skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if not sent to the gulags, sent back to a much lower standard of living. People with the equivalent of masters degrees in electrical engineering, aerospace, structural engineering etc could expect to have a fairly decent apartment, chance to get in the waiting list to acquire a family car, and other "high standard of living" compared to persons working in a manual labor job. Fail at whatever scientific or engineering endeavor your project was working on, and expect to lose your nice apartment and benefits...
It doesn’t matter who. The mechanism is always divide and conquer with the help of “useful idiots” in their parlance who are usually very enthusiastic members who believe the dogma a little too much and thus get in the way of “progress” and get “ditched” so to speak.
Wish it ran macOS...
I guess I could just link to the tweet where the president supported the display of the confederate flag. You don't have to dig deep on this one.

There are exaggerations on both sides for sure, but despite those you can clearly point to a "worse side" here.
Generally, it's a mixture of things. Namely:

1. The topic. Obviously a tech site will tend towards being a bit more respectful/sophisticated than a political one.

2. The initial group of users. As you may have guessed, your first few users set the tone of the community to follow, so if they're particularly intelligent/knowledgeable about the topic/whatever then your community will likely keep at least a bit of that culture going forward.

3. Moderation. Generally, a forum or community has to strike a balance between being too moderated and not moderated enough, with the former leading to a stifling atmosphere filled with yes men and the latter becoming anarchy/troll heaven. Something like Ask Historians is far towards the heavily moderated site, whereas something like 4chan and competitors are towards the anarchist side.

4. Barriers to entry. Invite only or paid services tend to have higher quality content than free ones where anyone can join.

5. Site layout has some effect, generally the harder it is to use, the more determined people will need to be to participate, which can (sometimes) push up quality. The minimalist/old school design here drives away a certain percentage of the 'mainstream' audience.

6. Anonymity is a mixed bag. A small, paid/invite only community of professionals in a certain field that's not anonymous can do really well, but it won't make a lick of difference on the scale of Facebook/Twitter/Instagram.

Either way, you can certainly engineer forums to encourage a certain culture/type of community, though it's still kinda luck based whether you actually get that.
> You'd need to sit closer than 2m (!) to a 55" TV to be able to observe the fidelity increase from 4K

You do realise that not everyone lives in a mansion? 2m is a fairly common distance from eyeballs to the TV here in the UK.
Sure it works fine (enough), however it's not some class in smoothness, excellence or discoverable, friendly UX design, which is what is often being claimed macOS is when compared to Linux.

Not saying Linux is superior on the UX front, but it definitely can be as good if not more productive, it has its issues but they all have, I simply haven't found macOS to be this above and beyond experience that is often being claimed and there was a period I gave it a serious try as it sounded so good. But...it's not really there. I get kernel panics, (haven't seen one on Linux in over a decade), UI freezes, (seen them often on all 3 OSes), clunky behavior, (no window snapping, wtf macOS).
does this mean that if I pass away, someone can take over my username and repos under my account ?
> "I've never had to use these data structures, and even if I did, I would look them up again."

Exactly.

Also, notice these companies are the top largest, tech-focused companies that require this low-level manipulation. I can't imagine you need to re-implement an algorithm at another job.

Simpler algorithms sure, but at that point it's just basic programming.
Burning down buildings and looting is "peaceful" to you?

How about spreading Covid during a lockdown? Is that peaceful as well?

Take a moment and watch this video, out of Novato... https://streamable.com/58kma9

These are senior citizens, in a 85% liberal area, who are trying to support local business during a pandemic, and they potentially just contracted Covid which could easily kill them, for what?
So I had a bit of a theory (it's stupid I know - you don't need to tell me) that meant that YikYak was to Ottr as Vine was to TikTok - as in;

The idea behind YikYak was so good it was ripe for someone to come along and play of the nostalgia that I (and many of the people I know) for it. YikYak came along when I was in first year of university and it absolutely blew me away with how inventive the idea was. I had so much fun with it, and people were creative and funny on the app.

There is something about it that tickled that tribal part of your brain because it felt like you were part of a big community (but not too big that you feel alone). Seeing a post about your actual friend on the feed from someone anonymous was so engaging.

Lockdown seemed like such an opportune time to release a hyperlocal social network, but I spent so much time tweaking it and trying to make it perfect, but I didn't know how to make people actually use it (I still don't know).

I had Ottr in a working state, but i've made peace that it is solely a learning experience for me, and a fun one at that! (until the burnout of course)
Had the experience on several occasions in C# on 32 bit. The whole idea of the 80bit operations is flawed in an environment where you can’t control the native code generated with register allocation and so on (so in most high level languages). We became so used to these bugs that we immediately recognized them when some calculation differed on just some machines.

As C# is jit-compiled, you could never be sure what code would actually run at the end user machine, and where the truncation from 80 to 64 bits would occur.

In the end the best cure is to ensure you never ever use x87, which happened automatically when dropping 32 bit support.

Determinism is too important to give up for 16 extra bits.
It’s difficult to build simple (to use) things
Interesting, which area do you live in ?
> When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred.

More precisely, this research appears to show how emotions expressed in Facebook posts get mimicked by connections. Should this be taken as literally reflecting people’s underlying emotional states[0]? I’d accept that they correlate to a degree, but not completely, especially not on a platform that mandates real names.

[0] Anecdotally, I could be on balance in a happy state but express annoyance at minor aspects of life in my posts. In fact, the existence of things to complain about is a sign things are going relatively well (when things are looking down on a fundamental level, going on record with that under a real name is risking to alienate IRL connections, and minor nuisances of life seem too insignificant to be worth mentioning).

Conversely, seeing more negative posts would make me feel compelled to post more of the same, but on balance feel better about my own situation after seeing what emotions others have to deal with.
Yes. He came to my desk a week or so after he okayed the release of the software and took me to a conference room. I don't know how long he chewed me out for because I was red with rage but too terrified of losing my job to say anything. I've experienced similar rage with only one other manager [1]. He was 3 levels above me in the management chain, I really liked the two above me (the test manager, as I was in test at the time, and the software manager) and the guy above him [0]. I wanted to stay with them and I had a good friend there as well. But I did apply for a new job a couple months later, and left by the end of the year.

It was my first professional development job and I learned a lot of things. One of the keys was this:

Your boss and employer are not your friends. When you promise something to your friends, you owe it without any expectation of reward or return. But your employer owes you something for everything you give them. If they fail to meet their end of the bargain, that's on them and you are absolutely 100% free to leave. That can be money, time off, good working conditions, respect, trust, or any number of things. For me money was not primary (though it is nice): I wanted a good work environment, interesting work, and respect. Fail any of those and I will be looking for an exit, even if it's just a transfer within the same company. But respect is first in that. A boss who shows little respect to his employees is not someone I want to be around. I had that boss who chewed me out, I had another that kept me doing busy work for a year and kept saying worthless platitudes like "you're important to our work, we can't do this without you" when everything pointed to that being false. He was just empire building and trying to grow his direct report count, but it hurt those of us under him because he didn't have the work (but he did have the money) to keep us there. (I was still relatively junior at that job and stayed longer than I should've.)

[0] The hierarchy was something like: VP of Engineering (several divisions below him) -> Chief of Engineer (Aviation) -> Chief of Software (Aviation) -> Chief of Testing (Aviation) -> Me; other production lines had similar chains below the VP.

[1] When she was my manager I quit, or more accurately transferred to another group. Years later, I quit my last job for several reasons, one was her. She was not in our division while I was in that position, but they'd just hired her on. When I heard the name I had to verify, when I confirmed it was the same person I was ready to exit.
Same on iOS safari. Had to hold back button and select a few pages back...
I'm certainly blurring the lines a bit, but I would argue that in most cases there isn't a need for both. The tech lead can be the "manager".

"Managing people" isn't a full time job in most cases. It all depends on how the organization is structured and how many non-technical tasks are being assigned to the "manager". Sometimes a manager is responsible for product, marketing, or HR tasks and all that will be dependent on the company in question.
I really hope we don't all devolve into acting like this.
>"In this study from Harvard 35,000 employees from the US and Great Britain were polled about their job satisfaction, and metrics were gathered about what influenced their happiness at work.

The results showed that

the single greatest influencing factor on employee satisfaction was whether or not their boss was technically competent."
> Some boards list in the specs, but that's not a guarantee that it's actually working.

You do realize that false advertising is illegal? Of course realistically that would be a very uphill battle to pursue but that doesn't make it legal.

For example my motherboard has built in audio. The board manufacturer makes some fairly vague claims about what precisely that means but it is clear that there are ports on the board and that they will provide some base level of functionality in conjunction with a supported OS. To the best of my knowledge the CPU manufacturer makes absolutely no claims about that feature. Nonetheless, it is reasonable to expect it to work.

Of course it would be nice if AMD required ECC support as part of the platform. Then all the boards would be required to support it and I wouldn't have to bother reading their spec sheets.

> there are really multiple levels of functionality here

This is the real issue. At least historically, some boards "supported" ECC memory to the extent that they could operate with it inserted; they didn't actually do any error correcting though. Of course in the case I'm aware of (MSI) they specifically stated that. If you as a consumer glossed over their claims and missed that, legally that was on you.

Other vendors specifically stated that their boards officially supported actual ECC functionality. It's not safe to assume precisely what that means though (silent vs reported) unless the manufacturer makes an official claim.
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I think snapchat have a similar massive deal with Google.

It really does solidify a kind of class structure within these tech giants. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon at the top and everyone else, even massive players like snap and tick tock are completely reliant upon them.
Seems a bit early/late for April Fools.
This is well known that Anti Cheat behavior is the same as a rootkit.

They do memory scan, Hard Drive scan, and send suspect files to home server.
This is the best option. Creating low-fidelity UIs that prove the business functionality are faster to develop/iterate and provide an immediate signal to even the least technical individuals that the feature is still incomplete.
> The world is much more inter-connected than it was then. The cost of a war with China is orders of magnitude more than the cost of a war with Germany.

"economic interdependence prevents wars" was commonly accepted to be true in the 1910s, right up until the outbreak of World War I
This is a stock pump.
The reasons I'd seen for considering a US ban on TikTok were all security related (i.e., various claims to the effect of TikTok collecting data on US citizens for usage by the CCP). Those reasons, if valid, would seem to remain valid even in the face of your points here.
The US tends to play word games to where they never armed the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the same manner its easy to play word games to where after years of screaming headlines about genocide (which I guess does not include the US carpet bombing of Cambodia), as soon as the Khmer Rouge, whatever that is supposed to be, gets pushed out of power in 1979, the US begins aiding the KR in a myriad of ways, including in 1985 when it began somewhat openly, somewhat clandestinely, arming the Khmer Rouge. ( This marks the start of the heavy armament
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/10/world/u-s-may-help-2-rebe... - note all the denials that any of the arms are going to the KR - later reports showed they indeed were).

It's kind of amusing to watch Americans in hysterics claiming a group is committing genocide, then arming that group for victory in their civil war, then going back to tearing their shirts about this genocide they claim happened. If it happened, then the good old USA armed the KR after all the period it supposedly happened.
If China can cause a denial of service attack on a country by remotely bricking all the network infrastructure or even slowing it down to a degree, this would still be economically devastating at the least.
Genocide of other people.
A huge opputunity cost of this kind of behavior is further distraction from forming policy that actually improves the lives of the community.
I only play on PS4 and I honestly don't have any problems with technical aspects. What you don't know can't hurt you I guess.
I really should just do this. So there are a few parts (API, App, Web, DB) to it - I wonder what is the best way of representing that? Just have the same readme with links out to the other projects maybe?
It's not splitting hairs if the expected reaction time and circumstances are so different. That being very unattentive can kill you in both doesn't make the differences irrelevant.
A close friend's father was one of the persons to return from Gulag. He was one of the few people that buried the rest of the camp, due to him being immune to whatever disease that killed everyone else. Survived, came back and conceived my friend, all thanks to a lucky mutation somewhere.
What's significant about this? Seems to be plain 802.11ac router.
Looks great. Can you add testing coverage as one of the metrics?
I wonder if there is a salesperson getting an insane commission from this transaction.

More generally/seriously how exactly does this conversation go? I've seen deals at my company which have been in the 7 figure range (involving many, many people) but never anything so large. Is this the kind of thing discussed only at C* level?
Actually, most universities don't take attendance. It's a waste of time, it punishes pro-social behavior (there is no good reason for people feeling sick to go to class), and it's infantilizing. "Attendance required" often means "we will notice if you never attend, and then will feel less bad failing you if you don't do your homework either".
> After about 20mph tire noise drowns out engine noise.

This has been claimed over and over and is possibly true in some test scenarios but not in any real situation. Noise is additive, the engine noise may not be clearly audible, but tire+engine noise is always louder than just tire noise. And any time an ICE actually revs up, it's clearly audible at any high speed.
They might be able to take some inspiration from the KMT slowly giving up power in the ROC without being eaten alive by their enemies afterwards.
Got one in London too. Seems like just a standard thing though, not getting too excited... yet
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Worse, Hyperoptic gives everyone a terrible ZTE router lol
These workstations are aimed at business customers, and so the customizations offered by Lenovo are going to be limited.

If you wanted a TR Pro workstation with a consumer graphics card instead of a Quadro, you could work with a third-party reseller. You and the reseller would have to verify compatibility yourselves (e.g. will the card fit in the chassis, will it have the necessary airflow, will it have the needed power connectors and will they reach, etc.), but it's doable.
Got it here as well (in Miami, FL)
Not everyone has good managers.

$JOB-2, admittedly about 4 years ago now, the good manager with a background in software left for a better opportunity and was replaced by someone who's background was management. With no insight into the subject matter, they fell back on whatever they thought they could quantize.

Got numerous things like that, though my team lead and our project manager did a great job of shielding the team from that crap, we still occasionally hear it come up in group meetings and the like.

I even got a task handed directly to me, bypassing everyone above me, to "estimate how much it would cost to migrate all those linus apps your team has to windows. They'll run better there". Just the windows licenses alone would have cost us about half the existing server costs since we were using AWS instances. Also included a line item that included recruitment costs for a new developer, and verbally informed him that it would likely involve hiring a new team, as the existing team was hired specifically as linux developers.
Your link says "Allegations". What is proven? Not much. The article suggests the U.S. was not too keen on Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and when they did actively support a group it was the non communist groups. China and Thailand actively supported the Khmer Rouge.
I too received an email requesting my service address (near Kenora, Ontario, Canada).
> I can't stand renting cars, they are all complete junk compared to my Model 3 at home. I said this to a Hertz in Denver, they gave me their best Jaguar.

I can't stand meat. I've asked McDonalds to give me their best BigMac and it was horrible.
>I have no reason to think I know better than the invisible hand of the market.

I don't understand how anyone can talk any more about the market having mystical powers after what we've seen in the past few months.

If the market was priced correctly in late February, and now that it's regained almost all it lost, how could it be priced correctly in late March at 1/3 lower? And if you swallow that, how is it that it went lower in a basically linear fashion over a month rather than instantly as whatever information was absorbed got out?

This really is bugging me as an "emperor's new clothes" situation, you can argue any which way on which is the right price, but how can you believe for an instant that they are all correct, reflecting all available information at all times?
"It's sad to me how many people here immediately assume either malicious intent "

In my defense, having lived on this corporate controlled earth for some time now, I do not think it is unreasonable to be at the very least mildly suspicious. Quite the contrary. The default approach should be cynical.

edit: Frankly, deeply cynical.
Think of all the time that everyone would save going forward not having to deal with pennies. It's worth spending some time up front for a benefit like that.
> The rich and privileged

Are you serious? Do you actually believe the balsetos risking their lives during the 90s in makeshift barges to escape Cuba's totalitarian stranglehold are the rich and priviledged escaping Castro in the 60s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Cuban_rafter_crisis
I had, in fact, heard of the White Terror, and the suppression of the island's indiginous people. I had not heard of the Gwangju Massacre.

There are two reasons why they aren't mentioned as much as Mao's atrocities. One is that those countries are our allies, and as a result we are more willing to overlook their faults. And I don't think that's necessarily right, but it's part of human nature to overlook the faults and flaws of friends and allies. But the second reason is that, even ignoring those effects, Mao killed far more of his citizens (and far more per capita), making it a much more interesting and disturbing event in history. The atrocities of Taiwan and South Korea come across as "run of the mill authoritarian leaders violently cracking down on dissent" while the atrocities of Mao's China are on a whole different level.

FWIW, as far as dictators and genociders go I think Pol Pot gets the least attention relative to the scale of his atrocities since he wiped out 25% of the population, and in extremely brutal and arbitrary ways.
> Every single field has figured out - sometimes forcefully - how to minimize harm to consumers.

I think it would be more accurate to say every field has figured out how to minimize liability from harm to customers. Data collection makes companies money, and there's little liability involved in most cases if you aren't in the health sector, so they grab all the data whether their core business needs it or not. The health sector needs some data because sharing it is vitally important, and they've shown that it takes a massive amount of time and money and complexity to do it to any acceptable level.

If we had some way to accurately value our data and privacy, and laws that made it the property of the individual, we would see a change very quickly.
Kubernetes does indeed have advantages but also brings a whole layer of complexity, overhead and moving parts. From my experience, in many cases the theoretical advantages don't end up being worth the tradeoff and/or don't even end up being implemented. Furthermore the particular things you mention (tracing, centralized logging & no-downtime deploys) can be done just as easily without Kubernetes.

I disagree about not needing dedicated infrastructure specialists. Kubernetes' complexity, learning curve and failure modes would make me uncomfortable operating without having a dedicated "devops" person (or sysadmin as we used to call them) while I am perfectly comfortable managing a few virtual machines (or even bare metal hosts) with a load-balancer in front of it. I recommend building systems in a way that can easily fit in your mind, and there's only so many abstraction layers and moving parts you can fit in there before you overload.

When it comes to scaling, not every application needs to scale and even when it needs to, it's trivial to scale stateless app servers without Kubernetes. You can scale quite far without Kubernetes, and when you're past that point you'll realize your main bottleneck is your data store and Kubernetes (or similar) can't magically solve that.
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