skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd that many in this thread blame performance reviews themselves ("complete and utter waste of time", "waste of time and simply busy work", etc) and not the manager giving them.

For your manager to do it right requires some courage (to give negative feedback), maturity (to do it professionally), training (e.g. never deliver feedback in 'the compliment sandwich') and empathy (to relate to the employee's POV). Obviously most managers lack these.

E.g. Some employees are over-eager and blitz colleagues: "Hey did you get the email I just sent 30 seconds ago?" Others like to have Jira ticket comment wars. A good manager would give direct feedback routinely throughout the year.

"Hey Bob, blowing up my inbox with dozens of IMs and emails in a single day is counter-productive."

"Hey Suzy, that 750-word Jira comment about why your dispatch function to the React store is a better approach then Duane's could have been better handled face-to-face."

Then the performance review is hopefully a boring, pedestrian summary of stuff talked about all year.

Instead managers are afraid to give feedback and wait until January to tell you all the things they hate about you. Plus your review is likely tied to your compensation/promotion, often making it unnecessarily a high-stress, do-or-die bombshell.

What's really important these days (IMHO) is not the review itself since nowadays everyone changes jobs like they change pants, what matters is your ability to receive negative feedback like an adult and adapt. It means having a manager who can give negative feedback like an adult (a big if) but that will likely help you more in your career than generic pats on the back.

Happy review season everyone.
> Third, for almost all species, there are no density figures, so he just picked the number 10

This is contradicted by the statement put out by the university of Sydney: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/03/a-stateme...

> Basically some guy just made up a number of animals that exist

"some guy" who has published literally hundreds of peer-reviewed articles on related subjects: https://sydney.edu.au/law/about/people/publications/chris.di...
I'm sure it does, to people who don't realize what the usual numbers are. That's why it should only be presented with the context of data from previous years. And that data says

>The Australian Productivity Commission has calculated that between 2001–02 and 2006–07, [there was] an average of nearly 54,000 fires per year (SGRSP 2008). ... It is estimated that 50 percent of fires are either deliberately lit or suspicious in origin as shown in Figure 1.

https://aic.gov.au/publications/bfab/bfab059

edit: and to compare arson charges specifically, the same article says that between 2001 and 2006 there were 133 convicted bushfire arsonists in New South Wales - or about 20 per year convicted in a single state. Since there probably isn't a 100% conviction rate, I'd expect the total number charged each year for the whole country is along the order of 50 people.
Given that the man is an analog extraordinaire, there shouldn't be any reason for them to hire him for anything but that I believe.
F# has tended to lag far behind C# in Microsoft's ecosystem. I haven't kept up with in a few years, so I don't know how far behind it still is. It is a fun language for sure.

If your friend is looking into getting into .net for professional purposes, I would steer them towards C# first. That's likely to be much more useful in the long term. Especially since it can be a stepping stone to other C/C++ like languages.

With F# I would bet that they hit some limitation sooner or later where something that could be easily done in C# will take more work in F#. Which could be fine if they have the time/inclination to rough it. I just would not advise F# as a resume builder.
It's vagueish on purpose. They only want smart people using. It's still a dev kit. Not consumer product yet.

From comma's discord:

"if people can’t figure out what it is, it isn’t for them"
I love the main business proposition from BSV: that the protocol is set in stone. Its makes sense to invest time and development power into something that is aware of not changing the logic that I'm building a business around.

This liberates me from having to focus on who initiated the project - because it is meant to be frozen whoever initiated it can not change the setup at will.

To me it's not important who made visa or who runs it. I use it anyway because it got utility letting me pay at the bakery on a tiny island on the other side of the world.

I don't care about who made the HTTP protocol. I use it every day without knowing.

Utility is the real value of a technology.
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How Iran ends? Maybe
Let's say that you know that someone stores documents by SHA, and silently overwrites collisions. Is there any way this would help to deceive them after being forced to give them your data? It seems like once the data is out of your control, you can't match an existing SHA, and if you created a pair of documents that match SHAs, you can't predict which one will be overwritten.
Precisely, if it's not skipping large segments of the genome it's not exome sequencing, that's the entire reason that we do exomes instead of WGS.
HTC had capacitive touch screens, with Touch being the flagship model
This is from November 2019.
I would love them to be an Apple Watch accessory. My dream is to leave my iPhone at home and do Siri on watch only.
This was pointed out in an advertisement for a tv back in the 1980s. Think Harry Anderson was the pitchman for the ad. At the end he said "I'll show you this amazing new tv but remember, you're seeing it on your screen". Haven't seen any other video display ad since make that point.

Edit: found the commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PMG2lyGRcQ&feature=emb_titl...)
PLEX’s is based on FFMpeg.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250377-transcoding-media...

Of all things to be concerned about I wouldn’t consider a media transcoder to be one of them.
Possibly clippy complained about it and you mistook it for a compile error?
It's apparently been studied:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890601/

In a sentence, "Participants that watched sports every day were at higher risk of obesity [odds ratio = 1.39, 95% CI, 1.15, 1.68) after adjustment for age, sex, smoking, alcohol, physical activity, total TV time, disability, and self-rated health."

Based on what they're controlling for, and assuming that the conclusions hold, my guess would be that watching sports on TV is also associated with increased snacking.
ML for resource-intensive apps. Client-side word vectorization would be a nice-to-have -- early classificatiton and sentiment analysis happening client-side opens up a ton of use cases.

What I'm more excited for, is it also lets you write highly-optimized apps which would use less power, and possibly be served in smaller filesizes. This is great for mobile devices. e.g. managing and comparing 128-bit uints is a big headache in JS, so you rarely see UUIDs handled as anything but strings. There are a few optimizations around that, but ultimately it's going to be a lot easier on memory and run faster matching if you can store it directly as 16-bytes. Trivial in rust compiled to wasm, but not worth your time in JS.

There are also still a lot of programs being compiled to windows/osx/linux target binaries, that could run just as well in a browser with wasm. It's easier to picture what you _don't_ run in browser now as a possibility, instead of simply imagining how the current web will look in wasm.
Interesting! How did you learn the source for the density numbers?
Thanks for the link! Looking at Prefect's comparison to Airflow (https://docs.prefect.io/core/welcome/why_not_airflow.html#wh...), I think it sums up a lot of the same areas we tried to address with Flyte! Particularly the bullet-points in the 'Overview' section were all things, to the word, that were paramount for us to solve at Lyft. Now perhaps we need to publish an article on comparison to Prefect ;)
If Iraq stated that US strikes violated their sovereignty, surely they would say the same about Iran's strikes?
I dunno... I was watching an NBA game* the other day and 4/5 players had AirPods in as they entered the arena and the other singleton had over the ear headphones. This totally caught me off-guard, and was so noticeable I made a mental note of it.

* I know, not representative of the general population, and USA-centric, but the A list tends to be representative of what people want and, if they can afford it, what they have.
These fires catch people in cars. Running from them? You’re kidding I hope, or at least speaking from ignorance.
I do need to disconnect it manually on one device before switching to the other but that takes a second.

Only a second if your kids don’t have it, or you didn’t leave it at home, or...

With AirPods, one does not need track down the other device.
Cool! I heard about Weber conversion kits for GL1000 also. But since I’m pretty happy with the original Keihen setup, and currently found spare carbs (with original Keihen jets inside!) - I’ll try to stick to those.
43 here and I was a CTO in my own startups that provided me a nest egg. Done Digital Transformation Coaching for a big chunk of it. But my last employer hired me after 1 year contract of doing this as tech lead. Much to my amazement because I don't really consider myself a good engineer, I'm just good at solving problems and was able to deliver stuff. Most of the times it isn't always as pretty as it should but people are happy. Except when I get those nasty job interview algo questions which I mostly bomb.

I'm actually a Vice President without any direct reports. I'm on the same level as the head of software delivery on the organigram. See myself as chief enabler too. Fixing architects disillusioned designs and try to explain to developers how to implement these designs. Sometimes I dabble doing some POC. Good thing is that I don't have people management bullshit, downside is that this is my glass ceiling if I stay here :)
I have an eon and love it for highway driving. It makes long trips relaxing. It's basically the combination of really good adaptive cruise control and active lane keep assist. And I feel it's safe within those limitations.

Open Pilot keeps me in my lane on the highway following a safe distance behind other cars. I have a Toyota with TSS 2.0, so the steering is powerful enough on curves. My only complaint about steering is that on tight turns like highway onramps it will slow down a little too much.

While I was driving my last car I got in an accident when I was driving down the highway at highway speeds and everyone in my lane came to a complete stop. I'm convinced I would not have gotten in that accident if I was driving my current car with open pilot active.
The introduction states:
> Instead, I've fallen back on the old standby and I'm going to write a compiler for a subset of C, enough to allow the compiler to compile itself.

Just from cruising the lesson titles and poking around a few of them, substantially less than full C89. I don't see floating point, bitfields, or function pointers anywhere. Apparently, variadic functions and short (!) aren't supported either. Most of the new things in C99 (save perhaps //-style comments, mixed declaration and code, and long long) are unlikely to be supported, let alone C11.

Judging from its reference to C-, it might also well not support the full C declarator madness.
>You can change jobs with a raise though.

Again, not always a realistic option for people.
Not 5 years before the iPhone.
The 20,000 Hz podcast provided a full history of this, discussing various samples along the way:

https://www.20k.org/episodes/loudnesswars

It's pretty standard for that podcast, which features lots of stories about sound and sound engineering. There's another interesting article on creating the most silent possible room, and how eerie it feels to be in it.
https://www.20k.org/episodes/silence

Another on how restaurants got louder and louder over time, that deep bass sound that's taken over film, another on scientific experiments trying to measure if the Stradivarius is as great a violin as everyone insists, another on the tangled history of the iconic Price is Right theme song... so many really.

Great podcast, lots of range given the topic.
Eclipse OSBP might be what your searching for:

https://www.eclipse.org/osbp/use-cases.html
Ah, you must be related to the person from the other day who told my TEN-YEAR OLD to get off the sidewalk because it's illegal.

By the time he rode back and shakily told us what had happened, I had no choice but to inform her at the top of my lungs (since she was 600ft down the path) that, no, it's legal if you're under 16 (in our state).
JVM has a lot of functional languages. As well as the usual Clojure, Scala, etc. I think it has some Haskell-like ones.
Fire seasons are getting longer because of climate change.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-17/drought-bushfire-seas... (note that this is before the current bushfires)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26172867

Droughts are getting worse because of climate change (and of course in Australia droughts make bushfires worse because there is more dry scrub, and hazard reduction burns are too dangerous to do).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/06/water-re...
It used to be a slightly modified fork of FFmpeg/libav. Is that no longer the case?
As far as I understand, the Apple Watch has Siri, and the AirPods can pair directly with the Apple Watch...no need for a phone.
Show your evidence that "Joy Plots" were named after the Freudenabteilung. Yet you support the R community changing the name.

Clearly you're not going to find any evidence that the R community named the plots after the Freudenabteilung.

Instead of it clearly just being an innocent literal reference to the name of the band who produced a famous album cover that inspired the plots.

If your point is that etymology and history matter, then why are you saying that it matters for the R community, but not Apple?

By your inconsistent logic, it's not OK to criticize Apple for naming the Control Strip even through they may not have realized the historical meaning of Kontrollstreifen at the time, but it's OK to criticize the R community for naming Joy Plots after the name of a band instead of Freudenabteilung. Why the Widerspruch und Doppelmoral?

Your own words contradict your point: 'This isn't about "cancelling". It's about something being in bad taste in the first place, even if the originator hadn't been aware of it.' Yet now you're saying that because Apple was not aware of the dark meaning of "Control Strip", it's wrong to criticize that name. Pick a lane, and stick with it.

My point is that IBM declined to name the input device that Ted Selker invented the "Joy Button", even though that's what he originally wanted to call it (if not the "Keyboard Clitoris" or "Control Knob"), so they named it the "Trackpoint" instead. And that was most likely to avoid any sexual connotations, not about Nazi allusions.

Yet IBM has an unabashed well documented history of marketing and selling computing machinery to Nazi Germany that facilitated the Holocaust, which substantially enabled them to identify, round up, and murder many Jews and other persecuted minorities (not to mention their contracts with the US Government to help round up Japanese people into internment camps). So by IBM management's logic, Nazi are fine upstanding customers, but sexual references in product names are a no-no.

Please be a Joy Button, not a Control Knob!
You're right sorry for the harshness
If you really wanted to switch, as you say, you would've done so regardless of aesthetic imperfections.
What about an AirPod derivative. AirPod futures?
Serious question: is 80K-130K for a data science position competitive in the San Diego area? Feels a bit low to me but I live in NYC.

https://comma.ai/jobs
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iPod was a shitty player few tiers below the competition. Tiny battery life, tons of bugs, IO limitations, iTunes nonsence, original, but unergonomic ui, mechanically unsound engineering.

iRivers, Cowons, and Samsungs were a head above it without any doubt. They were just never marketed in US.

Same with Smartphones. Japanese phones had all features of a smartphone a decade before the rest of the world, but they never bothered to market them outside thinking of outside world being "not advanced enough" to culturally absorb a phone as an integral lifestyle element, and not as a work tool.
facepalm

I just clicked on an album in "Photos", I could scroll through them swiping left and right to go through the photos but now I have to rely on the arrow at the top left of the screen to go back to view all albums.
I like having a back button always present on the buttom of my screen in Android for this.
I, and I expect many others, mostly use them walking down the road, or around the house. And mostly for voice, not music, in my case. Audio quality certainly isn’t my main priority; comfort, battery life, and reliability are all far more important.
Good Lawd'amercy.

jq and lisp?

In all seriousness, thank you for writing this. I've had trouble wrapping my small brain around some of jq's more advanced syntax, so being able to look at things from a different direction seems like a great idea to me.
"Which is .. not true. Bad people will already be making their own list of open doors, and sneaking through them without being noticed, over and over again."

But the vast majority of people do literally have front doors which cannot guard them from 1% of the possible attacks in the world, if they were targeted. Never mind the best ones in the world.
I've used a $50 pair that had that feature, if I cared about it I'd use that over Airpods.
"Sabotage isn't sabotage as long as the saboteurs have middling seniority" is amongst the more stupid arguments you've made, which is frankly quite the feat. It doesn't matter how long you've been around, what you did is still sabotage, and the people that were around longer than you who have called you out on it and sometimes even abandoned Bitcoin completely out of frustration at your toxic interference have pointed this out enough times that you trying to raise this argument is just more characteristic of your dishonesty.
How many logos does Firefox have?
That's not really true with the civil standard of proof, which is preponderance of the evidence. If you can provide any evidence which tends to suggest that you were fired for an improper reason, the employer must overcome that with greater evidence that the firing was actually made for a reason that is not prohibited.

It's not like criminal law where violations have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, so merely presenting a plausible alternative consistent with (even if not the most likely conclusion from) the evidence is adequate to avoid liability.
I can't recommend Plastic enough - it's so fast and a great UI but super powerful. I've been using it at my company for years.
I'd punt on offering free trials and instead offer a 30 or even 60 day money back guarantee. This is effectively the same thing but gets you access to money today as opposed to 30 days later. Learned from this terrific video from Jason Cohen: https://vimeo.com/74338272
Wonder how much each of passenger's life costs
Ok. I'd note this wasn't a dissertation and instead was a statement by a qualified scientist who previously has studied the field.

But if you want to be pedantic, that link is an explanation that includes references to the methodology.

The methodology itself is in the report referenced in that explanation and available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318029981_Impacts_o...
Unencrypted HTTP suggests post load balancer, would have been nice to see core loads as I'm betting Node would scale better if it weren't being it's own LB layer as well. RAM usage would still be garbage but I bet performance would hit about Go level.

Go's concurrency model really fits the task best though and it's easy to see that in the results.
Thank you for replying. I would definitely look forward to that post.
Much like how my Apple cables outlive everyone else’s (I still have working 30-pins), someone is going to have a good experience with BT audio and switching from one device to another. But I know other people have longevity problems with their cables, and if you didn’t know before, you know now that people have these problems with Bluetooth. I, for example, have used BT audio almost since it was a thing. I generally don’t buy cheap shit, but I’ve had the same problems others complain about across multiple devices and audio gear.

I’m glad it’s worked well for you, though. I figured someone must being a good experience with it.
Well, hey, for $1000 I’d almost buy this for the “Tesla experience” but alas it doesn’t support my car (2014 Lexus).

Well done for finding the right price point. You have a solid business case here.

Not commenting on safety like everyone else because it seems from the ISO 26262 (not easy to comply) and architecture that you’ve put some thought into this. Will be good to see it improve further. I understand that you need to sell units to do so, so I do not hold that against you.
Is there an ML on the JVM? The best part of F# is it felt like a simpler version of Scala, even without things like higher kinded types that are present in OCaml.
There's actually a city in the US that does this! https://www.peachtree-city.org/216/Paths-Golf-Carts. On my places to visit if I ever make it out there.
I know this, but when an app goes fullscreen and hides this button I have to think to long about how to get out of it especially being that I am not a regular iPhone user
Yup, that's pretty much what happened in reading that posted link, so why you're being downvoted I don't know.
The filesystem removes a document, but you can't expect it will be the right one more than 50% of the time.
>That customized data will change how we think about patient care.

People keep repeating this almost like a PR slogan but is there any actual solid evidence that constantly measuring health data has a meaningful impact on average, healthy adults and is a reasonable thing to do?

A non-diabetic person does not need to constantly measure their glucose level, and if anything slight anomalies in otherwise asymptomatic people may very well create health scares or overburden the medical system with people getting things checked out that isn't a problem.

This is a very real trade-off already present for example when it comes to mammographies, with many studies suggesting the routine screening might be a net negative.

The economic incentive for the healthcare industry is very obvious when it comes to putting everyone on 24/7 surveillance, but is there any indication it meaningfully improves the life of individuals in general?