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I continue to be unimpressed by articles on teams, team building in Hackernews. This article is another one. It seems more like sales and marketing article, and as a sales and marketing writeup, it is a very thin veneer with foggy bits of truth that doesn't move the bar at all.

If you want to quit messing around with fog and "hit it" right, directly, and fundamentally, then buy two books:

- Human Element: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Element-Productivity-Self-Estee...

- Total Quality Management the Japanese Way:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Total-Quality-Control-Management...

That's what? Not even $10 total for used copies. Can't beat that! Here's why these are good books:

The Human Element book cuts through all the crap on teams, on why they work, why they don't. The central thesis: Teams are broken by individuals. Individuals are broken when they engage in defensive, fixed, unchanging behavior. And that modality happens when the context in which the individual works hits their self esteem negatively. If the individual lacks self-awareness their coping behaviors and ability to learn, change is significantly reduced. Then what behavior you'll see will make things worse. This ought to strike you as real: a manager's worse assignee is a person with whom they've had "the talk" but things don't change. Human Element is also extremely operational in nature: it provides a toolset to do, to engage, to measure, to check, and to move on beyond stuck. Once you get this, you'll be far better able to place the OP's piece in context to greater effect.

On the Ishikawa book (TQM the Japanese way) don't get too focused on "Japan", although during the 80s/90s Japan was kicking butt. In Japan the highest award for organizational and quality excellence is the Deming Award. Deming was an American who was well received in Japan. So what's at work here really are universal truths for all human organizations. It deals with teams in the larger context of human organizations. In software company culture is all the more important. TQM's focus is what quality means. Quality like "international relations" or "global economy" immediately comes with notions on what it means. But when you drill in to it, the certainty turns into its own kind of fog. This book helps you press your understanding to getting down to fundamentals that companies will never outgrow.

Both books are short reads. And very information packed. The TQM book was extremely well translated from Japanese; I applaud the translator. Ishikawa would be considered an industry leader, and an excellent example of a manager with Drucker know-how but real, on the job experience in manufacturing.
Is it really genius? Especially when you put it quite so bluntly? I've been wondering if a class action lawsuit around this could end up being a significant risk to Tesla.

edit: woosh
Promising start to new human gene-editing trials
You don’t have those in your non-union job? Everyone I know in tech already gets paid time off, and safe work environments.
Europe has some successful international projects like CERN or Airbus. Besides, what are the other options?

Europe is in this strange place where collectively account for enormous wealth and power but individually no country is a match to the big boys like USA/China when simultaneously are super unoptimised due to cultural/lingual differences.

The younger Europeans I met were all very eager to learn English, so who knows, maybe as the UK is out of the EU the English language can become the lingua franca with less resistance as it is no ones language(Well, there are the Irish but it's a small country).

At the end of the day, those large Eurpoean projects bring a lot of good. Be it political or simply keeping some talent in Europe. I am also hopeful for some competition from the UK :) Since the collapse of the USSR, finally there's a competition.
I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse.

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Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years can be posted.

I've been obsessed with media dynamics for years now, always wondering what variables can be adjusted within the current environment to result in better media production and consumption.

This is my approach for Hystoria. Time creates context: so even a vapid political article from years ago can present worthy insights since we know a lot more about the topic, context, and outcomes. Lindy effect: chances are that an older item worth discussing now is even more important now. And philosophically: we know exponentially more about the past than the present, and history rhymes, so we should talk more about the past.

More details on my approach are in the launch post [1].

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[0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[1] https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/introducing-hystoria/
The rich idiot? Depends on where he left the "treasure."

The other idiots? For vandalism. National parks, national forests, national monuments, and private lands were vandalized during this search.
I bought on the dip, and if it dipped more I would have bought more. I'm not that bullish on cash right now, two dips would actually have been better, but needed to hedge on the eventuality you described.
Over the years the problem hasn't been a shortage of revenue, its been runaway costs. Adding further revenue is just wasting more money. Cut the costs of an inefficient bureaucracy (the MTA) and bloated labor structure (the transit workers union) if you want to solve the problem.
Debian plus an automation system like Puppet, Chef, etc works extremely well.

It's just not sexy enough for people to write hundreds of posts about how to set up your own package repo, understand
unattended-upgrades, and do monitoring.
The moment you find slack to be faster than something else. You know we have reached the absolute rock bottom.

I have to use both Slack and the Google Cloud UI at work. RIP.
I think this is the difference between a valid argument and a sound argument. A valid argument means the conclusion follows from the premise, kinda like the quoted argument in the article which seems to be valid.

A sound argument is one whose premises are also true. This is where the quoted argument in the article fails. The premises either are false or don't apply to all startups. This is basically what the author means by a argument that is missing premises. It's not really that a premise is missing, but that without additional into it may seem like the argument is sound,but with additional into you realize it is not sound and therefore leads to a different conclusion instead.
Well established research tells us that anything below 3 seconds latency+render is over optimization in terms of customer acquisition and retention in spite of anecdotal loudmouths who claim otherwise.
I continue to advocate for hard download limits on the browser side that can only be overridden by scary user prompts. The defaults can be slightly larger for pages classified as “apps”, or certain file formats (e.g. when a link’s purpose is to download an entire app) but generally pages should be constrained to sizes on the order of kilobytes.

As long as the floodgates can simply stay open and pages can download whatever they want, coders will remain lazy. This isn’t surprising at all.
Why was this story flagged? Can HN at least provide an explanation?

It does not seem to violate HN guidelines: not politics, clickbait or fraud, and could serve as an investigative piece.

Just because there is some criticism on a tech darling - it is not even a personal attack.

Is HN turning into a liberal censorship site? I thought HN valued curiosity and truth...

Note: I am not surprised with people's discourse nowadays.

Can someone please unflag it?

Updated: thank you for unflagging
I disagree with this article’s premise that all software is services-based. There are lots of open-core business models that can’t be eaten by the cloud providers, because they aren’t services to be spun up.

Almost all of the CNCF-based businesses are complex plug-in models that the CPs can’t just make a button for.
No, Fedora and CentOS Stream are very very different.

Fedora is where new and shiny lands, with a release schedule of every 6 months, and ~1 year of support per version, with minimal backporting of bugfixes and frequent package updates. Lots of packages (including the kernel) update freely. That would not fly in CentOS.

CentOS Stream is the next minor version of RHEL. There is lots of backporting patches, ABI stability, the works. And it is supported for as long as RHEL is supported (the standard tier anyways) because it is the next minor version of RHEL.

For a visual metaphor:

Fedora ---------------------------------------------> CentOS Stream --> RHEL

The development process works basically like this:

1) A new RHEL release is created from a rough snapshot of Fedora. It's not an exact copy of Fedora, a fair number of changes are made in the process.

2) Fedora keeps moving forwards quickly, RHEL stays put

3) CentOS Stream takes the most current RHEL release and starts layering updates on top of that

4) After a couple of months these updates from CentOS Stream are then pushed into RHEL as a new point release

5) Repeat steps 3 and 4
If you have experienced the power, capability, and speed of kst and then set out to build something better plotjuggler must be amazing!

I am not sure of the development status of kst these days I think it does everything’s it’s authors need it to do. Airbus may have moved on to an internal tool. The list is very quiet. So hopefully it doesn’t disappear but I will surely check out plotjuggler.

There may be a market for you to sell it to scada and HMI companies like Rockwell AVEVA Schneider etc since many of them have pretty old school built in plotting functionality
Or we could fix these financial zero-days when they are found instead of letting them run for years.
I always thought that Fedora was the next RHEL. Now it will be more like Fedora -> CentOS Stream -> RHEL. The previous owners of CentOS were all employed by Red Hat now and now they took control of it. R.I.P CentOS !
To be clear-- I didn't get the sense from Linus' rant that he's opposed to GPLv3 at all.

His beef seemed to be with a discussion with the FSF about compatibility of licenses. From what I gathered from the rant:

* Linus made clear to the FSF that he wanted a license for the Linux kernel that did not include the anti-tivoization clause. His desire as I understand it is that his project gives a licensee the code, they give back changes to the code, and that is as far as he wants the license to go. GPLv2 is a perfect fit for that. (Aside from whatever legal desiderata is required for such a license to be practical/sensible in the first place to achieve this, and I'm assuming that's what those two clauses you quoted are about.)

* Linus claims the FSF told him he could "invalidate the tivoization clause" as a solution to his stated goals. But, according to Linus, that would create a mess since someone could fork and write drivers under the full GPLv3 (which is compatible with the version that doesn't contain the tivoization clause), and as Linus states, "Where does that leave me?" He could end up in situations Linux is unable to accept the changes without asking the driver writer to re-license the thing under GPLv3-minus-tivoization for upstream inclusion. (Furthermore, the more popular GPLv3 becomes, the worse this problem would get!) But his whole purpose in GPLv2 was to make a simple "code-goes-out-and-changes-come-back-in" deal with other developers, end of story. So that clearly doesn't fit his use case.

* His central claim isn't that GPLv3 is bad, or even that GPLv3 doesn't fit his needs. Rather, he claims that FSF misrepresented the license and its compatibility with the GPLv2 in their discussion with him behind closed doors.

Of course that's just his allegation, and I haven't seen an email chain to confirm anything. But that allegation alone is enough to call into question the idea that the history of GPLv3 adoption is only scary due to FUD from companies.
Mortality in Norway and Sweden before and after the Covid-19 outbreak
Of course you can always use an intermediate file, the point is that sponge is a very convenient way to just do it in a single command, without having to use intermediate files.

You don't have to use pipes either, you know. You can just save the output from every command to an intermediate file, then run the next command with that file as input.
I think this should serve as an important lesson for open source projects. Hopefully it will be a case of once bitten, twice shy for the community
As a fellow troll I say:
short term: step change in pain
long term: exponential growth with a biig base
YouTube is a private company. They are allowed to remove whatever they want. I think they realize election denial videos are the most dangerous right now because they don't want Republicans trying to start a full-blown civil war come Jan 20.
Chrome Dev Summit 2020 has begun
Tech-related sites can have 40%+ desktop adblocking. Mobile blocking is usually <10% no matter the vertical. The less tech-heavy the site is, the less adblocking but it's usually at least 10% on desktop.

Also, on the pricing page there's a "Get Free Analytics" button that you should be able to click. If you have any issues you can let me know: james at getadmiral.
Since Reuters appears intent to abbreviate the full list of countries, here's all of them:

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/joint-dec...
It doesn't help with the revenue problem, it only helps ensure that any feature additions flow back upstream.
Cristal clear. Thanks!
I'm not a PoC and suddenly having a mandatory skin tone choice presented to me before I can use my emoji is making me uncomfortable, to say the least.

It feels like picking a light skin tone will be essentially sending a message that seems borderline crass and verging on culturally tone-deaf in the current circumstances. So I pick a Simpsons-yellow, because that's what I'm used to, what I prefer, and what draws the least attention to my skin colour.
> I feel we as a civilization have uncorked a financial poison pill in the innovations of Robinhood. We will just have to ingest and process it to move forward, there is no way to go back. There will be a price to way in lost savings and lives.

Just look at the toxicity of /r/wallstreetbets if you're looking for the cracks in the wall.

Also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-y...
If that works as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) we might see first results in 10 years.
>Considering the incredible education system and engineers we have, the 2 only things restraining Europe from reaching Silicon Valley level are corrupt politicians and risk-adverse VCs.

I find it telling that it's mostly europeans who make these types of comments. The EU has tremendous barriers to labour mobility that most europeans don't even realise - differing bureaucracy and language being two of the most significant. And i cannot emphasise the bureaucratic hurdles enough when moving countries. Despite the EU crying itself hoarse about labour mobility, only around 5% of EU citizens relocate between EU countries. The majority of that 5% is people moving from poor to richer countries. The comparable number in the US is 20%.

Most rational people realise that despite all its flaws, some of the most key factors in US tech dominance are the existence of a large talent pool, all of whom speak the same language, the existence of a large market all of which operates in the same language and finally VCs willing to take on risk.

Corrupt politicians are not hobbling European tech success any more than corrupt US politicians are hobbling its success. The EU will not reach Silicon Valley's levels of success, at least not in my lifetime.
I'm very happy with Pocketcasts, so anything you do will have to compete with its feature set.

The biggest thing it seems to be lacking is support for password-protected podcasts. They seem quite clear about it, and don't seem to want to support it: https://support.pocketcasts.com/article/password-protected-p...

My favorite thing about it is its scary-good ability to speed up podcasts. I hear very few artifacts at 1.4x. It has a feature to remove micro-silences. Between the two it makes everybody sound peppier without sounding off. It allows me to listen to almost 20 hours of podcasts per week, in ~12 hours.

I suppose it might be nice to have an auto-discovery feature for skipping intros and outros. PocketCasts has a somewhat cumbersome "Skip first N seconds". I can't imagine how you'd really solve that perfectly, but at least some podcasts have a fairly reliable intro whose length could be crowdsourced. It's not a huge deal, but you asked.

I'd like a more prominent, better way to support podcasts. I support podcasts via Patreon, but that often involves googling or memorizing URLs. It would be nice if the donate links could be scraped (from the RSS feed, web page, etc.) and even connected to a button in the app. More people might pay a buck an episode (or a buck a month) if that were made trivial to do.
Next biggest galactic merger: Andromeda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
Typical CEO double speak. Senior management at my company says similar things. Then if you look at the HR policy you find the fine print that greatly restricts what was said.

I had a department head tell us his door is always open and to contact him about stuff (company policy supports the open door policy). I took him up on it. When I showed up, he had another manager there in addition to himself (it was supposed to be a scheduled meeting with just me and him). I was later rated poorly, both in an interview and at year end, for a lack of leadership (following the hierarchy).
I mean, if it was easy to call it as free money back in March, then clearly everything is even more-so free money today.

The prevailing logic just seems to be "never not buy stocks at any point"
Giant iceberg on course to collide with south Atlantic penguin colony island
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Hmm. If they are important to the companies that use them, you may be in a good position to move, assuming that is also hard to find people experienced in those technologies
“Financial Zero-days” - Excellent analogy :)
Would it be possible to test a tic-tac-toe field on winners with BDD or ZDD, removing the current need for doing it with "brute force"?

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33510897/is-it-possible-...
> One plausible fix for _that_ is to have a <plaintext> tag right after your <script>.

That seems more plausible since `<plaintext>` can't be closed. In fact mutation observers can be used to get and process the partially downloaded JSON before onload (I'm pretty sure this is possible but haven't tested, YMMV). That would be still horrible as a general solution, but might be actually an interesting solution for more limited situations.
We await the fate of SN8: Another Starship launch attempt Wednesday
I have 500 karma and I don't see a UI element to try to vouch for it.
This is a great post. Really, really fantastic.

The post it's based on is ok, but super abstract, and really just spends a lot of time dancing around the fact that reality really doesn't care about your big brain and how hard it thinks. You can go super elaborate on hypothesizing if you like, but the brunt force of reality is exactly the same regardless.
From Zero to Negative One Sales
Linux has come so far in the past 20 years, that not paying an annual license fee is now shameful.
It's because security is not an on/off switch, it's a sliding rule. The further you push it, the less convenient it is. No one ever said Verisign as a CA is a perfect system; it's just better than assuming the server's certificate is legit. It reduces the risk, it doesn't remove it.

At some point you want to use the Service/see the content. As you said, you can't vet the whole stack from top to bottom, there is not enough time in a life for that. You have to start trusting someone, somewhere
So much fluff. It's like a sales person has written the article.
Next-translate – Version 1.0 Released
What is dead may never die. Times change, open core isn't and hasn't been viable for a while.
I only get values in buckets of 100. Really inaccurate. Is it thr case with others?
I think the argument he's knocking down is more flawed than he's letting on - specifically, just because the extra cash makes it easier to make bad decisions doesn't mean that those bad decisions will be made. The argument treats those as inexorable. If the argument had been passed through a truth checker and given a few more eyeballs, that flaw would have been obvious. That particular inner syllogism just doesn't inexorably flow from the truth of its lemmas.

More generally, the "flaw with first-principles analysis" is generally as you'd expect. Your premises might appear true when they're not, or your inner reasoning structure might appear valid (logical definition) when it's not, or you might be making assumptions (in the omission of other premises) that are false. It's just really hard. So that's where a slow painstaking process of repeated review will help you. And it's also not a panacea - first-principles analysis does not guarantee your solution, it's more a process that helps you surface your assumptions and learn your argument.
I read a lot of SciFi, and have actually found that while I might not learn a ton from a book directly, I'm often inspired to do nonfiction reading on ideas or events mentioned in the book.
And your approach is to teach children to fear scissors instead of teaching them to use scissors carefully; to teach people that cotton swabs are "dangerous" and must never be used. This mindset is problematic and does not help one bit.
Oh. Well that's pretty impressive. I typically don't look up people's usernames on the site, but I guess I should more often.
Robinhood provides commission free trades on fractional shares for practically all worldwide publicly traded equities in literally the palm of my hand.

To paraphrase Uncle Ben, "with great convenience comes great responsibility."

If you shoot yourself in the foot you don't blame the gun store.