skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s my understanding too. The key is that this process of baselining takes time, which you don’t have either when there’s half a dozen 50MT Russian warheads coming your way (TFA refers to the missile sites being a nuclear “sponge”, i.e. forcing the Russians to launch on them and use warheads that could be targeted against cities instead) or when you want to destroy them in a preemptive first strike before they can be launched.
With JIRA (and most other enterprise ticketing/scrum sofware) EVERYTHING is possible but nothing is easy ! What I want to buy is NOT 1001 to log/validate/confirm/report a "login form" doesn't work issue. I want to BUY someone's workflow that has invested real time and research and optimised the workflow. The software should only have a supporting minor role in this workflow-product.

Its like buy a super-duper-expensive-hi-fi-amplifier... I don't want 9 dials to control the tone and bass. I will never be as good as the sound engineers as NAD. I want to buy THEIR tone expertise ! i.e an amplifier with an on-off and volume button.
Given up from a hardware standpoint?!

They lost out on mobile, but you can’t catch every boat.
No, it's really more complicated than "Built to appeal to decision makers, not actual users."

In terms of decision makers vs. users, the issue is that there is more than one group of users. For Blackboard, there are faculty, students, and administrators. There's a venn diagram of overlapping desires there, but there's also plenty of room for contradictory requirements.

Second is the nature of enterprise software:

--It's large, expensive to buy and expensive to maintain. So, you can't go switching it out every time a cool new product comes to market with new convenient features. You're stuck with it.

--But the vendor doesn't want to lose customers, so they figure out a way to bolt on the most popular things that come along, usually 2-3 years afterwards.

--The implementation is clunky and awkward and adds complexity for users that don't need the feature and maintenance of the system

The alternatives aren't great either: Pick an up & comer, like Canvas. It's smoother, more refined UI, less bloat, etc. People switch, because it does 80% of what they need very well, and they decide they can live without the 20% hardly anyone ever used. But over time, Canvas gets caught in the same trap. Users clamor for more features over time. They bolt on more and more, and the process repeats.

Sometimes a corporation (or university) will try to circumvent this. They go "best of breed" for all functionality

--They buy a minimalist LMS, they buy a separate system for advising & appointments etc., they buy a third system to replace the financial component handled by Blackboard Transact, etc.

--And, for a short period of time, users may be a little happier, until bolt-ons creep into each product, but maintenance & integration costs explode on the infrastructure side.

--If it gets too bad, someone in leadership will eventually say, "Why are we spending 3x as much on license maintenance with <X> full time employees to keep it all running when we can get one single system to do it all for us?

And some variation of the above cycles repeat over & over.
> Today, ring-laser gyro INS systems with embedded GPS come in tiny packages and can sustain massive G forces allowing them to be packed into everything from missiles to artillery shells...Before GPS was available to correct for drift, it's amazing the lengths engineers went through to make inertial navigation systems as accurate as possible.

Having your nuclear deterrence depend on GPS staying operational seems...questionable.
I can't believe he's comparing Maven to npm.

I wouldn't piss on npm if it was on fire.
I see no reason why "doing something" requires sentience.
All those true, but the site is terrible for knowledge discovering.9 out of 10 articles are garbage, written solely because now it seems every job applicant MUST have a blog.
That's definitely also a factor.
The great thing about Excel is that it is easy and intuitive to use just the basics, and it is difficult to accidentally stumble onto its advanced and complicated features by accident.

With Word, on the other hand, it is easy to have created a large document and then just as easily screw the whole thing up from beginning to end by clicking the wrong button or key-combination.
The truth is though, if you make user focused B2B software, it likely won't do well.

I worked on a product recently where we built a new stripped down mobile version of our enterprise software that was extremely easy to use for the average user, but had minimal functionality for management. Our manager users have never been big adopters of our mobile software, because they spend most of their time looking at large reports that don't work well on mobile, so we figured this was a safe strategy, at least for the initial launch.

However, we saw extremely low adoption, because managers would try the app, see that the minimal amount of features for them, and then they wouldn't recommend it for the rest of our users. We refocused to adding features for management, and we started to see much larger adoption by the average user.

Selling user focused software to the someone who isn't the main user will always be an uphill battle. The companies that have had the most success are those like Slack that are able to get into the organization without the buyers approval first.
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I don't like the explanation that everyone "back in the day" had the same schedule. Service jobs still existed back then. Upper middle class (white) people worked 9-5. Women stayed home. The example used was literally the Beaver family.

Even my other 9-5 friends office coworkers are not making time for their friends. Something bigger is definitely at play.
I think you'd have more fun trying to imagine phrases no one would ever say.

"But thankfully I took Kim Kardashian's advice, and everything worked out for the best."
It's an algorithm, just at a higher level of abstraction. Turtles all the way down.
> Word, Excel, SAP, Photoshop, Salesforce, JIRA

I agree about SAP and JIRA, but the other ones are IMO universally loved.

I've never found a designer complaining about Photoshop which is the holy grail for bitmap work.
The problem is the feasibility of auditing, not whether the motivation exists. And no, taking their word for it is not adequate.
I find the trick is to do maintenance while doing meaningful (as described by the powers that be) work. So when a new feature or bug fix is asked for, add another 15% to the time required, and clean up the code base a bit.

The knee-jerk, which rarely works, is to demand time to refactor everything or ignore everything until it breaks irreparably.

I think in your case, simplifying a script by a dozen lines a week or so could have been done without taking away "points". Abandoning the status quo and committing too much time will inevitably be looked down on in most industries, however.
The GS payscale is not set up to be able to hire and retain highly skilled technical experts. Even if I were to be hired at the GS-15 level, I'd take a pay cut from what I earn as a contractor.

I once worked on a contract in a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) capacity, which was both an odd and eye-opening experience - basically advising the govt customer, as a technical expert, on contractors' proposals and sitting in on reviews and such.
Nothing gets developers as excited as having hour long meetings to learn "the correct way" to log a ticket ! O joy the workplace is set for innovation now ! FML
The article ignores the effect of 'Cash for Clunkers'. It took 680,000 running vehicles out of the market. All these were worth less than $5000 to the people who owned them. The owners were all people able to buy (or five year lease) a new vehicle despite dire economic circumstances and tight credit market in summer 2009.

Because the program destroyed the vehicles it accepted and because those cars were running, there are fewer donor cars to maintain or rehabilitate the 'clunkers' that remain.
> connection to the US situation

Tenuous at best. That was a different place and a different time. Different circumstances, different timelines, different politics, and even different differences.

Brown vs Board of Education was decided based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was specifically enacted after the Civil War to deal with the emancipation of slaves. Meanwhile during that same timeframe (1890s) governments of former confederate states sought to impose segregation laws clearly designed to oppress and disenfranchise blacks. The legal justification for these racially discriminatory laws was the "Separate but Equal" doctrine laid out by Plessy vs Ferguson.

So by the time of Brown v Board you had a substantial black population who spoke English and had been in the US for over a century(The 1790 census reported 17.8% of the US population was enslaved). You had a history of state governments enacting discriminatory laws clearly motivated by racism. You had legally mandated segregation in all aspects of life, not just schools.

It was not a case of sudden mass migration over a span of less than 10 years. And while you did have some ethnic differences, there wasn't a major language barrier. Furthermore, many of what you might call ethnic differences at the time (such as lower literacy levels) were substantially a consequence of slavery and discriminatory laws in the first place.
I'd say in a case like this, it's an institutional issue. If you aren't getting support from your organization for incentivizing and clearing the path towards maintenance work, then it quite simply isn't your problem anymore.
I have my doubts that "complex unique organizational workflows" automatically means "dysfunctional organization."
I listen Bizzleberry stream League of Legends games

https://www.twitch.tv/bizzleberry
That was exactly my point.

ImageMagick and Photoshop serve completely different needs. You can't replace one with the other.
I mostly agree, except my USB-C dock/hub has terrible audio. I shouldn't be able to hear data flowing through any device. Audio direct from the laptop is much cleaner.
> Not so much in Venezuela right now.

Yeah but that's not because of the software itself.
>But that doesn’t get you safety or improvements.

Yes, it does, because it makes people accountable for their actions and makes them fear punishment, so they'll avoid criminal actions in the first place.

>You can’t test anything infinitely, you can’t predict the future, all you can do is have standards and processes and a willingness to learn from mistakes.

Sounds great, so why didn't Boeing and the FAA do that? That's the thing that makes them criminally liable.

"Bad guys" are supposed to get put away when they intentionally do things that get people hurt or killed. This is called "criminal negligence", which is what Boeing is guilty of. People don't go to jail for mere accidents; they have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have acted negligent to a criminal degree (i.e., usually intentionally). Boeing intentionally made design decisions that were contrary to safety, and then intentionally tried to hide what had happened and keep the planes in the air even though they were deadly.

>Turning collections of mistakes into crimes doesn’t prevent future mistakes.

Yes, it does, when those "mistakes" were criminal negligence. That's why we have laws that makes these mistakes criminal.
It's not just organizational complexity either; sometimes it's just scaling concerns. And sometimes it's not your original target market.

One company I worked for had Google as a customer when it was very small, and of course, as Google grew like a rocketship, used the product at a scale well past where it was used by anyone else. And then comes subtle little features to help them manage it at their scale. At one point, I think there were around a hundred "secret" undocumented options and another hundred "super secret" options.

Needless to say, complexity is just something that has to be managed, and there are always rational "business justifications" for practically everything. The complexity often isn't designed; it's just brought in one step at a time from a variety of places. And _that_ usually ends up in a pile of crap.
In my experience, bad.

For me, it seems crazy in the year 2020 that a therapist wouldn't introduce basic analytics into the process with something like a brief mood survey after each session to know if therapy is ...for lack of a better term..."working".

Zero therapists I've found via the NYC therapist-finder sites do this.

https://feelinggood.com/tag/evaluation-of-therapy/
I wasn’t defending Valve.

I was pointing out that outside of some headlines, Epic is hardly being deeply innovative.

They changed a stat. That’s not inventive. Business does that all the time.

Your emotional buy in to the real value of this is skewed. Blands3 sounds to not be selling as well as they’d like as an Epic exclusive.

How “huge” is this if customers don’t buy anything on the Epic store? Cause as a game consumer I have plenty of options to wait spend time on until these exclusives end.

“Oh boy lookit how they changed a stat to take less of my money! But I sold 1/3 fewer copies than I would have on this unused platform I locked myself to.”
Someone else commented on the fact that China steals others' fish, and he's right. China used up all her own fish [0], and so is stealing those of South America [1] and Africa [2]. This is especially un-ethical in light of the fact that there are parts of these continents where food is not always plentiful for everyone. And of course, she continues to steal parts of the South Not-China Sea.

[0]: https://qz.com/948980/china-has-fished-itself-out-of-its-own...

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-warns-chinas-aggressive-f...

[2]: https://stopillegalfishing.com/press-links/chinas-fishing-fl...
But if Google Sheets can't fit the data they are using, it is by definition "big data", even if it's not Big Data. I think this over-protectiveness of the definition doesn't really serve anyone.
>I wonder what people thought about lightning in earlier ages.

Before humans could "make" fire, they were dependent on fires occurring naturally, lightning would have been the main source. I'm assuming they simply focused on the practical aspect, lightning = fire. Observing lightning can make fire may be considered sciency in some respects, fire radiating heat and keeping you warm may be considered sciency...even today we theorize cooked food was the catalyst for the evolution of modern human brains (that's kind of sciency, but not sure is early hominids would have been able to make the connection, surely they would have noticed cooked food is easier to chew, digest and even seems to provide more energy than uncooked food which is also kind of sciency).
Yes, same in Italian, and I guess in every other language.
It's dreadful but probably once you memorized all your favourite functions is quick to use. It's definitely not a tool for developers.
They neglect maintenance because we reward resolving outages and fighting fires more than we do good stewardship.

Imagine the following scenario.

Acme Co. has some piece of software that is critical to the operation for their business.

Dave is in charge of the software system. The software crashes often but Dave is always there to save the day.

Dave often has to stay up all night and is seen fixing problems at the final hour. Management takes notice of this and often sends out emails congratulating Dave for his hard work.

One day Dave leaves, and is replaced by Amy. Amy takes over the system and slowly and methodically fixes all the bugs that were causing the outages in the software.¹

Over time the code becomes more reliable, till eventually it runs smoothly.

Now what would management say if you asked which programmer was better. They'd likely say: "Amy is pretty good, but boy that guy Dave was a real rockstar!"

When you reward a behaviour, you will get more of it.

If you want software maintenance, then you need to reward it. But often, perversely we reward its opposite.

I'm working mostly as an ops person these days, and if I do my job well it makes my contribution look invisible. When things are going right, there won't be anything to notice.

1: In other words, code maintenance.
It's strange that someone who spends all day in Vim (which is not an acronym, by the way), an editor driven by keystrokes rather than the command line like ex or edlin, would prefer a command-line Photoshop. I'm not saying you're lying but maybe they misspoke or you misremembered.

A keystroke-driven Photoshop might be something like Blender.

I think netpbm is more Unixy than ImageMagick. I've had good experiences with it, especially for images bigger than my RAM, but a paint program it is not.
Exactly. It's not an experiment you can run based on your own anecdotal experience.
He was also blessed by the gift of painting https://zen.yandex.ru/media/muzey_budushego/jivopis-kosmonav...
That's a good question. I tried a variety of options, but it stabilised on something that could be termed "micro-summary of context as file name". Example:

- giraffes.html
- giraffes_in_history.html
- natural_predators_of_giraffes.html
- grade_inflation.html
- graffiti.html
- genghis_khan.html
- grassroots_lobbying.html

Since all my Zettel are version controlled anyway, I don't see the
point of tracking dates/times in filenames (or the file itself). I've now got so many
Zettel that I can no longer recall even descriptive names like the above
anyway: is the Zettel called giraffes_in_history.html or
history_of_giraffes.html ...? So in practise, nowadays, when I look
for related Zettel I always use grep with words I expect to be in the relevant Zettel. Example:

grep -i giraffe *.html

It works really well.

What I do recommend is writing a little tool that produces filenames in a consistent way. (E.g. stripping out 'weird' characters, removing capitalisation etc.) I found that the more uniform filenames, file structure etc, the easier searching remains. Moreover, writing tools that mine / transform Zettel is also easier when the setup is uniform.

I also tried adding structures by subdirectories

- computer_science
- economics
- biology

etc, but that didn't scale, since everything is connected to everything else. Knowledge is not tree- or DAG-structured. Flat file structure + hyperlinks works for me.
No, it's to prevent forest fires, which is why the policy was blessed by the federal judge overseeing their felony sentence and probation for the crimes they were convicted of in the 2010 San Bruno gas explosion (who is involved in the fire safety issue because PG&E’s role in last year's fires was charged as a parole violation), even though he noted that the reason it was necessary is because PG&E underfunded safety maintenance while issuing massive dividends.
Facebook paid just £28m tax after record £1.6bn revenues in UK
The real reason is that different businesses have different needs. No one company knows all these needs in the beginning, so they build and keep tacking on to their existing solution. They can't easily refactor and break UI changes for their existing clients, so it's end up a big ol mess of everything.

Given everything most enterprise companies know, they can design cleaner simpler software, but the reality is there's no time to stop when you have a business to run for the big ol design. When that is done most of their customers are pretty unhappy, something as simple as changing UI change can be very expensive for your clients, they might have to retrain thousands or tens of thousands of their users. Something as simple as an upgrade, if not a zero time upgrade can affect tens of thousands of users. Enterprise is not as stupid as folks make it out to be. There's a reason they got to being enterprise and make a lot of money, they are a different kind of smart.
I know how you feel. I try so hard to sanitize my sleep environment, set myself up for a good night's sleep, everything as recommended, etc. Then I go to bed at 10:00PM ... and wake up at 2:00AM like clockwork. Lay there for 1.5-2 hours, fall back asleep just in time to get woken up after really hard sleep by the alarm at 5:00AM, feeling like crap. Like I overslept. Knowing that I certainly didn't get the 7-8 hours of sleep that I should need.

It's quite frustrating.
Right, if it's only millions of records, why can't Google sheets accommodate it.
I can get behind excluding individual authors from the award for being terrible people, but I can't get behind purposely giving the award to someone that's not European if Europeans would have otherwise deserved it based solely on the merits of their writing.

There's plenty of amazing things written by non-white people. However, the Nobel prize for literature should remain a pure meritocracy as much as possible.

That's not to say that its a perfect system. If you point to any given year you can likely find examples of written works that didn't get the award but are arguably as good if not better.

If you intentionally limit the pool of potential awardees to people that are not white, you make a mockery of the award and it loses any sense of prestige or credibility, even if the non-white awardee was truly the best writer. Not only are you discriminating against certain people, you are also doing a disservice to the very people you want to help.

I think a better solution would be to try and make sure the people involved in the process aren't heavily biased towards any specific demographic of authors.

There are probably additional ways to improve the system, but I think if we want the award to mean anything they have to be focused on eliminating discrimination, rather than using it as a tool to generate an equality in outcomes.

Edit: I should note that this reflects my thoughts on prestigious awards being meritocracies, it doesn't reflect my thoughts anything else, there are lots of complicated issues such as affirmative action, university quotas, etc. That I am not making a comment about because I don't know what the optimal solution is to solving those problems.
Does that number include the water cost of the food we eat? Or is it only direct personal usage?
Not really, because there won't be logs for connections that were never established.
> Even my other 9-5 friends office coworkers are not making time for their friends.

Personally, I haven't had any friends since graduating HS and I dont have the time to make new ones. For one, I'm pretty transient, moving every few years to take a new job as thats the only way to get a significant pay increase (I might finally settle down when and if I find a job I can enjoy somewhat)
> Air travel is very safe because the entire world of aviation has focused on analysis and improvement rather than infighting and blaming

Except you have one institution, the FAA, and one company, Boeing, who clearly no longer have a focus on maintaining regulatory processes to keep safety the main priority. While Boeing is cutting corners everywhere in order to save a buck, the FAA is looking the other way and letting Boeing do what they want. This is something that has already had serious consequences, and will continue to unless there are serious changes on a systemic level and there are punishments for those who are responsible for allowing these systemic changes to have occurred.

Also, I don't appreciate your underhanded insult. This isn't the place for it.
If you like alternative/experimental music, check out The Race for Space by Public Service Broadcasting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Race_for_Space_(album)
It's non-trivial, certain models like GRU has fundamentally different implementation, so they are not cross-compatible. TF also has no incentive to merge any PR back into its code-base for compatibility, and dragged its feet for months. I have spent a long time investigating into this and hit brick walls after brick walls.