skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very general article, and appears to be based on the author's experience in custom software contracting.

But:

- Essentially the opposite lessons can be applied to SaaS or most hosted web software, where the marginal cost of adding a customer regardless of size is zero.

- Large customers are an excellent source of valuable feature requests since somebody on the client's team will have the expertise and time to communicate their requirements. They often have feature matrix comparisons with your competitors, too.

- Large customers make good reference customers from a PR standpoint, ideally one in each industry.
Toyota president: Tesla valuation doesn't reflect 'real world' business
I think the Elon hate is overblown, but everything he has to say about Covid is outright dangerous, let alone stupid.

Ma isn't an engineer and doesn't pretend to be, which is why you can't take anything he says about AI seriously. I'm sure he's corrupt in the same way a lot of Chinese businessmen are corrupt. That said, you don't go from being a tour guide to building a e-commerce platform with arguably the most sophisticated supply chain the world solely by being a fraud.
This problem is why the Precursor device is so interesting because it tries to make it self easier to audit and then allow software and cryptography determine how your device works.

I am guessing for secure applications the approach of the precursor is going to become very common.
JBS Haldane: the man who knew almost everything
Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud?
The recent US election is on the minds of a lot of people. No matter what side you stand on or who you voted for, or if you do or don't believe there is widespread fraud, one thing I think the HN community can agree on is that the technologies exist to make vote privacy and integrity more certain that it is now.

What toolsets, technologies and workflow would you apply here and how?
The messed up stories are there, no question.
I have heard Musk say that he is deeply involved in engineering. Makes me suspect he might be micromanaging. Or is what he does different?
There are a lot of negative comments in this thread relating to hot desking. The perspective is interesting.
From my own experience at first I felt the same, but soon after add noise cancellation headphones (almost everyone has), less cords eg Bluetooth, usb-c monitors, and ability to shift adhoc into smaller teams and groups when required I find it becomes such a winner.
A lot of people seem setup or mark a desk as theirs, with books or custom Sun Station or whatever, and most people seem to respect this and get others needs.
Hot desking obviously works differently for different types of work and or personalities.
ArcType is a really clean DB viewer.
Prop 24 Puts Anonymized Data at Greater Risk of Re-Identification
I had an idea for a similar project last year. I thought it could perform a few functions:

1. Help compile a list of local issues

2. Empower people to help fix those issues (recognizing the different people can help out in different ways on the same issue)

3. Allow groups to highlight their contributions (e.g. local Libertarian party or Lions club or whoever can highlight X number of closed issues in 2020)

This direct action platform would certainly be susceptible to trolling and abuse but it also would directly provide the answers to the OP's question.

(One other hope would be that, if this caught on, maybe political campaigns could redirect some of their ad spend to helping fix these issues as that would allow them to say, "We did this".)
Oh god I still remember that and the 5'th estate episode. Really tragic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gAeVysCIl8
if your business involves registering a high volume of a specific domain then yes, help with managing those would be vital, but most people registering domain names are web developers registering on behalf of clients
What is with this mess?

flatpak remote-add --user flathub-beta
https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo

flatpak make-current --user org.gimp.GIMP beta
flatpak make-current --user org.gimp.GIMP stable

Why isn't it just

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gimp/unstable
sudo apt update && sudo apt install gimp

? Or:

wget https://gimp.org/releases/gimp-2.99beta.deb
sudo dpkg -i gimp-2.99beta.deb

?
Panspermia isn't widely accepted, but stellar nucleosynthesis/supernovae are generally accepted to be the source of the heavy elements.
Thank you! Haha yes I watched Veritasium video...
No problem at all! I'm as surprised as you are to be honest! Still makes me happy to see people getting use out of any of my tools though :)
Strange, if I enter my birth year (late 70s), 6K salary and the average 1978 figure from the table below it comes out to 3.5k
My mate has several barrels of the highest grade manuka honey from the back of his farm. It's very tingy, to the point of being unpalatable.

The sad truth is that most of the commercial manuka honey is nowhere near the purity to get any medicinal benefit, but it tastes much nicer.
Debt you can afford is still called debt.
> My perspective is that every process node is so critical that missing the mark on 10nm had far-reaching ramifications.

I wonder if the migration from "tick-tock" to every third iteration is a case of believing your own PR. "Everything is fine" is what they should have been telling us, while internally it was flashing red lights and klaxons.

Or maybe this started even earlier, with the generations of hardware that gave us Spectre. The target became unreachable, they used smoke and mirrors, and when that blew up they just sort of gave up. Maybe the intervention should have come back then but didn't (cite the "MBAs took over" comment elsewhere in the thread)
My OS drive is still the original 100GB SSD from 2012. I replaced my 2TB HDD with a 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in a M.2 PCIE 3.0 x4 riser card.

Unfortunately when I switched from the GTX 980 to the RTX 2060 Super all PCIE 3.0 lanes were being used (ASRock Z77 Extreme 6) so had to put the riser card into a PCIE 2.0 slots which means I am not getting the full performance.
It can be encrypted by a key held within the phone's TPM so it is up to you whether or not to unlock the phone and launch the app that allows the car to be scanned.
The CEO is, literally, one of these MBA types and he has recursively applied this thinking throughout the whole organization.
Election Ink

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink
The solution to that is a plastic card that has none of that info.
Yes, I have a dedicated room in my 3/2 house that I use as my office.

Even before the pandemic I worked from home two days every week, so I was already set up for remote work.
The ugly code can be dealt with. But we can't dealt the ugly environment.

The most severe technical debt is the environment, that is OS, toolchains, framework, library, were fixed at the time development started.

Updating the environment shall be part of the cost of development, but we tend to ignore it for more present short term gain, burden the cost to the future self.

Within a few years, the environment is too old to work with. We have to deal with the bugs that were fixed years ago in upstream, reinvent the features that was also present in the upstream.

5 years past and we seriously consider updating the environment but since there was no update, existing code relies on old behaviours so we have to fix all of them but that doesn't introduce any short term gain so updating was abandoned.

10 years past and software is dead.
Harvard PhD Candidate on YouTube
Tasmanian Leatherwood honey also tastes and smells great. Not sure if it's available in the US. Quite a bit cheaper than sugarbag honey.

https://www.leatherwoodhoney.com.au/index.php/our-story/

https://tasmanianhoney.com/about-us/
Exactly, manuka honey was always just ordinary honey in NZ! It's like this article is from an alternate reality or something.
I wouldn't be so confident. If you have something running in the BMC, you can do literally anything.

In this case "anything" might mean transmitting a single bit of information that "this is an interesting box, come take a look".
This also depends on the country. For instance in Poland android has 99% market share. So 1/3 Poland residents will experience issues.
It was conservative activist judges all along.
I think maybe you're paying attention to the wrong part of that story. It's not the act of putting out the Buddha statue; it's the continuous care that a community of people put around the Buddha. The neighbor that plonked down the statue just contributed a statue. The community of Buddhists who adopted it, brought flowers, cleaned and improved the area are all doing exactly what the grandparent comment described.
Why would you need that? Insurance cards have zero security on them anyways. There's no standard format for paper cards as is is. All I have ever had is a piece of paper that I ran off on my printer, and it says "EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE" in Times New Roman and lists off a bunch of crap that the police can't verify. Some states, having a card is pointless, because if you lose your policy, the state finds out and already has record of it.
> It's a classical "Berlin Interpretation" roguelike in every regard.

This is no surprise. David Ploog and his sister Johanna helped write the Berlin Interpretation. David served as de facto PMs of crawl for years.
Dang, you're right. I've played so much nethack after rogue that it overwrote that.
I'm even willing to pay the premium for a prebuilt PC this time but it will be a while before I can find that Ryzen 5900X / RTX 3080 (Ti?) combo anywhere.
If that was in the title it'd be a great bingo card title.
I'd be interested in an x86-64 processor that took the 1+3+4 approach of the Snapdragon 875. One big core with a super high clock rate and massive IPC, three smaller ones, and four that are smaller still. A desktop CPU with a single-core performance equal to half a normal 8-core chip would be an absolutely incredible tool for IPC-constrained applications like game console emulation.
"You can change that in dconf. Though maybe there is a tweak for it. Or perhaps it's a behavior you can script in gnome-shell."
offence has nothing to do with it for me. there's just a pretty good chance i will start being called the "gimp" around the office if i ever suggested it for something, so i never have
Sure, I completely agree that you get 70-80% of the way there with very simple tools, and there is value in that.

Just one note about SSH: Emacs and VSCode have a nifty way of doing the opposite of how you use vim over SSH: I can run Emacs on my own system and edit remote files directly and even run remote commands. This has the nice advantage that I get to use my own customized Emacs but still edit files on all sorts of remote systems, including stuff like kubernetes-mode or other niceties.
What an interesting metaphor. Thanks!
I wonder if this is an area where, if you can get the initial agreement, a special tax district or some kind of cooperative with dues makes sense. That way the bridge stays maintained.
The techno-fetishists are taking over. The kind of people whose reaction to dystopian sci-fi is, "I want those cool gadgets".
>The future of humanity depends on tech people making tiny principled stands like this over and over.

Well put. And the reward? You + family/friends look back on your work with deep fondness & respect if you choose principles > acquisition $.
They shouldn't.

The main point of switching to their own silicon is to unify their entire product range onto the same architecture.

Investing in a switch to AMD would be doing literally the opposite of what they're trying to achieve. Plus the shift of the big cloud players moving onto their own ARM chips means they're going to abandon x86 and move into a space that's already gaining traction in server grade.

'Now' they don't need to do anything but build the products. You act as if they only started working on the mac chips after they announced it. They'll have been planning this since the first A processors started performing really, really well.
Deprecating SCP
I visited New Zealand in 2000, and at one small roadside shop they gave us a small jar of Manuka honey for free. At the time I didn't realize there was anything special about it. But it did cement in my mind that New Zealand had the most gracious residents in the world.

Their kindness may be related to the medicinal properties of the honey. I had broken my wrist a week earlier and had a brace screwed into my arm, covered with a bandage.
The thing that kills me is the fact that if you are driving your own car, the police already know who you are and if you have a license when you get pulled over. The whole requirement to have a card on you is bogus bullshit, and only serves to make you a criminal if you happen to forget it.

If you drive the car of a person who has a suspended license, you will get pulled over. Their ALPR system will automatically flag you, and the officer will tell you that he ran your plates and pulled you over because the owner has a suspended license. That might be a good time to have a physical ID on you to prove you're not the owner. BUT at the same time, if you know your DL number, or even your name and address, there's no reason the cops can't look you up to verify who you are.
> Suppressed anger is extraordinarily unhealthy. Telling people their anger is bad for them just makes the problem worse.

Well, good thing no one is telling folks they should suppress their anger, this article included. In fact, if I had to summarize the article in one sentence it would be "Despite what you might think, Stocism isn't about suppressing your emotions." It's like, practically the thesis of the piece.

At this point I'm kinda wondering if you're reading your own biases into the text.
I suppose I could argue here that you may have misunderstood stoicism, but the funny thing about stoicism is that it's kind of pointless to argue back and forth about what makes one a stoic. A true stoic wouldn't care if they were stoic, they'd simply be.

> Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.
I work in an huge enterprise. We have incredibly customized software and stacks that have not changed much for 30 years, because they did not need to.

Now the people who wrote those stacks and who understand them are retiring/quitting. Kids coming out of school don't want to learn these systems, nor do people off the streets. You can only pay people to come out of retirement so many times to keep the plant running. This is above and beyond mainframes, and is intertwined deep in the code that powers every single application that runs the plant today.

We can't run off the shelf software on-prem, a huge level of customization is needed to bring it in.

We cannot pivot quickly to new things or support new languages.

We really struggle to add new features/releases and add new software to drive revenue. The IT overhead that just goes into keeping the plant running every day is astounding.

This is what I think of when I hear technical debt.

Going down this road did give us advantages for a long time, but now we're in an enormous crisis. It's not an insurmountable challenge, but I would be surprised if there aren't a lot of large companies who are brought down by their technical debt as faster moving competitors move around them. I certainly feel that unless we get our act together, we will be disrupted.
What? How did you arrive at that conclusion?
Appreciate you passing the word along!
Different situations call for different levels of intervention.

Sometimes, a manager may be very involved in some specific artifact which may 'seem' like micromanaging but really it's 'topical' management.

Often Micromanaging isn't actually inherently 'wrong' or even bad, rather, it's the emotional corrosiveness that is the problem, i.e. people just don't like to be managed in that way, but, if we were all 'perfectly and completely mature team members' it wouldn't bother us if it was appropriate. But that's hard and most people just don't like it.

That said, it can be a 'true problem' in the sense that managers are too in the weeds - and a 'true problem' in the pragmatic social aspect in that if people 'really don't like it' then it's just not going to work out even if technically it could be warranted.

There are so many managers I've seen who are really high EI, who would never dare micromanaging, because they instinctively see their job as a popularity contest. They really don't actually care about the product or outcomes, they are not built that way, they have been managing their lives through the spectrum of likability, and instinctively feel that when 'everyone is happy' they are doing a 'good job' irrespective of outcomes. In many organizations this is actually normative.

And of course, there are just a lot of bad managers out there as well, micromanaging where they should not, with no sense of making better outcomes even as they believe they do.

Self awareness is really hard.
I would like to see the other perspective, why it is good to micromanage.

I’m a non tech founder And I outsource my teach overseas. I don’t trust my team.

I really feel over billed (I pay US prices (over six figures per year per programmer) even though this team is in South America) and they have failed over years to really provide a quality service. Not only that but they over bill me and I frequently catch it. Why don’t I switch forms - well, I’m scared I’ll have a worse experience with another firm, that I’d have to share the code base with someone else, and it would take another team a long time to learn the code.

So, I micromanage my billing, which sucks. Then I also micromanage the team - the design, the dev progress, etc. Why I do this is they don’t get it. I tell them to organize projects better and they don’t. I tell them how customers are interacting with the software and why we’re building new features and design doesn’t get it. I get software and it’s full of bugs which I have to personally test and the dev team says we should just launch.

I’m not going into super details here, but I’m on burnout constantly trying to deal with these people. If I were to let them just do their thing, my project would have failed long algo.

When you hve a vision, micro manage. If you’re at some firm where you are struggling to spend your overly massive budget every cycle, dont micro manage.

Big difference in big companies and small ones. If you’re not micro managing as a small startup, you will fail.

Ever seen a real rich person outsource to another firm, share their idea, and let the firm create everything in their own - that’s a bit fail waiting to happen. And the dev firm knows it and is happy to take as much money from you as possible.
Ha ha, no. No way in hell am I ever letting an image, facsimile, or digital token version of my driver's license on a Google-controlled platform. I'd sooner xerox it and stick it on a sign in my front yard.
I'm a fan of his work, but it wouldn't surprise me if he is. People will put up with a lot of shit from a boss if they perceive him as a "genius". The way some former Apple employees fawn with gratitude over Steve Jobs' abuse is puzzling to me.
I would like this better if it included ID that blind and low vision people use to substitute for licenses. I don’t like that this plan seems to lock out proof of identity services for people with disability by design.

I know this is a real problem because I can hardly see. I don’t have a license. It causes continuous problems in real life.

I live in Oz. You are supposed to be able to use a “Photo Card” to prove identity the same as a drivers license. It takes the same amount of proof to get a “Photo Card” from the government as a drivers license. They look the same as a drivers license, even the same holograms, but a different colour.

But I have continuous trouble dealing with banks, insurers, government (crazy!), post office, telephone companies, internet companies. I bought a passport mostly because it easier to carry that around.

If we get an app that only accepts drivers license and not the official photo card equivalent it means we’ll get told by contact centres to drive (!) to our nearest branch of whatever and bring a folder full of ID and hope the drone will accept it.
That is actually not correct.

It's been specifically trademarked to Royal Legion of Canada, and basically all the donation boxes you see in stores etc are from Royal Legion.

Again, nothing wrong with that, I support them, absolutely positively vast majority of Canadians do! But we also don't need to pretend it's not something that it legally and practically is.
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
This is a routine issue in the semiconductor industry. Payscales haven't keep up with software across that whole industry. The trade organizations are aware of this, but I haven't seen a lot of push to level the playing field. It's unfortunate, as there are lots of really fascinating problems to solve on the materials and integration side.

The industry trade organization did make a snazzy movie to try to attract young graduates into the industry.

https://yourewelcome.org/en/
> NZ manuka honey is now also riven by violent gang crime cashing in on the huge profits. Hive stealing is a thing.

I'd like to see a proof of that. The industry is very consolidated with a few dominant players and a lot of small beekeepers who happened to have manuka on their private land. It went through a boom, prices crashed and most unsavory operators moved on. There may be some opportunistic hive stealing, but that always existed even before manuka was the thing.
I call it the "tinder generation", it's not you ;)
Definitely seemed to be a first movers disadvantage where their competitors could see where they went wrong and leapfrog them.
As ID to get into a bar, I think minimally they'd need access to your photo too, to ensure you haven't just borrowed (or bought) a phone.
What about China? There is a western heliocentricity to so many comments.
Congressman Speaks on Artificial Intelligence
Are we seriously looking at the possibility of handing over control of government-issued driver licenses to a private for-profit entity whose main way of making money is by monetizing citizen data? For real? Like many others here, my immediate thought upon reading this was, "W.T.F.?"
Take a trip: it’s for your mental health
> doesn't cost anything

It costs time.
Right, but the difference in take home pay in the US is almost 3x those costs. So you can pay for it all in the US and still come out ahead.
Google’s File System Access API is not a standard
Unrelated to technical debt (or maybe it is and someone can find a way to make the connection) but this quote from Bourdain resonates well with me and very much aligns with why when I used to entertain guests (before covid obviously) I would not let guests try to help clean. It’s an appreciated effort but I really am that particular about how I like my space and kitchen maintained, much prefer if they nearly place a dish in the sink if they would like to (otherwise I have no issue “bussing”) and resume enjoying themselves with the rest of the guests.

Made for an annoying moment once when one guest would not relent on being allowed to clean and made the situation of cleaning my kitchen about them and their life hangups in a weird and inordinate amount. They haven’t been invited back. Bourdain is right: do NOT mess with the cook’s meez.

(Also Kitchen Confidential is such a stupidly marvelous book in general)
EMOGI: Efficient Memory-access for Out-of-memory Graph-traversal In GPUs [pdf]
When things have gotten so bad that all you need to do to own a browser is to connect to it the last desperate measure is to try to keep all the badness away.