skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are really underestimating the bureaucratic overheads in a large company. It is not the same as a 3-person startup serving 5000 customers. Of course I pulled that number out of the air, but the point is that it can make sense. I think I am right around the ballpark of needing a 5 people team to serve 500 users - you'd need a minimum of 3 people just to make sure there is enough redundancy if one person is sick or goes on vacation. You'd need 24x7 on-calls. The scaling factor probably changes after that - may be it is 10 people for 5000 users instead of 50.

Adding to other large company problems, these people will need management layers, the team will need a charter for growth. Who wants to be the maintainer of the Mattermost servers in a large company? Add all of this up and then the slack deal starts to look reasonable.

Edit: Just to add some real numbers, slack costs $12.50 per user per month [1] - that is ~$750k per year for 5000 users = 5 engineers. (More like 3 really in the Bay area)

[1] https://slack.com/pricing
awsome,i want to go
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/25368/how-are-a...
So nothing related to Mattermost?
I often wonder about this cost to the US economy due to a lack of universal health care: how much productivity is lost due to people staying in jobs just for health care, how many businesses not started, etc.
Better selfies or Tik-Tok videos. I presume we, HN crowd aren't big fan of those.
Just read through the text of the bill, looks like the work you describe is explicitly exempted from the bill https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
PLEASE someone (masterspy7 ?) make this into a proper VR app!

I'd love to do this in my VR headset.
Seriously, how do regular people sit with a pencil-box sized iPhone 11/XS Max?

It's why I love my SE. Small, portable, good features a nice phone should have.
Thing is, it is not nonsense. People here always cry for 'voting with your wallet'. Well, people did and here we are. Apple was massively criticised for _years_ that they did not put out a large phone, because that's where all of the android market went.

Then, when they finally made the iPhone 6 their sales were so large that the next year's phone was deemed a flop even though it did extremely well. (If one would remove iPhone 6 from the sales chart, the 6S would still continue the trend in increased sales every year).

I would love apple to also offer a smaller phone, but offering people what they actually want was not a mistake.
and to say that 20 years ago people were laughing at MS windows and considering it as a completely non-viable platform for pro audio for its 10ms-accurate timer...
this is just misleading and cherry-picking PC fanboying. the last time i went in to apple repair they charged me <$750 for a board repair because i got insurance but the warranty only just expired. its easy to hate on apple when you don't use facts or evidence
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In CA, when you see "vote along party lines", it means some actual good shit got done.
I had already done a similar thing by switching from one technology to SFDC. And now I am wondering how often you have to do it before you really like it. I am currently looking to move to more independent Technical Consultant. Is there any dis/advantages of doing it?
This article would have been significantly easier to comprehend if the author had given the tradeoffs names instead of constantly referring to them by "first", "second", and "third" tradeoff. (Granted, he finally does so at the end of the article.)
That doesn't sound right. Is this a official, genuine Apple battery or was this done by a third party?
I'm not at all convinced that HN is better than Facebook.
I still cannot forgive Rust for not learning anything from Ada.

"Code is read more often than it is written". Reading Ada is so unambigous, and clear. If you mean if then, you have the keyword then, when you want to say procedure you say procedure and you can read that. Rust? fn, because is it fun, or functor, so fuck you.
Linux 5.3 Kernel development cycle statistics
You can run GPS on a rooted phone.

Duo does provide a very valuable service to organizations that pay for it - it's just frustrating for a user to be stuck with them.
Insufficient cooling has given me issue with certain Lenovo thinkpads over the years. Most recently it was throttling on a X220, fixed by swapping to a redesigned fan/heatsink.

The first time for me was with their T43. This model was mostly a platform refresh of the T42. There's a chip called a southbridge that's located below the palmrest. Between the models this chip went from 400mhz to 533mhz. Lenovo decided it wasn't important to improve the cooling, no heatsink whatsoever included on the southbridge. However, they kept ample temp sensors in the case so the fans would pulse nonstop as it failed to cool this one chip.

I had two nicknames for that laptop. The 'nut roaster' and the 'vacuum cleaner'. I eventually fixed the problem by hammering out an old copper penny and sticking with thermal compound to bridge the gap between the heatsink and chip. It wasn't perfect but it dropped the temps like 10C. The rest could be controlled with an installed fan daemon.
Very interesting, I knew there would be job categories where it would be a completely obvious tool and you'd want every aspect of it to be the best possible and of course journalism is one.

Dictaphone, camera, editing and publishing, phone, notepad, email... arbitrary other software around all of these, all in your pocket. Makes total sense.
Reid Hoffman Ran Interference for MIT over Epstein Donations
I think the notch is a lot less annoying than the weight. Maybe I have small weak hands, but I feel a physical strain from using my iPhone XS. Unfortunately you can’t seem to buy a new SE around here.
"Enterprise" slack is $15 per head per month. This would equate to an recurring annual expenditure of nearly $4.86million for Uber's 27000 employees.

Given that Slack can be seen as IRC with some pretty decoration glued up to an Elasticsearch instance, and that Uber already has a highly trained tech org in place, if it wants to make a Slack "clone" for less than, say, $25million (cost of Slack to Uber for 5 years), it could actually be a pretty sensible decision- especially when you take into account the tax and stock-price benefits of capital expenditure.
> Unfortunately, the war is still a touchy subject in Spain

I find this quite concerning and rather paternalistic, especially when far-right/fascists keep winning elections and the PP still exists.

I'm not ignorant of the attrocities but Spain needs to be able to discuss current issues linked to or reminiscent of that era despite it upsetting a lot people.

It's suppressing free speech, and Spain has a disgraceful recent history of anti free-spech legislastion passed by the PP in the years following their win in 2011. Spain passed a gag law in 2013, the same year Vox was created. Perhaps it seems you have to create a far-right party to enjoy free speech. /s
Unfortunately, no matter how fast the hardware gets, the iOS UX is the limiting factor and just as slow as years ago because of the useless UI animations and clutter that do nothing but waste time. Much of the UX isn't even interactive until the animation loop is finished which makes it tedious to use quickly.

It's like using a superfast desktop but limiting your mouse clicks to one every 5 seconds.
Could you explain how taxes are involved? What about reclassification causes the state to see more taxes raised?
Good health is a temporary condition. Everyone eventually craps out. If you only buy health insurance when you are old and or sick then you wont be able to afford it when you need it.
The American war, which the OP is actually about, was arguably a fight against Japanese aggression in the Pacific, and arguably caused by a US blockade targeting oil imports to Japan. The entry of the US into the European war happened well after the rest of the allies had been fighting their hearts out for years.

My point however was the killing of a person by their own government during a time of war. This guy could have gone on to do all sorts of things to support the effort. He self reported his own desertion. Killing him was sick.

And you can contradict me all you like, but the whole article is about how the people that actually made the decision and had it carried out, regret it.
Does this have some sort of eta? Interested as well
Yeah this is weird. I mean who over the age of 10 doesn't know the famous 4/4S/5/5S lineup?
Try out Solace then. It's fast and supports HA for the free edition with throughput limits.
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From my experience that kinda makes it worse because constantly people will say "X has this now this add that" and it's normally a case of "Well that's a ton of work to do because we did Y".
Your phone has an app with your work email on it, and probably ones with internal chat and other things too. Your phone has no 2fa - anyone who knows your passcode/pattern (and you need one even if you use a fingerprint) has access to all your work stuff.

Clearly, being able to access company resources without having two devices isn't the problem that 2FA is being used to solve. I just want to have the same ease of access on my computer that I have on my phone.
It will cost California $400bn to run a Universal Healthcare system, which is double the entire general fund budget. You have to essentially declare private insurance void, and corral that employee and employer contribution to the healthcare system. It is a huge risk. And best be done at the Federal level
Including deliveries, please.

Completely agree. The fact the you can drive a truck down a narrow pedestrian street to deliver a couple of 50x50x30 cm boxes is insane. But there does need to be an exception where people can apply for a permit on a case by case basis for deliveries that are necessary and cannot be brought in any other way.

There are way too many people living in the city right now.

Complete disagree as a matter of principle, and I don't see what one has to do with the other. Much of the traffic in city centers aren't caused by the people living in the city centers, but by people living outside the city wanting to get into the city. I fail to see how Forcing people to spread out into the suburbs will solve the problem. If the city infrastructure cannot handle the people living there, the focus should be on fixing the infrastructure.
A week ago we discussed Om Malik's article "Camera sales are falling sharply". I am one of those people who now does not upgrade his camera, nor use it any more, as much as I like it. I use my smartphone, albeit with some aftermarket Moment wide- and fish-eye lenses on it.

This phone makes total sense to me. The money I used to spend on cameras and lenses will be captured by the smartphone companies.

https://om.co/2019/09/03/camera-sales-are-falling-sharply/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875544
1) I can't remember anyone reliable who thought the iPhone 6s was a flop, as opposed to the fact that the iPhone 6 had an immediate surge due to pent up demand.

2) The fact that Apple went so many years without a big screen phone, with people demanding it, and then when Apple.did release it they underestimated demand, proves that Apple can be mistaken in their assessment of the market. You're correct that just because people here seem to indicate they want a small phone doesn't mean a market for it exists. But I do remember the exact same comments being made about a larger screen size phone as well before the iPhone 6. IOW, just because Apple doesn't offer a small phone, doesn't mean the market for that doesn't exist either
"Visual Studio Code jumps to the end of the file quickly, but then takes many seconds for the highlighting to complete."

I'm quite fine with that, frankly. Highlighting correctly requires actually parsing the file. I use vim and the colors get wonky way too many times, because it tries to "keep it fast".
Hours and years of talk and when they do research all what people really want is longer battery life.

People miss the days where they charged their phone every 3 to 5 days.
Why would state enforce a federal employment requirement ?
You can make/Hack your own Apple Watch apps with Xcode..
Using TensorFlow/ML for automated RF side-channel attack classification
It is a fair price. I just wish the non-Pro had a 512 GB storage option. I'd like to take my whole music library with me - in its original lossless state this is of course not an option due to size, but even when transcoding to a lossy format for mobile use (which iTunes makes very easy while syncing) I'm still looking at roughly 220 GB and counting. My current 256 GB iPhone is obviously at capacity.

Now my only options are a 1500€ iPhone 11 Pro or an affordable Sony Walkman, but I don't really want to carry around another device.
When you have to exempt the majority of professions then it's just bill targeting specific companies which in my opinion is wrong.
Add a little creative accounting and you got Enron on your hands.
It’s curious that Keynes describes WWI as Europe’s Civil War as seen from London POV. I read one of the key drivers for the formation of a EU was to avoid future wars, but I guess a civil war is always something possible.
You could probably say the same about any kind of energy storage (or generation), above a certain density.

It isn't like gasoline cars haven't had their fair share of issues with combustion. I'd be willing to bet that it is harder to burn a BEV (or air, hydrogen, LPG) parked in the street than an ICE.
> it's still ridiculous that people today strap two supercomputers to their wrist so their wife on a business trip in Beijing can tell them over live high-def video to feed the cat.

Or so a person in Hong Kong can say I love you to their grandmother about to pass away in a hospital.
How about Dota 2? There's nothing you can buy that can affect gameplay. Steam Workshop is used by community artists to submit their cosmetics, which gets voted into the game by the players. Steam Marketplace where players can buy, sell and trade their cosmetics. 25% of all Battle Pass[0] spending goes directly towards the prize pool of the yearly The International[1] esports tournament, with this year's tournament boasting a $34,330,068 USD prize pool, the largest to date[2].

[0]: https://www.dota2.com/international2019/battlepass/

[1]: https://www.dota2.com/international/overview

[2]: https://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments
They could offer a big phone and a small phone to hit both target markets.
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The post says they used an open source chat core called Mattermost.
The principle behind exemptions are those that already make far more than minimum wages, but I agree with your overall point
Why is it called the Volfefe index and not the covfefe index?
Well, for the casual user i agree, but wasn't that the case for a long time already? If you try shooting something that is quite far away or lightning conditions not optimal, a proper camera is still on a different level than any smartphone camera.
If I could pay 20€ per hour maybe I would advocate for the same thing. Let's build more (underground) parking decks which could be afforded by more than the richest 1%?
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> offering people what they actually want was not a mistake.

You can’t read customer preference from the market when they stopped offering choice in this regard. I bought a large phone because that’s the choice they offered and fucking hate it.
> as opposed to politicial leaders or party affiliated people

It blew up in the news because of his ties with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

There is a famous quote: "I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy… He’s a lot of fun to be with. He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." -- Donald Trump.
Vol - for volatility as it usually results in a price change. Timings of tweets seem to coincide with market openings\closings.

edit:spelling
When do you need an audit log and what do you need it for?

I certainly have answers as to why you would, I'm not questioning the validity of needing one, I just don't think that very many people who use Jira are optimizing for what they want and need. You aren't in the business of having a detailed record of the engineering work you did, you aren't in the business of making burndown charts, organizing process, etc.

Those things are supposed to work to your benefit, you're not supposed to be working for them.
Thanks for the response. I know I shouldn’t just an org based on its design but I think that sometimes thoughtfulness in design equates to responsiveness with comments like these.

The isolation might be really helpful to me and is there a way to learn more about it? I work in an organization that is weird as the cost isn’t really the issue, but the effort to test and validate security. So it’s a weird cycle that’s hard to work with vendors because I might evaluate for a long time before purchasing, or never purchase at all.

I rarely contact for enterprise pricing for new tools because I don’t know if it’s an enterprise option or if I want it for enterprise. And I don’t have time to enter the enterprise sales cycle unless I’m certain. This is probably frustrating for growing companies as I’m just another annoying customer and it’s hard to differentiate buyers from non-buyers. And 90% of the time, I’m not buying. Maybe have some case studies for enterprise licenses showing team combinations as I didn’t even consider that a 30 person team would be enterprise worthy. For me “contact us for enterprise” means a lifetime of dodging bizdev people. My throwaway email is now even too crowded :)

Thanks for the oss link, this helps quite a bit and may be good enough for me to eval and follow up. There’s a whole cloud reg called FedRAMP that I rarely find small companies go through the documentation effort even if the design supports it. And the design constraints are real.
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Because when an American sees the word "Communist" they get scared and run away
Employees cost more for the company in terms of taxes paid, along with all the required benefits, minimum wages and making sure there's enough inelastic supply to meet the demand.
I don't claim it what so ever, that was the point of my comment. Only people who put the money in the system get the benefit of healthcare.
Same here with my Series 4 Apple Watch. I can push close to 2 days between charges, which I think is great. It was frustrating having to charge my Series 1 watch at odd times every day.

Given that sleep tracking is one of the prime uses of my Apple Watch, I prefer to have it on my wrist all night, and charge during the late mornings usually, at me desk when I am in the middle of a block of coding.
that is mostly a complaint against poorly implemented infinite scrolling. there’s no reason why it would have the break urls, indexing, or the back button.
Vader moved fast and broke things sure, but he succeeded in disrupting the Old Republic. That’s why he’s the real hero of Star Wars, and a role model for the tech community in general.
Well on the hand other the Apple FaceID was in fact on the bleeding edge. Apple introduced it two years ago and we're only going to see it on the Pixel later this year. And for SoC performance I don't think any Android phone can surpass Apple's chips from last year. Apple really is on the bleeding edge for some things. You can't expect them to be on the bleeding edge for everything.
My team and I was just discussing the Atlassian toolset and how someone should give them some serious competition. Some of the things we are looking for are: markdown support, one place to keep everything (text, xlsx, images, PDFs, etc.), and a shared "whiteboard". We're currently using Confluence and between the lousy support, terrible editing, and the fact that you have to install plugins to get any real functionality it's getting harder and harder to write that check every month.

We looked at Clubhouse a couple of months ago, and while we all liked the look of it the project manager decreed that it didn't have enough integrations, specifically ProductBoard, PipeDrive, Confluence. It looks like that Confluence integration isn't needed since Clubhouse will have it's own "wiki". Nice! If we could get ProductBoard and PipeDrive working I think we would switch tomorrow. Especially if there was a shared whiteboard offering.

In fact, our remote guys are in the office this week for meetings and the other quarterly things and one of the main discussions was a shared whiteboard. We've tried several in the past, as well as other tools (ie. Lucidcharts) but it never really worked for us. I'm excited to give Clubhouse a try and see if it solves our problem.
The GameBoy solution: Just have a tailor make pants with pockets that fit the device.
I guess no one here bothered to actually benchmark scalar (like unit type/conversion code) floats vs doubles on modern x86 hardware. It will perform identically. Heck, don't believe me, check Agner's x86 instruction tables [0].

Please default to doubles and optimize only when it's actually an issue. 99% of cases it's not, unless you're doing throughput computing. In that case floats provide up to 2x improvement. Keep in mind modern x86 CPUs can perform up to 16 double precision FLOPs (FMA) per cycle per core — do you really think it's going to be the bottleneck in your code?

32-bit floats expose you to nasty issues with even "simple" stuff like errors in naively computed sums. Issues that mostly just wouldn't matter if 64-bit doubles were used. See a proper floating point summation algorithm [1].

That said, even 64-bit doubles (or any arbitrarily long imprecise format) won't shield you from all of floating point weirdness. But it sure does help in common cases.

With floats you'll get issues like this:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that...

[0]: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm
The best designed Android phone was the Moto X 2013. Perfect design, but a terrible camera.