skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> motivations of the individual, the team, and the company should all aligned

Expanding on this from the perspective of building and managing sales teams.

Personality must be considered when building incentives. Sales teams can be paid on commission, paid on salary, or both. A great salesperson under one model can be terrible under the other. Commission-paid sales teams should not need motivating; their processes will focus on ensuring long-term decision making and avoiding risks to the firm. Salaried teams shouldn't need those processes to be as heavy, but will need ones to get balls rolling.

Lifting systems from one model and applying them to the other will be disastrous. Unfortunately, a lot of naïve management involves this sort of tooling transport.
There's an infinite number of different sets of orthogonal bases that you can construct any signal from. Sine waves (with phase) are a quite natural and convenient choice though, for mathematical reasons (for example, the efficiency of the Fourier transform).
Control Bootcamp – A lecture series on optimal and modern control
Use postgres instead
May 2020* All New 4 Roblox Promo Codes “100% Working” Not Expired “Virus Items”
The site is now responsive for a mobile viewport. That is a usability improvement in my eyes.
I don't, they find me ;]

(I process the new section)
I don't understand how anyone can support Lenovo after the spyware incident.
You don't need "AI" for that
You’ll definitely get it, but I ordered one way back almost when they first announced then and it took months to finally get here - they are very fair with pricing and it’s super cool how open source it is, but they aren’t fast :) plus with covid, it could take even longer. They definitely will ship you the laptops though.
I'd like this too, but I'm not sure how to do fault injection against an Amazon-controlled service.
XP (and most Agile Manifesto children) proscribes a bunch of onerous activities in favor of a set of less onerous activities, but people aren't looking for discipline, they're looking for ways to avoid pain.

While discussing the failings of XP as practiced, someone put it this way:

You are effectively telling people that if they eat their vegetables they can have dessert, and what happens is people eat their dessert and don't want to eat their vegetables.
> Customers cost money, why even have them?

That certainly seems to match the customer service attitudes I've seen from many banks...
It is rare, which is why we often have that great team/project that we miss so much because it was just right.

You can interpret the Steve Jobs quote about A players hiring A players, and B's hiring C's (and so on) as a reflection of technical skill, but I think it's a lot more about personality and psychological safety than technical skill.

A good team often seems to focus job interviews on the person, not the technology. Yes, make sure the person can do the job technically, but really focus on whether they'll get along and work well with the team. Make sure they are a good fit. That's A players hiring A players.
If you think that using libraries to do things in C++ means they are "bolted on", then you don't understand C++.

The entire design of C++ is to enable efficient libraries for these kinds of things to be built. And it does, and has, and will continue to for decades more.
> I bet if you went digging you could find instances of Obama taking a vacation or otherwise relaxing following Hurricane Katrina.

Kind of surprised this needs to be said, but Hurricane Katrina occurred in 2005; Bush was still president then, not Obama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
Swarm-Able Server OS for Native Container Orchestration
Now that we're all running Kubernetes ON TOP OF Linux... essentially two operating systems... when is someone just going to cut the fat and collapse these into one?

The hypervisors must have custom linux variants they've rolled that accomplish this no?

And make it swarm-able with other machines?
The article makes a good point, that it is not only a financial decision (b/s vs pnl, risk premium etc) but as well an architectural and functional one. No CFO usually has a good enough understanding of the intricacies of those risks.
There's this really interesting blog post Im not remembering about nodejs and async concurrency style as compared to golangs one. I cannot remember the author's name, but it goes into length as of comparing async functions and the differences between normal regular func and the async ones, and calling async func only on async scope and so on. Only I remembered I found it retweeted by Brad Fitz. I though maybe someone could guide me to it here
That is pretty drastic. What's the culprit for such a massive difference?
This is the only way to do it.

The kernel devs or distros can't possibly support every hardware combination and BIOS bug for each hardware manufacturer.

For Windows the hardware manufactures have a reason to make the drivers bug free, its where they make most of their money, and Microsoft has the capacity to help them get it fixed if needed.

This doesn't exist for Linux unfortunately, unless you buy a laptop where Linux is fully supported (and you use the supported distro and kernel version most likely).

I have to say the main culprit for issues is usually power saving. I assume that's because ACPI is often badly implemented and power saving requires a lot of separate components to function together, to specification. Likely one doesn't, and the laptop comes out of sleep with the touchpad not working, or something worse.
Thanks for the comment! Updated the readme. During the conference we ran we did integrate chat and video tools (Rocket.chat, slido, slideslive). This is really just the glue to pull those parts together.
The only explanation I have for that expectation is that I'm a woman. It's not an explanation I like because it gives me no means to solve the problem. It's also not universally true that all women are dirt poor, so I would like to think there is some solution, but I don't know what it is.

My experience with doing nice things for people that they didn't expect is that they either latch onto me as a mommy figure and treat me abusively or conclude I'm hitting on them and they would like to hit that. The idea that I'm just social and warm and I see this as a diplomatic thing to do seems to never occur to people. They always and consistently interpret it as extremely personal and latch onto me in a problematic fashion and it doesn't go good places for me business-wise that leads to money.

I've been trying to sort that out for years and I feel I have made some progress, but it's far from a solved problem.
I work for Microsoft on a moderately complex chromium extension. We've investigated porting it to Firefox (we've had a small but nonzero minority of users ask about it, and several of our engineers have a personal interest in it), but it's really hard to estimate ahead of time how much effort it's going to be. Most of the issues are not so bad to fix individually, it's just an unknown-length onion peeling exercise. It's especially challenging when a library/framework you use is impacted by a difference and its maintainers aren't motivated to improve compatibility; some examples of this we've run into include "Firefox's RegExp implementation doesn't support named capture groups" (but the library author doesn't want to make the code less readable by not using them) and "Firefox's auto-size behavior for extension popup UI (what you see when you click am extensions toolbar icon) sometimes sends spurious window resize events when the DOM is modified" (the UI control library we use has behavior to dismiss context menus on window resize, which this breaks).

The most painful incompatibility I've read about was in the Bitwarden extension, which basically doesn't support most operations in Firefox private windows because Firefox intentionally doesn't support getBackgroundPage() from there, and Bitwarden architected their extension to use that for all IPC between their frontend and backend layers. You can avoid that incompatibility by using runtime.sendMessage for that purpose, but they didn't know that at the time they wrote it (there's a warning about it in the MDN docs for getBackgroundPage now, but that warning wasn't there at the time). We happened to have gotten lucky in our extension in that we use sendMessage for the same purpose, but we certainly didn't know about that incompatibility at the time we were making the architectural decision.

Beyond just making it work, our team would also want to be able to automate regression tests against Firefox if we were to officially support it. For a long time, selenium was the most realistic option for that, but we switched away from selenium to puppeteer a year ago due to reliability issues with the former. Now that Firefox support in puppeteer is very recently starting to stabilize, we're hopeful we'd be able to use that, but we haven't tried it yet and it's new enough that we wouldn't expect it to be fully compatible/stable yet.
There's a lot of ways to mishandle unicode. Checking that non-BMP characters work, that emojis in various sections work, and that emojis with modifiers work are all good tests.
I can’t recall the name of the principle, or the exact dose, but isn’t 1 Sv enough to cause a 50% death probability from radiation sickness, and 3 Sv enough to cause a cancer? There is a good youtube series (IIRC nuclear policy course at MIT) I was watching when the Chernobyl show was on last year.

So 0.25 mSv is enough to cause a cancer for every 12,000 people they scan. That’s a lot of people considering the throughput of airports. Lovely. I’m glad this was shit-canned.
that's debatable, but my feeling is it's headed towards mandatory anyway so at least if everyone started opting out we have a chance we can force them to get rid of it.
Anyone remembers Google Buzz?

Google Legal will until 2031 or so.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/10/ftc-g...

Guess who'll be counting to 2040 if everything goes according to plan next week?!
I'd be a bit more patient with COVID, also they pleaded recently in one of their newsletters to ask on the forum, rather than overwhelming them with emails.

Also, HK has some restrictions on shipping until June 7. You'll get it. They're a small company, give them a chance.
Thanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking about adding prices and maybe even a way for you to filter for a specific price range but I'm worried about the pricing discrepancies between different domain name providers so I decided to stick with the Premium and Regular domains distinction instead.

Also, I love the "total" word potential - I'll figure out a way on how to incorporate that!

As for Porkbun, I've received a couple of suggestions to add that, and I'll definitely consider adding it to the mix!
> Again i'm sure something is wrong with my thinking. But my mental model is that we are operating somewhere along an infinite stream of events of trillions of universes and we are unbelievably special/unique. OR the universe is much more bizarre than we even remotely understand.

If you were to apply that napkin math to a petri dish solution of bacteria, you'd come up with a disappointing small number of possible evolutionary 'outcomes'.

Yet, in a few hours, with the right environmental pressure, a petri dish will happily evolve a strain of, say, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
This is both usable and has a unique "vibe", in a time when many virtual events have struggled to capture the character and human essence of their F2F events. Congratulations and thank you for releasing the code!

A few production questions.

1. Sync/playback is relatively fast. Are you using a streaming server or web-hosted video files?

2. On pages with video & slides, how are the two frames synchronized, e.g. are those two synchronized video streams with known timecodes for slide changes, or is the slide frame showing static images that are synced with video timecodes?

3. Did you chose Python because of existing code that you wanted to reuse?

4. Which existing software was closest to meeting your needs, and what were the shortcomings that motivated miniconf?
I see your point. But isn't that only true for two-tailed tests? This sort of ordering problem seems more suited to a one-tailed test. Let's say for example, we represent the bins of the probability distribution as the number of B's we can obtain (0, 1, 2, or 3).

In this case I am defining the statistical significance of our test ordering (AAABBB) as anything less than or equal to 0.05 of our probability distribution - which corresponds to the 0 Bs bin. This corresponds to a one-sided confidence interval of 95%.

What am I doing wrong?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%EF%B7%BD

Fun fact: it’s a single Unicode character.
Pretty much, yeah. There are some cases where Jepsen reaches into the guts of a database or lies to it via LD_PRELOAD shims, but generally these are Just Plain Old Binaries provided by vendors; no instrumentation required.
I guess I'd handle it by asking what proof there was that humans are biologically inclined to commit this fallacy.

on edit: I mean biologically inclined implies some genomic proof. Not just psychological studies.
The book What is life? How chemistry becomes biology by Addy Pross is an interesting read. Here is an article of the same author in Aeon that I just found:

https://aeon.co/essays/paradoxes-of-stability-how-life-began...

Summary of the idea: there are self-replicating chemical systems (e.g. start with a single type of molecule that shows autocatalysis) which will undergo variation (replication mistakes / 'mutations'). These will have to compete with the original systems and might take over if they show a higher replication rate (exponential growth!) in the environment that they are in, i.e. there will be selection and different niches. Complex systems seem to be better suited for this according to him as there seems to be more leeway to work in non-ideal conditions. So there is a sort of darwinian selection process that leads to complexification which in turn leads to what we consider as life.

It does not claim to explain how life on Earth historically came to be but why life might be sort of inevitable.
The CAD/CAM space is pretty out of date. Modern tooling in that space could be highly valuable. That said the industry is not that open to new ideas.
Weird - I just checked it on both Namecheap and Godaddy and apparently it's still available. Will double-check with the WHOIS database now. Thanks for letting me know!
To hell with structs! I'm using Cuelang now

https://github.com/cuelang/cue

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
This is officially the hardest I've laughed at a grammar mistake. At the end of the third line, there's a missing space between "years." and "We". Petty, I know, but I expect a grammar company who took over my Youtube ads earlier about writing perfect emails and blog posts to have perfect blog posts.
Is there something that is annoying you? Do you know there is a better way to do it?

I've spent part of the pandemic automating OpenAPI spec with minimal annotations needed for an API. I was annoyed that the existing solutions wanted more annotations than actual code, when all the information OpenAPI/Swagger needed was already right there in my code. Just an example.
LInes of code on the screen … How small do you make your font size? I mean, it must be pretty small, so that you cannot read it with one display but can read it with a so called retina display.

Not sure that's practical at all and thus whether it makes any difference.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345030
The mirror of this premise is also interesting; think, for example, of all the extremely complicated narratives woven to explain COVID-19 (5G, Bill Gates, etc.) On the other hand, maybe those narratives could also be considered a kind of simplification, which is to say they all boil down to "it's the fault of {fill in the blank evil rich person or organization}" as opposed to what's more likely to be the truth, which is that nature and the physical world are full of complexity and randomness.
You give up biometrics and background information. The interview is designed to be intimidating.
Is it running the mainline/current stable kernel or is it something with out of tree patches that's behind?
> Eienstein got his PhD in 1905 and he couldn’t find academic jobs, partly because of being Jew and partly because he had burned bridges with few professors, which is why he had to work at patent office.

Einstein started working at the Swiss patent office several years before he got his Ph. D. He could not find an academic job after graduating from the Zurich Polytechnic School in 1900; that's why he ended up at the Swiss patent office.

> His special relativity paper was published after he got his PhD.

They were both in the same year, 1905; the actual publication date of the paper may have been after the date he was awarded his Ph. D., yes.
It's much easier to unscrew and take the back off the Latitudes than the Thinkpads and their hidden plastic clips that you risk breaking. For some reason, even recent Thinkpads are way over-valued on EBay, this is not the case for Latitudes which you can pick up cheap from ex-corporate deployments. The 7390 also has a WWAN slot and you can use any $30 card, not a specific one on the Lenovo whitelist. The battery is also bigger, lasts 10-15 hours dependent on radios/screen brightness.

I am a recent Thinkpad to Latitude convert, the Dells are just better, less cost, better hardware, maybe less Chinese malware.
> And that if I just took off my rose-tinted glasses, I'd realize my Rust code is buggy, unsafe, slow, and hard to maintain

I didn't get the impression.

I understood that Firefox talks about their success in rewriting in Rust because it's their language, they control it and are the major sponsor and user.

I don't think Google or MS or any other company heavily involved in crafting programming languages for their own purposes will ever go that route for some of their core software, because they can't control the language and if they tried they would get the blame for trying.
An observation from my wife's book club. They spend 15 minutes talking about a book that perhaps 50% of them red, and the remaining two hours talking about other things.

The 1-2 women that were actually serious about book analysis quit the book club.
Hmmm...I'm debating between Porkbun, Iwantmyname and Domain.com - which one do you guys think I should add next?
The open letter from biophysicists at UCSF _at the time_ outlined many of these concerns [1]. It was clear that the way these machines were being assessed was not scientifically rigorous, and were likely dangerous. The DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff had an interest in the company selling the scanners [2]. The damage done to the public’s trust and the public’s DNA by forcing these machines on people was awful.

[1] https://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2010/11/17/129...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff
So many falsehoods and dubious claims in your comments for someone claiming to be basing his opinion on facts: China already injected 100 people with a vaccine under a trial[0], Oxford will soon inject 10000, both said it will take months to know if the vaccine truly worked as intended but is nothing like your claim of "years".

> "[is not] possible to save those 1 in 1375 people who will die from covid"

You know which day of the week surgeries are most successful? Monday, can you guess why that is? Is because surgeons are most relaxed after a weekend and are fully rested and ready to fully focus on the procedure at hand, that should give you a small glimpse to the giant difference between treating 100 people one week and treating 1 person per week in the course of 100 weeks; in simpler words: The less people are in the hospital the more likely the ones there will receive plentiful care and monitoring, understanding that isn't rocket science.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-vaccine-adenovirus-c...

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/22/coronavirus-more-than-10...
Pre-check isn't surveillance conditioning, it's just a cynical cash grab, where you pay to solve a problem that the person you are paying is forcing onto you.
https://charbase.com/fdfd-unicode-arabic-ligature-bismillah-...

Also fun is ﷺ, (https://charbase.com/fdfa-unicode-arabic-ligature-sallallaho...) which has the longest unicode decomposition IIRC.
10x gaps occur whenever you have to interface Java with the real world—disks, memory, CPUs, virtual memory subsystems, networking stacks, etc. to get high-performance.

That's why Cassandra has so much C++ in it, and why ScyllaDB is so much faster still.

It's not the C++ per se is "faster" than Java, it's what C++ lets you easily do that Java doesn't.

Other comments have said—well, Java is more maintainable. That's also highly-dependent on the context. ScyllaDB has a much better developer velocity than Cassandra, too. (Anyone can easily verify this.) I use the Cassandra/ScyllaDB example frequently because they implement the same spec, and do so in a compatible way.

It's also really easy to put C++ on the fast path, by adding Python to the mix. For "business logic"-like situations (supposedly the bread and butter of Java), that's what actual companies do, here on Earth, with people: use Python for the easy stuff.

I like Java, and there are certainly some very high-performance Java projects (LMAX, Aeron) and it's very productive, has great tooling, and tons of libraries. There's nothing wrong with it. You can even layer more productive languages on top of the JVM. Win.

What I have a problem with are claims that "all this C++ code can be replaced with Java" at some hand-wavey minor cost. That's…not true.

People are not stupid, they use C++ today because it can do the job when nothing else really can—Java included.

P.s. It's not even true that Java allows you to "forget about memory management". I don't know why people keep saying that, but it's objectively false. If you care about performance, you have to be aware of memory allocations. The GC is not some magic "make my code run fast" card.

Furthermore, there are so many kinds of resources beyond memory! And the GC is an impediment in many cases to using those kinds of resources effectively. C++ has an extremely good story when it comes to managing every kind of computing resource in a large, maintainable codebase.
Framer Web: First Impressions
We're uncertain about the death rate by at least a factor of 2 anyway. This "about one year" comparison corresponds to an estimate around one percent. Whether you think it's a big deal or not, it seems like a useful way to picture the numbers.

And it's interesting that the age profile follows relatively well. This was not true (for instance) for the 1918 influenza, which had higher fatality among young adults.
Did you mean: not true parallelism?
It’d be fascinating to know how many products, or entire businesses, are able to exist or even thrive through broad ignorance (whether willful or naïve) of their true nature.
My 7390 is compatible with the power adapter from a circa 2008 Vostro 14! Threw that laptop away a long time ago but still have the power adapter. And because of this compatibility, generic or replacement Dell power adapters are cheap on EBay. The same is also true for replacement batteries.
Sure, but there may be a reason why non-sinusoidal sound waves cannot exist in practice. For example, if I try to generate a square wave by applying +5V and -5V to a speaker, the diaphragm does not move instantaneously so the resulting pressure wave is not discrete. However, a triangle waveform may be physically realizable. But I'm not sure about that either, because a speaker is ultimately an inductor and hence the current flowing through it is non-linear.