techniques, to see what's still broken?

I'd love to gaze at the medusa, but indirectly if at all possible.
Yeah it can be fairly normally.

a) maybe try meditation
b) surround yourself with positive supportive people
You can use bad hashing functions for a lot of applications. In the traditional interview question: find all anagrams in a list of words, you can sort the letters of a word as the hashing function, and use a traditional hashmap that does conflict-resolution with a linked list as a solution. Fun stuff
I was texting with my phone while waiting next to a busy looking entry point at an airport in Canada; I was not going to the US, I was heading back to Europe.

An airport person asked me if I have a Nexus. Somewhat absentminded while texting, I said yes I do (my phone was from the Google Nexus line).

"Right this way Sir!", and I followed him for 10 meters.

And then at that gate entry eventually I pieced it together that my phone was not the Nexus they were looking for, excused myself and went away wondering why air travel seems to make me hypoxic.
> Serverless is an easy way for startups to overcome one of the harder technical challenges: scalability.

But is that kind of scaling really the hard part? If you're already using AWS for example, it is trivial to set up an autoscaling group that will add more EC2 instances the keep up with the rate of traffic. IME, scaling data stores is the hard part of scalability.

I'm not saying serverless doesn't make it a little easier, but it is a different tradeoff. AWS Lambda for example has a lot of limitations too. Maybe I'm interpreting your comment wrong, but I don't think it's fair to imply that serverless is the obvious choice for startups just because it helps overcome scalability.
The useful thing is that in the case of at least Azure Functions, their back-end is open source. There's plenty of open source alternatives, so you can migrate to a bare metal hosted alternative if it brings down costs and maintains the same level of scalability. This also emphasizes the need for cloud agnostic frameworks.
Well, at least you have a business. I find vendor lock in to be about the lowest priority on my list. Also, the lock in is pretty exaggerated. Just make sure to keep business logic separate from the cloud plumbing, as per the OP example.
This assumes a tabula rasa state of mind, where children have not formed any intuitions about the parts of the world they have not formally been taught about. However, when we learn about the sciences, we always discard incorrect intuitions (although probably often only nebulously defined). IMO, there is no need to explicitly teach something incorrect only to be able to un-teach the very same thing later. At best you alienate students because they feel either confused, lied to, or patronized. At worst, you do form incorrect intuitions that are even harder to get rid off than normally because they were taught as scientific gospel earlier.
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It's important to analyze arguments not by what they seem to be but by what they actually are; the substance of what he's saying isn't that the USSR (for example) "wasn't real Communism" because it wasn't bureaucratic enough, his position is that regardless of whether it is "real Communism" or isn't, bureaucracy is still a question of central importance. The notion of discussing "utopia" in relation to its actual existing aspects is covered quite well by Marcuse[0].

On the other hand, several Communists (in fact, the ones Zizek is arguing against) very much argue for exactly what you propose: focus on small matters and diffused democracy to avoid centralisation of power. The fact of "real Communism" having been or not having been "tried" is irrelevant to the questions concerning how such a society, if it is possible, ought to be organised. Thought-terminating cliches don't make for critical analysis.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/#FanUtoRatGra
For rustaceans out there who are interested, check out https://github.com/CensoredUsername/dynasm-rs as a nice rust replacement for dynasm.
Spotify is Swedish and their US HQ is in NY.
You have no idea how 3rd world countries work.

In India. Police supplies thieves with information. Guards the scene while the theft is ongoing. Shares the spoils, and then harasses the complainer. And to put it mildly this is like a low key operation I just described. They do a lot lot more.

It's like an extended branch of the mafia. Most sought after jobs in India after civil services.

Recently in Bangalore a police guy was caught on cam stealing a journalists scooter.
I'm this sub-tread's "grandfather." It was my list up the tree.

My first reaction was to agree with you. But then I realized how many times I've landed on a page and thought, "Ok. Sounds cool. But WTF is it?" :)

I agree. The two questions go hand in hand. But before you can tell me "what's in it for me" we had both be sure it's perfectly clear (WTF) it is. That is, I think too many brands don't step far enough outside themselves to see it how someone with zero previous exposure to the brand / product might see it.
Regarding your first thought, you can get pretty close today with Windows Isolated App Containers. Chromium uses this under the hood.
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Learnt Flutter and built an Android app.

Learn{t|ing} Rust, ported a lot of stuff from Java/Kotlin and JS to Rust.

Started my third degree, Maths and Stats. First semester went well, but I had to bail out of 2nd because of life issues.

I hadn't planned on learning Kotlin, everything else was planned.
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For a startup, though, if it succeeds, you have to assume that a good portion of the code will eventually be refactored at some point, or retired as the buisiness is flushed out.

I have a feeling we'll also see some projects for transferring Lambdas between IaaS providers, including on-Prem at some point. I'd be more concerned about lockin at the DB-level but even that could be accounted for with up-front decisions to not use Dynamo, etc. if you were really concerned.
That the thing though the dev overhead and limitations for startup with avg compute needs might be more $ than tiny savings (e.g who cares if it is $200/month vs $70/month) if it will cost 50k extra in dev time to architect for lambda
Oh yes. That's so true. I'll be sure to add that to my list going forward. It wasn't the first time I said those, and it's not going to be the last. Thanks.
I agree with these points, but the device also needs to offer a good experience (like responsiveness, speed, camera/photo/video quality) and a starter set of apps. The former is where Firefox OS went wrong (IMO) by going low end and having a terrible experience. The latter seems to be an issue with the Librem phone since it comes with very few apps that most people generally use. I seriously wish this project the best, because we need good alternatives for people outside the two main smartphone OSes. But I personally cannot use this phone as my only device at this point.
> … applying semantic indexing … to the sparse data in a way that was both fast and let us store hundreds of millions of documents in memory on fairly normal hardware.

Fascinating. Would you mind sharing more, some links / white papers?

We did something similar with ScaleText.ai (as a step-up from Gensim), I'd be curious to compare notes and perf numbers. Drop me an email at radim@rare-technologies.com if interested. Thanks!
Is there a reason that a Path Tracer doesn't just start with a quick Ray Trace and then layer the extra paths on top of it? I've seen the effects mentioned where you limit bounces of a Path Tracer and the resulting image looks grainy. Why not start with a Ray Trace and blend a limited Path Trace on top? I would guess that even a full resolution
Ray Trace blended against a quarter resolution Path Tracer with a high bounce limit would give a pretty good image right?
Lock in is very easy to avoid. Keep you business logic in separate modules and wrap any specific cloud sdk calls in helper functions. Any major move to a new provider should be much easier. Lock in is often a non-concern if you stick to basic engineering principles.
Then again if you're aiming at high growth, you'll be looking at some degree of re-architecting at least every few years anyway to cope with the 10x system problem.

If using FaaS can be a quick bandaid solution to get you up and running without worrying about having to design your own equivalent of the fail whale, then a certain degree of lock-in might be worth paying.
I believe a concern would be a single point of failure and burnout, the consequences of which would be massive losses of organizational, directional, and domain knowledge.
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