skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like easy money. Anyone with ambition, opportunity, talent and foresight would likely have left We after a month and never looked back.
The back story about when Joel Spolsky (founder, StackOverflow) had to present this for review by BillG.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
I worked remotely for a company in SF that had one of these robots. I mostly used it to play games with people by chasing them through the hallway. When I did park it in the corner of the room people would either forget it was there or get distracted by it and start giggling. I guess if there were one for each worker and they were used regularly it would provide the benefit of being able to overhear office conversations, but the microphone had a really hard time picking up conversations that weren't immediately next to it, and honestly one of the things I like about remote work is not having to listen to my co-workers talking about their keto diet.
Why did MS want to do an IE6? For power and control. You imply a difference in your statement, but it's only a matter of time before it becomes too seductive to resist.

It only needs to make sense in the minds of a handful of high-level managers, and we all suffer.
I would argue it's more complicated than that. In my experience, especially I started working for some enterprises, the people who make the complex software are also the ones putting in the time and care into security. It's not a causation but there is something to be said about culture.
> My guess would be 'very little', though I have no facts to back that up

Almost exactly 2 years back, when interviewing around for a position, I talked with WeWork (along with several other firms). I attempted to ask their recruiters on the phone about how they use computers. I didn't walk away with a very strong understanding of how they used computers, but what I did manage to take away was that they wanted to be a software provider for firms that used their office space.

With broad ambitions like that, I am not confident that they had enough focus to deliver meaningful software products without them being a massive drain on their resources. I will also note that this was months before they bought Teem in 2018.
I’ve passed through a screening procedure recently that consisted of three steps:

1) They asked for some publicly available samples of my code «I’m proud of». Okay, I prepared three samples from different areas with detailed descriptions and comments, explaining what that code did and why it was good.

2) After that, as a coding challenge, they asked me to write a simple app using the Unsplash API.

3) Finally we had an over an hour long interview during which I was again given three simple coding problems.

And then they rejected me. The question I have after all that is do you really need a multi-staged procedure like that to determine a candidate is not a good fit?! When exactly did they decide I wouldn’t fit? If that was after step 1 or 2, why didn’t they stop right there? If that was only after step 3, then what’s the purpose of steps 1 and 2? They don’t mean anything if step 3 can just cancel them out. Then why didn’t they start with step 3 not to waste my and their time?
That's... Kind of hilarious.

I'm assuming your employer has never heard of printers or copy-paste. ;)
> But the average business does not really have such needs, or at least it can be a mistake to blindly trade off employee happiness and productivity against feature checklists, yet that is typically the approach employed by procurement experts.

I think there's a different dynamic at play: the individual is making purchasing decisions based not on what they think the business needs but on what they personally want. E.g. JIRA has a huge number of micromanagement features that I doubt procurement departments are looking for; rather they appeal to managers in companies where they're the ones making purchasing decisions.
This is made worse by the mobile experience of having every part of the page be some kind of button.

80% of my clicks are my palm grazing the edge as I hold it or trying to scroll and accidentally clicking on some block element link that doesn’t stand out as a button.
Because Blackboard was used as example, I just wanted to note that there are also open-source alternatives: A larger number of German public universities use ILIAS instead https://www.ilias.de/en/. While it has its quirks, I find it to be much more usable and flexible than Blackboard
I don't buy that, I have full time remote staff and our meetings are the same irrespective of if everyone is on location or all remote. Workout your process if it's not working. I can agree that meeting with someone you have never met before would be more effective in-person over remote. However a team that meets often can easily iron out the kinks and figure out what works for them.
This happens to me. It's a nasty feedback loop where lack of sleep makes me hyper and too alert to sleep. I suspect the cause is high cortisol levels.

Remeron/mirtazapine works really well for me as a reset to baseline. Talk to your Physician about it.
Not sure on specific action, but her UN speech on climate change evokes a cultural of change https://time.com/5695968/fatboy-slim-greta-thunberg-united-n...
Even so, surely the revenue numbers were shared internally at some point. After which, anyone who could would have run for the hills.
There’s no such thing, I think this is in the genre of “I wish there was a solution to this problem, and I’m sure throwing billions of dollars at it will solve it, so let’s try and see what happens”.
> That’s exactly the arbitrary definitions used to distort what’s going on. I am not saying it’s inaccurate data based on defines used, but all choices are subject to spin. Choices like using 6.2% or 12.4% for Social Security tax rates make a huge difference, and really should be included in these discussions.

Ya, I can certainly see the case that you don't want to include those numbers. However, I don't think excluding them changes the rank ordering of who pays higher rates. Those sorts of transfers will only be salient for the bottom 20%, and excluding them doesn't get them anywhere near what the top 20% or the top 1% pay.

> PS: Progressive also implies the top 0.1%, and 0.0001% also have higher effective tax rates not just an arbitrary top bucket of say 1%. Using words like ‘top’ is again arbitrary.

I'm sure you can find a few instances in the continuum where a wealthier person or small group pays less than a poorer person or small group. But I don't think that justifies the claim that our system is not progressive. Broadly speaking, for significantly sized buckets of people, our system is quite progressive.

That isn't to say we shouldn't try to address the issue that prevents the 0.00001% from paying the same rate or higher as the top 1%. We should. But I don't think it is the sort of existential issue that people seem to want to frame it as, and I really don't think it justifies the conclusion that our system is not progressive.

> PPS: Anyway, do you have a link for that report your referencing?

I'm just referencing the CBO report:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/55413-CBO-distribut...
The Next Big Thing in Crypto: Using Inflation to Create Stablecoin
We were pretty concerned about this. It's hard to get in a situation where the data is unrecoverable, because the root keys that you distribute can be used (with a bit of reading Vault code) to directly decrypt the internal storage, which is easy to navigate.

On a more general note, its taken us a long time to get comfortable with using Vault for increasingly critical things, and we are now at the point where it being down is extremely critical. But there are several components like this, and we are able to tolerate node failure, so its somewhat acceptable.
> a huge part of why they have lost so much market share is not only because they had a difficult and obtuse to use product, it is also because they were extremely aggressive in buying out any competition and EOLing their products and forcing schools against their will onto Blackboard.

Sounds familiar — that’s essential what Chegg did to all online reference management tools. They bough out RefME, CiteThisForMe, EasyBib, Citation Machine, BibMe, and probably some more that I don’t know off the top of my head. They then remove functionality from all the sites and shoved them full of ads for their other services.

Citationsy (https://citationsy.com) is still independent of course :-)
What particularly made it dystopian to me was the acronym choice. PTO is already the most common acronym to corporate accounting departments for paid time off. Reusing the same acronym for predictable seems to send a dystopian message that paid time off is no longer a norm, and one should just be happy if their time off is predictable.

I'm still not sure that sort of Orwellian new-speak was intentional by Perlow, but I also cannot imagine a world in which a highly paid management consultant is unaware that PTO was already a commonly used acronym.
isn't this called "catering"? I know some wealthy people who will often have catered food delivered (or prepared on premises) if they're having more than a couple people over and don't feel like cooking. this is also what my office does when they give us free lunch. I think the economics work out in a way where the per-head cost is pretty bad for 10-20 people, but reasonable for ~100 or more.
How to Undervolt Your GPU
That's not the point of the glass cliff. The point is that women are more likely to be hired as CEOs when a company is in trouble than when a company is in good shape. It is specifically about the circumstances when a woman is more or less likely to be hired as a CEO.
I got to be a fly on the wall in an organization meeting where we realized our third-party UI vendor had no roadmap for internationalization.

That was an uncomfortable day. ;)
This, in my experience, is what seems like the most likely culprit. A CTO/CIO gets impressed by a fancy feature list when really, what would be the best fit is something simple, stable, and easy to use. We have more and more examples nowadays of ease of use beating out giant monoliths and it's only likely to continue except in a few fringe use cases.
There's a similarly apocryphal story about cutting the ends of ham off.

https://sixsigmadsi.com/grandmas-ham-a-story-of-cultural-tra...
> Ha I love how they explain what "cryptography" means, as if anyone reading this wouldn't know.

We try to make the posts accessible to our customers as well as engineers :)
I just did some work to get together info for an investor due diligence questionnaire and I LOLed when I came to a long series of questions at the end that I swear were an itemized list of all the shenanigans that went on at WeWork. Loans of that sort were one of the items.
I'm looking for a aviation thread where this article was discussed, but I can't find it right now.

But it was heavily criticised. Just from a cursory reading you can see many cases of subtle and not so subtle language choices that show a heavy bias and a string of one-sided arguments.
That was my immediate thought. More people = more pollution, and also more crime.

The authors are aware of this and attempt to control, mainly by assuming that all confounding effects are either constant or cyclical:

"We include county-by-year-by-month-by-day of the week fixed effects to control for county level unobservables that are either constant over time, such as state and county-level policies, or that are time-variant, such as changes in population density, demographic composition, seasonal variation in pollution or crime, or changes in state and county-level policies that limit pollution or crime enforcement. These fixed effects also control for cyclical within-week, within-county variation in pollution and crime. Thus, our data allows us to compare for example, the effect of changes in pollution within a series of Mondays within a given county within a given month. We argue that changes in pollution across a series of Mondays within a county-month, conditional on weather controls, is random and thus exogenous to crime."

I'm not at all convinced this holds true, however - lots of systems with humans in it are chaotic rather than cyclical. I imagine if you did a plot of population over time, it would be very noisy. All it takes is a bit of aperiodic noise in the population, and tight correlations between population/crime and population/pollution, and their effect is rendered void.
This has been my experience too, but with a slight difference - the new feature is very often an ask from sales, who are trying to close either a big new sale, or a big renewal. The prospect/customer demands some obscure feature that like 1% of our users will use (at most), but they’re a big prospect/customer. Product/UX/dev push back, say we should be working on features, performance and reliability that will benefit most customers, but it’s hard to come up with the precise revenue impact of this. Sales are better at convincing execs, and “this will help us close a $1 mil/year deal” is very tangible, so the new feature gets built.

This is kind of a symptom of “the buyer isn’t the user”, though. Often we build these features, then monitor usage, and the customer that demanded it doesn’t even use it! Or we build it, and it doesn’t matter, we still don’t close the sale.

I think the core issue is “building for users” and “building to close specific sales” are often strongly at odds with one another, and most of the time “building to close specific sales” wins.
I prefer the following:

"It felt like a yuppie aquarium."

https://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/c93agd/wework_isnt...
I use a Dell XPS 13 9570 with Ubuntu and I am absolutely smitten with it.

My last laptop was an XPS 13 9350, and I loved it too, but I did find it a bit too small for my liking so I ultimately ended up selling it and buying the 9570.

Let me know if you have any questions about this specific model, and I'll be happy to help as best I can.
Eu countries take out $50-100 billion a year out of Africa through corruption if they would stop that they would not have to worry about refugees.
Again, every single point you are making ignores developing countries. There are phones on the market for developing countries that have solar charges and that are less than $50. The average cheap smart phone now is no more expensive than old dumb phones and are actually cheaper considering inflation. Until we figure out how to make rechargeable batteries last forever, they will still need to be replaced.

On the high end, it’s only Android phones that are obsolete after 2 years. Apple just released an update for the 2011 iPhone 4s this past July.

You’ve always been able to sideload music on MP3 players. When the iPod was at its height in 2007, Jobs himself said that only 4% of the music came from iTunes. Even today you can mix your personal music library seamlessly with Apple Music.

And if relying on smart phones makes no sense to you even though the worldwide penetration of smart phones is above 80% for adults, have you ever thought that you might be wrong?
The world is worthless. "Everything you got" is usually not enough. Good people are hard to come by.

Treasure those precious friends of yours. They're actual people who care about you. They will have your back when memories can't. And sometimes you'll have to inconvenience yourself to have their backs too. That is life. Or at least a life that is worth living.
a meets/exceeds scale becomes stack ranking when the proportion of different ranks is capped so that even if everybody on a team did well, some would have to be given the lowest ranking
The COO got fired as well.
In Turkey blocking is done by ISPs. Each uses different methods.
They block with deep packet inspection, URL matching on HTTP websites, and IP blocking with HTTPS websites.

They even intercept and change DNS results from Google and Cloudflare.
Libc++ 9.0.0 adds explicit support for WASI
Catalan here (and not exactly rich). I think OP's comment was completely out of place, but trying to disregard the independence movement as rich guys entitlement is a an extremely distorted representation of the political reality of Catalonia.
Why is every group calling the benefits of climate change legislation into question immediately smeared as "climate change deniers?" It's perfectly valid to look at the science, accept its conclusions, and remain unconvinced by the economics in cost-benefit terms.
I dont see why journals can't publish more negative results. In math for example, its a big deal if someone disproves a hypothesis of someone famous.
Similar to Twitter and other social apps. Agreed that it's a very annoying experience.
>Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.

If he would fundraising, using Google resources, for LGBT groups, would he be fired?
This gets closer to the underlying truth. Even if you had smart procurement people who understood the benefits of great UX, another issue would be that enterprise problems are typically sub-scale compared with today's consumer products. There is one or two orders of magnitude more complexity and one or two orders of magnitude less users than in the consumer space, or even less for niche industry needs.

Even if you make it up with additional willingness to pay per user, the market isn't always there for spending a lot to design, develop and iterate on the perfect UX.
well i mean they let an umbrella shut down an office for 2 days instead of just breaking the window which would have cost less than days of being shutdown, so are we surprised?
confirmed. happens to me.

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However, the organization that provided the blueberry powder (WBANA)[1] definitely seems to promote the type of blueberries/bilberries that are smaller, deeper purple, more flavorful and supposedly richer in flavonoids than typical cultivated blueberries.

[1] http://www.wildblueberries.com/
> I wonder if they also tried adding more standard streams

Common Lisp standardises a whole bunch of different streams (their names begin & end with asterisks, but I don't think that there's a way for HN to escape those):

- standard-input: probably what you think it is

- standard-output: ditto

- error-output: what a Unix user might call standard-error …

- query-io: a bidirectional stream, used for questions & answers asked of the user interactively

- debug-io: another bidirectional stream, used for debugging

- trace-output: used for print function traces & timing information

- terminal-io: a bidirectional stream representing the terminal itself

Yeah, like a lot of Common Lisp it's overengineered, but there are some intriguing possibilities in there, too.
Andy Rubin's Essential Gem Isn't Just a Phone
I independently used this tool a couple days ago. Helped save me a lot of debug time!
The iPhone, via the App Store, and Slack, via the extension marketplace and APIs, are _incredibly_ configurable. Mindboggling so.

(And many companies are using MDM along with the iPhone, so it's not like they don't think they need control there.)
Not necessarily on-topic but we could send people up right now on short notice on the Dragon - we just happen to really want astronauts to come back alive and do everything possible to ensure that outcome. If this threshold was lowered as we optimized for other things (not saying it should, but clearly lowering risks costs time and money) then we'd have manned missions flying right now.
It's clear that investment banks are incentivized to maximally value a company. Valuing a company is pretty simple, in that you can tweak certain values in, say cash flow analyses and depreciation projections to literally make billions of dollars appear on paper. They have complete deniability in that, at whatever moment, their proprietary analyses and due diligence appears in a prospectus that public markets are supposed to just trust in good faith.
That way, when the banks capture the spread on an IPO (difference in price guaranteed to a firm vs IPO price), the banks can offload shares en masse to investors and gain the spread, only paying capital gains taxes. It's pretty much theft, unless you are a very very early investor, to sell stock in something like WeWork as an investment bank. Financial giants aren't like other companies. If they don't make deals every single day, they will die. They have no product, nothing to offer that improves and compounds upon previous products (save, perhaps, for algorithmic trading software). Are we really surprised that this bloated corpse of an industry known for churn, extreme burnout, and grift would overvalue an IPO when it serves them?
The server component is still proprietary and closed source, at least the last time I checked.
These attacks are being made by Erdoğan and supported by Trump. Those facts alone are good reasons to question them.
This is using a fully-convolutional neural network.

Paper references:
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08225
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01779
> Let's not give them a pass here, as it's quite obvious why they're accepting the Chinese statements at face value, because of how dependent they are on the Chinese market.

Let's not forget that in the United States, Apple has recourse to push back against government requests within the system of the law.
Is his suicide linked to some kind of maltreatment of Chinese employees at Facebook? The article doesn't make that clear.
it flies in the face of "chronological feed culture" (twitter, rivers) and "algo popularity" to have people clicking the same story multiple time for updates. chron/ai feeds are meant to let you ever feast on the new without ever going back to the old. that philosophy you are looking for has a hard time competing with out of context constantly breaking news blips. (short answer to your q, I cant think of a good one off the top of my head.) Does wikinews have that sort of metastructure above stories? https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

personally id love a menu in a news app that says "updates to stories youve clicked" without having to follow a story. then separately i would have "followed/starred" stories as a different menu entry. they might sort differently, such as, since last clicked vs since most recent update.
> The truth is that no one will ever employ you at 30%.

Yeah they will - you just haven't figured it out yet (but you can - if you're willing).

/Bob Dobbs can show you the way...
Except that $17k is a large enough portion of most people’s income that there may be a significant difference in marginal utility between adding and subtracting it: $43k vs $60k looks very different from $60k vs $77k.
There's productivity studies that argue that your skills are as likely to atrophy when overworked (one factor in burn out), and that especially for things like programming skills the best daily skill usage ratio is much closer to 4 hours per day tops than to the 8 hour work day, much less the 12+ hours per day often encouraged in startup culture.