skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the impression this author is dancing around some particular bad experiences they’ve had, which is the real subject of this post. Without understanding those details it’s hard to get where this comes from. There’s certainly a lot of unspoken expectations of what HR is.

I’ve worked with HR in many capacities, and find them to be supportive and helpful of both employees and managers. However, what you will not find them to be is sympathetic. They aren’t job relationship therapists any more than they’re mall cops. They are there to make sure workplace law is followed. Beyond that, it’s on everyone involved to be personally responsible for being a professional.
I see successful government projects in many countries. Unfortunately in the US we have this belief that government projects are destined to fail, which means we don’t invest in them, so they often fail... self fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
Which is almost always a linear mapping going from the outside first. To be fair, that doesn't include rotational latency, but still, the abstraction isn't as abstract as you make it sound.
Isn't Okinawa a good place to start? You get two interesting comparisons: Okinawans vs other Japanese during the last century, and Okinawans then vs now. It reduces the number (or at least the scale) of differences so that you can better pinpoint the factors, right?
California has an alarmingly overconfident and autocratic governor who is likely to face a recall in the coming months. The problem is even if Newsom/Getty does get replaced there are few credible politicians on the horizon who can handle the massive debt load, complex layers of bureaucracy, alarming levels of graft and extreme levels of economic hardship.

It's a serious situation, with the endless talk and inadequate action from Newsom/Getty making a lot of people very angry.
That guy is full of basic wisdom. Big fan here. Love the language too. Exemplary shop talker.
I am responding to dang's statement about Einstein's own analysis of the aetiology of his theory, for which he Einstein credits the influence of Hume.

Dang says "That's as solid evidence of a link as could exist."

I don't think it is the most solid evidence that could exist.

We don't even know how theories are formed in the mind, and we don't know the data format used by the brain. One day, we might be able to observe that empirically, in the same way we can examine source code versions of computer software in order to make informed statements about the aetiology of forked code. Today, we can't do that.

We can only guess at the origins of people's thoughts, and when the thoughts come from our own selves, no advantage or insight is conferred. That is considered in the Scientific American essay I linked to above. Do you have any constructive criticism to offer about that essay?

Einstein noted the limitations of this ontological discussion as well, in the preface clause of his remarks to Besso "In so far as I can be aware, the immediate influence of D Hume on me was greater."

My point is that Einstein's awareness, like your own and my own awareness of where our own thoughts come from, is slim. That's an entirely different thing to wanting to associate ourselves and our ideas with great figures in history. On that point, Einstein and I both know that great minds think alike.
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Context switching has high costs, but it's a mistake to assume those costs are unchangeable.

With practice, it's possible to train yourself to get back into focus faster after being interrupted or context switching. It doesn't completely cancel out the costs, but having a strategy to get back into focus helps immensely.

The worst mistake I see people make is assuming that focus is something that only strikes serendipitously, and is ruined on the first signs of interruption. Once you accept that focus can, in fact, be cultivated and interruptions can be overcome with deliberate effort to re-focus, it becomes much easier to start training yourself to get back into the flow.

The other mistake I see people make is letting minor interruptions spiral into an impromptu 30-minute break of checking HN, browsing Twitter, or other distractions until they feel like getting back to work. Don't like your own habits amplify existing distractions.
This is not at all unusual in cooking articles.

There was a nice article talking about how long it actually takes to caramelize onions. Everything says like 20 minutes when it actually takes almost an hour.

Cookbooks and recipes with rigor are few and far between.
> They also seem to think their market is digital signage

I believe this was because of the limitations of the previous generations. I saw some color e-paper that was super slow to refresh and had terrible ghosting. No one would buy a color e-reader if it takes 15 seconds to turn a page, especially if it costs more than grayscale ereaders due to the 'new technology'.

OTOH, store signage is a use case where refresh and ghosting is relatively unimportant.
I couldn't find anything on a study at Cornell University, but I did find mention of a study at the University of Windsor that included 72 students in three groups: a control group, a group that listened to music before, and a group that listened to music before and during.

The results[2] are published in an article behind a paywall, but they give details of the two tasks presented to the subjects, neither of which involved actually writing code. One was a 15-minute task of locating syntax errors, another was a 20-minute task of locating logic errors.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2005-lesiuk.pdf
[2]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08874417.2000.11...
If something is truly genetically linked then dieting for you might as well be lipstick on a pig if you don't have the right heritage. There are a couple other places in Asia with similar levels of longevity. Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea come to mind. Maybe look into what similarities they share with Japan. For Europe there are the usual Mediterranean countries, including Israel. (For European demographics, remember to adjust for large numbers because population size vary wildly.)
There are degrees of democracy (as I think your comment rightly points out).

Maximum democracy in this case might be, the RFCs are written by anyone, work on features is started when people vote to start it, and there is widely distributed veto/filibuster power.

A bit less democracy might be that the maintainers select the ten proposals they feel are best, and put them to a vote for people to choose.

I just read a really good book on this topic called "10% Less Democracy". I'd highly recommend it. It shows how "maximum democracy" usually isn't the best setting, at least for governments. Their proposal for tax is interesting: write a 4-page bill in Congress that outlines the % of income to be collected, and maybe some amount each decile should pay, and an unelected tax body (like the IRS) figures out how to make that happen, as cheaply and transparently as possible.
Can you find one example?

<Example provided>

Anything aside from this event?

<Another example provided, points to moving goalposts>

> It’s not a surprise the only other example you could pull is the other one that was pushed by the media relentlessly for years. Anything else?

https://www.13wmaz.com/mobile/article/news/neo-nazi-group-le...

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/01/os...

https://mobile.reuters.com/news/picture/white-nationalists-d...

But I’m not chasing those goalposts any more.
You clearly never read much about Parler before any of this happened. The founders are most certainly not rioters. They're libertarians who wanted to found a pro-free-speech Twitter.

Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean they are bad, evil, or wrong.
That was pretty awesome!
That didn't stop any of the election lawsuits.
They didn't ban a former prime minister of Malaysia for stating "Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past". They wouldn't even remove the tweet. This was his response to a French school teacher being beheaded in Paris by a Muslim parent, angry that he was teaching freedom of expression includes freedom to offend.

They didn't ban Kathy Griffith for holding up Trump's decapitated head either. You wouldn't get away with doing that to Biden's head.
By that argument our government is also a feudal system because there's a king (the president, prime minister, etc.) in charge. Most people would argue that the ability to choose the "king" and replace the "king" provides a key distinction. Likewise with an employer you can change your employer which provides a key distinction from a feudal system.
These kind of things can actually strengthen your immune system. As was discovered with the tuberculosis vaccine - it conferred near perfect immunity to Covid-19 through what is termed immunotherapy.

A muscle tear is serious. Muscle soreness is strength building. What doesn't gravely injure you, may often make you stronger.
As I understand it they only removed these after their underlying server provider banned Epik over it ...

They also still provide DNS for 8chan/8kun, and continue to host the daily stormer ...

Seems like they are only not bulletproof because they are a reseller and their vendors have limits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)#Hosting_of_fa...
Talk: Wuhan Institute of Virology (Wikipedia)
HR is not your friend and your company is not your family.

Regardless of intent there are commercial realities that exist within the context of a company that may never be present in a non-work relationship. This has varying degrees of impact on the nature of the relationship itself and may not present itself until you are at your most vulnerable.

I find that a collegial environment with shared goals and responsibilities can be equally rewarding as non-work relationships even if we all have some level of underlying self-interest at heart. Our day-to-day interactions can also be made more pleasant if we are not constantly reminded of the at times competitive, zero-sum, structure of professional engagements.

At a team level your colleagues may be your friends but one shouldn't conflate professional relationships with personal ones.
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I've already provided fields of what information should be extracted, i.e., passport
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I’m planning to build a transmission control module for my car. Can I please reach out with a couple of questions?
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That’s not true! Blue states exist, and they invest in plenty of things. Those fail, but that doesn’t deter blue state voters.
> The only states that are worse than we are are poor, rural, and low education.

So are all of the top states, to be fair, excepting maybe Oregon (those are somewhat loose terms at a state level).
USGS maps are also amazing, not sure really what project they came from but you can get a very good topo map of anywhere in the country. Really nice to have for planning hiking trips.
IT is not your friend either. They work for the company, not for you.

Legal is not your friend either. They work for the company, not for you.

Janitorial staff is not your friend either. They work for the company, not for you.

Sales is not your friend either. They work for the company, not for you.

Marketing is not your friend either. They work for the company, not for you.
> Performance reviews are a joke because almost nobody knows how to measure anyone else's effectiveness. They are just a continuation of the same popularity contests you thought you left behind from...high school

Bowling For Soup (I'm that old) has a song called High School Never Ends. I guess it also applies to the corporate world.
This is a vicious circle. The less trust, the less effective government can achieve society's goal.

Just look at all the civil servants like nurses and firemen who still refuse the jab.
The problem isn't the company that blocked it. The problem is the company that reported that there was a problem when there wasn't. In this case it sounds like Google is both companies.
"mega-corps" have been using free software in the same way for 20 years. If they were killing it, wouldn't it be dead by now?
Publishing extensions on Chrome/Firefox is annoying, and we probably would have more extensions if it was easier.

But, it's not so annoying that the entire platform is being abandoned. This is a matter of degree, but there's a point where the effects of that annoyance become very obvious.

If publishing on Apple devices was just a tiny bit more annoying, devs would complain and then still publish their extensions. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening, it seems Apple has crossed a line where extension devs have decided to just ignore the entire thing.
two fyi's:

1) author is female.

2) she gets that feedback a lot that she's overly aggressive in her blogging. Mostly she dismisses it as misogyny but here you thought she was a guy... I wonder how she'll respond.
Did anyone else get totally confused by this article, thinking it was about operating system context switching? Took me a while to realize he was only talking about cognitive context switches.
I will be curious how different executive leadership could resolve logjams like this. These things often have to do with bureaucracy, miscommunications between agencies, differing priorities between the stakeholders, and unclear overlapping responsibilities. IMO it’s the job of executive leadership to help clarify these things regularly - especially when you should basically be on a war footing trying to all move in concert against an enemy.
Linux and Python are both projects where people can vote with their feet, though. The projects themselves are not a democracy, but they're certainly not the same sort of ballgame as employment. If I decide my management chain is doing the wrong thing, there's a huge personal cost to finding another job, and little guarantee it will be better. If I decide Linux is doing the wrong thing, I can just stop using it or contributing to it.

That is - the fact that Linux and Python have BDFLs is not the reason for their success. The fact that they have effective BDFLs who make sound decisions that actually work is the reason for their success. And the BDFLs only have power insofar as the community still believes in them - Guido stepped down and Linus has faced significant opposition.

BDFLs and traditional corporate governance are quite efficient, yes. But democracy doesn't aim to be efficient; it promises to be pointed in the right direction. There's no sense in going at 100x speed in the wrong direction. Democracy isn't the only way to get there - if you have tangible data about leadership and where they're pointed and how they make decisions, and the cost of switching is fairly low (so that you can keep pressure on leadership), that works too.

When was the last time you had any data about how effective your management chain would be when you started your job?

(I'm happy in my current job because I asked hard questions about management at each place I interviewed, and I found one where my own management chain seemed to have good people - but even so, only one person in my management chain is still the same as when I interviewed, so I still took a gamble, and I had far less data on any of them from a bit over a day of interviews than anyone has on Linus or Guido.)
Like this you mean? https://youtu.be/FF-tKLISfPE
I dunno. A group of your senior staff engineers can probably do a pretty damn good evaluation of everybody's engineering performance--thank you very much.

You're not as special a snowflake as you think, and, yes, the senior engineering staff probably are paying attention.

The issue will likely be that the engineering ranking won't match the political rankings and will sometimes diverge wildly.

THAT is a separate problem.
This is like a homeowner saying "cars should park in a garage".

But some people live in apartments and some people park their car most of the day at work.

This is a way of saying - not everyone parks their computer at home with a nice reliable setup completely under their control.

Some people - for many reasons - have to use setups that are out of their control. Those people will be second-class citizens, carrying an assortment of duct-tape with them (dongles).
Care to share your embarrassingly easy recipe? :)
>Mostly she dismisses it as misogyny

Starting not to be surprised she has such a bone to pick with HR
Might be the one from computerphile
This is highly dependent upon your field. You have never been unlucky enough to be trained in a field that then died out.
This is a baseless accusation, made to build a strawman argument that can be torn down, given Google's crawler will remove results from down sites AND DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY BRING THINGS BACK WHEN IT A RANDOM HUMAN NOTICES IT'S BACK UP.

A search for "gab", "gab.com" and "gab.ai" all return normally, which just means your comment is designed to be divisive. This is, of course, the issue with proper discourse enforcement!
I wear merino wool t-shirts to bike to work because they don't get smelly, however, they actually wear out much faster than cheap synthetic shirts. I usually buy them on clearance/sale for $30-40. $70-120 is nuts for a t-shit. I also don't understand how that can be buy it for life anyways. Its a cloth shirt, maybe its decently made but any synthetic fabric will last longer (still not forever).
The point of MTA-STS is not having to use DNSSEC, which nobody does anyways.
a small amount. Not the obscene amounts we eat here in America
Prep time only includes preparation steps listed in the recipe, never time to prepare or measure the ingredients. So a recipe that calls for "5 onions, finely chopped" won't count the peeling & chopping time. But when it says "sautee onions for 5 minutes" that's where the "5 minutes of prep" comes from. "Cooking time" is usually the unattended cooking time, where something is just boiling in a pot or baking in an oven.
Spawn more overlords.
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A handful of angry just-so stories.

Companies can operate with a lot of dysfunction. You will encounter sociopathic and stupid people in life. You might not get treated reasonably or fairly sometimes. Santa Claus isn’t real.
Replace the work "violent racists" with "kulaks".
That's a long time for people to spend extra money on apple equipment and use shitty dongles.

(apologies to dongle teams who basically put custom computers inside cables)
> That's because such vendors (e.g. Panic, BareBones, Omni, and so on) won't do lowest common denominator apps, they keep up with the platform, they understand it, they hook in to new platform-only capabilities, etc.).

What about thousands of small devs/companies who are not Panic or others having contacts inside Apple and a privileged position? Here on HN there's at least one horror story a month about issues someone had with Apple, from ever changing terms, to review process that takes for ever - while still doesn't manage to catch many real offenders (especially in terms of privacy issues), but slows down legit devs trying to quickly fix bugs and close the security holes in their apps. It has become a layer over a layer of bureaucracy which more and more seems to be it's own purpose. Honestly there are much easier ways to make money as a programmer.
Anyone know what that decodes to?
is downvoting even a thing in HN?
Why is this shit, important. It's not the best part of history. Best part of Greek, Sumerian, Mycenean, Byzantine civilization is destroyed by mongols, huns, Christianity and Islam.
I've often seen people mistakenly use the words legacy and established interchangeably.
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Check out 'Earth Crust Displacement Theory' and go look at the ocean floors on google maps to get your mindblown
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Seems like OP observed something unsettling at the office, wanted HR to fire the perpetrator, and HR did not do that. Then OP generalizes and says that HR is not effective and not your friend. However, there are many gray areas where it's hard to justify firing someone. For example, let's say this person was acting passively aggressively and ignoring/avoiding someone. Is that a fireable offense? I am not sure it is. There are also very clearcut situations, like harassment or racism or aggression. But there are a lot of gray areas also.
There is a vast difference between "Can the government do anything right?" and "Can the Trump administration do anything right?"

The Federal government can be an amazing force for help in times of crisis when run by competent people. As we have seen, though, when run by actively malicious people, it can grind to a halt.

The current Covid vaccine situation is due to a bunch of idiotic Federal decisions made starting 12 months ago that continue through to the present day--including things like "Not paying money to vaccine companies in advance to help them ramp up faster".
You can read up on the background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Background but the tl;dr is that we were very lucky to be hit with the less serious SARS and MERS diseases years ago, as they got the world started on coronavirus vaccines that ultimately were turned into the covid vaccine.
I'd actually assume the opposite of your statement (which I read as "One mustn't be a criminal to use Jabber"): I wouldn't trust any technology completely unused by criminal organisations.

Criminal orgs require their communications be secure, ideally without the ability for whomever they're chatting with to compromise the chat without meaning to (see iMessage saving both the key and the messages to iCloud, Whatsapp backing up messages to Google Drive, etc.)

It's very true to say not every criminal organisation uses proper opsec, but my point is not every criminal is smart. I'm simply pointing out that if a communication platform isn't used by any criminals, it's likely not worth using for me.
What's an alternative to the Economist? I can't find a better publication short of an academic journal or literature. Someone recommended Foreign Affairs but I've yet to buy one.
No. Because they want to sell much and often.
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Even today, there are hackers taking over YouTube channels, using names of Elon Musk, SpaceX, Cathie Wood to scam cryptocurrency.

As Bitcoin keeps breaking all-time-high records, interest in Bitcoin is reigniting, and some of the growing pool of new cryptocurrency holders may fall into such scam.

It doesn’t help when YouTube ranks these scam videos at the top!

Investigation includes:
> Observing the take-over of YouTube channels with high viewership and subscriber count, as it happens
> Exposing hard-coded JavaScript that were used to spoof transactions on scam sites
> Finding similar code fragments on freelancer sites
> Tracing bitcoin address that was used to funnel scammed funds
> Uncovering the use of website copier programs for scammers to quickly spin up scam sites
USB 2.0 tops out at a theoretical 60MB/s, and in reality it is much slower, far below the read speeds of fast SD cards.

I appreciate that it’s good enough under some circumstances, but not always. Certainly not when taking several cards worth of photos a day, with only very limited time to do transfer, selection, and editing.
He turned it into a series:

https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car...

https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car...

https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-to-build-flying-car...