skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until I saw some non-IT people using them for the first time.

It shouldn't be surprising that people who hadn't any prior experience would be fine with ribbons, since it is mainly the people who had experience with the same applications but without ribbons that saw the decrease in their productivity.

> and no, just because it broke some muscle memory you had, that is not an argument that it broke productivity, that’s an argument that you don’t like change

And that is a very good argument, change for the sake of change (or worse, for something inferior) is a waste of time. Building muscle memory is a very good thing when it comes to UIs, the entire point of Windows having a standardized UI in the first place was that people who spent time to learn some program's UI they could apply the same knowledge on another program's UI that they hadn't used before.

Ribbon works against that and as a quick example check File Explorer, WordPad, OneNote (the Windows 10 app) and Windows Paint that all use ribbon-ish interfaces that come with Windows. They all look different, have different tabs and even their default state is different. The closest they have in having a common UI is the File tab and OneNote doesn't even have that.

Ribbon applications not only do not look like other applications but sometimes they do not look like older versions of themselves, since they had to move stuff around to make space for new or changed functionality.

And not all ribbon implementations even behave the same - Windows itself probably comes with 3-4 different implementations that all have little weird differences and that doesn't count all the 3rd party implementations (i think there are more ribbon implementations out there than applications actually using ribbons :-P).
Of course. So there’s the nice way to talk about this (which is how you are talking about it), and then there’s the real way to talk about it - you know like how a manager in our industry casually suggest you take up a schedule 2 drug. This stuff is abused pretty rampantly.
I'm in the same boat with Windows 10 + nvidia 2080ti. Not sure why you want a bug report filled when neither of us have any way of reproducing the issue nor more information about where/when it happens.
Also, kind of depends on the goals of the start up. Not all want a big exit after several series of funding. Others are looking for some scaling, consistent cashflows, etc.
Does owning a car hurt your health?
Reviews are supposed to be from people who worked at the company, so if they were from rejected candidates they are fake reviews. If the company wouldn't remove the fake reviews, that further proves my point that the Glassdoor ratings are not reliable.
I would disclose my salary if there were a strong, immediate need to do it, but not otherwise. It's nobody else's business what I make, and it's not my business what my colleagues are making.

I'm certainly not going to say that nobody should share this information with others, but doing so is far outside of my own comfort zone.
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Available on Azure Marketplace
Adding an AIS transponder to that kit would also be a great way to enhance safety - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste...
Have you seen how French banks authenticate users?

With a six-digit PIN.

See

- https://www.labanquepostale.fr/ > "Me Connecter"

- https://lcl.fr/ > "Mon Espace"

- https://particuliers.societegenerale.fr/com/icd-web/cbo/inde... > 12345678 > Valider
An extreme exaggeration. Geodetic antennas are neither regulated nor necessary. Any decent GPS receiver -- meaning less than US $100 -- will get you to within a couple of meters, even without WAAS.

Of course, in a SHTF scenario, GPS accuracy will start to degrade fairly rapidly as soon as the control stations are gone. So your point about not being able to return to the same spot is certainly valid.
Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'
Also have some such experience, and I don't doubt this. On the flip side, watching biologists try to write software is mildly horrifying.
> Not within the platform, no.

What does this sentence mean? No what? On what platform?

> It is easy to create another subreddit

It is easy to create another website.

> if you create another subreddit, you have full access to all the same Reddit infrastructure as every other redditor

So what? There is no distinction from a moderation perspective. If you don't like how the mods run a subreddit you can use a different subreddit, same as any other forum on the internet.

> So no, you cannot just create a new website, and get all of the very significant benefits that you would get, from having it all on Reddit, using the same infrastructure, and account, and mobile app, and posting history, and follower list, ect,ect ect, for example.

Yes you can just create a new website or use a different. You don't "own" the users of reddit.com, there is no reason why one should be entitled to the infrastructure or the users.
Yeah, when I had it happen to me, it happens to the entire Firefox instance, settings page, url bar, tab names, context menu (right click menu) and everything in between.
Not to mention correctness, which is often sorely lacking.
That's in Germany. It's up to the regulator in each country to enforce the rules.

The ICO has a reputation for being toothless.
i think i saw this in a black mirror episode
But even athletes have a clear distinction between management and "employee". The line is very blurry in engineering, esp. for senior devs which might go in and out of management frequently.
I think you're overstating the "robustness" of the competition. Finding and installing apps off the internet was and is a nightmare for people that aren't comfortable with technology. To say that it was wide open and robust and that customers reaped the benefits ignores the monopolies that companies like Microsoft and IBM had and the spread of messes like the IE toolbar disasters and the proliferation of anti-virus software that only takes advantage of the ignorance of users.

There are benefits to that system but, for most people, the negatives far outweighed the positives.
I don't think you understand what a meritocracy is.
Movie stars with multi-million dollar contracts exist in the same union as B-list actors you've only ever seen in the backgrounds of infomercials.
Personally I see this design pattern simply as an application of Dijkstra’s Separation Of Concerns. That MVC is the best (most orthogonal and balanced) division of concerns in a gui based app.
In what way are those fitness-for-purpose measures not a meritocracy?
Why the Nightly version only, I'm curious?
I think I’ve read some of them, but it would be nice to refill my bookshelf with classics. Could you please recommend a re-starter kit of these authors’ top books?
Web on iOS can be more private. Here is what Apple has to fix
Dead Ends: Investigating a murder without a body in an archive marked by absence
Right, so it's less about smoking and more about previous damage to the lungs. That makes sense.

I thought there was something specific about smoking that was linked somehow to COVID-19, but seems like you're making a more general claim. All good!
Thanks.

At $349 for 1M calls, doesn't it get expensive? I'd reckon, web-hooking it to Step Functions + AWS Lambda or SNS + SQS would have been a much cost effective solution at the cost of additional resources devoted to development and maintanence, of course. So, if you're comfortable sharing, what did the TCO economics look like for you when you decided to use ApiTracker instead?
DEC Alpha: A History in Facts and Comments (2005)
Same here, can't find your email. I am also a 'jack of all trades' and I'm ready to wrap up my third business and find something new. I'd love to talk to you, maybe do something together, maybe just trade our stories.
I mean I guess, it's only a small subset of C though (no floating point or structs even):

$ cc float.c && ./a.out && ./c4 -s float.c && ./c4 float.c && echo 'struct { int a; } s;' >struct.c && cc -c struct.c && ./c4 -s struct.c
hello, world 1.250000
1: #include <stdio.h>
2:
3: int main()
4: {
5: printf("hello, world %f\n", 1.25);
ENT 0
IMM 83656704
PSH
IMM 1
PSH
IMM 25
PSH
PRTF
ADJ 3
6: return 0;
IMM 0
LEV
7: }
LEV
hello, world 0.000000
exit(0) cycle = 13
1: bad global declaration
$
I'm all for it. Congrats to them!
(Linked in the post but) github repo: https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize
Pokemanki looks awesome!

The idea of Polar is also intriguing. I found a visual bug on your page:

https://i.imgur.com/P8dHkI9.png
> Some issues are systemic across an industry.

The biggest problems I have with this industry most developers don't want fixed. So unless a union offers something like a certification, licensing, or credentialing program for its members, like the security industry does, I don't see a union solving the software industry problems most frustrating to me. A license or certification is valuable because it provides a common platform of competencies that raises the value of the union members in the workforce, requires documented continuing education, and ensures a common criteria of best practices that reinforces the business value of the union to business entities.
AWS patched their hosts back in 2018 which caused a huge shitstorm in terms of performance lost across various workloads..so yes.

https://blog.appoptics.com/visualizing-meltdown-aws/
It's interesting that those are all effectively monopolies on the talent. I wonder if that just counters the brain-drain the parent comment was referring to since high performers can't leave the union for a non-union role.
That doesn't mean the fake-finders win, just that the fakers with most resources are the ones who can pass their fakes.
This comment was briefly downvoted and flagged because the convention on HN is only to link to past threads that have comments. Otherwise users click on the link, don't find the discussion they expected, and get ornery.

Since you're new and likely didn't know this, I've restored your post. (And welcome!)
It is a good thing they are telling people to call the hotlines instead of going to the hospital, but someone should do a follow-up to test people at home (on a triage or a random sampling basis). They can't just wait for things to burst open. The available drugs (Remdesivir is not widely available) are non-specific and likely only effective at the onset. Hopefully it is still early and most callers just have flu or cold.
Famously, Hubble's 1931 paper that detected the expansion of the universe found H0 ~ 500 km/s/Mpc (fig 5 in [1]). The distances that he was using were way off...

Through most of the late 1900s the uncertainty was between 50 and 100 km/s/Mpc.

Now we know it at least as well as most other things, but this history of uncertainty means it is treated differently. Most annoyingly, simulations often work in units of Distance/h (where h = H0/100). This causes anyone who uses them incredible annoyance as you need to get your factors of little h right. Someone even wrote a paper called "Damn you little h" [2]. It's a total pain...

[1] http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1931ApJ....74...43H

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4150
‘Hey doc, so this pill that I thought was a good idea, turns out it doesn’t work anymore. I think I need more , because I’m totally dependent on it for my career.’

This conversation happens in reality all the time, for millions of adults that take it for their work.
> An investigative journalist should absolutely try to help their source stay safe from danger.

I'm not sure "commit more federal crimes" is "staying safe from danger"

> The account they were attempting to access was a generic windows admin account tied to nobody. A perfect patsy.

This I did not know. My above point still stands, but at least no innocent third parties are being also dragged into things, absolutely.
In my opinion this might because of xlsx compatibility overhead. Using ods format might speed up a bit.
Also, frankly, fsk free snacks. Pay me the money you were going to spend on snacks, and I'll choose whether to spend it on snacks or not. And since the money spent on free snacks was probably about $20/week, it won't be a significant consideration in any of my decisions.

Bus service might be more significant in some places, but every place I've ever lived had that subsidized by the government, and long commutes are a toxic thing in themselves.
James Damore was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes, which he agreed he wouldn't do in the Google code of conduct. Even Damore confirmed this with the press. How would being unionized change that?
I thought this was such a marvel! However, my excitement level was tapered when I realized the playlist Best of the Decade was not created by only my music listening habits.

Seems as though users were pinned to some general playlist that had characteristics similar to listening habits? Still hats off from an engineering perspective. I as well wish there was more technical detail provided.

The year recap playlists though are fun personal snapshot of time.
The advertising industry is hated by many people for exactly the parallels you've perceived.
Learning Ruby in Public
Hah, I appreciate giving the terminal an attitude.
I'm not saying this is right, but what I would personally do is talk to the developer(s) who are running slow and ask if they could use some assistance.

I wouldn't bother with trying to change their behavior in the standups at all -- but that's solely because in the places that I've worked that did this, standups were of no actual value. If the team is functioning well, then everyone already knows where everyone else is anyway, and real help is obtained and offered outside of meetings.
I don't get it. Where are the neural networks?
Collective bargaining doesn’t need to bargain for equal wages. There’s all sorts of things that would be easier to collectively bargain, such as:
- Allowing monetary gain from side projects
- Eliminating non-competes
- Establishing routes to stop unethical projects

Among other things. Pay can certainly be part of the conversation, but collective bargaining in general, as you pointed out in the case of athletic unions, doesn’t mean each individual is getting the same wage.
I've never understood the logic behind closed-source drivers. Nobody pays for a driver, people pay for hardware. If you want your hardware to get better support, and therefore become more popular, aren't you incentivized to open-source the drivers?
It's actually very easy to overfit climate models. They are fit to observed data with statistical inverse problem techniques (the same as I imagine they do with astronomical data). Climate change models are just directly discretized physical equations. Just like astronomy, the decisions are made on what physics are represented in the model and what are parameterized.
Yes, I don't disagree, and am not asking for 'help'.

The comment above wrote

> I'm surprised Republicans have not latch onto this as a reason to repeal it - they already like to point out it is easy to spend other people's money as an argument against socialism.

I pointed out that there is hardly any Republican leadership in California that would be able to latch onto this issue and amplify it. My observation was an explanation for the dearth of republicans against this issue, not a request for assistance.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and really care about this).

The challenge here is balancing diverse customer workloads against the processor vendors. Historically, at Google, we just bought a single server variant (basically) because almost all code is expected to care primarily about scale-out environments. That made the GCE decision simple: offer the same hardware we build for Google, at great prices.

The problem is that many customers have workloads and applications that they can’t just change. No amount of rational discounting or incentives makes a 2 GHz processor compete with a 4 GHz processor (so now, for GCE, we buy some speedy cores and call that Compute Optimized). Even more strongly, no amount of “you’re doing it wrong” actually is the right answer for “I have a database on-prem that needs several sockets and several TB of memory” (so, Memory Optimized).

There’s an important reason though that we refer to N1, N2, N2D, and E2 as “General purpose”: we think they’re a good balanced configuration, and they’ll continue to be the right default choice (and we default to these in the console). E2 is more like what we do internally at Google, by abstracting away processor choice, and so on. As a nit to your statement above, E2 does flip between Intel and AMD.

You should choose the right thing for your workloads, primarily subject to the Regions you need them in. We’ll keep trying to push for simplicity in our API and offering, but customers really do have a wide range of needs, which imposes at least some minimum amount of complexity. For too long (probably) we attempted to refuse, because of complexity, both for us and customers. Feel free to ignore it though!
Then your probably going to have to work for yourself, if you’re in the US anyway. Even small companies do this through the US Chamber of Commerce.
A Generic Sidecar Injector for Kubernetes
"Meritocracy" is being judged on ability. How that ability originated is unimportant. Why does it matter that athletes' merit has a strong basis in genetics? Top-level athletes make it to the top level by being better than their peers.
They are buying more than the snacks. They are buying you time, since you never need to make office grocery runs to stock your desk. Might not be a huge deal, but elimination of chores really is a perk.
Can't they just ask the crew who the owner is?
Yes, the term we're using is "Sink", dual to a Source.

https://materialize.io/docs/sql/create-sink/

At the moment you can create Kafka sinks, and we'll write the change log out to that topic. They are still baking though, and need some hardening for failure cases.
This smells like an initiative to boost "women in tech" storyline - the task at hand is something many, many companies do daily, the blog has no technical substance, and also just take a look at the team members at the bottom of the page.

Kind of reminds me of the time a trans person from Google "calculated the number Pi" and we were all supposed to cheer it as some kind of an accomplishment.
> That’s a good example. I don’t know much about it, what benefits does the union in this case provide that isn’t achievable without one?

This seems like an important benefit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(entertainment_indust...:

> Residuals are royalties that are paid to the actors, film or television directors, and others involved in making TV shows and movies in cases of reruns, syndication, DVD release, or online streaming release. Residuals are calculated and administered by industry trade unions like SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild of America, and the Writers Guild of America.

Per the wiki page, these rights were won and have been maintained by striking and union-lead contract negotiations.
Sure, but at least in my imagination, the primary use-case doesn't care. The primary use-case being that you have a surface, but no/inaccessible laptop/desktop, and you need to type up something long and quickly; perhaps debugging a production problem as a sysadmin, or trying to stop an email chain from going out of control as a PM, or trying to respond a high priority client immediately, during lunch or any other out-of-office reason. Or hell, trying to respond to an HN thread with a long-form comment before the conversation dies out.

I can't trust emails on a smartphones because they're so error-prone. If this thing is reliable in its input, and easy to setup, then the "unpleasantness" of typing on a desk is very low on the list of concerns, unless it's extremely unpleasant, if not outright painful.

And unless you're a hunt-and-pecker (which couldn't feasibly use the tool in the first place, afaict), I don't see how it could be that unpleasant. And playing with the idea on my desk.. it's not the greatest feeling, but its hardly a showstopper.

It's not a general keyboard replacement. It's a few-usecase and higher-constraint keyboard replacement; the only thing that matters is whether it supports those specific fewer usecases significantly better than the currently available alternatives, because it doesn't hinder using the general tool as a fallback.
This is cool. You may already know this but Talkbin [0] was building this for physical locations back in 2010/2011. I remember them having a "text the owner" sign in Coupa Cafe off of University Ave.

They were acquired by google 5 months into it [1] and after that I remember seeing the signs in Crate and Barrels for a while, then google shut them down after dwindling usage [2]. I always thought it was a cool idea.

This was all pre-slack and the focus was physical locations vs. other tech founders so will be interested to see if now is the right time vs. then. I've certainly noticed more and more companies relying on text to stay in touch with me from a comms standpoint (HealthIQ comes to mind from recent interactions, but even our doggie day care primarily communicates with me via text now).

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/talkbin
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/25/google-acquires-talkbin-a-...
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/28/google-shuts-down-talkbin-...
I was having a weird WebRender issue last year, except it was causing sudden reboots until the computer stayed powered off long enough for the GPU memory to be cleared. I had enabled WebRender in Linux (it's experimental, I know), and the computer would run fine for weeks at a time, then reboot out of nowhere. It would continue to reboot any time I opened firefox, sometimes a few minutes after starting firefox. The reboots would persist even when I would boot into Windows instead of Linux after one of the forced reboots. Once I narrowed it down to firefox causing the reboots, I started it in safe mode and disabled WebRender, and I haven't had any issues since. This was with a 1050TI graphics card.
It actually wasn't until baseball unions that players actually started getting paid well.
I prefer Django's Model View Template.
Some rules break Ruby semantics - if you apply their 'rule' you get a program that does something different! I think that's an unreasonable rule.
That's a great question and google hasn't yielded any useful answers. Would the materials we have extracted and refined such as metal, return to some sort of easily mineable state in a million years?

lmilcin raises a great point that many surface deposits of material that help "jump start" a civilization would have been consumed, but would the decay of our civilization return those same materials back into the surface, ready for the next round of civ to extract it?
Wild is to put it mildly, the stock is historically extremely volatile. If past performance predicts anything, it could potentially tank in the next couple of years, like it did the last few times it shot up. Obviously they are doing some great work, but I wouldn't go all in on them for the long haul.
Ah, the good old "those corporate boomers elsewhere are uncreative and therefore we'll beat them easily" trope. It's certainly possible, but I have doubts that the generation of scrum teams and open-space offices will solve unions. Innovation is hard no matter who is doing it, and most of the "innovation" seen in the valley is just applying existing solved problems to economies of scale, made possible by advancements in the supply chain (such as the SaaS paradigm).
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread, and did so in this one.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...