skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear people talk about meetings not working for them. I can't understand the issue. I've used it for many years across groups that are small or large, personal, commerical, whatever, macs, all phones, linux, windows.

At my new company they wanted to pay a license to use zoom. I asked why don't we just use meetings for free? The answer was it makes us look professional. That's where zoom is. There are dozens are alternatives.
We just did a zoom w/ 1,100+ different connections and it worked fine. I was pretty impressed.
You can also skim chapters in this book. Best book I’ve read on the topic, highly recommended ( Working Effectively With Legacy Code ) https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Fe...
Doom 3 running in web assembly
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But like you pointed out, there are times when it makes sense. The world is a better place because Barry Marshall gave himself H. pylori.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Gold is very volatile though. Treasuries at least pay interest.
The Soul of a New Machine is a great read! Highly recommended.
Zoom should really come out with a public statement (does one exist?). They've been called out a number of times over the past week or few and I think it would be wise for them to clear up any misconceptions (or hide in a turtle shell if they are clearly screwed either way)
I wouldn’t even draw that conclusion. NetNewsWire is very old school with an old fan base, and outside its existing fan base I don’t think it’s particularly relevant today (sorry). I doubt a user new to RSS or new to RSS reader on Apple platforms today would land on NNW.

(I’m a longtime Reeder user.)
weirdly zip recruiter is still hiring
thanks for the response, as well as for the alternative 'bar at a train station' example as a way to think about HN, rather than as a 'community' - I'm curious about the last point you make, about how an online community is 'healthy' in so far as can make any of its members a 'better person' - do you think this goes both ways, so to speak? As in, would you think that members of an online community are only as healthy for the online community in so far as they can make it 'better'?
The CEO has the biggest vote. CEO is the only role in which specific competencies can be exercised, and non-leadership gaps can be hired for. Strength of the CEO determines the size and number of gaps. Yes, it's possible for the CEO to delegate product decisions in support of specific goals, but it's the CEO who ultimately sets the company goals and fires the product person if needed.

Here's an interesting thought exercise: if one of you were suddenly unavailable (hit by a bus, won the lottery, etc) and the remaining person had to hire contractors to fill in that role, would the company continue? Is it the same company with the same vision? The CEO is the chief storyteller... the keeper of The Lore. In a very small company that does not yet have its own self-sustaining culture, replacing the head will result in a company which is something "other".

More practically, I'd advise you to think carefully about what you personally are trying to achieve. Want to remain in the weeds? You may be much happier transitioning to a more technically-focused role and handing off the strategy bits. Are you high-control and want to drive the ship, even if it means stepping away from the tech? Then execute like crazy in the big chair and truly own your role, but understand that this probably means recruiting technical / technical leadership help sooner rather than later.
Racing the Beam https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam
Wolfenstein Black Book http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
Doom Black Book http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

Platform studies book series in general cover a lot of this https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/platform-studies.
in free gmail calendar, click create a new meeting, add conference, pick hangouts, done?

Wonder why this is apparently not working? I don't pay for gmail. I'm not using it in a domain.
What we advocate for is making the technical assessment component relatively quick and painless, but using the work sample as a basis for assessing the other sorts of skills and intangibles that you mentioned. You can use your in-person time with candidates not to discuss their technical work, but to add requirements, talk through how they might build an additional feature, and generally assesses how well they communicate and solve problems beyond writing code.
Transgenderism and Futurism
> He is adamant that we are at the very bottom of the beginning of the curve

Sounds about right. The US is heading for a rough ride, which is made worse by a combination of lack of universal health care and sane coverage being tied to having an employer (or lack thereof of late). To say nothing of leadership (or, there too, lack thereof of late).

That said, the real stories will be sub-Saharan Africa and other poor countries IMO, plus Brazil and India in all likelihood. I'm struggling to imagine Western countries doing the right thing and extending a couple of trillion dollars to poor countries before it completely gets out of hands over there, even though it would be the right thing to do. Short of that, there will be new waves, over and over, until we've a vaccine.
> Tying up $ in assets that are sitting in warehouses instead of using that $ elsewhere is a not benefit to society

As we can clearly see now.

> One premise of lean is to match variation in demand to supply as quickly as possible

This is done at a cost of making the whole system less resilient against demand spikes and in-chain disruptions. A perfectly lean system would be following predicted demand precisely, maximizing efficiency at each stage, and as a result break down as soon as anything in the chain changes by even most tiny amount.

I'm a layman in supply chain space, but my observation is that the risk horizons on the market are too small - anything that happens less frequently than once every few quarters may as well not exist. So throw in a big enough wrench, and everything is in shambles for way longer than the existence of initial cause (see the so-called "bullwhip effect", or as it's known in control theory, a positive feedback loop making the system oscillating and unstable). It could've been helped if there was enough buffer in the system to allow time for expanding manufacturing capacity.

As for what to do with different kinds of inventory, two observation. One, the earlier you are in the manufacturing process, the more potential buyers for your product you'll have - so it's that less risky to keep inventory. It's probably not worth it to stock too much of front left doors to 2020 BMWs, but a sheet metal wholesaler doesn't have to run lean and choke everyone downstream when the foundries or miners get disrupted by an epidemic. Two, for some stuff it's really the role of the government to keep buffers. PPE and food would be this. Imagine if any of the Western countries actually had a proper (Cold War style) stock of PPE for a pandemic, and food for everyone for a year. There wouldn't be any worry about staple shortages or hemorrhaging medical staff. There wouldn't be a problem with PPE manufacturers expanding capacity either, as the government could just buy enough goods to fill in the entire buffer capacity they plan on depleting - which would give the manufacturers a chance to recoup their investment in meeting a temporary demand surge.

Bottomline: not saying that fat is good, but I think there's such a thing as being too lean, and that is the problem we're having.
Don't say that too loud. Trump might get ideas that'll make the 8 years under Bush jr look like a playground spat.
I never thought of it this way, but after reading your comment, this realization definitely hit me pretty hard.
Ouch, pretty dismal take on Dropbox.

> they have never been profitable

Technically true, but mostly b/c of stock comp. Free cash flow positive for quite awhile:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DBX/dropbox/free-c...

Not exactly burning money. $1.2BN in cash holdings and growing, projected for an additional $1BN this year.

> have said in their own filings they don't know when or if they will ever be profitable

.. in 2017, and this is basically just boilerplate. Just about every company that goes public says this in their S-1 these days.

Now, 3 years later: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/02/22/investors-cheer-dr...
I'm still working thru "The Innovators"! and so far it has been a delight. One of the main points of the book was the importance of teamwork. It's a great take on the idea that in the shadow of great figures, like Steve Jobs and IBM, lie hundreds of lesser known innovators.
That doesn't mean that the system as it exists is good. The system as it exists isn't perfect. Maybe listening to those coming at it with a fresh perspective gleaned from youth would benefit society a bit.
Yes, the problem is the energy that could be used to produce oil would be much more efficiently used by applying it directly to what the oil was going to be used for.
Bring the magic of Lenses to your live streams and video chats on PC and Mac
Suppose you get the disease and develop antibodies for it. Your body is pretty darn good at fighting the virus and won't get sick from it easily. But, you're in a place with a huge viral load exposure.

Wouldn't that imply there should be some of the virus in your lungs? Test accuracy aside, is the definition of "positive" even clear?
I really want to see more from this. I've literally had dreams of having a sandbox version of the world as we know it. I'll probably be downloading this and exploring a creepy empty version of my hometown.

I love the idea of having a built up version of the world but I also get a sick pleasure of seeing the world with no buildings whatsoever. It has this peaceful serene logan's run/mother 3 "death of humanity" vibe to it. I hope the terrain generation gets more and more improvements and we get closer to what the world would look like untouched.

Minecraft is truly a game of the ages...

Ps. Mojang should totally officially incorporate that chunks mod. Projects like this just show what wonders could be done with it.
So we found an approach that works well for me and my wife. We use the builtin Notes app on iOS and have a shared note where I ask siri to add whatever I'm missing to the list, then every time one of us goes grocery shopping we just pull the list.
Experimenting with prior box layer in Single Shot Detectors SSD
These are the foundational aspects of our hiring process that we openly advocate for. https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/the-qualified-manifesto-...
I'm familiar with the theory, but I've never seen that actually happen. And really, that just shifts the problem. If you need really amazing managers and really amazing senior engineers to make it work, you now just have a different hiring problem. As well a robustness problem, in that choosing a senior person badly means the whole team can go off the cliff.

Personally, I'd rather start with the amazing senior people, hire bright juniors, and mentor them into being amazing developers as well. As well as investing in tooling for non-developers. If a chunk of work is boring enough that a mediocre programmer can do it without risk (e.g., creating reports), it's perhaps boring enough that you can just enable the users (with, e.g., report builders).
I see Jon G referenced in the readme. Is this work based on his livestream series where he ported Java's concurrent Hashmap to Rust?

I love his youtube streams. He's extremely patient and thoughtfully thinks through problems in a similar way to me, making it easy to follow.

Regardless, kudos and great work. I'm sure I'll find a use for this in some of my tokio projects.
Amazing bit of information, thanks! This would have saved 12 year old me quite some time. I think I never owned a CD that had CD-TEXT on it, or if I did, I had already given up on doing real-time transfers via my PS2 at the time.

A Sony-proprietary extension sounds plausible, given their track record of developing pleasant niche features like this, especially between devices in their ecosystem.

(Sonic Stage and Real Player were both horrible, but could transfer a full album in a few minutes over USB.)
That reminds me about stories of people trying to record nature untouched by man-made sounds.

It has become increasingly difficult to find locations which are purely nature. I wonder how much easier it has become since the number of people generating "work noise" has fallen so much?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/24/machine-...
> That's the definition of capitalism

It's interesting though that there are certainly extremely successful companies like MEC in Canada and REI in the US who don't follow this model.

Their customers are extremely happy. Their staff get paid. The y create excellent value for customers. BUT they don't make a profit. Nobody can get rich from owning a slice of it.

Why couldn't more companies be like that?
Great, thanks, adding to the list.
I didn't really understand this until I started using golang. Now I don't want to go back to other languages and have to deal with varying syntaxes and manually running a formatter.
Fun story about this.

I once did a night "hike" up to Tibidabo. This wasn't organized or anything, just a few friends and I took a commuter train out of the city to the base of the mountain, semi-stranding ourselves. Then we walked up to the top, slept outside on the hilltop and enjoyed the sunrise the next morning.

Tibidabo has an amusement park and a cathedral, so there was a night security guard who was very confused by the 4-5 tourists hanging out outside his gate at night, although he didn't complain much.

The relevant bit here though is that on the walk up the mountain, we saw more than one wild boar out on the roadside, including a whole family. It was unexpected and frightening.
Your parent claims it is a generic solution.

I am confused what the problem actually is.
You might not using it that much I'm guessing. It's meant for power users like teachers, academics, government agencies, people who are doing video conference more than once every day and just need to get things done reliably.

Everyone I know has switched to Zoom. It's a clear improvement in a technical sense than all the existing options out there. We're trying to do our jobs, not make a statement and end up embarrassing ourselves professionally.

So no Zoom does not have to clean up its privacy act. Other companies need to improve their software on a technical level to be more reliable and be more optimized. It's ridiculous that companies who supposedly have amazing developers like Google, Slack, Microsoft, Facebook, can't even do teleconferencing well.

PS: You don't have to download a program -- it has an online version.
When I was at Sun, somebody hacked up a version of Michael Power's classic NeWS "Glass Clock" tool (that shaped the window so that it only showed the hands and the 12 tick marks, so its face was transparent and mouse clicks passed through it), so it ran setuid root in order to call stime() to set the operating system's time, which it let you easily do by simply dragging the hands around the face, just like a real clock! ("Temporal Direct Manipulation"!)

This is the original version, without that hack:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/news-tape/utilities/...

% Glass is an implementation of a NeWS clock that I wrote to
% experiment with shaped canvases. The clock is shaped like the
% the hands and tick marks thereby allowing you to "see through'
% the face to whatever lies behind. Because of the bug concerning
% stroking a canvas path the face must redraw every time it is
% updated (gross).

As it turns out, it REALLY SUCKS to have a clock that made it so easy to accidentally change the time on your workstation! The way the glass clock could float unobtrusively above your other windows, it was really easy to accidentally hit the hour or minute hand with the mouse and move it without noticing, then you'd miss meetings because your entire workstation would have the wrong time! Unless you were running it over the network on a different server, then you'd change the time for everybody else using that server, so they would miss their meetings too!
I'm not really any kind of ecologist?

Humanity has an outsized impact on the world (natural and artificial). Our influence has impacted nearly all the ecological niches on earth. That said, assigning moral agency to me (or you) for that depends on a series of logical connections between ways of being and the human impact on the world.

We each choose (somewhat - hard to choose to be born in the first world) how we live, but individuals have limited agency for what "humanity" does as a whole. It's all well and good to say "humans bad" (and I don't totally disagree?), but that perspective has been out there for a while and humans are still doing the bad things. Seems like we should search for different approaches.
Thanks! What a great tool. One talk about product market fit changed greatly what I prioritize in my start up.
Always wonder who these kinds of reviews / surveys are for? Nobody is going to learn machine learning by reading a 50 page pdf. Meanwhile, people that have experience will have a hard time finding the info they don't already know.

Opinionated & narrow >> Shallow & comprehensive
> it DOESN'T emphasize security / privacy

This sounds right to me.

Last week on Zoom, I attended an online conference (https://www.daniellitt.com/agonize/), and participated in a D+D game. Privacy and security weren't priorities. (Indeed, complete video of the conference has since been posted.)

That said, there have been problems, see for example here:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/03/26/zoombombers-d...

Some random trolls apparently joined a Zoom class and made jackasses of themselves.
Potentially the same problem, except you shift it forward in time. So perhaps the factory staff can recover and get back to work before the buffer runs out. Or competitors can ramp up production in time to compensate. Point is, a buffer is adding inertia into the system, an integrating block, which is often a good thing, as it eats oscillations. It's essentially the same reason you put capacitors next to the power supply in electronics - they eat voltage spikes, preventing your device from shutting off just because it briefly drew more power.
Docker solved most of my problems but I used to simply have another user account on my home machine so my personal stuff doesn't mix with work. Makes it harder to get distracted by personal things, too.
> I don't understand the vitriol towards landlords.

It's because real estate is - the vast majority of time - a tried and true way to accrue wealth, and it takes a least some measure of wealth (or a lot of personal risk) to get into it. People get angry when they see folks they think of as "less deserving" with money, and literally the only thing you need to get into real estate is money. So there are a lot of "dumb" people doing it, making a lot of money, seemingly for no reason other than they own the right building.

I've dealt with commercial landlords before and they can be ruthless. As a commercial tenant, you're most likely paying everything. Your rent (with yearly increases well beyond inflation), pro rata insurance, pro rata real estate and school taxes, common area maintenance (CAM) fees that can be thousands a month between all tenants for snow to get plowed ten times a year and the grass to get mowed.

If you're a low margin business it's easy to look at half your revenue leaving the door to your landlord who (in your eyes) has zero risk and provides no value and get angry. But I owned a brick and mortar business for 4 years and had 3 landlords in that time because they kept going bankrupt. So there's definitely some risk associated with it.
Just to explain, I’m saying the dynamic in MetaTalk itself is unhealthy, not the resulting policy changes (separate question.) MetaTalk encourages incessant participation in controversial threads by users who want to influence the site, which then draws users who make valuable contributions to the rest of the site into MetaTalk to defend the viewpoints of themselves or others, which decreases participation across the site. It also creates an unnecessary opportunity for long-time members to get upset and close their accounts. Over time, MetaTalk has fatigued the staff, so they have implemented controls to limit discussion, which in turn upset community members who feel they are denied access to that backchannel, which has driven participation in new side channels that respect fewer of the site’s norms.

Hopefully that makes sense. Keep in mind it’s my opinion. I still consider MetaFilter a generally healthy community, too.
God this is so dangerous. Any weakness in the sub and you get crushed to death by pressure so fast that death would travel backward in time and kill you before you even get a chance to start dying.

I don’t understand how bored a high net worth individual must be that they would choose to risk their life and its potential like this.
I think that's just the fate of every online forum. It's comment entropy, and it's inevitable anywhere, everywhere, always. You saw it with Usenet in the '90s (especially after Eternal September struck), you saw it with Slashdot in the late '90s, and you see it just about anyplace really. The bigger a community is, the more diluted it gets, and the more comment bike shedding happens: people posting for the sake of posting, and not putting any more thought into what they post than they do in most casual conversations (or even less thought), etc.

What happens when a forum or medium expands to basically the entire population? Twitter, at least for people who read both popular posts and reply chains that those posts inspire. It makes Eternal September look like a book club full of the world's most articulate English professors sipping tea and politely conversing about complex plot points while taking care not to say things that could be misinterpreted or incorrectly seen as a personal attack on someone else.

When people post good things (not necessarily positive things, but at least negative things that spark good conversations), those posts may or may not inspire other good posts. They probably won't inspire bad posts, worst case is that they don't inspire any responses but that's OK- good posts stand on their own and not everything needs to be a conversation.

Similarly, when people post bad things (not necessarily negative things, just things that spark bad conversations), it will hardly ever inspire good posts in response, but it's very likely to inspire many more bad posts.

So, good posts inspire more good posts, bad posts inspire more bad posts, but IME bad posts are like 10-100x more likely to spark followups. Going back to Usenet, you could have the greatest newsgroup in the world, but it could all collapse due to an influx of shitty posting from a teeny tiny subset of the people reading the group. It's like a virus that infects a forum. The bad posts explode in response to each other, the good posters slowly drift away altogether, and all of a sudden you find yourself in Slashdot or Usenet circa 1999. It's basically nothing but people insulting each other or using bad faith arguments or just writing at great length about how much they think stuff sucks.
Fourth time this has popped up. Here is the previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688058
The Venn diagram of people who use BBedit and NetNewswire is roughly a circle.
I understand your point—it's not about optimizing your process above all else (at the expense of speed, for example). But you can and should optimize your hiring process just like you would your sales process, onboarding process, etc and the outcome you're looking for is hires that are successful once hired. It costs companies far more if they sacrifice in the name of speed and make poor hires.
What are say the top 3 things from Usenet that would make HN better if we added them?