skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now it’s time to give the formal PIP, which everyone knows is “beginning the firing process”

Why not cut the crap, stop playing head games -- and get to the point? Just have - you know - a regular conversation with them:

"We've been talking a lot about how things have been going the past few months -- and I'm sorry to say this, but by this point we just don't think it's going to work out for you here. We could put you on this thing they call PIP, but honestly, to me that feels patronizing (and a waste of your precious time, to boot). And seriously, it's much better for your career and your next job hunt if you were to resign on your own accord, than for us to have to fire you. We'll give you a week or two to think about it - but if you're willing to resign voluntarily, we'll give you X dollars as severance" -- where $X is a non-trivial amount, basically on the order of what you would have spent on the 2 months going through the pointless, soul-crushing, and fundamentally insulting charade that -- as you say, everyone knows -- is PIP.

I know what everyone is about to say at this point: "because legal", "because temper tantrums, sabotage, etc". But in reality, the risk here is very, very small. The one time someone (from that precious breed of a "kind, high-empathy manager") went this route with me -- and from the few times it has happened to close friends of mine -- sure, it stung for a few minutes -- but ultimately we saw they were completely right course, and after the fact, we were nothing but grateful for their honesty, and for the pure courage and humaneness of the path they chose to take.

Your "reality" may differ of course. In a lot of companies (especially very large ones), no one really knows, or can really trust anyone, fears of sabotage (or a reaction substantially worse than a temper tantrum) are, shall we say, part of air you breathe once you walk through door.

But if that's the case, then you have far greater problems on your hands than the slightly awkward problem of firing a person that you just aren't clicking with.
So. I’m a little surprised that if Walmart has had this plan in the works for some time, why did they sell off Vudu? Why not leverage that somehow into a service included with Walmart Plus, if not only to include just the Vudu free-with-ads stuff initially. Just rebrand it into Walmart Plus.. Wouldn’t this have helped to compete with Prime more? Then they could include the paid Vudu stuff just as video results-to-purchase inside of Walmart.com, much like Amazon does, to drive more users and purchases of the Vudu paid content, but basically all rebranded to Walmart Video content inside of Walmart.

They must have explored this idea yeah? How could they not have? I guess that Vudu was just too valuable for cash and was a good time to sell?
A bit past that time I think? Yesterday would have been a lot better!
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The headache with Nvidia drivers and Linux is that depending on how new your model is and what distro you're using, you may or may not be able to load the GUI until you've manually upgraded kernel and disabled the Nouveau drivers (if enabled) then updated to latest nvidia-drivers-XXX package.

I tried to get Ubuntu/Pop_OS! 20.04 running on a dual-GPU laptop that has an RTX-2060 and AMD Renoir integrated. Had to modify kernel boot params to disable nouveau modeset and then run script for mainline kernel upgrade + drivers to get it to run. Was not a fun Saturday =/

But prior to this, yeah Nvidia non-open source drivers have mostly "just worked" for me on the older models.
Even if there was, what resolution do you want to be capturing? The 6' long at 900' is 0.38°. If you've got a normal lens, that's about 45°. That's about 1/120th of the field of view - about 25px on a 3000px width frame. Switch that to a wider lens (75° or a 180° for the "capture all the windows in one panoramic image") or go to a more common resolution for streaming video and its even smaller.

Even if the camera was there, the image wouldn't be that interesting. You could capture the view of the runway approach... but other than that, there wouldn't ever be anything of interest on the camera. Anything weird would be tiny on the camera.

It is deceptive - we've got good eyes. I remember my grandmother identifying my grandfather at the other end of a very large parking lot by his particular shuffle. Our eyes can resolve two objects that are 30 cm apart at 1km away. Cameras are no where near this good when it comes to details (and those that are aren't taking pictures with something that has its imaging area measured in millimeters). We see at about 500 megapixels.
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It isn't intended to be. But supporting the old APIs meant that they had to have Microsoft levels of backwards-compatibility.

• You want to refactor XUL so it doesn't duplicate features of HTML5? Whoops; you broke all the extensions.

• You want multi-threading? What a shame; that API over there assumes it'll always be called from the main thread.

• Update that database table's schema to store more data? Bah. Make another table, or you'll break extensions

When every implementation detail is part of your interface, bad things happen.
It’s not just transit. All local government projects in the US suffer from cost disease. No doubt corruption and waste plays a part, as do rapacious unions, but there is also the whole machinery of public participation designed to prevent future Robert Moses from steamrollering their pet projects, which worked all too well.
I'm not sure I agree with the source article's characterization of its data. There have to be confounding factors, given how widely the GDP impact varies among countries with similar death rates. So a negative correlation across countries doesn't demonstrate that individual countries don't face tradeoffs.
Amazing how many downvotes you collect for pointing out this.
I didn't. I claimed that RFA is an unreliable source on topics that directly have to do with the interests of US foreign policy because it was founded by the CIA expressly as propaganda and is under the control of the State Department.

I'm willing to accept that the information might be true, which is why I'm asking for a reliable source. If some information is only reported by a source that is very interested and was created for propaganda, it is likely false.
Would you be interested in a FE (Vue.js) full time position at Lausanne ?
There's "can" and "desirable."

I'm not a fan of the texture by itself.
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It's really not to different from a lot of religious behavior either. If people can feel deeply attached after reading a book or hearing a story It really shouldn't be surprising that that others can feel the same via stream or other digital mediums. One can also think of these purchased rewards/interactions as the equivalent of relic collection/worship.
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It's not the smartest idea to talk poorly about your employer in private, either. Especially in "confidential" employee surveys.
> It isn't just the show itself that they are paying for, it is the entire experience. The interaction, being part of the crowd, a crowd. Many things.

Yes, except with social relationships, exactly the opposite things are of value. You want to be as exclusive as possible with the other person, so that you both have as much of other's attention as possible. Otherwise, what's the point?

The value of being one a part of a crowd at a sporting event versus being part of a crowd on a platform like onlyfans, where the entertainment is social interaction are completely different and the analogy doesn't really hold (for well adjusted people, of course)

That's what makes this phenomenon so striking.
Isn't it funny and ironic, since Gnome is a GNU project and was created because KDE (Qt) wasn't FOSS enough.
People wear Golden State Warriors gear and party at Oracle after the game because they want to be a part of the crowd. That is exactly a search for connection. The Warriors don't care about you (at least not more than anyone else).
This is very useful. My use case is that I often write python simulations of designs and/or as cost analysis simulations, but I also often want to put these conclusions into white papers. This is an excellent way to de-duplicate the work of getting the python simulation code and the latex code both correct, and as a bonus, they can share a single place to change.

I'd love to be able to inline this code into my org documents, and have it display the latex output, but that might be asking for too much magic. (As in, not sure if the magic is worth the incantation.)
Five years taking 5000 UI daily. This goes on to show that short-term usage is likely a benefit.
I have thought about how fragile airport security is anytime I drive to an airport. Its almost like we are wasting money on TSA but like... The airstrips only guarded from public roads by a fence that I cant imagine takes much effort to get past.

Others have also mentioned its not impossible to weaponize a laptop battery. Hell get enough cell phones on board?
I'm surprised it took that long when news of Saudi $300MM investment in Twitter came out in 2015.

If someone gives you $300MM, you don't say No to them. Indeed, you've likely already said yes.
Or White Christmas ...
I read this more as Charlie Day joining hn and I think I prefer it that way.
That sounds a lot like my job as a Paramedic, actually.

At least Walmart got hazard pay. We were specifically exempted from it.

I too lack sympathy that she's only making $8,000/mo on OnlyFans. Reality is that she may have to adjust her lifestyle like hundreds of thousands if not millions of other people have.
I'll give you a few examples.

- Ubuntu 18 I had hit or miss with the hdmi connection on my laptop (1060Q). 20% of the time it would work if I plugged it in. 50% of the time it would work if I had it plugged in and rebooted. This makes giving presentations difficult.

- Arch/Manjaro/Fedora/Ubuntu 16 I could never get the hdmi connection working for a laptop.

- All distros, difficulty getting cuda running AND using the display. Intel drivers for display + nvidia for cuda works, but this means I can't use my GPU when I want to do some of the limited linux gaming.

Laptops seem to have more problems than desktops. On desktops I have many more hits than misses (if I have the graphics card installed when I install the OS). Laptops have just been terrible.
>Why would you keep a 1200$ RTX 2080 Ti or a 2500$ Titan when you can get at least the same perf for 50-75% of the price with the new products, and much better RTX perf

Well for one, keeping a card you already bought is free, buying a new one costs money.

Why are you all getting so excited about the prices given in a paper launch? Wait until you can actually buy one at that price, which I'm guessing isn't going to be until well into 2021.
> The problem is that it is so sensationalized, that it could be that there are 10 people doing this, and it's not really a big deal.

That's basically standard practice now. Find a couple outraged Tweets, present as though it represents the majority.
For a desktop app it's understandable, but tons of scripts rely on the existence of rustc and cargo binaries. If the fork has to rename it to not-rustc just because it added e.g. gcc support, then that's going to break all the scripts.
Part of philosophical instruction on logical arguments requires that the premises be rooted in facts that the other party can verify.
> for most keyboards, even specialised gaming keyboards this is like 30ms, which is 2 frames

Worth noting that unlike some of the other sources being discussed, this source of latency is more due to physical constraints than bad engineering or bloated software. Keyboards are limited by the physical travel time & de-bounce of the mechanical switches themselves.

So this is more a tradeoff of using mechanical keyboards at all rather than "gah bloated electron" or whatever.

The other common peripheral, mice, don't have this mechanical constraint. They can even achieve sub-10ms for clicks due to the difference in switch expectations ( https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tests/control/latency )

EDIT: Also 30+ms seems to be quite far off. Cherry MX's specs are around 5ms, and I'm getting 8ms playing around with this tool: http://blog.seethis.link/scan-rate-estimator/
What you mention goes into the 15%, the remaining 85% is basically "we also found traces of covid during autopsy"

Mind you, this whole argument could off course be nonsense and made up to make the authorities look good. But the statics over all deaths (someone posted a link in this thread) seems to partially confirm this.
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FWIW, both of those examples are not only the executives of a university, but also of a hospital system. The vast majority of college presidents make well under that, with a median in 2015 of 300k (https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...).
I think it's more likely a reference that long distance high speed communication is done via photons not electrons.
Depends on how you configure the chip. You don't actually need a chip, you can bit-bang serial just fine if you have accurate enough timing.

Typically a serial port would contain a small buffer which would fill up, upon completion of the first byte an interrupt would be generated and you'd respond to that and read out the register freeing up room for more bytes to be received. Transmit the same but reversed, as soon as a byte had left the shifter in the chip it would generate an interrupt so you could re-use that space for more bytes to send.

This works quite well. Hardware flow control can help in case the OS doesn't respond fast enough to the interrupts, so you don't lose characters.
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If your standard for "hurting innocent bystanders" is to mildly inconvenience some people by causing them to seek an alternative route, then no, it's not possible to have an effective protest under that standard.

The right to protest is generally accepted to mean that people are allowed to walk in the street in an effort to be heard.

I responded to what you wrote, and your arguments fall flat. Even during massive protests with millions of people ambulances get where they need to get and doctors go where they need to go.
90% good * 90% of the time = 81% good all the time [only :( ]
I spent my summer, helping to save a whole country
TikTok is fun because it has funny videos and dances and memes. If a company doesn't want its content to fill up with toxic politics, they shouldn't be forced to.
If that's the case, then this is an even smaller leap.
Something interesting I've noticed is that there is a big difference in usability between desktops and laptops. Desktops I have far less issues. But laptops I have to get lucky to be able to use my HDMI port. And good luck doing that and having cuda support.
> union fever back in the 80s

I think you meant to say Margaret Thatcher's war on labor? Her boyfriend in America was doing the same thing at the same time.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-113...
I hear the term 'emergent property' bandied about in relation to the mind as if using it somehow explains anything. It says nothing more than mind exists, somehow, yet we have no clue about its nature.

Scientists and philosophers agreeing on something means nothing as they have agreed on utter bunk before. The short of it is that we know little about the mind and have no idea how to even start expanding on the little we know.
All serial chips that I'm familiar with since the 8 bit days would do interrupts, the only time that I worked without is when we were just using GPIO pins to emulate serial ports.
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Do rules apply to anybody who is insanely rich anymore?
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The DEs are moving towards wayland.
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This stuff is probably waaaay over my head, but isn't that why SIGTERM was made for ? To notify a running process that the host needs to be shutdown/restarted and to let the running process finish it's current task (current frame encoding / current multiplayer game / current request / ...) and that the state / cache / progress / ... needs to be saved.

The process on aws side would then be : send SIGTERM to all workloads. wait for [configurable] amount of time (maxed at xx hours) or until all workloads have exited (whichever comes first). Shutdown the node. Update the node. Start the node. Restart the workloads.
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It is definitely the species that is doing the heavy lifting.

I saw what happened on a subreddit with a lassiez faire approach to moderating.

It started out with nice ideals, and as the political discussion began, it went to places no one should see.

Moderation was required, censorship was required.

Reddit is volunteer based, you can see what happens when you let people to their own devices. That experiment has been run ad infinitum at this point.

Secondly - the platforms don't want to be moderating content. They would ideally have Zero negative or law breaking content exist. That would mean that there is never a need for an additional cost center, with ever increasing fractal complexity on legal, human resources, policy and political fronts.

The top comment in this submission discussed the cost to conspiracy theoriests, if they were officially banned.

That is more than an acceptable price to pay, since the alternative is the widespread infection of more people to the virus.

In analogy terms - we have never had such a connected market place of ideas. Thoughts can be created and distributed at scale, in a way our species was never prepared to consider or defend against.

If viral ideas, which are designed to slip past cracks in our mental defenses, are left alone - they will proliferate.

That they will be emboldened is a minor tertiary effect compared to the massive primary damage of conspiracy theories.
I am not even from the United States and I got a call to turn on the TV.

That was before the second plane. I couldn't believe it. We did have access to US channels and the reporters appeared to be confused when the second plane hit and thought it was a replay.
Red Hat bought the company that created CoreOS so it's not surprising they have Red Hat/Fedora supported versions right?
Mine certainly i, since I tend to visit the same ten sites over and over again
Say a degree in English. The point is not that it's not relevant in this day and age. The point is that we don't want as many people graduating with the degree. There's an estimated 1.5M people with that degree out there in the world, with about 60k new graduates being added to the pool every year. If the college has to choose between 1% of the salary of a doctor or say 1% of the salary someone who works in retail, the college would choose the former. Not all colleges would cull their programs, because there would still be a need for that degree in certain professions. It would just better align colleges with the market, ensuring you have a quality ROI if you choose to go for a college degree.
I'm not saying that the reasons people go to NBA games and the reasons they go to onlyfans are the same, just that the money comes from the same budget--discretionary income for wants.
No. The goal of the left is to fix the existing divisions. In order to do so, their existence and extent needs to be laid bare.
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I guess you can't let people attach whatever willy nilly and trip the circuits or start a fire. Furthermore, that requirement is set by the trade show not the union right? Surely they take a share from the bills.