skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always dreamed of that, and while I haven't yet experienced a completely "manager-less" team I've come close. It didn't work out quite like I hoped it would.

The short version is that it worked amazingly well for a little while, with a small team of people that worked well together. However as the team scaled certain personality traits emerged in everybody. What basically happened is certain people became "the manager" in practice because everyone just deferred to this person for decisions and such. Various reasons for that, good and bad:

1. This person was technically very capable.

2. This person had a strong personality that was disagreeable, and people didn't want to cross him.

3. If you were wrong in any way, this person would publicly broadcast your failure, which made people afraid to ever challenge him.

4. Many people aren't really comfortable not having a boss. They will naturally look to someone to lead things, and usually the person they select is not the best one for the job (or even close), it's just the person with the strongest personality. I don't mean to get political here, but I can't help but notice how similar this is to President Trump.

So basically my conclusion is: we can't have nice things because human nature. More specifically, manager-less teams would great for small groups that work well together. It doesn't scale, and doesn't work well for everybody. Some people need management.
Firefox also could be configured to only show one bar and split based off of it being a url or not. I remember configuring mine that way right around Chrome launch.
Why did the language laws make you leave Montreal? It's an island of bilingualism and many people here get by with no French. Unless you own a business or are dealing with an immigration issue, this is the one place in Quebec where the language laws have the least effect.

And I respectfully disagree that the French here is "hilarious to listen to", and I am not Quebecois.
Death Stranding
It is compared to the rest of their documentation. 360s would come with a bookshelf of binders going down to the circuit level.
No one worthwhile even calls me that is not in my contacts. If I have a new friend, I text them, we add as contacts, boom that person will always be a contact. For business related calls, I'm always fine with those going to Voicemail and responding when convenient.
> they took perfectly good French and turned it into something that is often unrecognizable.

This kind of talk, is one of the reasons French are hated in Quebec.
You might find someone who can answer you here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/
> They are much less likely to be similarly biased against irrelevant factors like accents, mannerisms, backgrounds, etc.

They're not less biased, they just average out their biases over the group.

Your assumption is that three people chosen from a fairly homogenous pool are going to cancel out each others biases, which is... optimistic.

I don't know from this conversation what they're actually doing, but what they should be doing is using a diverse set of opinions to create a fixed set of questions and a fixed marking scheme, and then sticking to it for that round of interviews. Then looking back over time at every interview question and analysing how well it predicted later outcomes.
Very happy to see your message, thank you! When I saw Firefox so low on the browser market share list (4% only), my intention was to write something that may get a person or two to give it a chance. It deserves it as it brings so much value. Thank you again.
The reality is that no such facilities exist. At the Indian Point reactor in New York, tons of radioactive materials are held in insecure, leaking ponds that are emitting waste into the groundwater and Hudson River. That facility isn’t the worst and isn’t unique.

Ewaste is a problem for sure, but it doesn’t present the same complexity as nuclear waste products.

Almost all of the pro-nuclear arguments depend on an ideal state that never will and never did exist today. We have the reactors that we have because the military was in the midst of a massive buildup of atomic weapons during that timeframe.

As it stands, those plants are often not viable — my state directly subsidizes nuclear plants because the operational expenses and capital costs make the electricity produced more expensive than the open market will pay. And that’s after the taxpayer implicitly taking on the long term expenses associated with decommissioning and dealing with the plants for decades after retirement, at taxpayer expense.
I switched to FF a couple of weeks ago and I'm loving it. Completely blocking autoplay on videos and preventing Facebook from stalking you feels great.

My only major gripe is that FF is terrible if you write in more than 1 language.
Sure!

The beginnings of functions, for instance, are great places to comment, perhaps even including a definition of some of the subroutines within it.

In the case of an exceptionally large subroutine, commenting within the subroutine may be advantageous - but at that point you may consider another function to replace that larger chunk.

Variable names that are perhaps obscure and are not practical to rename for whatever reason can also use comments.

Class headers are of course also a great place to comment, to explain the purpose of the class.

Good comments can lead to better code. :)
Reasons I use Firefox instead of Chrome: better customizability (both about:config and interface - for instance allows me to move tab bar under urlbar, it's more complicated than it used to be though), allows autoscroll on Linux without having to resort to buggy extension, allows to disable calls to Google/Mozilla/Cloudflare..., and finally has generally more powerful addons (even though it's worse than XUL based ones)
I'm somewhat surprised to learn that there's no plan to have Rust support non-byte-addressable architectures, such as are found in DSP's (that is, architectures where the addressable word is something other than 8 bits). It shouldn't be too hard to add such support, at least for no_std use.
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The difference is, I can quite easily do `make install DESTDIR=foo` or even `make -n install` to see what it’s going to do without needing to decipher a thousand lines of usually barely readable shell.
I would LOVE to use Firefox on Android. But the UX is so kludgey! My main beefs

- Refresh requires two clicks instead of the now-standard pull down (like Chrome)

- Text resizing is _all_ _over_ _the_ _place_. I go to Reddit and the text shrinks down to size 3 or something. There is no clear way to make any adjustment whatsoever. Compare to Chrome/Chrome-clone Brave's very easy text resizing.

Why do I love firefox on android?

- Adblocking adblocking adblocking. Get rid of the absolutely garbage ad experiences that clutter up the majority of .com sites

- Extensions

- Zoom is easy versus other browsers
This. Please add this Firefox. For people who are anal that moving from machine to machine is the same container naming and ordering (for shortcuts to launch specific containers) is time consuming to redo by hand.

Beyond that - for container users I recently started using "Temporary Containers" [0] and it's an awesome use case for disposable containers where no browser interaction is associated. It's a fantastic use of containers.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
Why? It's not the same as sandboxie in the slightest, it's a way to bootstrap a "clean slate" VM at boot, with everything you did in it getting destroyed when you reboot. That's the opposite of useful to home users (but perfect for entreprise).
Open history (ctrl+H), right click on page entry, choose "forget data about this site" (wording might be slightly different).
"Subordinate" seems even worse to me. That institutionalizes the power differential and the idea that managers are "above" their direct reports.
"Conforming" is not identical to "useful." A car that doesn't start is still a car.
I think this is most ports? (Except the royalty part)

On the west coast canada.

Most people I hear about at the ports are wasted, drunk, or doing some coke or else at the port.

Have heard recently of dudes banging prostitutes(street walkers, not "escorts") in the parking lot... so there's that.

I think just the fact its really good money for grunt work, requiring no education, any job that has these characteristics are bound to have people who do crazy things or like to get messed up on the job. It's the people the jobs attract
Ask HN: Short and Simple Technical Writing Standards
I'd like to impose a basic, simple set of writing standards for my geographically and culturally diverse team of operations folks.

I'm looking for a short list of Do/Don't items that people can refer to when writing documentation. Something that people with English as a (long used and familiar) second language can understand.

In a similar vein of thinking, I've run into multiple people in operations and development who feel like documentation is something someone else does. They don't feel the need to write descriptive ticket comments. Nor do they want to learn about best practices and standards. I guess this feeds into the more general question of how do you push people to improve themselves?
They must have already had some provision to use for those cases, right? I can't imagine that if i uploaded a 24/7 feed of a tree growing they'd have let me do that forever.
What makes you say they are abandoning it? I hope they change the name if it happens.

Edit: https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/27/mozilla-geckoview-firefox... is an article on this. It says Firefox Focus is being replaced. But Focus was not really a full featured browser and hasn't meant replace the normal Firefox on mobile. Confusing...
larger dicussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490674
The key passage:

"Google wants to drop support for blocking WebRequests, which will cripple certain extensions, others might not even work at all. Mozilla is not going to follow this destructive path."
Unless your VM solution is a VMWare technonoly, in which case hyper-v gets turned right back off because VMWare has its own hypervisor that needs to run as low as possible.
I think you make some very good points, but I think there's still some value in the manager README even if it's flawed.
It would be great to have both IMHO.

I'm thought experimenting on also having a README written by direct reports that the boss doesn't get to see (so people could be more honest). I'm guessing it would quickly leak to the boss anyway, or someone trying to score points with the boss would just whitewash it. Perhaps only the person who wrote something could edit it, so you get lots of perspectives?

Would be an interesting experiment tho.
(not OP, but here's my 2c) comments should explain why you choose to write the corresponding line of code.
It's a "meta-communication" between the original author (even a previous-month you) and the reader.
Code reading should be "boring". The code lines (and so the meaning) should be obvious. A good comment, IMHO, should convey the information "I'm sorry for this complexity here, but you need to take care of this edge case..."
I can’t seem to find what you are referring to. Could you specify what the problem is?
Minimal Apache Configuration for Deploying Flask on CentOS Using a Virtual ENV
360 Assembly was actually pretty ok once you get past the whole EBCDIC thing. I still judge other companies documentation versus the banana book.
A Year at Etsy as a Software Engineer
The guy has been doing the TED circuit for ages. I once looked closer at his claims and his supposed proof by simulation and came to agree with the more negative takes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698
That's just a plain lie.

Sure, as for literally any other subject, you may find people with extreme views on the topic, but that's what they are: extreme. That doesn't make it the general consensus.

Please stop spreading lies like this.
That isn't in the changes though, which the title suggested.
Radix-Balanced Finger Tree Vectors
“Tell me about yourself” is lazy, unnatural conversation. “Tell me about <thing you did on your cv>” is way better, especially if it hints at some other interests.
Why would you get to decide which French is the good French? Formal register Quebec French is totally fine. Of course, on the street you can hear pretty deformed French, but guess what: in France too. That's just how language registers work.
Would you demand that businesses or government agencies communicate with you in English in Spain or China?

If so, sure, you have a consistent position at least. If not, why is Quebec different?
Apple's 'sexist' credit card investigated by US regulator
Ubiquiti: New Firmware 4.0.69 Makes Phone Home Opt-In by Default
The recent crash reporting/data collection aka "phone-home" features that were enabled for Ubiquiti Unifi devices caused quite a controversy[0]

New firmware 4.0.69.10871 out today makes this opt-in by default[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430997

[1] https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-4-0-69-10871/37101df7-b0b4-482b-968f-27633f3daf91
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What on Earth can/should an employee write other than "I'll come in when expected and do my work to the best of my abilities while being professional?"

I'm certainly not writing anything about my personal life because that's personal and, quite frankly, none of your business. I have a tragic backstory that I don't want to share with coworkers. It's my job to overcome my past and be effective and productive at work, not everyone else's job to accommodate any unexpected or unprofessional behavior, etc.
That's a sentence-long review of 12 Angry Men.
Better energy efficiency

Superior video playback

Allows 2 simultaneous dictionaries

Doesn't show ads when I open a new tab

Pinch to zoom

They haven't forgotten to renew certificates so far

Smooth Gmail

Never crashed on my machine vs Firefox used to crash once a day

Superior dev tools

Doesn't cause high cpu usage in some sites like Twitch

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I'll revisit my options when/if Chrome breaks uBlock Origin on stable
What is “reasonably close”?

Bash isn’t necessarily gonna be installed on a bsd system and it’s not exactly recent on macOS - it’s possible it’ll be dropped there too.

I’m not saying don’t write shell, I’m saying don’t assume bash specifically is available.

There’s only one bash, but there’s plenty of shells that implement POSIX “sh”.
Ideally, random commenters on the internet would back up their claims with more digested evidence rather than linking to a multi-hundred page report that often doesn't say what people think it says.
True, the design is one important part, but the design can be 100% on, but the manufacturing and the operational inspections are important to present failures too. Variance from controlled manufacturing conditions can result in parts that basically look and perform ok at first, but are at risk of failing early, that's why aircraft have inspection schedules - that are sometimes increased due to increased cycles on some routes/airports.

(and of course there is the case of the part being damaged somehow, where some of the other comments have linked cases where this happened catasropically).
That's not because of fusion, though.
This is terrifying as an entrepreneur. You build a product, someone starts using it in an off-label fashion, people get hurt, you issue guidance, and then you still get sued.
Can you think of any reasons it might NOT be true that “everyone else is better off when people lose jobs to automation“?
Xanthan gum is on the GRAS list so hard to blame the FadA’s oversight. Having presented before them for study approval they seemed anything but industry captured.

I agree that the GMP manufacturing OVERSIGHT could be stronger but I’d say Congress bears more responsibility for that course of affairs. At the time this was written the cause was unclear though.
On the last point, if you lead the team then you can point out that it is part of their job, as executed professionally, to "write descriptive ticket comments" and otherwise help themselves and colleagues get the job done. It's not a matter of opinion or taste if you set the rules...

Remember that your being loved is less important than being effective.

Note, however, that reluctance may be embarrassment or lack of self confidence in writing. I have worked with some remarkably good tech people who would do anything to wriggle out of writing comments ... because they thought themselves bad at it. Maybe point out perfection isn't the issue, capturing the information that someone else can understand (grammar Nazis notwithstanding) is...
Fun fact: you can have pages of useless text and it'll still load faster than a single jpeg. This page might look like it's from another era, but it also has the benefits of that era:

- it actually loads fast
- it works without scripts.
- it has no ads.
- it has no tracking beyond page analytics.

If those are the benefits, then please, give me more shitty looking websites like this for all the other essential software that should be found on any sane professional's machine, and any "taking personal responsibility" home user's machine.
> painfully self-absorbed

Generally, when someone suffixes their name in a non-scholarly context with "PhD" that's usually the first clue that it's going to be pretentious and/or self absorbed.
I don’t think we even need to entertain discussion of the idea that any culture should be wiped out. That’s a non-starter. The distinction here is one of political power.

Francophone Quebecers have enough political power to enforce and expand their language and culture laws in order to “defend” their culture. But never lose sight of the fact that this comes at the expense of more than just anglophone residents. This affects all other cultures within Quebec. And that’s why you see it take the form of more than just language, it includes attacks on minority religious symbols and clothing as well.
As someone living in EU, there is a practical limit to this. Languages NEEDS should be satisfied: For example, a translator should be provided to someone not speaking common languages (for the area) trying to get medical care.

But language WANTS might not be economically viable. For example in Scandinavia, Sami people (estimated population <100k) demanded all government interaction (documents, services, etc) to be translated in all their dialects (there are 11+ dialects, which are different in writing). Amount of work to be done to support that request would be astonishing.

Ironically the same true for French. There are 20+ very different dialects, is Quebec ready to work in all of them on government level? Or are we talking about le français standard?

So there is some practical limits to this, and so far EU is handling it's ok-ish. EU-wide systems are available in all official languages of all members, and minority languages are embraced when practical.
If serialisation becomes a bottleneck with the built-in DRF serialisers I suggest you check out Serpy.
In this case, it is close to 1/2 * (1-erf(1/√2)). No relation to pi, as far as I can tell.
You do not have to check the numbers in Norway, you can simply assume that Skattettaten has got it right and just let it go. After all if you check and see that everything is correct you do not do anything else, you do not confirm the correctness of the numbers, you just don't correct them. At least that's the way it was last time I did it, in April this year.
While LIDAR's are certainly 'better' from a technological standpoint than not having anything, from a business standpoint it's less clear.

LIDAR's are cheap, but not cheap enough yet to not seriously affect the bottom line if you put them into every car. It also will kill the resale price of cars without it, which in turn hurts the companies image and stock price.
Running an HTTP Server on an Android App
Do you use any ORM or just raw SQL queries?
There use to be something called prism (not that one) that would do exactly this. The project was abandoned a few years ago sadly and I couldn't get it to work under a recent Ubuntu
I have been using firefox... forever now and only thing I miss is translate functionality chrome has. I searched for some extensions but they were opening a new window for translation which does not compare to google's inlined translation. Any suggestions?
Good point. We both are being pathetic in trying to win the conversation. Conversation that’s not even that stimulating. Okay, I’ll stop.
Apple wants to use augmented reality to help the visually impaired
Nearly half of a population of Riga has Russian as their native language. And yet it’s forbidden to greet customers in Russian for any shopkeeper in Riga.
Are you really thinking that half the province against each other is a good sign?

Please.
I've never seen this before, are you sure it's an upstream Firefox thing?
Sleep may trigger "brainwash"
That's true! This book, "The Jetmakers" is available online and it talks about these things, but in the 1945 to 1972 time frame. It is a good read.

http://www.generalatomic.com/jetmakers/index.html
> [Delsaux] ... "blew up, insisting that the problem had been caused by a single individual who made an error and then failed to take the right action to fix it. "

Yeah, well, the trope is "if one individual could fuck it up that bad, its the fault of the designers too". Has this critter ever heard of that one, ya think? In what world was that a serious answer?
Science paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6465/628
Sorry, are we ignoring the fact that the primary nav, which any person familiar with "web sites" since the 90's knows to look at, has both "help & faq" _and_ "how it works" as options?

Are we talking about people who don't understand that if you want the actual details rather than the summary, that's not going to be on the landing page, but on their own dedicated pages?
Tentacles.

You couldn't have discovered it as a fetish through scientific experimentation. It probably wasn't one until it was used to bypass japanese censorship laws which also accidentally conditioned the popular psyche to associate it with porn.

There are still a lot of ongoing breakthroughs of this kind in hentai. For example the genre of monster/anthropomorphic girls is currently exploding. I recently beat my meat to a world war 2 battleship in the shape of a girl.