skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a laughably naïve view of HR that I can only assume you've never worked for a large corporation (Hell, possibly any corporation).

Human Resources exists to limit liability of, and reduce the associated costs caused by, the humans at your company.

I have a close friend who used to be the Vice President of Human Resources at one of the largest companies on the planet. I have known this person since I was 7. Working in HR changed him, and definitely not for the better. He told me about how early in his career, he had to a fire a man who had worked at <Enormous Defense Contractor> for 28 years. Who, according to their records, had only ever taken 3 sick days. He didn't fire him because of poor performance. He didn't fire him because of a sexual harassment scandal. He fired him because the Director of HR told him to fire him, because he was one of the last employees brought in under a 30 year retirement scheme, and he was going to eligible for a 50% pension in 14 months.

He created a predictive analytic model that could identify when someone was considering leaving their job within a 3-6 month period, with 94% accuracy.

He has told me about conversation after conversation where an employee came to him for a raise but instead he convinced them that they didn't want more money, they wanted more recognition and responsibility, so he created new job titles for them a laughably increased salaries that didn't even keep place with inflation.

He recently tendered his resignation and has since gone to work for a private firm, where he no longer has to be a, quite frankly, ruthless piece of shit.

He's a far better person for it. His drinking has considerably diminished, and his outlook on humanity is far less dark. HR is where decent people become twisted into cynical shitbags and where evil mother fuckers become downright sinister. In 25 years, I've only ever known one decent HR person. Just one.
My first real job was at CompUSA. And my experience was identical to what you just described.
I'm not sure how that's clickbait? It's useful context for the vast, vast majority of people who have no idea what budesonide is; putting that in the headline would be quite unhelpful.
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16GB ram M1 user, haven't seen a KB of swap since I don't do memory intensive stuff, just wanted to future proof.
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I work for an enterprise company. The motherboard on one of my staff's macbooks died during the lockdown and it needed to be repaired. Do you know what the Enterprise IT told us to do?

"Take it to the Apple store".

Are you fucking kidding me? You want me to send my staff out during the lockdown to get a piece of YOUR hardware fixed? No option to ship it, no drop off desk at our office or something.

You're absolutely right that when you setup a department called "IT" they are now a group of people that need to be catered to as much as the other staff.

"We don't want to expose IT staff to risk, so send your own staff to get the computers repaired. Then it's your fault if they get sick and die." was the message I got.
Thanks for the pointer - I've only seen the movie and actually had no idea that a series existed.
This is true (Ubisoft is an extremely good example - there, HR exists to protect the cabal of creeps who run the company). But if a CEO does not tolerate bad behavior, HR is an indispensable tool for protecting workers from unscrupulous managers and colleagues, and for allowing safe whistleblowers. It is ridiculous (and, frankly, suspicious) to suggest the CEO can handle it by themselves.
Is there a list of companies Apple (and/or other giants) has bought? Maybe even shown on a timeline?
Good idea, give pilots smartphones so they have less time looking around.
If you've ever tried logo design, I'd argue it's not really a commodity either. I've attempted it multiple times and it's non-trivial to create a good quality logo for a business. A lot of experience and creativity come to play in those tiny little ubiquitous graphics, not just the technical execution skill (anyone here can probably slop together a vector graphic logo in a pinch).

None the less, graphic designers lost this corner of the market and were out leveraged and forced to work in an environment that wants to treat good logo design as a commodity. Personally, I see the logo contract work example as a cautionary tale of how to not let businesses push software into the same world. Any profession driven by a lot of underlying passion (software development falls here) is vulnerable to such exploitation leveraging the passion aspect. The gaming industry is a great example of this. Highly complex, highly technical, yet there are many slaving hours away in burnout conditions at rates below what their skills could obtain but their passion holds them in place.

Fortunately I think most developers worth their salt are intelligent enough to recognize this sort of exploitation and simply shift away from these situations and realize the costs they've paid not to undermine other developers in the process. I'm not sure if that will maintain forever though. There will always be demand for talented and experienced developers but the market may be able to do 80% of what they can achieve at a fraction of the cost and simply push the remaining 20% cost as a lack of quality onto the consumer--it wouldn't be the first time.
If anything will save us it will be technology, not going around trying to institute a global genocide campaign against the rich.
Surprised there's no mention of pg_trgm for trigram-based fuzzy match.

I guess for English names, Soundex is fairly good.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgtrgm.html
I found License to be Bad a fascinating view of the field of economics:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306792/licence-to-be-bad...
Indeed, silver is actually useful in a huge number of ways, from electronics and technology, to making beautiful and functional items for the home, to defending against supernatural creatures, which brings us back to Bitcoin.
I get hit with these constantly because I'm a US based Toptal freelancer. "Hey, if you take the meetings and let us use your account, we'll do all the work and give you 20%!".
Not really. We do a really wide range of jobs and its too time consuming to dive into the detail of peoples work.

Many people are taking this like its some micromanagement its my job to watch them but its literally the opposite. I can quickly check in for 5/10min every week or so and see that things are working. The alternative would be hours of reviewing tasks and output. And this quick check saves me a bucket of time + I leave them alone to do their thing if all seems good.

I do get why people dont like it. I was quite hesitant to bring it in originally but I've found it a really useful tool for the way and employee structure of how our business works.
Excellent news, thank you !
Yeah I had chronic asthma as well, I was hospitalised multiple times and I'd been on medication for 16yrs. I learnt the techniques and over 6months as I felt comfortable I was able to reduce my medication. You'd be mad to just stop your medication cold turkey. I'm not advocating that.
If you really want to see and get hints on what you can do with Cassandra, head over to Netflix tech blogs. They use Casandra extensively.
what in your opinion would be a better example of the (rather obvious) point I'm trying to make?
Lisbon is attractive for companies but not so much for talents. The average salary in Lisbon is much lower, comparing to tech salaries in the US, UK, or Singapore.
I took a machine to Fry’s to be repaired once. The look of surprise and disappointment when the tech saw there were no drives in it was hilarious. They did a good job though once we got past that.
> Your laundry machines’ motor burn.

Modern laundry machines have sophisticated power electronics between mains and drum motor.
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Even the latest Tesla only reaches ~1.5G - not even that. G-LOC won't happen until 5 or 6, so I think we're a way off yet!
Yeah, should have been more specific - it's a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
Why use this instead of footnotes? For example in these Feynman lectures below the footnotes and references to formulas and images activate then you hover over it. These footnote can even include graphics and formulas.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_21.html
Only occasionally, I have an old windows laptop with a CD rom drive. I have some old backups photos on CDs. Its from the 2000s so not sure how old it is exactly.
I was happy this shit company went out of business before you posted this.

Now I'm ecstatic.
Can you link to the comment, that sounds interesting!
Source: your mailbox if you use Amazon. All emails.

SMS contains product info.

The reason for the behavior isn't documented though. Surely Google knows how to read your SMS too, for Android Messages users.
Here it is:

“Gyrocopter low g power push over crash”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjBzrSDrV0

Warning: From the description: “This is a pretty sobering piece of film and its pretty obvious the pilot didn’t walk away. So if this is likely to upset you please don’t watch.”
This article was about how lockdowns were bad.

I would argue that's entirely the wrong conversation. First off the argument is in bad faith. The argument was don't lock down and protect the vulnerable populations. But then no actual policies/money were put forward to protect them.

Second, this as with most issues isn't a black and white issue. There were good policies and bad policies and we need to figure out which things worked and which ones didn't. The biggest question we need to ask is how much do we want to spend on public health.

Third, this argument isn't taking into account viral mutation. A Billion test tubes walking around is going to produce much more mutation than a Million.

And Last look at most of the Asian countries, which had much stronger lock down policies, Deaths/100k compared to the US.
What does "Bottom line. Write your metadata atomically with your object. Never separate them." mean from the perspective of picking a system?
Ignoring the HR issue for a moment: a company where the founder had dictatorial powers is a terrible company. The CFO should absolutely tell the manager they can’t make an investment that’s reckless and stupid. The Director of Engineering should absolutely tell the founder that they can’t add that cool-sounding feature because it’s an inherent security risk. A humble Jr QA Engineer should tell the founder they can’t say a bug is fixed when it is not fixed. And any of these people should find different work if the founder overrules them or tries to bully them into backing off.
Hey, you stopped when you got to the really good part. The NIST article series talks about adding noise to counts that would reveal too much information about individuals in the counted population. I took your art degree example to say that one needs to look across all dimensions of units in a count to check for information leakage, not just the in counted-by dimension. I am just not making the leap from there to either a greedy heurstic or a binary-integer-programming approach. Would you mind elaborating a little?
Take a look at the recently introduced minimum instances setting : https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...
In another 80 years, climate change might reduce GDP per capita by 7.22% if action isn’t taken: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/climate-change-to-slow-globa.... Sounds like people are taking it appropriately seriously.
Yeah the function keys getting stuck is poor form, but once you notice it a few times it's easy to prevent.

I'm still using it, and the mod I dream about is inserting my kensington trackball into the gap in the middle .. it's the perfect position for it!
It has skyrocketed because of increasing availability of energy. Energy is a conserved physical quantity. Hydrocarbons are basically a giant magic solar battery that was charged over tens of millions of years. We’re basically charging that down to zero in a few centuries like there’s no tommorow.

It doesn’t take much energy to extract this energy. In the case of solar or nuclear it takes a lot more energy to extract it safely and at scale.

You can read about the EROEI of shale, solar etc vs oil. We have fought against it using efficiency but efficiency too has limits.

If we didn’t discover oil / coal none of these changes you mentioned would have happened.

That there will be constant continuous and infinite improvement on a finite planet is far from clear. We can decline, or even go into stagnation for centuries until some major breakthrough.

There was a time when progress was so quick that people assumed flying cars were around the corner and we would all be living in space like the Jetsons. Again energy costs come into play.
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Error establishing a database connection

Did we crash their server?
Functional Options in Ruby
To avoid triggering the taxes (and in many cases, never paying them).
Why is it Amazon's job to prevent people from using their email how they choose?
That's fantastic to hear - while I have your ear, as a WCG cruncher I did not want to (be forced to) join Team Gridcoin in order for the work to be counted. Along with above work, has the WCG requirement to join Team Gridcoin been lifted (design altered to another method) now/as well? Teams are 50% of the fun in WCG, so the requirements for a specific team membership are unwelcome.

I was also really wanting manual reward claim (the current staking method is a lottery), I think that's still in progress reading the other comments - if I'm crunching for coin, being subject to a lottery method of when I'll get "paid" is a non starter, I want to claim my work coins when I want. The sheer fact that users with large coin are encouraged to split their stakes to increase their lottery chances of winning the stake are just crap, it's heavily biased towards HODLers and people who got in around 2016 and have a million coins - basically, the coin poor are penalized, newcomers have no hope in this staking scheme. I've always thought it was a little ponzi-scheme-like to be honest.
Whether something is a TLD isn't equivalent to whether it is a domain. The comment taken literally asked about the latter.
LG will license its webOS software to other TV brands
Sorry, I meant source that that's the reason they stopped including the details.
they will all write blogs about why bitcoin sucks
I wish all keyboards had a built-in USB port for a mouse.
> Creating schemas for declaring types is literally a hack for adding type!

It is a "communication protocol" - base of any messaging system. Message has header with protocol name and version: HTTP, TCP, DB connection, SOAP, any message queue - everything working that way.

> "datetime" isn't a universal format specification.
than use another (see the comment above)

self-contained message is anti-pattern
> "I would like to see most electronic monitoring made illegal."

What does this even mean? Does it mean no logging of anything you do online?

If you go to a website, it creates an HTTP log. The administrators of those sites usually review HTTP logs for valid, not-scary, security related issues.

If I have see a spike in error codes, then there might be an availability issue on my website. I can also look for indicators of SQL injection attacks and other malfeasance. These are all valid reasons to review logs you, the person visiting my website, generate.

What about CCTV cameras? Can I not put one in my business? You're entering my business.

> "All public, police electronic, license plate scanners, including ankle brackets, and alcohol monitors should be illegal."

This is silly. If we ban things like radar guns, police are just going to fall back to the less-accurate eyeball test. Ankle bracelets and alcohol monitors are ways to keep people out of jail. You're not typically forced to wear one unless it's a condition of your probation or parole. Don't like them? Stay in jail.
> So, you give a difficult problem to your employee, he gets stressed it is difficult, but now he needs to pretend to be busy to satisfy boss, he is even more stressed as he does not have time to think about solving the problem, but he needs to think about being busy... I can see people spiralling into mental health problems.

You're making up some horrible scenario that holds not basis of reality to support your view. I cant see that ever happening in the enviroment we are in. Maybe elsewhere but this tool is going to have both sides.

No doubt some people would be real arsehole managers with these type of tools. I also dont doubt these same managers would be like that in a physical office where they try to overwatch and micro mange there.

In our scenario the 2 main things its given us is 1) a massive time saving to management and 2) ability to leave freelancers/jr employees alone to do their thing.

Experience may differ with users :)
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You must be delightful at parties. Things improve, and it's fine to like or have fond memories of things that were part of those improvements.
It surprises me how this kind of device could be emulated over Linux (I know it has the baremetal option), I always see RPi too complex to work like a MCU.
> If you've got trust issues with your subcontractors you should fix those and not "seal" the willingly wrong information in a blockchain.

In first world countries, yes. In third world countries, no.
I think the concept is good, I just think 30 days is too short. Make it 60 days and now we're talking 6 times per year, much more reasonable. Make it 90 days and I don't think anyone will notice.

This is going to affect every user of every website using federated auth. That's a lot of buttonclicking to add to the universe.
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There’s some ‘got’ and ‘want’ pointers in https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/TestComments .

But yeah, I didn’t even realize this was a very Google thing :).
I updated my comment to clarify that eliminating the rich does not mean killing them. We must become a planet of equals, working together to be sustainable. Anyone working against sustainability should be thrown in prison. Technology will not save us, only drastically reducing our consumption and pollution will.
4k (Page size) writes with fsync is the standard way to commit database pages reliably. My understanding is that modern SSDs also have the 4K page as the minimum unit of input. Can you refer me to the documentation or article that shows a page write causes a whole block to be written?
By the time it's 100% certain, there's nothing it can do. Any control input the system can make, the pilot could also be theoretically planning to make.
There would be curly braces and everything!
GDD=Game Design Document
I share your pain in society's mishandling of covid, and understand your skepticism towards poorly applied models. Society is much more complex than most models can address.

The issue with the faith in the earth's own regulation magic is that it also assumes that the regulation magic is friendly to us, and/or that the goal of the regulation is to maintain a steady state which is good for humanity, or that it is even to maintain a steady state (maybe it's idea of 'regulation' is maintaining a chaotic cycle).

I used to joke that climate change was really the dinosaurs trying to come back; we are pumping FOSSIL fuels into the air with an end result of recreating a climate more similar to the warmer days when the dinosaurs roamed.

by issue, I mean "problems even if we assume that the earth's regulatory/homeostatic mechanisms are properly functioning."

That assumption is also problematic, if one allows for the possibility that our technological powers and population size mean we are pushing on the system faster than its regulatory mechanisms can compensate. Our bodies have highly tuned regulatory mechanisms to control body temp, which work amazingly well as long as ambient temps stay within a certain range. Outside that range, not so well.
I think part of the problem here is that, for some groups of people, they can use "the right words" all they want, but their very existence is offensive to other groups of people, who want them either dead or to pretend they're "normal" (by certain standards).

Of course, for many of these groups, even just using "the right words" to try to talk to the people who want to take away their right to exist means using words that denigrate and dehumanize them.
In the late 80s, as a student, we'd make a pilgrimage once in a while from Sacramento to the Bay Area just to visit Weird Stuff and Fry's.
This user's views on criminal justice change like the weather.

> sep_field 4 hours ago [–]

> Fines and jail time would be a start at correcting policy. Especially jail time for cops who refuse to wear masks.

> sep_field 2 hours ago [–]

> yeah I think jail is best reserved for cops and politicians.

Perhaps it's best to not engage in further discussion with an obvious troll account.
Aren't you missing the point a bit? I read that as "you don't have to pay someone to take care of your kubernetes cluster".

In regular setups, you pay for the resources, then you pay someone to take care of those resources. In the Azure's case, and AWS EKS and maybe google offering too, you don't have to pay that engineer or team of engineers.
That’s like saying that going to Mars is a logistics problem. Everything involves a logistics problem because it involves profitably using energy to move things around .

There’s plenty of fresh water too it’s just a logistics problem of transporting it from Siberia to all over the earth. It’s simply not feasible.

Energy is not cheap enough to transport food to everywhere it’s needed while also not taking enough away from anyone else by force.

That means we need to live in much more efficient denser setups with mass transport to reduce logistics costs in general. It also means some redistribution of energy and hence wealth.
What'd be sweet is if Linkedin worked on linkedin sucking less. I have better luck hiring in HN threads.
I suggest an Evoluent[0] mouse if you’ve never tried one. I use the Vertical Mouse 4 wired edition.

[0] https://evoluent.com/
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As sibling says, the best explanation I have found is that it's a holdover from Soviet natural gas politics (and in fact continued by Russian gas politics, as countries such as Ukraine can attest).
> reminders of things to avoid for legal reasons

I would see this as "routine administration". It is useful thing.

> with suggested lines of questioning for soft-skills, a framework for the decision process

Our HR quite sux in these. They also consistently attempt to match people on positions that don't suit them - both
by personality (the persons personality not matching job) and by technical knowledge/background. So their input is not trusted and managers doing hiring consistently complain about it or simply ignore them.
Their point is that Texans have no exposure to the spot price of electricity. If demand exceeds supply, we get rolling blackouts. We could reduce demand if people shut off appliances not critical to life (the fridge for one, everything will spoil during blackouts anyways).

Some part of electricity demand is inelastic, and required to live. Much of the electricity demand is elastic, and will respond to price signals. TVs, computers, clothes washers and dryers.

We do need winterization regulation as well, but once we're up the creek, price signals can be useful. Smaller price signals with more reasonable caps though. Just enough to convince you to turn your PC off so we can avoid blackouts.