skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, if I were an engineer in an environment like that I'd be fine with it if (1) you were up-front about this being a necessary hack to sustain the company for a bit longer, and (2) there is a vision and a process to refine that vision of where you would all like the product to go. (2) is so that these seemingly short-term features could either be seen as prototypes or first cuts at the future you'd really like to get to, or walled off as extraneous stubs that don't interfere with the core architecture. (1) is important because I feel good about helping keep the company afloat, but I feel crappy about just doing stuff that I know is bullshit simply because I'm told to (or worse, lied to that it's "important" for its own sake).

This also makes it possible to track the trajectory of the company over time. When you're doing better, you can afford to turn down these types of requests. Communicate that decision and why you made it to engineering; we love to hear that sort of thing.

The safest answer that a salesperson can give is "yes". The safest answer that an engineer can give is "no". You can't let either side always win, but you can communicate the reasoning and importance to bridge the gap and make it a team decision even if it wasn't the team making it.
That's a "no true Scotsman" problem, though. If the US doesn't (or didn't pre-ACA) have a market-based healthcare system, then who does? And if no one does, how do we know it's better?
The ISP I worked for worked very, very hard to keep it a secret from customers, forcing everyone involved to sign an NDA, etc.
I currently work in one week sprints and we do this. Not 100% of the time of course, and it's an internal facing team where the customers are two desks away. But I've also done it on other teams with proper paying customers.

The devil is in the definition. As an example, we have a tool that bootstraps a new Git repo and we're adding a feature that will include our company Rubocop config if it's a Ruby project. There is no reason on earth that this should take 3-5 developers a week to accomplish (never mind two). But it's a feature and it could be useful. And on top of all the other features, the tool is quite useful nowadays compared to the first extremely thin slice we did.

The trick is reducing what you're counting as a feature to the smallest thing that is actually worth bothering to use. It won't always fit into one or two weeks, especially if you're dependent on hardware manufacture, or beholden to the iOS store approval timetable or whatever. But for your line of business SAAS apps there's absolutely no technical reason why you can't do it; there may be human obstacles to doing so. (Hell, maybe we're all wrong and you shouldn't do it.)
Do you have a link to a source? Sounds interesting
The world is flattening into mostly neoliberal vulture capitalism. What was once good about the commonwealth (i.e., public education, health services, parks, protected habitats and so on) is gutted and cannibalized to give more money to the rich. The US is a prime example of one possible endpoint of this uncontrolled, festering greed: "If you're not rich and cannot afford good healthcare, F U because it's completely your fault. More socialism for the rich is good because trickledown Reaganomics and deregulation worked so well."
So the telltale sign is a significant IR source with little to no visible light. Assuming the star is sufficiently encompassed by the swarm then it's still outputting energy, the swarm heats up and it needs to radiate that heat away. So a stellar level IR source that isn't visible is pretty weird.

And if you wonder if the Swarm uses all the light such that little escapes, that's the whole point. Think of it like a fog. A fog can block light with a sufficiently large number of tiny water droplets but it isn't strictly "solid".
Yeah, but I don't see how that's a good thing. Many groups near me have moved exclusively to Facebook meaning I'm essentially locked out from participating in them.

Previously stuff like this would have been organized through a mailing list or maybe a BBS. Facebook taking this over means that you have to allow them spying on you to take part in basic social activities.
How Much Does a New Feature Cost?
A phone company doesn’t suggest other phone numbers or people you should be calling, or try and optimize for your engagement on making the most phone calls. A telco company also traditionally does not directly market to users, or sell ads based on the content of their data (voice calls and text messages). So by this test, no, Facebook is nothing like a telco.
I know exactly what you mean. As a product of the european Union - born in France, grew up in both France and Belgium, studied in the UK, France and Belgium, but British by passport I have benefited greatly from the free movement of people across Europe. But a European citizen not more it's as if i've lost a part of who I am.

As the saying goes; you can never truly appreciate what you have until it's gone.
> Believe it or not, you don't need to have passed the tests or have software development experience to make the observation that people complaining about a process are the ones that don't perform well

Actually you do.. It's one thing if you are upset about people questioning your credibility, but you are being disingenuous by making blanket statements with 0 credibility or evidence to back it up.

> only ever received complaints from students with C- grades or lower

I'm not sure what this has to do with anything being discussed. Are you implying that people with decades of experience being weeded out by these interviews somehow equate to C- grades?

By your definition, ideal0227 and mxcl are subpar.
Price transparency is a tremendously difficult problem because healthcare is a multi-layered bureaucracy.

Even then though, making prices transparent wouldn’t address the primary scenario that results in personal bankruptcy, which is emergency care. You can’t exactly shop around for the cheapest ER facility if you’re bleeding from a gunshot wound.
Emphasis on skilled. Most Americans make less, adjusted for inflation, than they did 40 years ago, they work longer hours, report more stress and are more productive (not necessarily by choice). The average American worker got shafted. Oh, and the American healthcare system costs people twice as much than average developed countries but with worse outcomes. Single-payer would save people money because of the collective negotiating leverage to push back against $100 insulin, $350 Epipens and $20 acetaminophen.

Furthermore, the US labor force participation rate never gets measured honestly or discussed because it's crazy.. there are untold millions and millions of men and women who have given up looking work. (Idle, disenfranchised people who don't have a future or families is a recipe for revolution, drug abuse and mass shootings.) Also, with automation, outsourcing and increased net population, there aren't as many good jobs as there were 40 years ago and there too many people for regular, less-skilled jobs.
May 2006 - April 2010

Yes, we had to deal with all of that as well. Also built a lot of automated tools to deal with those sorts of things. My favorite one, I named 'the cockblocker'. ;-) This sort of experience you just can't get elsewhere and has been extremely valuable for me.
Think about _why_ you are doing thin vertical slices. You started with large stories which are too big for a single sprint and typically stretch across multiple sprints. The reason this is a problem is that it's hard to plan, and no value is delivered until several sprints later when the story is eventually completed.

Horizontal slices solves the first issue but not the second (nobody is receiving value from just the back-end of a large feature). Vertical slices solve both issues. If your vertical slices are so thin that you can now complete several per sprint and have introduced coordination problems between team members, perhaps they are too thin. You don't need to go overboard, you just need to solve your original problem (stories are too big). Bunching vertical stories together is fine as long as you are still completing the bunch inside the sprint, and delivering value.
If the content contains illegal material people would be taking on legal risk by hosting it. However since the network is decentralized, there would be many small servers to police and prosecute, likely making it overwhelmingly costly to do, like torrents. Soft illegal stuff like what you describe could probably survive. I predict yes.
Now this is something that has been in my mind for some while now. I actually think this lack of understanding goes far beyond these two groups.

There is a lack of understanding, but also trust between citizens and the media, citizens and the tech space. And we also see the same with our legislators too.

All around people are struggling to understand each other.
What if tomorrow you could
Easy salaried job puts you in control of your hourly rate. The less hours you need to put in to stay above board, the higher your effective rate is. Even moreso when you're remote since you don't have the unavoidable cost of commuting & office attendance.
My two biggest problem with notion are no offline storage of data and monthly payments.
How dare people go through Zoe Quinn's tweets and discover that she was in a consensual relationship with the man she claims raped her at the time said rape was supposed to have occurred! The people who did this have no other motive than to punish her for being involved in video games while having a vagina! Such hate speech, and all institutions complicit in its spread, needs to be blotted from existence immediately!
In #4 the author suggests using a service like Paddle to outsource billing. Does anyone here have experience they can share to compare this against Stripe? Other services?

It's hard to know how cumbersome any of these products are in practice when their documentation is an endless series of quick start guides that leave critical details as links to other quick start guides. "Set up a monthly subscription service in 5 minutes! Please refer to these three other guides if you want to know which customers have active subscriptions."
i can hear a new ed sheeran hit there
> But it also sounds that you're worried about engineers constantly challenging product manager's decisions?

No, that's the exact opposite of what I said. In fact, I explicitly ended my post with a call to action for engineers to communicate concerns, suggestions, and questions to their product managers.

> It doesn't pretend to prescribe that to fix this pattern you need to do the opposite of every one of his bullet points.

That's my point: The article seeds this unrealistic idea of an over-idealized product management process that explicitly includes the reader at every step of the way. It manufactures an anxiety in the reader that a feature factory is a vaguely bad thing and if you recognize any of these 12 vague points, you're working within the bad thing.

Again, my problem isn't with the core suggestions to improve PM process that might be elaborated in the author's other posts. My problem is with the trend of people reading this article, finding some point to identify with somewhere, and erroneously concluding that their employer is doing it wrong and that's a bad thing.

My point was that if you want to be involved in the decision making process, provide feedback, or understand the reasoning behind the decisions you should be proactive about communicating. Instead, I see too many people reading this article and passively becoming disgruntled with their employers, without taking any steps to be more involved. Or the more they are involved, the more the complain about too many meetings, interruptions, and process overhead consuming their time that they'd rather use for quiet focus to get their work done. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Paying 4000kr for staying four nights sounds really weird since Swedish law say that the fee for staying at the hospital can’t be above 100kr/day. I also recently stayed about four nights after my partner gave birth and we payed a couple 100SEK.
mike patton might make that work
Good fast approximations are great. Link up a few of them and use voting as a sanity check. Accepting the existence of uncertainty in return for speed is a good tradeoff. You don't always need accuracy, and even high quality simulations fail.

Sometimes you want laser-like precision. But often, you are better off with a flashlight.
The robot is incredibly over-sized and under-utilized for this task and costs what you would pay for 5 employees in a year - not the best application. If the robot isn't tossing the pizza dough, then who cares haha!
It also translates to "only/sole/single" from Dutch.
I don't think a purpose-built capability is anywhere near as good.

It would be a massive drain on the economy that chose to maintain it, there's no guarantee it would actually work when the time came, and it wouldn't benefit from improvements in design over time.

Being profitable, Starship has none of these limitations.
I made a benchmark a few months ago for a friend of mine working on computational physics. She needed to compute the determinant of a lot of matrices to perform MCMC sampling and wanted to know how much GPUs could speed up things. For this task, one V100 was equivalent to a 100 cpu cores, so a speed up of 100,000 is definitely not coming only from using GPUs vs CPUs.
I would love to know if it's gonna run on my OS!

Edit: just realized this is a web app, so the answer is probably yes
I see a problem with points one and two. That problem is partially what spurred the First Amendment of the Constitution (USA) to be made. Trying to control the speech of people is both impossible and forces escalation. When people desire to communicate, they will do so, about whatever topic they choose. Trying to stifle or manipulate this communication will fail eventually; either those who see themselves as part of the "ruling body" will accept this failure, or escalate with more robust controls. Rinse and repeat this through a few iterations, and you end up with the Great Firewall in China. The only way to deal with communication that turns hostile or negative is to increase the communication skills and tools of those involved. Conflict resolution, empathic reasoning, detailed vocabulary, and strong argument skills will allow people to communicate clearly and reasonably. A communicating group that carries many members who have these skills will be deal deftly with these issues, and carry a thick enough skin and strong enough values not to be swayed by the moral poisoning that tends to happen in forums in question.
I just spent two hours today to wait at an “urgent care” facility in southbay (my regular doctor of 20 years! wouldn’t give me an apt after several days of trying). I think I owe north of $400+ for this one time visit because I am in the early phase of a high-deductible plan. But I haven’t got my bill yet. After the two hour wait, I didn’t even get to see a doctor, but a Physician Assistant. So much for my private plan..
The brilliance of the cheese process struck me as well – we see a mess and then, the reveal of the amusingly simple cleanup. (This is an effectively edited promotional film, too. The story of the equipment is beautifully told.)

Your insight re: the parallel to software design is a valuable one, thank you.
One of the first job aggregators I enjoyed using was “Who is Hiring” [1].

Reworkin seems like a bad copy of the basic features of that website.

• Search is useless: searching “San Francisco” returns two jobs [2] (one in Toronto, one in a misplaced map marker). Searching “Seattle” [3] returns an empty map, even though there are seven (7) markers around the city;

• Bad UI/UX: there is no tech filter, so I have to click and read every marker to know if the job matches my skill-set;

• Missing company information: some posts have no information at all [4];

• Irrelevant companies: What’s the point of adding companies like Microsoft [5] and Amazon Web Services [6]? They are not a remote companies. They have some teams that allow remote work but they almost never advertise their jobs as being remote friendly. Usually, they prefer to relocate people and if they allow remote from the start of your contract is because you are someone with very good credentials;

[1] https://whoishiring.io/search/45.7060/-37.3540/2?remote=true

[2] https://reworkin.com/hop?search=san+francisco

[3] https://reworkin.com/hop?search=seattle

[4] https://reworkin.com/hop/629

[5] https://reworkin.com/hop/169

[6] https://reworkin.com/hop/70
Bookmarklets are situationally pretty useful; they’re the easy entry to custom cross-site userscripting, a test drive before going full extension. They’re as legit a use of JS as anything else is.

(That said: if you use someone else’s code, putting up with their style is part of the bargain, even if I think leaving out semicolons is pointless aesthetic bikeshedding.)
In fact, there is valuable and original content in writing that you should call this API function in those circumstances. But it's not embodied in the code. Once you've been to the page, it's in your head, and you can either remember it or write about it somewhere, neither of which, presumably, would be legally actionable.
How about treating Facebook like an unapologetic monomaniacal psychopath fixated on provoking polarization and undermining communication?
Can you suggest a prominent one with the most videos/links a la youtube
If coordinating with management is time consuming and tedious then you have a problem with management as well as development. Layering more people on top (a project manager) to manage that dysfunction is a band-aid solution. It is always better to remove the root cause completely.
this is mostly bullshit... if you are unemployed you can use 6 months of your unemployment money as a lump sum to start a business. most of the time noone gets unemployment money. as many have said sweden is romanticized.
And yet, look what it has become.
> But the fact that we have biological needs is not coercion.

Libertarian thinking in a nutshell.
My Decade in Review – Overreacted
Now this is true hacking, great lateral thinking and brilliant adaptation as potentially now have better control than you could do with your hand as literally tapping into the muscle/brain signal.
There is nothing illegal about what I am proposing, not even by European standards.
100% Correct.

Also you are still unpaid, all you get is job security.
This is something im sure other companies would be cool with it if you are essential enough...
Canadian pipeline protest forces closure of major rail link
You don't have to trust me, here is a diff you can apply of the work I did: https://gist.github.com/spion/2779ae6dc9552c229c1eeacd90c03b...

you can run ./tfb --test express-postgres and compare.

If you can't wait for all the tests to complete, a representative one can be obtained more quickly by running

./tfb --test express-postgres --type db --query-levels 10 --concurrency-levels 128
This feels like a remarkably flimsy hit piece.

The core of the story revolves around a few gig economy workers being removed from the platform after posting negative comments on the company's 100,000 user public Facebook group. They don't share the exact posts that were removed, but we're supposed to assume the company was in the wrong.

They also complain that the company's public groups are moderated to remove inflammatory comments. Not really surprising, as I wouldn't expect any company moderated forum to let venting and angry discourse run unchecked.

This recent trend in journalism of finding disgruntled employees to criticize tech companies feels forced. If anything, it's going to become a "Boy who cried wolf" scenario where readers grow numb to the constant stream of iffy complaints against tech companies, to the point where the legitimate problems won't get the attention they deserve.
Yep, it was private repos for me. Once Gitlab came about and offered free private repos I bailed as quickly as I could from Bitbucket.
Oracle offers DML redirection for active dataguard setup where a write operation on the replica database is redirected to the primary database to allow applications that make infrequent writes to actively run on the Active Data Guard replica database. Also the write operation completes when the replica has seen the write from the primary thereby eliminating the race condition avoiding such complex reengineering
But that is the point. It's a feature, not a bug, to filter out anyone who is not willing to click through a license agreement for the sake of participating in the community. Such an individual is antisocial.
Is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance relevant here?

Also, if you ask for (legal) spaces for "anything goes" content, you need to campaign not just against "hate speech" laws, but all the other laws that prohibit various kinds of information.
Content takedown and users’ rights in India
Devs are stakeholders in a project by definition.

Stakeholder is anyone with an interest in a project.
You should consider starting your own company, or being a CTO for an early stage co.
To be completely fair I think the struggles I've been hearing about are of the PEBKAC variety, having worked with the operator for a couple of years before the aforementioned pivot.
I have many that call a handful of backend services, handle errors, process the data, and send it to the client.

Very async.
I used to have something like that with an old machine with poor, spluttering cooling. You could really tell every time something processor intensive was running.

It was actually quite useful at times. For example, if some webpage was constantly running some heavy javascript, the fans would soon alert me that something was up.
Very welcoming if you are an analphabet from the 3rd world or IS fighter.

If you are coming on a work visa expect some difficulties. And if you do anything minor like not taking out all your vacation days you will lose your visa.
OpenPOWER Foundation – Final Draft of the Power ISA EULA Released
Nice post. I've enjoyed reading it as much as discovering your other blog posts and projects (especially, PySwarms). Keep it up! :-)
The side effects of an unfinished internet
That seems to be the point in the article, it's not like a telco. Another thread here points out that it's not like a newspaper either.

In reality it's an entirely new category and applying regulations from the 20th century isn't going to work as well as coming up with entirely new ones to address entirely new problems.
A big change we incorporated is working more closely with the data analysis team. It helped us create analytics that were more useful for them, and helped us answer some good user centric questions, like which features were used most, why were others not used, how long were they taking to load, etc...
A lot of databases have a concept of consistent reads. Even DynamoDB will allow you to specify consistent reads explicitly on a query and writing through DAX will take care of the scenario as you described as the read cache is immediately updated. This a common scenario.
This is a little unfair. Yes, the notionally "normal" state of the system, at least from the view of the nanokernel, is to be running 68K code. However, by the days of 8.5, most of the OS was native, with the remaining legacy being all those obnoxious UPPs. In fact, porting the classic Mac OS to PowerPC by then was actually the low-effort move while Apple management scrounged around to figure out what to do after the demise of Copland.
What makes you think it's abandoned?

The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed.

Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.