skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Unless its specialized underground mining may take precautions, but a huge portion of above ground mining equipment is already electric. Most of the biggest shovels on the planet are hooked to a power cable.
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That paragraph tracks with what I've heard from female peers that work at Microsoft too. Microsoft talks a good game but fails to do the right thing when the going gets tough (e.g. senior leaders can, and do, retaliate against individual contributors that annoy them with the full support of HR business partners).

I'm expecting a massive backlash against the "culture-forward" style of running a company as the article describes. There's always been a lot of cynicism around things like company values, but that cynicism appears to be increasing at a rapid pace with a meaningful portion of employees (see all the recent articles about Google's internal culture). It doesn't have to be a majority of employees, 20-30% is plenty to materially affect an organization.

Personally, the reason is that a company ultimately isn't "culture-forward" unless if it's willing to take a financial hit in order preserve its culture. Few companies are willing to do that, and that's OK, we are a capitalist society after all. It just isn't OK to hammer culture like its the most important thing while twisting themselves in logical knots to justify highly-profitable activities and actions that the employees call out as being counter-cultural. Some of those conflicts become public & newsworthy (ICE contracts), most of it doesn't (retaining that effective asshole).

Importantly, whether or not senior leadership agrees with the vocal (often significant minority) employees is besides the point. It's a communication issue -- they've created an expectation that isn't being matched -- not an issue of truth. Many of these "culture-forward" companies are losing the ability to tell their employees to "shut up and work" because they've explicitly said they don't want day-to-day work to operate in that manner. But for some reason senior leadership hasn't figured out that they can't operate like that anymore either when they push a culture like Microsoft has.

I think the end game here is companies like Microsoft painting themselves into a corner where a big, big, fight over unionization is all but inevitable. Knowledge workers want a seat at the table precisely because companies have told them they should have that precisely because it improves the bottom line on a small team to be self-organizing (see: Google's project aristotle for more).
> It's a perfectly fine and useful way to make a cross-platform desktop application.

My main problems with Electron are:

- The size of the runtime

- The fact that every application has to bundle it and it means that multiple Electron applications on the same system do consume a lot of resources if not handled well

- The fact that unless you (as a developer) play due diligence, you might distribute your app with a version of the runtime which may contain vulnerabilities (one of the reasons Linux distributions don't like library bundling that much).

I can't deny it's probably easier for many (not for me, but although I write Python code all day, I'm by no means a "developer"), but it can be potentially wasteful, to say the least, and require far more resources than what you'd actually need with a another toolkit.

That said I for sure won't point a gun at someone who wants to use it. ;)
The purpose of these machines isn’t to actually work as intended. These machines are here for plausible deniability: “we pulled you aside because the machine said so, not because you’re Muslim”.
No, you're confusing things again.

Your example includes two separate OAuth/OIDC flows. Dropbox as the client to Google, and the camera app as a client to Dropbox.
> Bill was doing a fantastic job here

Fantastic job of what? Building a company that has a typical type of organization, employees and incentives that this can happen at? It's like the CEO of Comcast (Brian Roberts) going into a Comcast store (in stealth; or phoning them) and then experiencing the frustration of a normal customer and the idiots they deal with.

There is ZERO reason a large company with resources can't make sure that things like this don't happen. They simply choose (and get rewarded) for looking at the big picture and not the small everyday details.

I wonder how many times Bill has been aggravated with his own operating system and then had to work hours and hours (with nobody to ask and a normal person's brain and no internet resources) to have to get out something in order to earn a living.
I don't care. The cure that is to offer a correction, not try to detail the conversation with personal attacks.
None of the rebooting or installing I’m talking about was new or third party software.

Just whatever the hell they call windows update now.
So add misanthropy onto the list?
It's such an anachronism that Windows still needs to reboot to update itself
> The unsurprising result is that Windows continues its tradition of boring...

Come on, I understand the criticisms of botched updates, but Microsoft under Satya has been anything but boring - the incredible push towards open source is something many thought could never happen!

WSL and the upcoming WSL2 are likewise anything but boring - Linux! In Windows!
I think the logic here also applies to the challenges and relevance the EU faces going forward.
A useful EU information site I visit often https://euobserver.com
I used to use VP back in the early 2010s, but then it was basically abandoned.

It got picked back up a couple of years ago, but when I checked it out recently it didn't even have dark mode implemented. I'm sure I could do it in a style configuration or something, but the bigger point is that Mojave has been around for quite awhile now, and lack of that update points to it being abandoned again.

So for me, non-starter. On Mac, being abandoned means you only last to the next major "all the old software is screwed" change they seem to do every couple/few years now, so it's kiss of death.
Apple removed the scrollbar first, because they wanted the screen to look more beautiful and simpler. Instead you may not be able to tell that a page is scrollable, or maybe where you are on a page.

It's the definition of false simplicity.

Everyone followed suit because Apple Keynote events just made everything look so magical, and Mac/iPhone snobs were taken seriously by the dumbed-down press, and now Windows laptops and keyboards are like their previously-less-functional MacBook counterparts.
We clearly have different ideas of “worse”.
Very briefly: for employees to have a good outcome, the company must be a success relative to the funding. I'd love to say that founders are in the same boat as employees, but it's not true. Unethical founders can engineer situations where they alone get millions of dollars and no other employees do. That can be somewhat justifiable (eg taking $1m or something off the table in a round B for a company that eventually fails), or it can be poisonous (Adam from wework getting north of a billion in cash for a company that will probably go bankrupt).

With respect to the article:

$100m exit on $10m funding? Employees should do well. $100m exit on $110m funding? You can't expect a good outcome for the employees in that case. They may get some sort of retention bonus in an acquisition, but that's about it.

Another thing all employees should know is that, as a rule of thumb, you need to triple your valuation between funding rounds. That is not as true late, ie when you have enormous $100m + rounds that are raised in lieu of going public with more of a debt structure than an investment structure.

You should be skeptical of companies that have raised too much money. Eg if a company raises a $100m round B, they are basically saying their metrics have to justify a multibillion dollar valuation.

Anyway, there's a bunch of good links, but (and I'm a company founder), I'd tell you to keep a couple crucial things in mind:

First, don't work for dodgy founders. I understand that's not easy for you to evaluate, but there are ways you can figure out. eg have the founders hired lots of people they're previously worked with? That's a good sign.

Second, if you want a good outcome, the company must be growing. At a startup, you are comped on growth. You should be unafraid to fire founders and execs (by quitting) that are unable to grow the company. That's not to say quit at the first rough patch, but every year when you are deciding if you re-up for another year or not, you should evaluate the metrics over the last year.

Third, understand the runway and the metrics that get you the next round or an exit. Be unafraid to demand to know all the above, and expect positive performance on all those things.
It doesn't seem to work. In fact, IIRC, they simply add a huge button dialogue to any such emails that pass due to a filter to mark it as spam, without any buttons to dismiss their improper suggestion — e.g., you can't even confirm that the mail isn't spam anymore if you use such filters.
This is an horizon 2020 project. This is an EU program that distributes money to groups of companies + research institutions to do some research. The funding is usually a few millions over a few years. The requirements on the delivery are very lax. Basically you can get away with doing nothing useful, after all it’s research and you can’t be penalized for not finding anything, as long you show you did what you said you would try you’re ok. The commission requires the projects to have a validation part, what is described in the article is probably exactly that.

Having worked in such projects the money is sometimes completely wasted. There is a whole cottage industry dedicated in bidding and executing these projects, it survives just out of the research funding and they are expert in meeting the commission requirements instead of being expert in the subject matter. Sometimes I have the feeling part of this money is a way for EU to keep some engineers busy in the poor parts of the continent, some times I feel it’s just soft corruption (reviews are often also reviewees), but for sure some project are scientifically horrible: this one looks to be one of those.

That being said some projects are also nice, for instance Firefox is going to merge a web page translator which was produced by another h2020 project. The program as a whole is most probably a positive contribution to society as a whole. It’s like VC money for public research, many projects are a disaster but some are very good and make the endeavor worth.
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I don’t believe there would be silicon based life not because they are impossible, but because of Occam’s razor.

If something is easier (carbon), it would happen faster and out compete harder things. It’s the nature of entropy.
Sorry, I should've been more clear. Do you support AWS parameter store, Hashicorp Vault, and other secret storage systems versus keeping sensitive data locally on disk where your app is running?
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The CIA under Eisenhower overthrew the government of Guatemala when trade unionists were elected on the promise of eight hour workdays and better conditions for field workers.

What do you think the country would be like today if we hadn't killed the union leaders and installed a dictator friendly towards US business?
Are former employees allowed to share emails like this?
I’m on the latest MacBook and it has to reboot to update itself. So... what are you trying to say here?
Yes, and? When it comes to "what OS should I use on my computer", is it your assertion that I should use your definition instead of my own?

If so, you're probably a Linux Desktop evangelist.
Reminds me of this device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Tens of millions of dollars worth of dowsing rods.
I don't remember ever changing my font size, but it's possible that I did and forgot.

I took screenshots of my share sheet[0] and my text size settings[1].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PNH8zKk.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Y07lEQE.jpg
Huh. As I told another commenter, I don't remember ever changing my font size, but it's possible that I did and forgot.

I took screenshots of my share sheet[0] and my text size settings[1].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PNH8zKk.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Y07lEQE.jpg
I would definitely work for blender for 5k a month. That's a top 1% income bracket in many great countries in Europe.
If you don't take your business to them, you're effectively telling local workers that they should work under even worse conditions for less pay. Except that you somehow doublethink yourself into imagining that you're being noble.
In fairness it was a bit pretentious of whoever decided to call it real-time which was a word with a specific meaning and a very hard earned reputation. 'Live' might have been better.
> Electron is a crass and dishonest attempt at redefining portable and cross-platform to include a very narrow selection of platforms.

You don’t think the crass and dishonest part is a story that you’re telling yourself? To me, it’s an engineering trade off. There is no need to criticize what others have chosen, and afaict, no evidence to support this hyperbolic questioning of their intentions.
It sounds like he had to say/believe that to keep the lawyers away.
Thanks for pointing this out. Don’t think I would have figured that out.
Nuclear tops out at about 90% so tough luck for the poor Britons that want to drink tea during the remaining 10% of the time.

This is extremely disingenious. A particular plant might have 90% availability, but collectively with a handful of plants hitting five-six nines should not be a problem. The crucial thing is that the performance of nuclear plants is uncorrelated: if one plant is not producing power, there are not many situations in which other plant aren't producing power either at the same time. On the other hand, with solar or wind, correlated performance is typical: winter tends to happen to the whole country at the same time, bad weather covers huge swaths of the country, etc. This might be worked around to some degree if your country is huge (like US), but if you're, say, Austria, your only option is nuclear or depending on the neighbors on the most crucial thing you need.
That's a funny joke. It reminds me of how Sweden actually tried changing to the Gregorian calendar in steps, by skipping leap days for 40 years. Yes, that would make the Swedish calendar to be different from the rest of the world for four decades and the difference to the other world calendars would be changing every four years...

It did not go according to plan. But it's the reason February of 1712 in the Swedish calendar did have 30 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_calendar
Matt Slick, the author of that article, is one of the worst Bible commentators you’ll find. He has zero credibility and does not understand Greek grammar. The NWT is correct and does not discard the context, which says that the Word was “with God”, and therefore could not be God.

John 1:1 is one of the easiest verses to translate, yet most translations get it wrong because they are biased towards the Trinity or Oneness doctrines.
Since the article spends a lot of time talking about Krita, I want to throw some praise its way as well.

I moved over to Krita from Clip Studio when I decided to go pure-Linux on all of my computers, not because I thought the software was particularly competitive or good, but because I thought it was the most likely candidate to become competitive and good.

Krita still has a lot of rough edges, but I see it on a similar trajectory as Blender. It's very rapidly improving, not just in the sense of adding new features, but in becoming a more stable, reliable product.

I was using Blender a lot earlier in its development, and I remembered the comparisons people would make to Maya, and it's just... honestly, it's a little surreal to see it now well on its way to becoming something of an industry standard. Blender used to be really annoying to use, and only niche hobbyists were using it. All things considered, its rise in popularity/quality happened fast.

So similarly, I'm very bullish on Krita, and it's very encouraging to see members of that community looking at Blender and taking lessons from its development. Krita is one of the more promising and encouraging OS software projects that I follow.
> well over 1,000 on desktop Firefox, which actually is fairly managable
How? :O What's your workflow?
Unicorn refers only to a billion dollar startup, and they sold it for 1/10 of that.
You have received replies already, but there are at least some pieces of non symmetrical infrastructure from that era that remain.

I live in Gothenburg, where trams are still one of the major forms of public transportation. There's at least one (presumably more) stop where the trams turn around that's quite inconvenient because it's built for left side driving:

https://www.google.com/maps/@57.6780363,12.0042818,149m/data...

If you want to board a tram that's turned there and will go back north, you can't do so at the platform where passengers usually wait. You have to cross the street, since the tracks actually don't connect to the main route until after the regular passenger platform.

All in all, things like that are quite rare. I guess a lot of our infrastructure - particularly highways, was built after the switch.
On the flip side, the quick-send list is one of my favorite features of iOS 13. Instead of the arduous process to share something to my SO before (it was something like, share > Messages > type the first couple letters of her name and choose her contact from a list of names > send), it's much easier to just (share > tap her photo > send).
Google invests fairly heavily into research and there is a fair amount of freedom among engineers and researchers to do projects with Google resources, even when there is no direct product application.

For example, I ran an idle-cycle-harvesting service at Google called Exacycle that ran problems like protein folding, protein design, drug discovery, telescope discovery, and more. The only pushback I got was to run problems where the results could reasonably be considered "useful" (scientifically).

One way to think about it is that many of the people with power at Google really like science and have the resources to support it. Once you've built things like TPUs, it would be a waste not to dedicate some about of their resources to problems that people wouldn't be able to address.

Another way to think about it is these things have indirect effects- even if Google didn't want to make some sort of product with smell (like a phone with a builtin GC-MS?), publishing this work gets the attention of scientists, who will then read the paper, and consider Google Cloud as a place they'd like to do their work.
Samsung has implemented scroll bars in their browser and other Android apps and it works perfectly fine without being clunky or obtrusive.

Touch scroll bars don't need to be precise because most of the time we can just scroll normally. But it's nice to have an ability to jump to a specific part of the document in a consistent way.
> Has this not been done?

No, this has not been done.

> If not, why?

Because it would fail.

> Or am I wrong in believing it's that simple?

Nope... it's that simple.

But let's be honest here: we SHOULD use this approach for ALL of these kinds of assessment, yet we don't. Even in the US, we use things like fingerprint matching, handwriting analysis, drug testing laboratories, DNA analysis, dog sniffs for drugs and so forth in legal cases yet we don't perform independent blinded tests of the accuracy of these tools.
Liquidation Preference.

In very simple terms:

"Liquidation Preference" is an agreement between a company and an investor that when the company is acquired or IPOs, the company will pay the investor some specific amount of money BEFORE any other shareholders get paid. If the company negotiated the funding well, the liquidation preference might be 1x (basically saying the company promises to pay back, in full, the investor's original investment if the company is ever sold)

Things get scary when the liquidation preference creeps up to 2x, 3x, or higher. It's possible to raise $5mm with a 3x liquidation preference... which means that the investor will get $15mm payout BEFORE any other shareholders in the event of an exit (which means that, after raising that $5mm, the company can not have an exit less than $15mm without 100% all the proceeds going to the original investors).

Raising $5mm with a 3x liquidation preference, then selling your company for $15mm, is an easy example of how (even founders) can walk away with $0 after a $15mm sale.
Ballmer may be the best example of a Shaved Gorilla currently living, but I think he became the official scapegoat of Microsoft when they put him in charge.

Things were already going horribly wrong, and they put a despot in charge to soak up the blame for all of the terrible things his peers, subordinates and predecessors were already cocking up. The next person has a comparatively easy job of leading a Renaissance, assuming he didn't manage to run it into the ground in the interim. Which he nearly did.

I really miss http://minimsft.blogspot.com/ and not just for the schadenfreude. There was quite a bit of wisdom to be extracted from hindsight is 20/20 commentary, when you're an outside observer.
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I’m not sure “the dock moves to the display where your mouse has hit the bottom of the screen” is quite the problem you’re making it out to be, compared with the founder of Microsoft calling their pride and joy a dumpster fire of usability.
I installed Manjaro xfce recently and have been extremely impressed by how easy so many things are. I had been using gnome before that, Mac before that, and yet earlier Microsoft had not added telemetry so I used windows
Please tell us all about it in 100 years.
The Ribbon is great. At it's heart it's like a menu and toolbar, but with big recognizable icons, differently sized touch targets depending on importance, and always-on-screen familiarity.

It would work really well as a "menu" for a touch-based OS, even.
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Eventually we'll be forced to have chips implanted in our brains as babies where we can communicate with the giant computer in the sky which can also regulate gland secretions.
This comment is so beautifully in-character for the thread, and completely fulfills OPs characterization of people that "do indeed seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time bickering about which popular apps best fulfill their purity tests".
You can use apache ignite as a caching layer over your db. (Or as a db itself). You can then register a ContinuousQuery to listen for changes. A grpc service can be stood up to stream these changes to other clients, even front end ones (via grpc-web).