skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I started following HN I've seen these types of articles being posted with some regularity.

The findings usually point in the same direction and the press write-up always tries to come up with explanations for why companies decide to do open space offices, how these were thought to improve collaboration etc.

At my previous job I have worked for 4 years exclusively in an open space, sometimes even with hot-desking (including for developers and data scientists!).

The impact on my ability to focus and on my mood has been catastrophic. Over time I ended up losing a lot of my ability for deep focus and I became stuck in this mode of superficial thinking that pushed me to switch between a bunch of menial tasks all the time.

My firm belief is that open plan offices are used simply because they're the cheapest way to cram people in a space. The lack of walls and barriers makes it really easy to add desks, the cost of furnishing the place is minimal, management can always walk up to people to delegate tasks or ask questions etc.

I think that this so-called fad is here to stay as long as employees (and especially those in tech) do not collectively demand some changes.
>>How is it not efficient?

It is not efficient for the people voting. More than 1 election I simply skipped because I did not want to find my polling place, stand in line, and then vote

I want a Polling Place free Voting system
Yes, I remember those days of the content. But, I don't really agree that the thumbs up/down system is giving me bad recommendations. I still find the 'percentage' that it thinks I'd like is probably really accurate. I have to assume that the recommendations work with more data than just the thumbs up/down interaction, since they probably don't fully trust the user input. And I imagine all the stuff I watched for 10 minutes but stopped is more valuable in determining usefulness than me going out of my way to rate it.
It does happen, and it is public knowledge:

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/

Parsing out which ones specifically are about hiring is a little trickier, but they're in there.
Try this: go on a dating website, and say that you are looking for someone to help you listen to and connect to other people. Maybe someone out there will be willing to mentor you. Much more useful than reading is an actual face to face critique by someone who is there to watch how you interact.
They used the equivalent of the thumb system. Many people give 5 stars, or 1 star. There are some that give in between. Many places consider anything less than 5 star to mean there was a problem (Uber, Amazon, reviews for phone support).
Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...
Indeed. Generally the new macOS hasn't been a flaming dumpster fire though.
That's the older beaker containing the previous drops.
> ...so there must be an ulterior motive for pushing on tech solution so hard

I know someone in the industry who thinks software voting will solve the issues. It’s not ulterior motives; People actually believe it will help.
This is fantastic news! More times than I can count I have decided that it wasn't worth the effort to peruse through the app before my ears get assaulted if I forgot to mute my TV beforehand. It is anxiety-inducing and unpleasant to have to keep the selection moving just so audio doesn't blast from my TV when I just want to browse.

Perhaps we can thank the fact that streaming services now have competition, and the quality of their UX matters quite a bit.
They coulda just made their originals part of the simpler rating system instead. As jacked up as it is, it would be nice to find shows that I'd more than likely actually like.
There are some pretty hard, potentially unsolvable, problems around electronic voting around guaranteeing the ability to vote and guaranteeing the accurate record of voting - these problems aren't unique to electronics but paper & person systems have pretty good ways to protecting against system abuse by being incredibly inconveniently distributed, having known actors that can face legal pressure, relying on our existing social systems to increase the difficulty in compromising the system and, lastly, having thinking components that can act in isolation to solve problems independently including those we can't anticipate.

"Tech" exacerbates those issues while not offering a lot in exchange, the big two I can think of is accessibility (which, honestly, look at Washington state's system for a counterpoint there - though it is limited in how many states are that good) and quick vote tallying.

I just don't see the point - have automatic counting machines, allow tech to help inform voters (provide a blurb on the candidates or dedicate a gov't organization to providing some structured data around political stances), allow easy confirmation of registration and auto-enroll eligible voters... just... keep the ballots dead simple.
> Changes to these settings are specific to a profile and will take affect across all devices.

> Note: There may be a delay before the setting takes affect.

> Note: There may be a delay before the setting takes affect.

"Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Isn't this exactly what acephal alluded to above?

> But this also was a major source of resentment and ostracization that I'm still dealing with to this day.

Isn't it possible that resentment and ostracization could lead someone to not want to try as hard to learn?
Researchers found that bumblebee populations had recently declined by 46 percent in North America and by 17 percent across Europe when compared to a base period of 1901 to 1974. The biggest declines were in areas where temperatures spiked well beyond the historical range, which raises concerns that climate change could increase the risk of extinction for bees, which are already threatened by pesticide use and habitat loss.
Yes, as my posting history clearly indicates, I'm a schill for voting rights and equal representation.
Well, if you're going to a 53 degree orbit, you're in luck. But if you have a specific polar orbit, well... You'll need a special transfer vehicle package (SpaceX is partnering with Momentus), which will increase the mass you need to launch and has its own costs, making it more comparable to RocketLab.

RocketLab will let you go to whichever orbit you choose.

Also, RocketLab is pursuing reusability as well, so that may allow RocketLab to compete more directly on cost. Also, RocketLab can launch smaller payloads (in bundles with other customers) for less than the $1 million minimum SpaceX has.

Still, I think SpaceX has a sizable advantage for a lot of launches.
Improv is like an adult hack to learn teamwork skills if you never got serious about a team sport as a child. The idea of playing a role, using the tools available to your role to help make the other roles successful, and counting on teammates to do the same for you. Being part of something bigger than the sum of the parts, and being able to truly take vicarious satisfaction from the success of the whole as opposed to any individuals, especially oneself.
Netflix still does a ton of statistical experiments. A good one is video thumbnail selection.

2016 blog post: https://netflixtechblog.com/selecting-the-best-artwork-for-v...

2018 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjQMEjkrUGo
> was that the first preview that showed included several swear words

From feedback like this, they might have just made a policy to not allow cursing in the preview whether that was by choosing different scenes or bleeping them.
I have come to despise this "feature" but without it I would have never watched Kung Fury. I am glad I can now turn it off but wonder what I may miss going forward.
I get that, and I get the rationale behind it—legally speaking. I still don't think that this makes the preceding statement correct. ("These con men and women...", "...preying on innocent homeowners...")

What really happens is that homeowners (and renters!) don't want to spend too much money on what they consider small projects, and handymen, rather than "preying" on "innocent" customers, are offering simple services for a low price. They're not conning anyone. I'd wager that most of the time everyone knows what's going on.

The statement from HCSO is written as if they consulted the Hyperbole Thesaurus to edit the first draft into something with more "punch".

I mean, I'm sure some subset of this bunch are actual scam artists holding themselves out to be something they're not. But my money is on the majority of them simply getting caught without a license. No need for mug shots and handcuffs and pearl-clutching public statements.
what causes you to say much despised? I personally enjoy thumbs up v thumbs down - I find with 5 star ratings systems people resort to extremes and usually use it like a thumbs up/down anyway (1 star or 5 star)
Praise the day!!! The tyranny of auto-preview has ended!

On a serious note, I get why they added it.

For some, it saves a few button presses.

But boy was that an annoying feature.

Literally made browsing Netflix stressful.
Awesome! auto-playing previews has always caused issues on my Roku devices
Uber expects to be profitable by Q4 2020
Same with their Roku app - I quickly jump from one thumbnail to the next to avoid triggering the autoplay.
Take this up with your government - electronic voting systems isn't the solution for this... making a huge deal over states when they cut the number of polling places is. It is super depressing that AZ[1] wasn't rung through the wringer by public outrage over their polling place shenanigans in the last election - both winners and losers should care about the accessibility of voting.

Also it's about time for election day to become a national holiday - as a former Vermonter I always enjoyed participating in Town Meeting Day, giving people a day off to participate in government is a strictly good thing.

1. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016...
Yeah, I really don't know why UI/UX designers feel the need to highlighted selection to be so minimal. HBO Go's highlight isn't much better than Apple's
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
Strong disagree. There is always an economic tradeoff. Hypothetically going from 0.00001% chance of death to 0.000001% chance of death is not worth my ticket price going from $500 to $2000.

Also why I drive to work every day instead of some safer form of transportation.
I think it's because insurance policies are still supporting real estate in areas at risk.
For books I've always recommended in a broad scope of character building: How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie.

But that's just a book and its like just reading a book for programming. You have to find a way to put it in practise.

I firmly believe that every society needs to embody some type of short term service for youth to strip away the idea of individualism, and allow them to rebuild only after experiencing working and helping out others. Doesn't need to be the armed forces, just something to hammer into them that you need to work together and look after buddy.

For me I think joining the reserves at a young age (16) cured me of a lot of selfishness. That might be unrealistic to you but sports teams, volunteer groups (Rotary, Lions Club, heck even Toastmasters) help garner this dynamic.

Have you lived in a small community before? You might think you don't like people, but you might realize you don't like people in big cities/companies/stressful environments.

All the best
When you have a disagreement about how something should be done, think that your role is to try and convince the other person. If you don't convince them and their way is safe enough to try, don't stop them from doing it.

If it's not safe enough to try, then understand when you use your authority to stop them there will be a strain on your trust relationship that you need to deliberately rebuild.
And complex ones.
I think there are probably almost as many definitions of tech lead as there are companies. In my case the tech leads in the company are responsible for turning high level requirements from the rest of the company into actual actionable work, and feeding back up to senior management places where we could improve the existing product by refactoring/introducing new features. Alongside that we do line management for the people on our team, and generally act as a point of contact to try and reduce the level of interruptions to developers.

It’s very much not an IC role - we might throw together the odd prototype, and we’re all very capable of rolling our sleeves up and helping out if a project needs an extra person for a bit, but the general rule is that if we’re on the critical path for implementing a project something has gone wrong.
Open plan offices became more frequent because office area is more expensive because real estate has become more expensive. That's at least my guess of how we ended up in this mess that everyone knows is bonkers.
This might be related to a popular reddit thread that got 28.5k upvotes on reddit the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/exkrij/you_know...
Can't say I was a narcissist, but I had an epiphany at one point about "being too full of myself" as well as taking over conversations too often. I really dug into certain philosophies to help course correct.

The most useful philosophies (for me) were/are Secular Humanism and Utilitarianism PLUS all of the sub-philosophies inside of each. There are definitely some problematic ideas in each, but I think you'll gain some new perspectives.

There are other areas to look at, but what I listed is a good start. Stoicism can also help with emotional control and being more aware of your thinking. It's kind of like a "practice".

You can buy books or browse the web for this stuff, of course.

NOTE: I have ZERO credentials in philosophy... it's just my hobby. However, I don't think my recommendations here are out-of-line as they are pretty high level. Would love to have more seasoned folks comment/point out other areas of philosophy that are useful in gaining insights for the OP's issues.
Agreed. I think one of the things I learned from my Tech Lead is how to handle stressful code-related situations and communicate with other teams.

This is one of the important skills to have and will have huge impact on "engineering atmosphere".
Yeah for sure - judgement is imperative, but also independent of confidence. Combining that with the courage and self-belief to try big things is a great combination.

Humility is also incredibly important because most things of value are done by teams, and humility is incredibly important to working in a team. But again, humility and an ego can coexist and will serve you well.

> You sound kinda like a narcissist.

Whether I am or not doesn't matter - my comments on the matter stem from the fact that I believe most people air on the side of under-confidence regarding what they can accomplish.
Indeed it wins hands down making my laptop sound like an aeroplane getting ready for takeoff with its continuous indexing, while making generous use of the existing memory.

Needs additional configuration for what the others do out of the box, like Javadoc tooltips.

Requires ten finger shortcuts.

It is also the only Java IDE unable to do mixed language debugging, Java/C/C++.
How I hacked language learning to jump-start my Japanese listening skills
The BOM can vary quite a lot between 'revisions', using your product as an example...

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c7-1750 (Scroll down to the Info Links table and the Wikidevi Info column)

v1 to v2 upgrades the Flash (8MB to 16MB) and uses a slightly different AN+AC wifi chip. v2 and v3 seem pretty similar at a glance. v4 is rated at 12v 2a rather than 2.5a; using a completely different BGN(2.6ghz) chip and also different ethernet chip/switch. v5 is lower power still at 1.5a, but it's less obvious where that change happened due to lack of pictures. A guess based on the simpler antenna list is that it uses less antenna.
Smell is like when you don't wash yourself for a week, quite unpleasant. It's gone on day 3, but on day 2 I am rather staying alone. Then from day 3 you might suffer from bad breath due to ketosis, regular oral hygiene is important when around other people.
“Rethinking Narcissism” is the best book on the topic that I’ve read so far.
Do you have statistics on that? I’m not sure I believe you, given Amazon ratings seem to have quite a broad range, so the pattern is established.

edit: specifically, that people only give 1 or 5 stars
I only recall them ever giving out one one million dollar prize on Kaggle. As far as I know they never implemented the winning system because it would have been too difficult to engineer the pipeline.

I’m not sure whether you’re trying to imply that non-ML based, non-personalised simple average ratings are better or worse than ML. Regardless, I have nothing nice to say about anecdotes.
Good point. Whenever I see a job ad advertising C/C++ together, it's basically saying "we do C with objects".
Yes, definitely come visit. When you do make it to the cathedral, in front of it you can find nello and patrasche: https://antwerpexplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Nello...
I was actually watching TV last night and found myself hesitant to switch from Hulu to Netflix because deep in my head I was saying "oh that's the one with the noisy menus".
I have noticed that the loading of the preview has actually made the jumping to the next thumbnail slower on my AppleTV app
They obviously determined that thumbs up/down either generated better training data or more training data. They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it.
At this point I think they’re just changing stuff to change stuff. Like some new hire(s) somewhere(s) are looking to make a name for him/herself by changing stuff.
Hopefully they will build in the same level of remote cameras as SpaceX does. It's way more fascinating to watch a live view from the rocket, 2nd stage, etc. on SpaceX's streams than to see a 90s-era-quality 3D rendering of a 2nd stage in orbit with a few data points in Courier on the screen.
Remember when you didn't have to wade through that awful carousel view to find what you wanted to watch? Or when they didn't try to hide your "continue watching" list in a steaming heap of inaccurate recommendations?

Except for a couple of shows, I've almost completely switched to Prime.
You mean doing multiple rounds of hashing, like PBKDF2? There are some better algorithms than that now, but yeah, trying to slow down the computation required to crack the password is a useful defence.
How do I go about resolving this trauma?
Interviewing is a business transaction, not social services. They'll min-max their time just like you'll mix-max your compensation.

I'll happily give advice, feedback, mock interviews, and other sorts of help on my own time in more appropriate environments. When it's company time, it's just business.
Look at how he frames the question -- "I talk too much...", "I don't enjoy...", "I tend to judge...", "I have an inflated ego..."

He doesn't think about his behavior in relation to other people. To the narcissist, other people are simply background actors in the movie that is their life. Why does this matter? Well, if you were living on a deserted island, would it matter if you were a narcissist?

When he talks about the negative impact, he again frames it as it impacts him: "These traits have affected my personal and professional life...". Nothing about how it might have impacted other people's lives. We can therefore be sure this post is an act of defense against change.

Further reading: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/01/can_narcissism_be_cu...
People with Narcissistic parents suffer. Their children are just tools to prop them and their ego up.

See r/raisedbynarcissists

Pushing a narc to have a family is a terrible idea.
American children are struggling because migrant children are taking all the good jobs. Mass migration is a disaster for American families.
Fly by wire = flying with computational assistance, not literally pulling wires, since control surfaces are hydraulically actuated.
Hopefully you can still edit, but the way these links are formatted they don't work
did they come as refugees or did they bring skills that suggested they would likely get employed/be able to contribute to the economy/would use welfare benefits etc?
IF you have a payload that needs a non-standard orbit you absolutely need it to make your project work at all. Problem is that there are 50+ small launchers trying to make it and with the big volume going SpaceX its hard to see how the economics works out for that.

The market size is growing, but not as fast as some people hopped.
1. They didn't want their originals to be rated below third-party titles

2. They didn't want users to see that highly rated content was slowly disappearing from the service
It sure does. You get it all. The ACM has a library of learning materials as well but I haven't looked at those yet. The O'Reilly stuff keeps me busy!
I hated this SO MUCH when they rolled it out but now I love it, because I can get a quick sense of the look of the actual movie instead of trying to judge it based on the cover or thumbnail. I think it's actually a good use of video in a video app and makes sense and a fix of sorts to the discovery problem.

But happy it's optional for those who never warmed up to it.
I'd disagree with that - never trying something you might fail at is cowardice, not overconfidence, and those are two independent attributes.
There is a less than zero chance I'll be boarding one of these planes again, ever. Trust is an important idea in any product, but particularly in areas like aviation, and I don't see how they can possibly build it back.

I do see an opportunity for software that ensures you are only booking journeys on the aircraft you feel are safe.
Excellent.

Now, I'd like to see them do this:

1) Quit emailing me/sending notifications to keep watching shows I start and don't like.

2) Bring back a purposeful, decent recommendation system.

3) Allow filters so only movies/shows in your language or dubbed in your language are shown. (...or just some kind of filter.)

Thanks.
Anything you do with a closure, you can do with an object that holds the closed-over state and a function that performs the same operation on that state. For a real-world example of this in action, partial application is traditionally associated with closures, but Python's functools.partial() is implemented as a callable object that holds the partially applied function and parameters in instance variables.