skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People moan on and on about OKRs, but I am a developer and I honestly like them.

Personally: I do not resent that management wants to know what I am up to. And it is helpful for me to be working on projects in such a way that I understand their greater context.
I have 12 years of experience, first as a systems software developer, then as a data analyst /optimization expert.

For the last 4 years I've been leading teams in APAC deliver supply chain optimization models for our customers in the region.
I'd add lichess.org as an example of well used notifications - telling you the opponent moved.
Firefox has a "Block new requests asking to allow notifications" checkbox in the Notifications settings under Privacy. This can be done for all prompts and will permanently disable all prompts unless you whitelist a website, essentially.
His website has valuable advise for startups, but contains no sensitive information AFAIK. But yes PG should support HTTPS to safeguard his visitors from MiTM attacks like Comcast code injection.
I’m not sure, and I think you’re kind of off-topic for this particular sub-thread, but we’ll have a ton of performance data across a matrix of device, software, and network operators. And, when we do, we’ll definitely publish it.
This site has no link to the official "Motiv" bland website, and looks like being built by "Wix.com Website Builder". While the idea is attractive, I would call this a fake bs.
Again excellent article

one small typo :
"Stefan Podell fron Vérité"
Is this worth a permanent notification? Is there really no way to turn that off?
OKRs aren’t supposed to directly depend on anyone outside the team or organization. I, personally, can’t fix my contracting office so I can’t set an OKR to improve production rates of our (few) physical products when contracting is always the bottleneck (supplier agreements for materials we need). If we used OKRs, with respect to that element we could only set OKRs that they could achieve on their own (quality, design updates, production rates when they do have material). A couple levels above me are the people who can directly impact the contracting people and set about improving their performance, though.

If you’re setting them and always missing them because of entities with other objectives, then your organization is obviously misaligned and needs to evaluate its goals.
I had the left side numb thing too! It was like a line ran down the center of my body and everything on the left side of that line was numb.

(I have a pet theory that some psych meds "de-integrate" the left and right hemispheres of the brain)

Dr. said I was crazy and it had nothing to do with the meds. Sent me for MRI for that and the "brain zaps".

Eventually the left side numb thing went away.

Good luck and wish you well!
This is so cool. Looking forward to see when they can launch it into orbit.
Agreed. There is a peace that comes with knowing what you are working on is aligned with the company, and that management has good visibility into how you are doing.

And if you take your job seriously, it is really not that hard to keep up with.
OKR work is a subset of engineering time. We deal with things like interviews, meetings, tech talks, training, migrations, and maintenance work outside the framework.

You should always be making progress on OKRs, but it’s not the only thing you do. Engineering has its own overhead, not every hour is billable.
Yeah, I think that there is a deep cultural bias against actually digging in and looking at human problems, like work, from a human-centric perspective. There's a presupposition that most people hold that management is about control. This is why we draw org-charts top-down. In my view, management is about support. I prefer to draw org-charts bottom-up. The CEO is at the bottom. The whole structure is there to support the effort of those at the tips of the branches, the individual contributors.
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There is a lot of toxic cargo cult OKR / Agile / all other forms of management.

The point of OKRs is to make sure you are actually working on relevant projects and not burning time on something nobody actually wants or needs. Happens much more than you would think.

No amount of process is going to fix brain-dead management.
Ask HN: How to get large pieces of art into a digital format?
I have an illustrator friend in the Bay whose pieces can be several feet wide by a few feet tall. What are common (preferably low-cost but I appreciate that low-cost might not be feasible) ways to digitize images of this size (aside from taking a photo)?
Agreed completely.

- Why are dialogs still a thing?

- Why is stealing focus still a thing?

Browser makers, operating system manufacturers: Stop it. Dialogs are hot garbage, and users ALONE should have control over input focus. If you need the user's attention flash/animate.

If you cannot make a thing without a dialog, focus lock, or focus theft then maybe the thing you were trying to make was inherently a bad idea.

Windows is terrible at this. I was running the Visual Studio Installer in the background and it stole key-input focus dozens of times, often going to black dialog boxes that immediately closed leaving focus on nothing.
yes they blame them for trump winning and taking all the add dollars and “killing news”
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Does this mean other countries in the EU and at international level could follow suit?
I imagine a sort of device where you have a private key stored on some chip that you plug into a handheld device. All the device does is take in bytes from a serial port and output the decrypted content out another serial port. Then you can make sure that your decrpyted contents only ever exist on a non-network connected computer. Or better yet, only view or manipulate the decrypted content from a laptop with read only storage (e.g. booting into linux from a dvd).
I'm curious what type and dosis you were prescribed? (I'm an MD).
All things the same, why wouldn't you?

There are very few companies out there that wouldn't replace you in a heartbeat for someone taking 20% less, everything else the same.
A great artist makes things that are exceptionally unique and thought-provoking. A successful artist makes things that have wide enough appeal to generate sustainable income. Whether the piece is fun is irrelevant to the caliber of an artist, I think. Some artists toil night and day for finished products that mean nothing to anyone but them.
i've always made decisions outside of money. While i'm not the most highly paid, i've grown over time consistently. The work, your team and your goals usually out weigh your compensation if you live within your means. Go with a role who is going to provide long term growth and interesting work. The money will follow.
We just got done with trying OKRs for a quarter at my company. It was overall a really positive experience. We had a small team of people working to push out a new product. At the beginning of the quarter, we defined what success looked like for that new product and came up with the key indicators for it. As a developer, it was really fulfilling to take time to really think through what it would take to build out a truly quality product. I spent a lot more time thinking through the things I normally wouldn't put much effort into. We built tools to help our support team understand the new product. We put together documentation. We took time to think about how to train the company on the new product. We wrote automated tests to make sure that we could sell the new product as a stable solution. Everything was focused on our overall objective to deliver a quality product. Our team had people from development, marketing, sales, product, and quality assurance. It was great to see a cross-department team unified to get something amazing done. Just adding a data point that there are ways to make it work well.
Thanks for posting. Can you summarize (for laypeople) what this potentially means for cancer treatment? And how that would be better than current state-of-the-art treatments.
Today US, I believe, is at point of no return. I highly doubt we will see any considerable train system modernization, comparable to the Asian nations, EU, or, maybe, even Africa.
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I had no idea wth you were talking about until you mentioned Visual Studio Installer, then I knew immediately what you meant.

This is a huge problem for Windows and Mac.
I'm not only trained as a clinical psychologist. I also have 14+ of experience as a professional engineer and a manager/leader, with an MS in electrical engineering. So I'm viewing this as someone who worked an individual contributor, a technical leader, and as a manager, and then went and trained as a clinical psychologist, and then came back to engineering. I also coach leaders.
Similar experience. We (the devs) quickly realized we'd need a ton of time to create useful metrics for our dev teams and that we'd need a shit-load of historical data we didn't have to give them any context—lots of small- to medium-size projects of many different types, hard to reason about one based on another except with a mountain of data from all of them to treat in aggregate. And it might still just be tea-leaf reading. Probably would be, in fact. And of course we didn't have the time to do that. So we found ways to tie social media marketing stuff (views are the easiest thing to measure!) to higher-level OKRs and did that instead, usually rushing to get it done right before the deadline.

It was not a good use of software developer salaries. An initiative to at least start collecting the data we needed so it might be useful in 2-3 years could have been, but some OKRized version of "start collecting data to use in OKRs 12 quarters from now" wasn't something anyone would get behind and was pretty much impossible to tie to the higher-level OKRs that were being set.

Whole thing was a game to find something easy to measure that could be made to look useful, whether it was or not. It wasn't some huge disaster or anything and I can see how maybe in exactly the right organization it might work, but there's no way it was the right place for that company to spend their money.
Washington-Baltimore is actually a very good connection by rail--you'll have a train at least once an hour--except that the station for Baltimore is in the wrong location. Baltimore Penn Station is located far to the north of the city, well outside the Inner Harbor that's going to be the center of tourism and visitors.

What happened is that, historically, Baltimore-Washington was mainly served by the B&O, whose Baltimore station would have been right next to Inner Harbor (Camden Yards is essentially built on old railroad property). When passenger service was consolidated into Amtrak, the Northeast Corridor instead chose to use Pennsylvania Railroad trackage instead of B&O from DC to NYC, and the freight trackage in the corridor consolidated onto the B&O tracks instead. The resulting residual commuter rail line has the standard commuter rail/freight rail politics going on that limits the number of trains that can transit the route.
One benzo? What dose?
One way to think about this stuff is to ask : "Do lawyers and accountants and doctors and playwrights and mathematicians have these kind of schemes?". Answer: probably not. They're handy for some jobs but not others. FWIW this kind of oddness has been going on since I entered the workforce in 1986. BS5750, ISO9001, TQM, KPI, and on. Part of the landscape and not really worth getting too excited about.
There are many scenarios I could posit, but I'll pick one. Let's say your pre-revenue start-up needs a product for sale within 4 months, because that's your company's runway. There's a lot of work to do and limited resources, but if you don't meet that deadline your company has no product to sell and you are out of a job. Are you really arguing that it's poor leadership to say: "we have a hard deadline- the product must be ready in 4 months"?

There are many such hard deadlines in life, and failing to recognize them and motivate your team to meet them is poor leadership.
5G and it’s need to remake all the light and utility poles in the city will bring the cameras and microphones. It’s a compelling use case to a government, regardless of privacy implications.

Microphones are used in a lot of places to figure out and triangulate the location of a gunshot. Cameras can track cars and people automatically.

Not sure what to do about it though. Maybe multisig with community leaders and police with a court available as an override? Just spitballing. Everything has a negative unintended consequence.
These paywall bypassers are revealing a problem and offering a temporary solution. However this situation wherein scientists are both providers and consumers of editors, and forced to go to pirate websites in order to work is not sustainable. I feel like a permanent solution needs to be found.

I'm not a scientist myself, and would be happy to hear anyone else's opinion, but alternatives like peercommunityin.org look more promising.

All in all, this ban can be easily be circumvented (it's just a DNS block), so I'm not really sure it will help editors. It may cause an opposite effect, helping people to move to different solutions. But maybe I'm over optimistic.
Clickbait may be a virtual game for publishers, but it's having real-life, dangerous effects
Videogames have always had "money mixed in", profitable videogame studios are as old as videogames themselves, and your glasses are just rose tinted.

I'm not even sure what kind of "old" game you're picturing that you think didn't have "money mixed in" - tetris? pong? goldeneye?
Right, so you do it outside the model. We have a % of engineering capacity reserved for non-customer-facing work.

Unfortunately it is mostly spent responding to infrastructure / dependency churn, just treading water rather than getting ahead, but it helps. No one is going to criticize you for refactoring what needs refactoring, as long as you are also making progress on your OKRs.
Why were you unwilling to lean into the process?

You could have said: these OKRs have to describe my actual work... here are my attempts to document what that means, and what to look for if I do a good job at that.

If they had pushed back on that, I think you would have a leg to stand on, but as described it sounds like you were just unwilling to engage.
The Apple store becomes a failure point in this. A state actor could turn a low paid store worker to switch out phones of journalists coming in.

Not saying it’s super practical but definitely a failure point.
For me, it’s a useful tool when processing data, and I can appreciate some ideas like avoiding mutation, but as an overarching paradigm it doesn’t seem particularly helpful. But I guess I’m just a blub programmer
> I have a pet theory that some psych meds "de-integrate" the left and right hemispheres of the brain

I could believe it. Could you explain more?
It is Dutch.
That's not entirely true.
Remembering history is also different from remembering permissions. Firefox should persist those independently from actual URLs in browsing history.

And there's a button in settings where you can disable permission prompts for notifications globally.
More of a push to open access like this:

https://gatesopenresearch.org/
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> For example, in the US, speaking French is considered a particular accomplishment and a sign of good breeding, much more so than with any other second language.

As an American, my impression is that French is just considered more elegant and sophisticated than other foreign languages. I wouldn't consider it anymore difficult than another language, and quite a bit easier than some (e.g. Chinese).

...But I'm not a WASP, and if anyone has opinions similar to what you describe, my bet is they'd be WASPs.
Open Access for Scientific Papers
But that is kinda funny. Probably effective too! Maybe add in a dub from Robocop.
And with this news, millions of French now become aware of these tempting sites they wouldn't otherwise even know about. (And Google methods of alternative access.) #streisandeffect
My grandfather believes that video games are a "scourge" for young men today. I used to think he was old-fashioned for believing this, but I have come around to agreeing with him.

I wasted a large chunk of my life on Counterstrike, Arma 3, DayZ Mod, PUBG, and countless console games. _Thousands_ of hours in total. For me, games were more than an escape or simply a way to unwind. For me, they were a well-hidden addiction. They were an obstacle to reaching my potential. I can't see myself going back to games again and still being as happy as I am now.

I miss games sometimes -- I still occasionally watch them on Twitch or YouTube -- but quitting cold turkey over a year ago has been one of the best decisions I ever made. That I didn't give them up 10 years earlier is a source of great regret.

I'm probably not going to ban my children from playing games they buy with their own money, but I'll definitely have plenty of long talks with them about the dangers of gaming.
Serious question, natural rights aside, is this actually a violation of basic rights in a legal sense (laws, constitutions, etc)?
Well, if it's aside from taking a photo, there's probably nothing. It's not like you can buy a cheap scanner and rest it against a large canvas.

I worked at a cultural institution (the National Library of Australia) for many years, and the digitization section was basically just taking photographs. It was, hands down, the cheapest solution to get good quality digitizations where the source material came in many different sizes.
It may be that most psychiatrist don't follow patients long term, or that when things don't go well for a patient, they stop seeing that psychiatrist, and so they don't hear about bad withdrawals very often. Crazy idea, but maybe psychiatrists should take antidepressants for a short bit as part of their training. It would give them some perspective.
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Service Scope User Data
DNS 1.1.1.1 users Browsing history
CDN/Proxy CF protected websites SSL decrypted user forms, passwords, emails
Warp VPN Warp users Device data, browsing history, apps traffic

Most sensitive is raw, SSL decrypted web traffic, and users using two or more services at the same time. CF promise they don't use data, but legalese have loopholes, like do they store/use aggregated (not raw) data?
Open notepad. Press a key over and over. If the key-press stops going to notepad then focus has been transferred/stolen. Firefox's Notification Permission dialog has this behavior within the browser.

For example go to Reddit or Facebook, start entering text, the notification permission dialog will appear, steal focus, and now your key-presses go into a black hole.

The whole concept of focus-theft is an anti-pattern. Interestingly one mobile operating systems originally designed out but has slowly been creeping back in.
A Sprint simply defines a planning cadence. Some teams find it helpful to do planning and retrospectives on a fixed schedule to ensure they actually get done rather than postponed.
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Probably a bigger factor is that, in the early 1940s, virtually the entire infrastructure of Europe was destroyed. In March 1945, there were no operational bridges across the entire length of the Rhine river. All of that infrastructure was rebuilt in the late 1940s and the 1950s to then-modern high speed standards; by contrast, the US has to make do with infrastructure upgraded at great cost around the 1910s.
Now that you have dropped the barrier, what requirements are you setting for the device? What if its damaged? How damaged is too damaged? Should they accept damaged devices in exchange for other damaged devices?
WireGuard is much easier to get configured than OpenVPN.

Check out algo:
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

I think you could bake your configuration into a custom image, so it would be fast to get a VM started (about 30 secs on GCE, not sure about EC2).

If you use stopped instances, it's even faster.

(I work at GCP so know more about GCE than EC2)
That 8% are likely bipolar.
The French really love their language, traditional publishers continue to publish in French whereas new-tech is more often in English or other languages.

So I'd argue that the French have a love-affair with traditional publishing, and traditional publishing loves draconian copyright rules.

The whole thing is almost a culture war for the French people's soul by-proxy.