skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't look for a change: their position was worse in the days of the Netburst dead-end and back then the company was just lucky that a second, independent path had been followed in the Haifa office to target a niche market (yes, laptops were niche in that age).

So has there been organizational dysfunction for decades? I think not: there are things Intel has always been doing very well and post-Netburst improvements after Core 2 have also been significant.

I believe that a big element is basically luck: you invest in a certain progression path and that investment will yield results so you keep going. Another path might be sufficiently better to write off the inferior path investment but you don't know that. Perhaps the unsatisfying path taken is the least bad of all. Even Netburst improved over time, a bit, and so did whatever forgettable AMD had been building between the Athlon glory days and those of Ryzen. As long as you see progress, it's very hard to just give it up for a fresh start (that may or may not be better). We can just be lucky that a luck/lock-in imbalance has never persisted long enough to make the lucky one the only survivor, because then they would never leave the left dead-end they'll inevitable run into some day.
Wow, what a great answer!
Thanks @forgotmypw17
Can you please be a little more specific?

The reason I ask is so that I can be more helpful when the issue comes up in other sites
In Hawaii, insurance cards are printed on special paper and must be mailed by your insurer. Printed PDFs or copies aren't accepted.
Good. Those devices are unsafe, and should not be used.
Problem is that the benefits of license free medicine to society are diffuse, while the benefits of a licensing fee are concentrated. That makes lobbying and organization/cooperation much easier for the entity that is developing the medicine.

The public is not as likely to organize their interests and establish a competent lobbying strategy. Just not enough in it for a single person for them to pay attention.
When I was younger, I used to take the Greyhound a lot between my home town and the town I was doing an internship. The stations were definitely in the not so great parts of town. If you were there after dark, it just did not feel safe.

Of course, you rode it because it was cheap vs. your other options. Eventually, I got wise to the slightly pricier competitor in the area and started using that. I have to admit that now I would not bat an eye at spending the extra $25 on the ride, but back then it felt like a luxury.
There's also Linux Vserver (2001), which used to be included in Debian, but is still in use today.
this is problem #1 of Linux Desktop. Toolkits and Libraries constantly changing and reinventing the wheel. Actually a big part of developing an GTK App is actually catching up with the API changes. As a proof of this see the early how-tos of GTK 3.0 and 3.2 and see the recent ones and see how much it changed.

There were plenty of apps changing from GTK to Qt awhile ago i suspect GTK4 will be the next. As for Gimp and Inkscape it will probably take another decade to catch up.
I'd love to see buckwheat honey in the US. It's dark brown, and it's much tastier than "regular" honey IMO.
A proper way to manage SSH when your infrastructure is rather large
No question, just would like to mention this very nice solution

https://github.com/standard-ai/cog

Definitely leaps better than what I was doing :-)
If you are in a position where promotion matters you are probably not in a position where you can choose the language that you're working with (other than by switching to a new position).

If your goal is to get a new programming language adopted, you should be interviewing a very restricted set of users: originators of major open-source projects, technical founders of successful startups, early engineers on a new product, and freelancers. Those are the people who are in the position to choose a new language. They often choose the language for very mundane reasons, eg. "It was the only option available for iOS development", "I understood its documentation the best", "This library that solved 80% of my problem was only available in it", or "I'd used it on my previous hobby project and it worked out well." Everybody else is working within the technology choices set by this group, so their opinion doesn't matter (for adoption, at least; you can still try to optimize happiness with them).
Article is missing Japanese games of Mystery Dungeons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Dungeon
Trick to Use iPhone Flashlight as Morse Code Generator (Shortcuts App)
My thoughts on the subject matter as metaphor:

crawl => walk => jog => run => sprint
Gotta learn to crawl before you walk [and so on..]

[crawl]- Pick a new city. Me: Houston.
local/inner circle/same street/apartment complex

[walk] - meet new people at work, hang out. It's tough but still possible in really big cities such as HTX.

[jog] - Naturally you will spend more time with those that you are more attractive to. Key word. Natural. If you fake it to make it, you'll probably just end up in the wrong crowd and not realize it. Story of my life. Possibly.

[.. and so on... you'll eventually find something that ticks you off enough to do something about it. At that point, you should just go for it. Considering you've made it this far with several great quality replies on HN.]

^ Having a structure like this beforehand can inevitably point you in the right direction for what you are trying to accomplish.

I hope this message provides some value. Regardless, best of luck!
Yes they do, bouncers now scan the IDs they look at with a machine.
14nm+++++++++++++ is still higher performance when power is less of an issue. Clocks higher. It’s a back port of a higher performance part to an older but more mature node.
I've already seen kids talking about "classical rouglikes such as Spelunky". So no, it doesn't.
Micromanaging might be one way to salvage a project that may have suffered due to inexperience on the part of the ones it was delegated to. In an ideal situation, to avoid micromanaging altogether, a manager must have extremely capable team members that are aligned with the common goal.
This is amazing! I guess we have gone full circle.

This also ties in to the other thing locserendipity.com does. It is a corpus of all pre-1918 books. Just use site:locserendipity.com in Google.
I don't see one of the most important parts of how to stop micromanaging, which is to help your team grow. I don't mean add more people, I mean to grow the skills and competencies of the people already on it.

I've noticed that often people micromanage because they don't trust their team, but it's not necessarily because the manager is a dumb narcissist who vetoes their team's brilliant ideas as some of these articles tend to imply (although it certainly can be). Often it's because the team is more junior, or missing a critical competency, or simply hasn't had time to grow into an area they're working on.

If you feel like you're the only one who can do something correctly/to a high enough quality bar, it's probably worth teaching someone to do it the way you want. Sure it'll be more work in the short term, but ultimately it feels like your goal as a manager anyway is to get to the point where your team basically doesn't need your help.
Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer! This is one of the best ways you can incrementally give back to your community. It's a small step, but you will find a network of like-minded individuals and will then be in a better position to take bigger steps. It is hard to change things alone.
Only thing I can add to this is I had an Uber driver in SF area who was a computer engineer for Intel and wasn't doing Uber as a fun aside to meet people...
Curious Pointers of Modern C++
Etherify – bringing the ether back to ethernet
The opposite of micromanagement can be damaging as well. Let's call this "no management".

I quit a job where I would only see the manager on 1-1 meetings, and was clueless about the state of the business and how to help team members succeed and get promoted.

I stopped discussing work topics on the 1-1 meetings since I didn't see any point, and eventually quit, as well as other team members.
> Annual or semi annual feedback cycles are WAY TOO slow.

too slow for who? in what sense? would quarterly be sufficient for your metrics?

> enable real time, continuous feedback for everyone
> making feedback part of the everyday conversation

that's what we use weekly stand ups and 1:1s for. continuous feedback may also not be welcomed and/or be distracting from actually getting work done. not sure since I haven't tried the tool or seen a presentation on a particular use case.

> light-weight, informal feedback on people's presentations, projects, or even performance

personally after someone has set up a meeting or provided a presentation that was useful I make sure to praise them or thank them at the end of the video call. not sure if this is a problem for others? In terms of performance, that is a tricky one, since it can feel personal. It requires a empathetic manager to get right. Maybe a tool CAN help?

> more importantly, use it to give constructive criticism to help them grow incrementally

I'm all for sensitive conversations to be f2f. I can see potential use as a forum for someone who is explicitly requesting feedback. You know the old adage about unsolicited advice.

> Request feedback from multiple channels or people in one go. No need to ping or remind them, we automatically send reminders on slack.

Seems like a busy manager type feature?

I do want to note that a product like achievers accomplishes a similar thing (recognizing peers) once a month, and you get rewards, which is a nice perk.

> We look forward to learn from the maker community here and are open and eager to get YOUR feedback to help us grow as makers.

Hope I wasn't too harsh.
Headlines stop around 2019. So you're probably right, it's old news. And, to be fair, it happens/happened here too: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-02-27/beekeepers-call...
You should be a FAANG employee!
How These Brands Are Using Amazon Alexa to Boost Sales
In India this has been a thing for a while now. Just that it is provided by the central Govt itself - https://digilocker.gov.in.

You can keep many Govt issued IDs in there and those are all good to be accepted and treated as valid across the country - for example DL and vehicle ownership docs when checked by cops. You can keep some non Govt IDs as well e.g. insurance docs.

I do have some privacy/safety concerns but I'd trust my Govt (that issued most of these docs in the first place) more than a corporation who are known as a business with privacy invasion as their primary function - in fact almost anything they do revolves around this core idea.
I use the example of publics works projects in San Francisco. There's a road called Van Ness that is going to have a bus rapid transit lane running down the middle of it. Should be really easy to do. But it's been about a decade and they're just hitting the last steps now. Why? Well, they needed to also upgrade the utilities below. But when they dug they found layer after layer of abandoned utilities, undocumented utilities, etc. So what should have been a simple operation dragged out for years because each action revealed something new.

The city now wants to add bike lanes to Market Street and is anticipating the same issues.
Would you like to buy new phones for their owners?
so when someone is using gmail on a macOS system, how are they using cgroups in any way? how is "the whole google" built on this? perhaps you means "google's web-facing servers using cgroups extensively" ?
I guess it depends on what kinds of voter fraud you're trying to "solve", but it doesn't help with mail-in votes. Also, forcibly marking someone before they voted would prevent them from voting. But I do like that it's low tech, easily understood and applied
Yeah I've had a MFC-L2740DW for something like 7 years now, and it's an absolute beast. It was like AUD$250 or something on sale, does printing/scanning/copying/etc, has wifi, and works on all our devices flawlessly (windows, mac, linux, phones, tablets). I've bought toner I think once in that entire time.
I love this website for blindly downvoting an MBA. Proud of y’all.

On the other hand, attempting to quantify R&D seems like a fool’s errand. Maybe quantifying between different paths of R&D to see which could pay off more is beneficial but cutting the R&D budget outright because it’s not profitable? Seems like you’re cutting away from your company’s future at that point.
There are also knockoff mousetrap videos that are obvious animal abuse that are recommended on Shawn Wood’s videos. Unbelievable that they would censor the original (which is quite tame and tries its best to make it humane) but leaves the obvious abuse unchecked.
Micromanaging is not the only way to get from results you don't like to results you do. I don't claim to be the world's best manager or anything but the approach that I have been successful with is that I try to be very clear about the results I expect (and why) and then when the results I receive don't match what I expected I communicate about the delta in results (the what as opposed to the how) and try again.

Using this approach can be a little slow in the beginning or when adding new team members, etc. but over time you and your people come to understand how to communicate with each other and trust each other and the team will be happier and more productive because they are given the space to work the way they find most effective and enjoyable.

People that are micromanaged are almost universally miserable and it's hard to reach the highest levels of productivity with a miserable team. At least (in my 25 years in business) I've never seen anyone do it.
Habit research disagrees completely with your contrarianism. It says that most long term changes are initiated with small changes that built a framework for more radical change over time.
My answer above has nothing to do with what cheaters get out of it, but instead the harms it causes non-cheaters in the same class...

They get higher scores relative to their honest peers, satisfy their parents of having learnt material that they haven't, and erode the culture of doing the work in the classroom. They also leave their instructor confused about how to best address the class. (And, it's dispiriting, as a teacher, to have teed up a lesson based on an assessment that shows your students have this down pat, and then to find 2/3rds of the way through that they didn't actually learn that material at all).

I realize we're talking mostly about undergraduate relative to the article, and I'm a middle school/high school teacher so it's a little different. Still...
If that were true then there wouldn't be an issue with collective bargaining.

Uber and Lyft only pay for the time a passenger is in the car, what is called engaged time, not for time with the app open waiting for customers or for driving to pick them up.

Given how many drivers they have, studies in california estimate that up to a 1/3 of time drivers are not engaged, and thus not earning, just driving around clogging the streets or parked, and make as little as $5.64 an hour.

Maybe you don't care about paying people poverty wages so they can never do better, but even if you are a sociopath who lives only for yourself, whose tax dollars do you think subsidize folks who can't afford rent, food, health insurance etc?

https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-effects-of-proposition-...
I was skeptical of that "15 pages/month free" deal when I saw it. For an infrequently-used inkjet, most of the maintenance cost comes from keeping the ink fresh (which is why I have a B&W laser.)

How could HP ever hope to profit by maintaining idle printers for free?
The whole point of this HP inkjet plan is to print full page photos. If you’re printing documents just use a laser.
Something I see frequently missing from the discussion on roguelikes is the long history of Japanese console roguelikes like the Mystery Dungeon series dating back to 1993. These games have not been very successful outside of Japan but represent some of the earliest successful commercial games inspired by Rogue. They tend to be much closer to traditional "Berlin interpretation" roguelikes (turn-based, grid-based, etc.) than the recent "roguelite" indie games.
Not open-source, but I trust them because I learned of it from some long-lost forums (which also had hacked printer firmwares to patch out such things), and others had also not experienced any problems. I trust the community far more than the manufacturers (who are certainly doing things against my interests), it reminds me of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13925994

I did sniff the communications it did with the printer, so I could probably write an open-source version if I really wanted to; but I don't think there's all that much value in doing so.

...but someone did think there was, so there's this: https://github.com/lion-simba/reink
For some odd reason the last point rubbed me the wrong way. It must remind me of some bland marketing / fans discussion.
Managing people involves intimate conversations that are suboptimal in open environments.
Oh for sure. I believe this 100%. A lot of the root cause of technical debt is inability to prioritize. Every stake holder in the company wants to hear that their project is being worked on and so everyone is working in parallel and thus there are tons of meetings for coordination and status. And if everyone would just slow down they would actually move a lot faster and could afford to bake in slack time for craftsmanship.
“alea iacta est.”
The "inexpensive juicer" doesn't even have to be electronic. It could be a simple hand-cranked clamp.
You're welcome. I hope it helps you.
Not used Elm since early 2014 and heard it’s changed a bit since then.

Elm was a great Trojan horse. It limited feature set made it quick to learn and get familiar with the syntax.

When sufficiently proficient in Elm you then find yourself missing some of the features of Haskell i.e. higher kinder types. At that stage Purescript / Haskell is a natural transition as they feel familiar but with more functionality.
That appears to be a completely out-of-context comment about GNOME made on a KDE blog for unclear reasons. But anyway, I looked through most of the links in that comment and I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. There are some heated arguments around technical issues in those mailing list posts, but there are also many positive comments such as this:

>If anything, we have to turn the GNOME community around and make this community a tolerant community, and a community of love. I have to say that I am surprised by how well the gnome-love mailing list has taken of, and surprised to see various newcomers to the platform actually writing code and becoming productive.

Also, that was quite a long time ago (some posts are from earlier than 2003) and most of those people involved in those threads don't appear to be associated with the project anymore. It certainly seems like they were able to work out some of their process issues in the last 17 years seeing as how the bonobo/orbit parts were dropped entirely.
Do you cast as the doubter here?
There were 2 replies that I want to summarize together: empowering the current residents as part of the renewal, and rent control.

I think as part of the urban improvement is to work with the renters and landlords to let the renters capture some of the rising value, either through some sort of equity rent-to-own, or creative financing that lets the renters find other housing within the neighborhood. Maybe some sort of buy-out conversion from private landlords to private-benefit-corporation landlord (as opposed to public housing).

The alternative is localized rent control, that makes sure that the landlords don't capture the rising value of the neighborhood that is being added by the residents and their work. You also need some limits on redevelopment, so the landlord doesn't just replace the building with something more upscale and manage to replace the tenants as part of that. Maybe allow refurbishing and some new units in exchange for current residents getting rent control.
Of course Toyota's president would say that :joy:

The question is, why would any of us long-term TSLA investors trust that? We simply see these articles as mere attempts to scam people out of their shares. The legacy media is not saying this stuff for the benefit of retail investors. We know what an S-curve is...
> The 50MW facility near Manchester will store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes.

They keep doing this with grid storage projects. The number they need to quote is watt-hours. 50MW for how many hours? That’s the only relevant metric.
ACOUP has a pretty good piece on the practicality of planetary bombardments here: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/17/fireside-friday-july-17th-2020...

TLDR: Short of planet killing levels of power, you are unlikely to dislodge dug-in ground forces. Rock is really really good at absorbing impacts.
"Roguelike is a self-descriptive classifier -- something like Rogue"
Well play Nethack, Sil, DCSS, POWDER, Cogmind, Frozen Depths, DoomRL. Then play Spelunky, BoI, FTL, Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, Ziggurat, Hades. You'll very quickly notice the first group is a lot like.... Rogue. And the second group is a random mishmash of unrelated genres - Platformers, FPS, Twinstick shooters, slasher/looters, and whatever FTL is.

If someone liked Nethack, I would happily recommend any game from the first list. If someone liked Ziggurat, I wouldn't recommend any of the games from the second list because they're so different. Anyone doing the experiment in my first paragraph would clearly come to the same conclusion.

I think the second group of games is great. And so do a lot of people judging by their popularity. However, I prefer the first set but now searching for games like the first set is much harder. You can't just search for the term that was always used to describe the set. And I've already seen people describe Spelunky as a "classic" or "traditional" roguelike because it's 12 years old now.
In addition to the TSMC being booked and designs being fab specific using TSMC is a horrible sign for TSMC, basically showing investors that they've totally given up on their multi billion dollar investment. It would be a total admit of defeat.
Are they going to cull the quarters with poppies on them?
Well, you know what they say: "There's no 'I' in 'TEAM,' but there's always room for you in the 'A'-hole."
Whenever I had to explain it to management I tell them something along the lines of:
When was the last time you clean your office cupboard? If anyone else from management needs to find something in there without your help how long would it take compared to you?
It's the same with our scripts. They need cleaning up and documenting in case one of us decided to call it a day.

Edit: When the situation allows(tbh I rarely miss a chance) I follow up with: You have to thank our sales guys making unrealistic promises for our lack of documentation.
Most engineers can tell the difference between things they wish were better and things constantly in the way of things the business wants.
I want to second that and add: grab a few tools and do some basic landscaping. Remove weeds and cut grass that is growing over curbs and sidewalks. Make it look tidy again.
32-bit drivers? Most laser printer drivers are just a PPD file. You don’t need to install any executables or whatever. Heck, on a lot of printers you can just use Bonjour printing without installing any drivers at all!
How does this compare to Gravitational’s teleport?

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport