skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the GP, but I've been in a few situations like that, where yeah, they copy the volatility too. I think it was deliberate. Worked with someone who morphed in to that, and I think he thought it was either expected or somehow a requirement for 'success'. Being volatile and yelling and copying other aspects of Jobs (and that behavior in general) is ... not great, but it's doubly so when you're pulling that on people who you're not even paying.

Getting berated or public raked over the coals from a jackass 'founder', but you've got decent $ coming in - some people can justify that to themselves, at least for a while. Expecting people to take that shit when they're working for 'equity'? Have seen that and it's insane. Good thing was/is that I've not seen it much, and haven't seen those situations play out successfully. But... the Apple/Jobs myth was powerful on that part for a long time (probably still is?).
Tech debt is a luxury that only a measure of success affords.

If you work in entprise and find bad code that's just plain old vanilla bad engineering and we should carve that out of the definition.

If you work in early stage or barely mature then the luxury of defining and scoping tech debt is something that should be treated as a necessary step to maturity. After all, whatever you think of the code or design decisions you've found, it has clearly justified itself just on basis that the company is successful enough for you to be there finding it.
“Working in the Open” Firsts for Covid Alert App
And if you leverage that 100:1 (300bn:3bn) you vilate a metric ton of banking regulations and responsible practice. It's not an industry for fast change or pivot especially when you're looking at a company leveraging itself so far beyond the more average 1:1 or 50/50 for banks. \

100x typical risk is not something most investors recognize as real let alone a sane investment. A financial advisor would ask how the fund is making a 100x return and step faaaar back from that portfolio.
the joys of being a stoic makes me think of the sexual conquests of a celibate.
Paper copies are a useful technology in a world where digital information can be changed or disappear without notice.
Regardless of what stage you're joining at, assume your equity is worth nothing. Doubly more so if you're not the founder and are joining the party late. You're last in a very long line of hungry mouths, waiting for an event that can just as well never happen. Ignore the equity, consider whether this is a position that's interesting for you, and whether the cash matches your needs and motivations.
Windows XP Text Screensaver in Browser
Not quite the same but The Inheritors by William Golding explores the coexistence of the two groups.
It still exists for me. There’s no comparable search engine at the moment, it’s still the best at what it does and the format hasn’t changed (except for ads, as I mentioned)

It’s still the same old list of links that has been enhanced to highlight the first result or the most recent news. Over 20 years that’s merely evolution.

Dropbox turned from invisible into its own app separate from the OS. Don’t you see how, comparatively, Google Search hasn’t changed?
I guess my question is that there are thousands of records here where someone with a birth date from the 1800s were accepted, sent a ballot, then noted as received.

Why would they have been accepted to begin with?
A local certified Apple repair shop would likely be able to do this for you. I'd recommend calling ahead to ask, and volunteering to order the battery yourself possibly. They will have the tools, expertise, and time.
THIS. I gave up on HP printers in about 2007 when I realized that their required software was absolutely terrible, at least on my machine. It was huge install, and caused a number of weird problems. The Brothers I have work well with a minimum of problems although my Brother color printer required a new drum set awfully fast (and cost more than I paid for the printer).

For inkjet, I use Canon and I love them, although the ink is expensive, especially the 8-color ink packs.
No, you can let people decide whether they want to move out. Many of them would elect to then sell their houses to developers who would build apartments. Many would choose on their own to add units to their own property. If some people don't like living next to apartments, then they are out of luck though. I don't know if we should expect people to have that kind of say over what their neighbors do with their property.
I like this analogy because it also hints at some of the problems with overzealous tech debt work.

Sometimes especially new devs push for removing or replacing a crane even though it's working fine just because they don't understand how to use it or because a new model is available.

Cities would never get built if we replaced all the cranes and scaffolding every few months.
Knowledge is being abused en masse to win arguments and drive action. We are beginning to need a source for sacred, clean and trustworthy knowledge again.

It has to be edited by paid employees, legally sound and maintained. wikipedia doesnt cut it.

People are actively darkening their own worldviews by arguing themselves out of good knowledge and swimming into fake news for the thrill of victory. Heady aggression is killing our ability to hold rational positions, when they start misquoting fifteen studies and claiming the 'truth' is whatever they want to know.
On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse
Just put a Buddha statue on the corner!

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-19/how-buddhist-shrine-t...
Its pretty impressive and extremely sad how fast humans can start mass polluting with any object.
> Stories about sacrifices should be taken with a grain of salt unless there is hard evidence

Such hard evidence has been found, in the form of human remains mutilated in the manner described by contemporary sources.
Tetra ethyl lead is what makes leaded gas leaded.
I will add github soon....we did have email/password login first ...you can see we have two buttons for login and signup separately..but after some feedback...we decided not to purse that as it saved us some hassle with verificaton emails...thanks for the feedback...
All migrations are applied automatically. We have bootstrap files and migrations themselves. All of these files are stored in the repository and go through the review process, after which they are deployed to a specific cluster.

We use clickhouse_exporter from the early days. It queries system tables and exposes metrics in the required format to Prometheus.
I was really nervous this was about the HP ProCurves lifetime warranty. Phew!
This has to be a joke. It might improve your quality of life but it has almost nothing to do with crime.
How much does that much data typically cost??
Not a class action but given the smallish $ per user I could see this being effectively pursued with the seller and if that doesn’t work through small claims court, at least in places like the UK/EU.

This is a change to the functionality of the printer post sale, and that tends to be viewed as an unreasonable action and one where one sided user agreements can be read by the courts as unfair to the consumer.

The important point is the the printer no longer works as advertised and as a starting point this is guaranteed in European law for six years after purchase. (https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...).
"Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwkL1WgD_0
It's over Anakin! I have the high ground!
What makes a chat message via an application that you chose to install any different than sending you an email?
Also notice one of the follow-up videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXZU6CTVts

> YouTube has now age restricted this video... unbelievable. Three painstaking videos diving into this issue, and in the end I'm the one who gets punished. I'm absolutely devastated

YouTube, once again a tool for abusers -- why am I not surprised?
Just in case anyone here missed or hasn't seen this news: Facebook is working on a statically typed Erlang. https://twitter.com/robertoaloi/status/1304085677252935681
One wonders whether the beating Intel is is taking will lead it forego license-based downclocking with Rocket Lake.
You may be right, but people are going to downvote what they don’t want to hear unless you cite a source.
That's like saying granite doesn't rust.

A GPU has material tolerances measured in NM that is needs to hold to work. A cast iron pan is free to mostly do whatever so long as it doesn't crack.
Are there not charities looking for solutions to address the pandemic? Such as the Gates Foundation?

And does the drug approval process seriously cost $200 million. I imagine it is not cheap, but that number seems very high for such small trial groups and a highly motivated/cooperative regulatory agency.
I've been thinking about this topic a lot, and I ended up putting some things into words [1]. I think what we are lacking is proper taxonomy for code issues. Nowadays we fall too much into classifying everything as "tech debt".

For example: I especially love the metaphor of technical debt. But we should consider the other aspects of debt - You only take on debt deliberately and so that you can invest the time / money on something that will yield a return on investment. Calling bad code "technical debt" breaks the metaphor for me. We probably should stop calling bad code "technical debt"

[1] - https://isidoro.io/writing/tech-debt-broken-windows/
You Can't Handle the Lie
Right, for example, ATT got stung for calling a cell plan "unlimited" in which a reasonable person would apply the dictionary meaning to that word but be wrong; thus deceptive practice.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/att-loses-key-ru...
It is not safe to assume that this idea has the potential to become a billion dollar company.

We also have to take into account that OP, as a founder, might inspire more or less confidence, and hence influence the "valuation".

200k for 75% of a business might be a good thing, depending on what type of business we are talking about.

We'd need more data for a more meaningful evaluation.
I think most of the stories got reset during the ice age. We may not find may reference.
Maybe not then, but certainly in the United States slaves were considered inferior in every way.
What I meant was, cp chose one meaning for -p, ssh chose another. scp can't match them both (so if scp had the behaviour you wanted, someone else who uses cp all the time would be confused by it).
I don't know if tech companies have worse managers than other companies, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't... but that seems to be missing a rather big point.

If your company can have better managers than its competitors you can gain an advantage. So if you say "eh, we don't have it that bad, other industries suck too," you're leaving that opening for others...
It seemed appropriate to repost this [0] given the recent discussions on "technical debt" (whether it's an appropriate term, whether it exists, how to define it, etc.).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940820 (6 years ago)
A better approach is to have a reverse proxy in a difference account/hosting provider. That way the take-down is of the proxy which should be minimal config and no data.

Setting up another reverse proxy in the event of a take-down should be minimal effort.

It then becomes a game of whack a mole if anybody wants to take down a service. I assume this is how The Pirate Bay stayed up for so long.

Downside is doubling bandwidth costs.
One way to separate the two is took look for a steady stream of removed features. A startup that pivots from trading magic the gathering cards to selling bitcoins can obviously remove a lot of dead code. That’s essentially what it means to be an agile company.

Hoarders however only try and add features which always results in a drop in quality as the UI becomes unmanageable. Long term it’s an unavailable dumpster fire in the making and a clear sign to jump ship.
It's 75% of equity for 200k, or ~266k valuation.
There are many channels devoted to animal abuse on youtube. Some of the worst are where store bought mice are dropped in glue traps and they struggle to death. It's disturbing.
For those who don't know, the title is a reference to the book "Seeing Like a State", by James C. Scott.

"Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws. It was released in March 1998, with a paperback version in February 1999. The book catalogues schemes which states impose upon populaces that are convenient for the state since they make societies 'legible', but are not necessarily good for the people. For example, census data, standardized weights and measures, and uniform languages make it easier to tax and control the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
Now you know why people support rent control despite it being repeatedly shown to have negative economic impact.
Compared to A78, the X1 has twice the SIMD units, 20% wider instruction fetch, 33% wider macro-op fetch/rename, 2x the macro-op cache, 40% larger instruction window, 2x the L2, 2x the L3, 2x the L0 BTB entries, and 66% larger L2 BTB capacity.

All of that should provide something like 25-30% faster performance than A78.

Despite that, the X1 is still projected to be significantly slower than A13 and A14.

ARM should be putting their best foot forward instead of this A78 attempt.
I'm constantly annoyed that normal cp _doesn't_ support the trailing slash distinction. It's so useful.
"I had no idea you could have a contract that says, "if you don't like how we fulfilled the contract all you are allowed to do is go away, even if we burn your house down.""

You can't.

Obviously, companies don't like to be sued. What a lot of the tech industry and Silicon Valley has been doing lately is trying to write up their Terms of Service to make it so difficult to initiate any sort of proceedings, or at least appear to be so difficult to initiate any sort of proceedings, that nobody actually will.

The risk of this, though, is that if they act so egregiously that somebody actually does get angry enough to break through the activation energy necessary to start something, that it will be both larger and worse than if they had a more conventional approach. Larger in that larger groups of people may break through at once, especially once someone blazes a trail. It's like raising a dam without fixing underlying issues with water management; it may put off the day you have problems, but when the catastrophe hits it'll be even larger.

A perfect approach for a short-term-focused modern company, no?

That clause is meant to convince you there's nothing you can do. But if someone does file a class-action suit, there's a very good chance the judge will not look favorably upon such a clause at all, and that'll get factored into any damage awards.

Personally I think the expected value of this particular shenanigan is quite negative and I think a lot of companies are going to bitten by it in the next decade... but I have a long term perspective, personally.
but Neanderthals were short and stupid.

I think the Nephilim, given the way they were described as tall "sons of God" who were "heros" and "warriors of renown" were an African people
Michael Siebel's Advice: Default to Action Has Been Transformative
My impressions from reading about stoicism have been

- all of this is pretty obvious stuff, why all the books and discussions

- it's weird to identify yourself with in ideology and call yourself "a stoic"

I really don't get the hype about it.
Indeed we do get seasonal spikes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-54802090

“He said flu and other winter conditions usually brought in 3,000 extra people to hospitals but there were already more than 10,000 coronavirus patients in England even before winter pressures had arrived.”
They should have reined them in long before the IPO date this week, when they were supposed to be doing their due diligence and assessing the risk that ANT's lending practices pose.

The decision to do so after this PR broadside from Jack Ma appears (to some) as a political statement, and not truly policy-based regulation.
Just wait until you learn how prevalent Christmas decorations are in abandoned buildings
Some restaurants use disposables for exactly this reason.
I think the idea is that the open fab shops just have a hell of a lot more work than Intel and greater economies of scale. Making zillions of mobile chips means big money even if the profit margin per chip is smaller. This in turn means more R&D and eventually they overtake the company that only fabs their own desktop processors and chipsets.

In the long run Intel screwed themselves over by not leasing out fab time to other companies. They put themselves in a niche in an industry that is naturally dominated by the largest player. And it's extra embarrassing that they did so because they knew very well how important it was to be the biggest--they were for a few decades!

Maybe Intel could have held on longer if they had a successful mobile chip to stuff into billions of smartphones, but their mobile efforts were short lived and seemed to be treated with disdain by the management. The first product kind of sucked and instead of sticking with it and improving they just threw in the towel, both on mobile processor and the baseband chip. An embarrassing misstep for a company as big as Intel.
I didn't want to single out WhatsApp, but it's popular and I use it daily myself. Specifically I'm referring to their gif providers (which I believe are Giphy and Tenor.) and is essentially content available to everyone who uses the app.
Have you consider whether that’s still a good idea if every startup did that?
Probably still worthwhile because it means HP losing the $X million
When Russia fakes elections, they may be giving us the statistical finger (2017)
if it's $1 per month and the user is 20 I suppose that implies a value of $624 for that user's expected lifetime. arguably.

In UK can you also get your money back for filing fees etc. if you win?
Actually I was surprised that there would be such an easy fix : Switching to Firefox. Which is apparently around 70MB, apparently affordable from what you wrote and definitely worth it if it allows you to unlock a chunk of the internet. So no need for an improbable and costly Play update.
Exactly. I think that fits into my theory. These aren't gigantic (and therefore important) snails. These are tiny knights.
I don't mean to be inflammatory, but is there no ethical concern with charging money for the site and then giving none of it to the people that actually do the work? I'd ask you to reconsider the project, and to really think about whether it's acceptable to profit off of a bunch of free workers. I am of the firm opinion that it's not.
Sure, but that's an ad-hoc solution to a systemic problem. I think we need a change to consumer contract/ToS laws.

I remember a few years ago Amazon Prime went from having $3.99 next-day shipping to suddenly charging up to $11.99 for it on one package I ordered. I knew when I signed up, the $3.99 price tag was advertised so I went digging: sure enough, it was not longer advertised, and no longer in their ToS. So I went digging further on how they could do this without any sort of notice to customers. Here's what I found using the internet archive to trace ToS changes wherein Amazon incrementally removed rights & privileges:

--When I signed up for Prime, the $3.99 price was in the ToS. So was a provision that said Amazon would notify me of any changes to the ToS 30 days in advance.

--A year or so later, the ToS no longer had the 30 day notice provision, but the $3.99 was still there. However, now they no longer had to notify me of a change.

--Fast forward a little more, and Amazon was able to change its ToS unilaterally without any advance notice or notification, allowing me to be surprised when I was suddenly asked to pay 2-3x as much for the same service.
And they can continue to do it, even revoking their own print cartridges if they want to. "Oh, that's 2020 ink, it won't print in 2021."
I've converted our office to Brother (4 printers), my parents to brother (2 printers) as well as bought 3 Brother printers myself over the last 12 years. Such an amazing printer and company.

And remember it works flawlessly with Linux.
For the same reason that a farmer wants a tractor and a seamstress wants a sewing machine. Controlling the machines that do the work is less exhausting and higher-status than doing the work yourself.

Of course not all Chinese think like that, but an optimist view of future technology seems much more prevalent in Chinese-language media than in the English-speaking world. Maybe that's because China is still at a relatively low level of industrial automation and trying to catch up to advanced manufacturing economies like Japan or Germany with their "Made in China 2025" initiative.

And the overall optimism doesn't mean there aren't also critical voices, worried that instead it will be the machines controlling the humans who do the work. E.g. Renwu recently published an article about delivery drivers struggling to meet the deadlines set by the system, which you can read translated into English by Jeffrey Ding here: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-111-algorithms-and-food...
oh, wow: that's how we had it at Sun in Chicagoland in 2000...it was novel and ok, but also felt unusual.
I cheated and resized my browser window so it would bounce perfectly off the corner, and it felt kinda dirty. But felt so good at the same time.
Can you share your experience getting a good outcome when there is a bad manager in your way?
Early retirement? That's more in line with Epicureanism, not Stoicism?
> With a manager only a few years older than you, you have a tough experience.

So I'm pretty early in my career but have already had multiple experiences having managers who are a little younger than me. I want it to be fine, but it's just hard to see them as any kind of authority. How do other folks make this work?
Please submit this as an issue to the repo.
> labrador retrievers

Lovely dogs! And yes, everything has a price, but of course you might decide something is not worth being sold (I am referring to the house, not the dogs of course!)
You can easily have a €4K/mo pension in Finland without private savings. It depends on how much you earned.

Calculator https://www.tyoelake.fi/sv/pensionsraknaren/
What specifically did you find so obvious?
If management is about authority then then the managing is already going poorly.
The AVX512 downclocking was to prevent the chip from overheating; one does not just turn that off.