skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if you don’t speak your mind and create an organization that continuously lowers its expectations, or have to let these people go eventually?

As a manager but not an owner, what actually happens is that I keep the same salary but the expectations are lower. I'm comfortable with that.

The only way to get a meaningful raise is to change jobs every few years anyway. That's pretty common knowledge.

If people are fired or bullied out of an organization by others, but I'm friends with them, then I have a bigger network that can help me get employment at another organization. I look at every friendly coworker that leaves as a probe sent out into the world to see what might be better elsewhere.

It's far more valuable for me to maintain a positive relationship with my coworkers than it is to provide negative feedback. Pick your battles. Who cares if one of your workers isn't very efficient?

There's so much incentive to expand my network of people that would love to work with me or for me, and so little incentive to crack down on employees to try and get them to perform better.
I heard you can get security updates til 2023 with some registry tinkering, but for your work computer it might not be worth the social consequences.
I had a similar experience when I got a 2018 Honda Accord. I used to rarely ever take advantage of my brights, but now they're on regularly because my car automatically determines when they can be used.
We use Buddy: https://buddy.works/

Each step of a pipeline is just a docker container of your choice and running whatever commands you want with a persistent workspace volume throughout the pipeline.

There's a few others that work this way like Semaphore, Drone CI, GoCD, CircleCI, Azure Devops but none are as fast, seamless and easy as Buddy.
Including Chaplin himself who mostly stopped acting and releasing films by the 1930s other than one or two a decade.
If he's purposely making mistakes to get work in the future then I don't think 6-months in jail is that bad. It's just plain fraud isn't it? Not to mention an expensive inconvenience for all of his customers who have to deal with his shoddy work.

On the other hand, it's entirely possible the plumber made an honest mistake.
That is certainly how I would understand the situation.

However, it seems intuitively you construct the notion of finite, could engage in the ordinary computation and have a way of distinguishing these "weird roots" from regular roots.

I suppose if you make the position of (something like) "every polynomial whose root cannot be found by finite calculation does not, in fact, have one" an axiom but then you would have discarded the notion of finite axioms (you'd have a second order system).

Still, might actually have a way to specify "truth", something I'd thought was a bit beyond logic at this point.
The commenters actions make a difference to them and in turn may influence people around them.

Collective actions start out as individual actions and like that they set the stage for change that is real and measurable.

By your reading Rosa Parks should have just shut up and sat in the back of the bus because 'individual virtue does absolutely, totally, precisely nothing'.

Understanding orders of magnitude is indeed not something that comes easily to humans but it must be understood to work on large problems, right alongside understanding how social change is engendered.
What the Founders Feared About Impeachment
Yes, lots of modern road signs that are put in have a flourescent coating on them. [1]

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/road-safety-us/resources/road-tr...
What's your field and geo area? I don't think I've ever applied for more than 6 jobs in a round of looking. And more often than not I haven't even had to look. ~20 years, bay area.
I wonder how they figured it out?
I wonder if there's one for emacs.

That's what I'd like to see.
I know I'm not supposed to talk about voting, but I'm going to anyway. Why are people upvoting me? The comment is completely useless because almost everything in it is wrong.
To me (on the internet since 92), speed is 100% a measure of a program’s quality. Intensive tasks get a pass (especially if they are pushed to a background queue), but IU responsiveness is definitely a measure of quality for me.
Jason Fried has also written an optimized extensively for UI speed in Basecamp (a quick google shows an article from 2008).
Speaking of: there has also been a lot written about Amazon’s discovery that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% of sales from people simply walking away from the “slow” site.

Especially when you’re doing the same task “template” on a day to day basis, even 1 second per input adds up quickly.
More about the XB-1 "baby boom":

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1
I am still seeing numerous failed Auth0 calls (~10% of Auth0 calls or so), and our account representative is not being responsive at all.
I hadnt heard of this company till now but looks like they're doing some gutsy work.

I went to their website to learn more and (call me cynical) was surprised how emotive it was.

I understand that getting this sort of thing done requires a stupendous amount of capital but I would have thought appealing to the emotive sensibilities of your average web trudger isn't going to help for this kind of project....
You're assuming the guy did that just to you. If he does the same in every installation, I'd say that six months is not enough.
The State of JavaScript 2019
I read about the guy who used GTA to train a neural net. I think he was trying to make the point that although obviously imperfect, using simulated data could actually work. I'm not saying using simulated data (SD) should the be-all end-all for training neural nets, but we're seeing algorithms performing better when they're trained using a combination of real labelled data and SD rather than real data alone. I hear your point though about hype cycles and the tunnel vision SV can often fall into.
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Hong Kong Is Still Free; China Can Be
> company owns all of the technology and employs all of the personnel involved, no?

No, he's a contractor. So what they own precisely should have been defined in the consulting contract.

It may have been perfectly legal for him to password protect the output, much like using an obsfucator - but the time-bomb stuff is fraud any way you cut it.
Some of your UI might have been easier to build with VB than VC. VB4 was the last version to support 16-bit Windows applications. You might have better luck finding VB6 libraries/code-samples that run in VB4 than you had finding C89 libraries.
Harming US troops is part of equation. The local people in the countries suffered more which is usually less concerned than US troops. Not only the chemicals , but also killing each other because of destabilization of the regions.
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It would be great to see a new airplane company ascend as Boeing self destructs. We won't be that lucky I'm sure.
I've worked on financial platforms for most of my career. It's a strange feeling to know that a mistake will delete someone else's money. I always thought I had it hard. But that the end of the day, it's not "real". Certainly not life-critical. Working on something like this has got to be on a whole other level.
I'm surprised it would run the battery down. My 2004 toyota had fully manual exterior lights, but they would shut off automatically after about 30 seconds if the car was turned off. No help for you if you forget the dome light on though
Currently Monitoring @ 19:04 UTC. The service is working again for us.
I was under the impression that because of the lack of tracking in incognito, most sites regard it as a "new device". Regardless, your second point stands, makes sense. That is dumb.
I'm not sure if this is the 'right way' or not, but for a recent Go project, I just scripted the build via

- name: build
run: |
docker run --rm -v \
"$PWD":/usr/src/my-project \
-w /usr/src/my-project \
-e GOOS -e GOARCH \
golang:1.13 go build -v -o my-project-$GOOS-$GOARCH
env:
GOOS: ${{ matrix.os }}
GOARCH: ${{ matrix.arch }}

(GitHub Actions's build environment already has Docker installed/configured, so there's no setup necessary for "run: docker run" to work.)

I did this explicitly because I didn't want to use that "setup-go" action you linked, which at the time (I haven't doubled checked it recently) didn't support Go 1.13. Far better to me to use the Docker image, which has explicit instructions even for cross-platform compilation in its README, than rely on some weird action setup, in my opinion.
Nope; if the hibernated OS has the storage volume mounted, and you edit that volume in another OS, separate or not you will end up with corruption, just as if two machines had mounted it simultaneously.
Where’s the other thread with Rob Pike?
I've been watching way too much YouTubes lately and their algorithms seem to do a fairly good job tracking my changing interests while also keeping me current on the channels I like watching all the episodes -- all without ever hitting the subscription button and only ever liking one video. Got on a guitar videos kick lately and through the recommended videos discovered some artists I really like listening to so win/win in my book...
Technology Preview for secure value recovery
Now that enough CO2 has been released to melt Arctic sea ice plus Canadian & Siberian permafrost, Methane is the greatest climate threat we face. Our CO2 emissions have now released the Kraken that is Methane emissions. Methane is 30-times more damaging to the climate as is CO2.

The danger is this: human extinction by 2030.
The warming we feel today was caused by CO2 released 10 years ago. This is serious danger.
The decompression could be done lazily when you switch to that channel.
My favorite use case for AWS is being able to spin up temporary resources for rendering, video transcoding, or lab testing, and then shut them back down after a few hours. Likewise I can see a huge win for cyclical traffic loads in only paying for what you use, and in being able to scale up on a dime. Comparing it to a monthly $x/mo provider isn't a fair comparison.
For anyone marketing something, installing browser add-ons to cleanly parse tracking params, event calls and adtech/martech used on sites can yield some valuable competitive business insights.

You'd be surprised at how many businesses do things like label things identifying their high value audiences, creative or products just to have it human readable in other reporting with zero obfuscation. Likewise, you can see if they are using any interesting tech you are not.
That's super simplistic. Nobody magically 'has' anything. They need to do stuff (like this) to get anything.
10 hours?! That's a test of whether you'll work unpaid overtime and what kind of nonsense you'll tolerate. They have too many candidates and will probably treat you like garbage even if you could get the role. Which you likely won't.

I'd be well out the door before 2 hours. I've been in an office waiting for an interview and walked out after waiting 20 minutes. They rang me and angrily asked where I'd gone. I said I was on time and they had missed the interview start without a valid explanation. I questioned their punctuality and asked whether they were even serious about the position.

They were out of business around a year later. I guess they were too late for other people as well.

Interviews are two way. A lot of recruiters forget that.

Always be ready to walk away.
I spent two years in Tsinghua University doing my master's degree a couple of years ago. Even though Chinese universities never enjoyed the freedom of speech/research/though as in the west, putting it on paper is very sad.
I actually know why this is a thing! Originally, APC UPS's used RTS/CTS flow control on the RS-232 connector for communication with the host PC. They wanted to maintain this compatibility (which used a nonstandard wiring) when they later added the Smart-UPS protocol.

That said, there's absolutely zero reason to keep maintaining this ancient and dangerous option.
I do follow your reasoning, bad comments are worse then no comments, but in this particular case it really feels to me like the meat of the commit body should also be a comment. Just so that when someone looks at the code and wonders, hmm, why is this flag here, he/she can figure it out without having to do a blame/log on the file. (Don't get me wrong, great tool, but has it's own problems).

Judging whether or not comments are permitted on the bitrot-ability of a piece of code seems hard to begin with, and even then a bit arbitrary. In this case, the whole comment would be just for that flag. So if someone really just gets rid of the flag but not the comment, especially on code like this, and that also passes code review then I think there are more pressing problems then bitrot.
Well you're wrong. It doesn't satisfy us at all. But shutting down all crack houses would.
Reading through the comments it would seem that the article is a false alarm. The count of upvotes dictates the opposite.

My opinion is that the baseline for what we achieve as good (and quick) service has been slowly lift up by the industry. At the same time specific design practices were implemented to ease our frustration about slow service, and "feel" at least that the service is quick.
No, I haven't used it since early 2000. Windows 2000 was the successor, also a good release. I guess both are pretty close to what NT4 was.
Now that enough CO2 has been released to melt Arctic sea ice plus Canadian & Siberian permafrost, Methane is the greatest climate threat we face. Our CO2 emissions have now released the Kraken that is Methane emissions. Methane is 30-times more damaging to the climate as is CO2.
On MacOS, Multipass uses the native VM software provided by the operating system. And you use Multipass to launch Ubuntu virtual machines. I do not think that Multipass would be able to directly launch custom qcow2 images.

However, your question is actually whether on MacOS you can have nested virtualization. Because, if MacOS (and Multipass support) it, then this is what you need.
The largest pumps we have right now do about 250 cubic meters per second.

https://deafsluitdijk.nl/projecten/vergroten-waterafvoer/hoe...

I'd say that that is manageable.
Let's hope they do both: Cash + Development.

Might as well ask, right?
Its got its own drawbacks though. DRLs don't turn on your taillights so you still get people in dusk/night/bad weather who don't turn their lights on and you cant see them easily when approaching from the rear.
I just don't see the point of getting worked up about that money, especially if the CEO is fine with it.
Oh god yes, so frustrating
"In fact, being proficient in modern web dev, including HTML, CSS, JS, TS, React, etc. takes way longer than learning something like Qt."

But there are already a ton of web developers who already know those web development technologies, but don't know Qt. So it would be extra effort for them to learn Qt. Much easier to just use React.

The same thing goes for why there so many academics write Java apps for their proof-of-concept research work. That's what they're taught in school and for many that's all they know.

Curiously, Python was able to make huge inroads in to the academic community, but that was largely due to having a killer app (Jupyter notebooks) along with having a bunch of desirable tools for scientific computing, data processing, and visualization. I'm not sure if there's anything as compelling in the Qt ecosystem that would be as attractive to web developers who already know HTML, Javascript, React, etc.
Off the top of my head, James Charles lost a million subscribers before people changed their mind about whose side they were on.

Toby Turner had rape allegations made against him which were later taken back. It's hard to say where his channel would be had that not happened, but the timing makes it seem like it was a major factor in its decline.
In a work environment, especially after a buyout, you will hear people say how X is important, while also cutting all funding for X.

When a company says something is important but then cut the legs out from underneath it, they aren't being honest. They don't actually like X, they're just trying to avoid a conflict and hoping people will just forget about it.

Demonetizing something is policy, be you government or corporate.
> NDA enforcement is not at odds with the first amendment.

This isn't ordinary NDA enforcement, it's enforcement of a prior restraint on speech. With a normal NDA, if you publish information you're not supposed to, they can go to court and prove that the information was covered by the NDA and then get an order to stop you from continuing to publish it or sue you for damages.

In this case they haven't proved that anything in the book was actually subject to the NDA and they're objecting because they didn't get to review it before publication. But you can reasonably expect any government "review" in this context to be an effort to unreasonably delay or otherwise interfere with publication of the book, even if there is no legitimate cause.

The difference is that they would otherwise have to prove the contents of the book was in violation of the NDA. Without that they could suppress the book even if it wasn't. That might not be constitutional and there are a lot of good policy reasons for it not to be.

This would be a lot more obvious if they were seeking to restrain publication, so they're looking for a backdoor, and trying to get there by taking the money. But that should fail for the same reason Son of Sam laws are unconstitutional. Writing and publishing a book takes time and money which the person who wants to write it generally can't get without the expectation of recovering it after publication. You don't have time to write a book if you can't get an advance and thereby have to spend all your time working some other job to put food on the table. Which can cause the book not to be written and the readers would be denied the information.

It's as much about the right of the readers to pay someone to tell the story and thereby ensure the story gets told, as it is the right of the storyteller to make a buck.
Probably at the same point email federation only exists inside a bottle, in terms of server topography.
The answer is no, since when you generate data, you either

* Have a set of data as a "basis"

1. This diminishes the "equalization" factor since you
need a lot of data to get a good approximation of the
distribution anyways.

2. You need to create a model based off of the set,
which mathematically should be close to the same problem
as just building the target model.

* No or small training set to use

1. You need to create a model that probably uses some
stat distribution to generate. Your target model will just
learn that distribution.

2. Your initial assumptions create a distribution, and
that is not going to be the same distro of real-world
data. Maybe painfully off-base. I've worked on this
problem for months and it's fairly difficult to get
perfect in an easy (modeled by simple stat distributions)
scenario.

There are problems where generating data can work, but they're specific problems or can only be used for rare edge-cases that don't show up enough in a dataset. For the most difficult problems it is probably just as difficult to generate "correct" data as it is to generate a model without real-world data.
They were also acquired at a price which would value each employee at ~350M.

They were capable of scaling in a way that is certainly an anomaly, and not indicative of the costs of an ordinary team.

It speaks volumes about what the right talent and architecture/technology choices can do if leveraged successfully, but is more of an interesting anecdote than a realistic infrastructure budget.
The true cost of product unreliability
Definitely dig this theory and feel like it might be spot-on, but do we have any linkable evidence?
> Is job security at a larger company real?

It varies greatly from company to company. At Google (where I work) yes. At Facebook no.

> What’s the pace like

I often work less than 40 hours a week and nobody even mentions it, but if I work more they tell me to work less.

> Is there really a lot of process that get in your way?

This depends entirely on what you want to do. Do you want to redesign GMail? Do you want to rewrite the codebase in Haskell? Do you want to move your data storage to mongo db? Then yes, there will be a lot of process in your way. Risky things like user facing changes and introducing new unsanctioned technologies will force you to go through a lot of bureaucracy.

But on the other hand if you just want to build and improve infrastructure using company sanctioned tools then there isn't that much process at all, just get a code reviewer and you are done. I haven't been blocked by process for years, I just decide I want to implement a feature, I write the code and send it and the feature is in an hour later.

> Are your peers generally competitive or supportive?

Peers evaluate each other so you don't see much toxic competition. However most of your peers will be relatively ambitious people so they will strive to look better than you, so you could say that they are competitive even though in this competition supporting peers looks good.
So my IP address never ends up in their logs?
I assume you’re talking about Go here?
The ruling is based on a claim that "Snowden breached several contracts with and fiduciary duties to the United States". The crux here is that Snowden was an employee and contractor. If he didn't have that prior, voluntary relationship, then the government likely wouldn't have any firm ground to stand on.

I don't see how you could eliminate such a claim without also eliminating the ability of the government to require and enforce secrecy from private contractors and employees more generally. For example, imagine IRS workers writing a tell-all book about the tax returns of various people.

IMO Snowden is a persecuted patriot and should be pardoned for any and all crimes (notwithstanding the legitimacy of some of the alleged crimes). But that doesn't mean the government doesn't have legitimate interests in censuring some forms of information. "Free speech" is a term of art and until very recently in nobody's wildest imagination would it cover the disclosure in the first instance of internal government data by government employees and contractors.
They don't even care about that. They care about their advertising revenue.
If the government is allowed to overrule the first amendment for classified information, how can someone like Snowden report corruption? Because what Snowden reported does appear to be the early warning signs of actual corruption. Many of the things that were revealed about Australia were things I would quite have liked the opportunity to vote against as an Australian and I expect there are US citizens in a similar position.

Democracies can't keep secrets, all the oversight mechanisms eventually rely on voters and fail if voters don't know what is going on. Making it clear to government employees that they will be sacked if they talk about something is fine. Short-term classification is theoretically a problem but workable in practice.

However it is well worth noting that capability related to PRISM probably started under Bush, expanded under Obama and may already have been used to surveil a presidential candidate with what is being revealed about the Trump campaign. That isn't a lot of political generations. Who knows what the democrat campaign will be subjected to by the current administration. We still might not know the full details of what is happening if classified capability is involved. From a systems perspective this is a rapidly developing disaster where voters can't make good decisions because information is being hidden. So yes classified info is antithetical to free speech.