skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you that much of "Middle Management" today falls under the category of "Bullshit Jobs" and "Leadership BS" (books have been published on both). It is mainly due to mindset and the way that company hierarchies are structured. "Management" is considered prestigious and hence is given more money then they are worth. Everybody wants to be a "Manager" in one form or another (there is something in the human psyche which wants to lord it over others whether needed or not).

The erroneous belief that if you have a team of 4-6 people you need somebody to "manage" them is ingrained in the industry. Thus the proliferation of management "levels" as axioms.

Ideally they should grow organically only as a need arises otherwise a single level between Strategic/Vision <-> Middle/Operational <-> Engineering/Production should suffice (think of them as concentric circles with Engineering at the core). In a organization with a such a structure true middle management exists and you will see them involved in everything since they are the conduit between the end-goal and the means of production.
How are they better?
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Those are _good_ days.
... ya, but seems like giving a bigger punishment based on that logic would be like throwing the book at a bank robber because they "could have" gotten away with millions. Even though they were only able to get $100k before making a getaway.
....why would Derek - or anyone else - spam a 2009 article about CD Baby?
Any thoughts on how I can prove this?
> If you meet your SoW, you will get paid. The FAR is very, very clear on this issue.

I am glad for you that your experience does not match mine. However, I'm going to stick by my statement.

I have had my funding pulled on a budgetary rearrangement. I have had Congressional staffers threaten my contract to score patronage after an election changeover. I have had already completed and signed off milestones suddenly get reexamined as not complete. And, while contracts are very well specified, there is not a lot of point in trying to litigate a contract on someone in the government who is determined to break it.

While my commercial contracts generally work beautifully (not always, but probably less than 5% cause serious issues), all but one government contract I have had longer than 12 months has had some government-initiated disaster (short contracts are better but you often waste too much time acquiring them for the amount of money involved).

I am glad you have never been high enough on anyone's radar to hit this or that you have a powerful champion as your protector. However, I have talked to more than a few people about this and I can tell you that I'm very much not alone.

> Source: I own a small R&D company that works for the DoD and IC

The difference may be R&D vs production. Someone is always looking to score political points by slapping around a supplier.
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Is HN a form of social media?
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Boy, that photo shoot must have been CRAZY!
Holy Shit! That's incredible. Thanks for the link.

Even cooler that it works on Analogue Super NT. That's two layers of video game history preservation right there :) After all, eventually, some day, the last working SNES unit will fail...

I don't see very much information on retro.live's page, but I hope they heed the lesson of Xband's demise and open source the important bits of their work in some time.
Probably the plus. The TI-84 Plus was the calculator my high school (and maybe middle school) offered - I graduated in 2016.
This is a new alternative to our current, photosynthesis-based food chain. For those who think it's a scam, consider that they have already convinced the European Space Agency to be a partner: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanabandoim/2018/11/26/how-a-st...

And for those who think the headline is misleading: It's comparable to saying that plant protein comes from sun+air+water. They first build a small bioreactor with some microbes inside but after that the input is (mostly?) air (including carbon dioxide and nitrogen), electricity (preferably from solar) and a little water, and the output "looks and tastes like wheat flour,
with 50% protein content and 5–10 % fat and 20–25 % carbs." https://solarfoods.fi/bioprocess/
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I'm sad that they didn't get anything meaningful on the retro.live website before the documentary launched. Seems like a massive wasted opportunity. Why not document the project? There's nothing on the site.
Imagine you had this:

struct file_handle {
char name[16];
/* other stuff */
} file_table[N];

Suppose you know that three consecutive entries have "CON" for the name. If you can find them in memory, then the distance between the "CON" strings is the same as the value of sizeof (struct file_handle). Unless somehow there are some false positive "CON" bytes in there somewhere.
3.14159 might even be a stretch though. I'm pretty sure the average person (or american at least) would only know 3.14
Yes, that's a problem. My guess is that folks will just have to create new patches from scratch to make it work. The old patches, or probably the most of them, might be lost forever unless some entity or former Xband engineer happens to have them. Guess you never know when a backup disk could turn up.

The other reply to me points out that a service called retro.live is successfully getting Xband all the way into games. Not sure what they are doing, but I am guessing they must be creating new patches, since they look a bit buggy right now. (Video is linked above.)
IIRC too many caregivers can result in them having issues. If you sleep in 4 different beds you'll never feel at home.
Thanks for that question tickerticker. Upvoted you so you get extra status. Let’s see what lsanger might reply later?
Efficiency = Work out/energy in ;) Resistive heating is indeed 100% efficient. There are better ways to heat up things tough.
Someone recorded the SEGA Channel's menu interface on VHS back when it was in operation and has subsequently uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRLZcBiN-k&t=72s

An interesting detail of the SEGA Channel is that it was a one-way modem. There was no way for the cartridge to communicate anything back to the headend. Instead, there was a constant broadcast of

Game 1,
Menu program,
Game 2,
Menu program,
Game 3,
...

looping forever. When you selected a game, it would just wait for it to come around on the loop and store it locally.
I wouldn't include the microbes in the list of ingredients since the process grows the microbes.
I would suggest "Making Protein From Air, Water, and Electricity"
“The AMA controls state boards of licensing, limiting the number of physicians in each state and preventing competitors from treating patients. The United States has 50 percent fewer practicing physicians per capita than Sweden or Germany. Unsurprisingly, US doctors also work fewer hours while earning much higher salaries.“

https://fee.org/articles/the-medical-cartel-is-keeping-healt...

We absolutely need more physicians. Med school should be cheaper and shorter in duration, but the AMA has been fixing the supply of doctors like a cartel in the name of “quality.” They’re defending the economic moat for current physicians by using a false front, nothing more.

Also, people started believing that end-of-life care is a problem in the U.S. partly because of misleading statistics. Let’s say your grandma is 75 and has complications due to pneumonia. The situation spirals out of control and she becomes a really costly patient. However, she has a reasonable chance of living to 85, giving you 10 more (quite valuable) years with her. No one will argue that we should give up on her. However, if she dies after all that expense, she will feed that stupid statistic about X% of Medicare spending in the last X months/years. Many people die when they have a reasonable probability of living. There are edge cases, like people that somehow enter a catatonic state or get some rare disease, but they’re overblown. Lastly, there is a subgroup of people that you just can’t “control costs” on, like Alzheimer’s patients. What kind of sick society would give up on them?

End-of-life care is a red herring in the U.S. healthcare debate, as is overconsumption of diagnostic screening. It is certainly true that America has a culture of screening but 1. MRIs shouldn’t cost $1500, so its hard to fairly compare the magnitude vs. Europe where the healthcare system isn’t broken 2. Excessively high treatment costs are so much more of a problem that this is a small factor in comparison 3. There are benefits to screening which obviously net out the cost to some degree. Screening really shouldn’t feature much in the debate at all in my opinion, nor should healthcare consumption levels for that matter. For some perspective, a study estimated that $45 billion is spent on “defensive medicine” meant to avoid lawsuits out of the $2.3 trillion spent on healthcare in 2008. However, if you ask some industry insiders why healthcare costs are so high, they might quickly inform you of defensive medicine and medical liability.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048809/
I attend a lot of meetings, and I rarely get a chance to speak if I don’t talk over someone. It’s tough to deal with these type of meetings but I use a different approach.

I take very detailed notes and highlight action items. Then I meet one on one with some of the people that attend the meeting.

I find many times that they missed action items and other valuable information. These smaller one on one meetings give me a better outcome in terms of impact. Many ideas discuss, end up making their way into the bigger meetings.
OK, we've taken a crack at a more accurate headline. If anyone can find representative language from the article that would make for a suitable title, let us know. We prefer that, but somewhat unusually I couldn't find any candidates in this one.
To all those who are criticizing 9 dollar per hour is actually top tier salary in india. It translates to 18 lakh rupees per year which adjusting according to PPP with respect to Cali or ny around 100k dollars.This is honestly confirmation bias for Americans who think outsourcing is bad . Which kind of is but don't think in this case.
> non-US people living outside the United States believed to have national security relevant communications. These people do not have Fourth Amendment protection.

How come Julian Assange has second amendment protection?
yes, they are. For operation thing, console > web interface >> gui applications

Thou, there is 1 big advantage of web interfaces and that you can send a link to it to other person (that can make it better than console for some things).
In my experience, humans never say "New York time", or "San Francisco time", or anything like that, they say "EST" and "PST" regardless of whether daylight saving's is on.

I'm guilty of this too, since I can never remember which part of the year constitutes "on" and which is "off", only where the boundaries are. If I stop and think I can usually remember "spring ahead is turning it on", but never off the top of my head.
Works except when both people in every group give the same number
I’m sorry your soul hurts.

I didn’t say it’s better now. What I said was that a lot of those places have a tumultuous history of instability (Afghanistan) or are run by dictators where a violent power struggle is a certain eventuality (Libya, Syria).

Gadaffi was going to lose power eventually (through death is certain) and the power struggle that results is going to be ugly.
I would think yes.
I'd say yes, considering that most of the content is random dialogue among other posters. Also the lax policy on acceptable content makes HN look as clickbait as reddit most of the time.
The problem is celebs are perfectly happy with current state of social media. Unless they see problems, they might not get onboard.

It's only the people who have been through some mess in there life because of social media know how bad is social media.
Kim Kardashian's business thrives on "media" and social media. Why would she be on it?
Oh my goodness. Why did you put up with that for so long? Surely there are other bulbs that are just as capable and don't come with this ridiculous software.
And what is that compared to any regular browser?
If you like this you might like Glances. I use it on my home cluster to monitor Docker quickly. You can pull it up in a browser for extra laziness.

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
a recent documentary about XBAND: https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA
Cascade of what? I expect only cascade of posts on {facebook, twitter, you name it} happening.

FB will happily put adverts between posts in that "cascade" ;)
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Yep! I used to do that on Xband
They can't possibly do that with a bank account though? In the sense that a collapse would see you get cents in the dollar back, hopefully the taxpayer pays the rest if you are lucky.

You can pay them for a safe deposit box and they can properly _hold_ your money if you want, but that money won't be worth much in 30 years.

Unless I'm wrong and some banks provide a fully backed savings account? Doubt it would be worth the effort for them.
I think you forgot funding. That's kinda important.
I fixed that in TXR Lisp. Macro bindings and function bindings in the global namespace are separate and coexist. The mboundp predicate is provided for testing for a macro binding, which can be undone with mmakunbound, analogous to fmakunbound

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-0384A294

TXR comes with function complements of if and and and some others.

1> (and (prinl 'foo) nil (prinl 'bar))
foo
nil
2> (mapcar 'and '(nil t nil t) '(nil nil t t ))
(nil nil nil t)

Unsurprisingly, TXR Lisp has no compiler macros. If you want to speed up a function using a macro, then just write a same-named macro.

TXR Lisp macros can decline to expand by returning an output that is eq to their input. If a macro declines to expand, and a function exists, then that form will be treated as a call to that function, naturally.

When a TXR Lisp lexical macro declines to expand, then a same-named macro in an outer scope (or else the global environment) is thereby effectively unshadowed and gets an opportunity to expand the input. This is very useful and exploited in the implementation of tagbody, which it simplifies. http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/commit/share/txr/stdlib/tagb...
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This reminds me of the campaign to get people to give up shopping on the day after thanksgiving. Not gonna happen.
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They have a version available without the numpad as well it seems: https://matias.store/collections/slim-aluminum-keyboards-1/p...
Come on, please keep HN free of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Kitematic sucks in every way. I despise it, glad there's something else
>No. There was never any intention to keep non-msdos systems working.

$155 million and Bill Gates: "You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS. Is there feature [sic] they have that might get in our way?"

says there was https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-settles-dr-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
This looks good.

I believe there is a lot of room for TUI tools like this. Modern terminals and TUI libraries are advanced enough to support splits, colors, clicks etc.

Why run a 600mb electron app when a small TUI app will do just fine. Even if it’s a 30mb jar file that needs the jvm to run.

I also believe that constraints boost creativity and the fixed amount of rows/colums in a terminal and limited set of colors is great for that.

It’s not because some of these TUIs run full screen that they need to completely drop the unix philosophy. Apps like Mutt, Tig etc frequently delegate to $EDITOR, diff, w3m and others.

Some of my favourite TUI apps:

* Tmux : windows/panes multiplexer

* Tig : git log/status/blame/stage

* Mutt : email

* Fzf : fuzzy finder

* Irssi : IRC
Andy Grove spent the last decade or so of his life campaigning about exactly that problem. R&D is not separate from production. Lose the latter and you lose the former.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warni...
Why not spin CD Baby off into its own entity as an asset sale for $X amount.
>Clearly the disabled citizens should just crap at home

Disabled citizens are clearly better served by waiting for the oversized "Super Commission of Wheelchair Access" that takes three months to put a stamp on a project that has wheelchair access. You clearly didn't even understand the argument.

>And sustainability? Who needs that?!

Buzzword, three months, stamp.

>Frankly, ReasonTV seems like a left-wing caricature of the libertarians. There's very likely a good case to be made of wastefulness, but that video didn't have it.

I'm not at all surprised you think that.
Would you please stop this? It's strictly noise, and we're trying for better signal/noise, not worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It's not that we think that is useful; it's that subthreads like this one are useless. A clear example for why we have that rule.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Because of game theory and money is involved and enough people have been coopted.
Cause maybe she is tired of the routine. Has made enough money and is watching the effect its having on kids. There are thousands of reasons, because there are so many different unintended effects social media has.
Wasn't framing it in an argumentative manner. What was written seemed to be phrased in a way that indicated the author had an expectation of the existence of a shared context, not in need of articulation.

I offered an articulation of what I've come across through research to be the eventual outcome of a stock buyback, and how it differs from a fine, along with some encouragement to share what knowledge you may have that contradicts it.

It's not the first time I missed the bus on some common understanding after all, and I don't mind learning something new.
The Internet looked like it had the potential to become a cyber utopia. Then the money and the regulators moved in. Now it looks like the Internet has just become, or will soon be, the next cable TV.
As with the 2008 financial collapse, triggering a cascade requires just finding the weakness in just a few who are ready to burn out.
Looks really good for a first project.
Very much so, I think.
Wow, why aren’t students using laptops?
Yes, Nvidia provides terrible support for Linux, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. That is the basis of many, many complaints about drivers for Linux. Nvidia ships in a great many laptops. If Nvidia sucks on linux, linux has a problem with drivers, full stop.
We'll get even more complaints if we say 'from' instead of 'using'.

Looking at the article it seems like the microbes predate the process?
Not just her business, her identity. Their whole family is based on being a brand.
Yes, I'm afraid you are wrong.

OS/2, for example, ran on the same machines as W95, and was fully modern. It was easy to keep an OS/2 system running for months without a crash. But few would develop for it, because few had it.

People paid absolutely through the nose for all the effort needed to keep anything working at all. Disk de-fragmenting, for example, was a Windows-only phenomenon.

Consider all the Free Software we use today, that just works without attention, year after year. People had to pay high prices for Windows software because it took so much effort to get it to work at all, and to keep working when the tide changed.
Salad, home-made sauces, home-made lemonade, popsicles, etc. are the stuff that will really get you sick in rural places. (Assuming you aren’t eating raw river fish or something.) You can get all kinds of fun diseases from drinking untreated water or eating any food containing untreated water.

Boiled meat should be fine though. Becoming a hot-soup-a-tarian wouldn’t be the worst idea if getting sick is your big fear.
All I can say is amen brother!
> Also the lax policy on acceptable content makes HN look as clickbait as reddit most of the time.

You really think HN has a comparable amount of clickbait to reddit?
Or the way that modern progressives tend to skew everything towards race and class when a conversation is not even remotely about that, it seems like a natural thing for them.

It might be natural for the NY Yankees to win a world series. Some people complain about it when it happens. Some people don't like the Yankees. But they are pretty good at baseball. When Microsoft lost the mobile market, it was an unfortunate thing for them.

Bill Gates doing his postmortem relent on losing that market is not a big deal. It's just what you do when you take a loss.

You ever lost at anything you've strived for? It's hard not to think about "what if"? That's very human.
Is everyone preferring to state these on multiple lines? With the advent of the widescreen monitor, I find we have all the more reason today to use all that extra space.

Using the example from the article, I'd refactor:

const result = (!conditionA) ? ("Not A") : (conditionB ? "A & B" : "A");

or, since code should be simple to read:

const result = (conditionA) ? (conditionB ? "A & B" : "A") : ("Not A");

All the parentheses' are redundant for the compiler or computer, but remind myself as a human that "const result" is not a direct statement, but a result of a conditional expression.

EDIT: 2nd set of parentheses' in 2nd expression might not be redundant.
Doesn't have to be that way:

I have an alias to a .sh script that launches Portainer (Docker web UI) on the remote host, sets up an SSH tunnel from the remote exposed portainer port to some <local port> and then launches my web browser at localhost:<local port>.

Instant remote Docker GUI. Really snappy too.

Web doesn't have to be slow and messy if you manage it right.

The Portainer UI could use some improvement but that's beside the point
I've recently bought a split mechanical keyboard, the UHK. No backlight but it's a productivity beast. http://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/
> the one described has a massive failure mode

Well, if you're really interested in generating random numbers using a group of people, then yes, this may be a problem.

But you should take this as an illustration of the more general problem of generating uniform random numbers from a distribution that is not.

If you think about it this way, author's solution can be applied in a number of practical scenarios. For example, if you want to generate a hash values for objects using properties that are not uniformly distributed. Or if you want to generate random numbers from a physical artifact that is not perfectly uniform.
Cyberpunk more like it
TellHNs definetly are.
As an atheist, that sounds terrible. Also there is some legit criticism: taken from wikipedia (where you can see the sources): It also warns members to "avoid independent thinking", claiming such thinking "was introduced by Satan the Devil" and would "cause division". Those who openly disagree with official teachings are condemned as "apostates" who are "mentally diseased".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

This has nothing to do with being a community in my mind. A community would help it's people develop and not keep them in (mental) chains.
It's not. @sivers is a long time, well respected member of the HN community.