skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha i have worked at amazon, where disagree and commit is one of their laminated leadership principles

except it isn't

the principle is "have backbone; disagree and commit"

there's checks and balances in the principle's words themself. every leader i've had who has "disagree and commit" as their guiding light has just been an autocrat. they never mention on the "have backbone" part.

i had a VPE from BigCos come into a LittleBigCo. he was all about "disagree and commit"

really, he had a nose for dissent. he went around managers who disagreed with him to corral their engineers to his side. he put near-founding engineers on bad projects to force them out.

i tried to have backbone with this guy once. i thought one of his tech decisions was bad (and in reality it was politically motivated to force people out.) i wasn't rude or anything. he had a 1-on-1 call with me, and acted like i was being irrational. i stood my ground and made fact-based arguments. he was losing the 1-on-1 debate, so how did he close it?

"look whateveracct..i just have this crystal ball in my stomach, and it's usually right"

disagree and commit? more like stfu i'm the boss
On the subject of using mountaineers as spies, Sidney Wignall's "Spy on the roof of the world" is also interesting.
A clock based on Cistercian numerals (with Web Components)
Covid: Rich states 'block' vaccine plans for developing nations
Few things as bad as "lunch-n-learn" meetings where you cant eat lunch where you want to, and you have to provide your own lunch.

Seems more like forced overtime to be honest, my lunch hour is unpaid, and is mine to do as i see fit.
bored rich people gave us the renaissance

the problem isn't bored rich people
I'd like to emphasize the smart quotes. It's terribly awful, at least from my point of view. Copy-pasting code has never been more dreadful.
Is it organic if there now appears to be a growing push back?
Show HN: Custom Themes in Streamlit Apps
£50k base for a random IB in London doesn’t sound shockingly low to me. There’s two things there:

1. Pay in general is lower in the UK than the US. The bank will pay what they can get away with and there isn’t enough competition between banks/consultancies/tech/law to drive pay up. I wouldn’t be surprised if more competitive candidates got higher offers.

2. A lot of compensation can be made up in bonuses, though I don’t know what kind of bonus a junior analyst might get.
> But being able to go home at 6PM on Friday, having put in your 60 hours

I know you are phrasing this as a better sign, but even here, I would see 60 hours/week as extreme overwork. I started tracking my hours to get a sense for how much I work in a typical week, and found that both my quality of output and my emotional state are impacted greatly by the number of hours. At 40-50 hours/week, everything is pretty reasonable. I can do 50-65 hours/week in short bursts, but not over a prolonged period. 80 hour weeks are barely possible, and will leave me absolutely shot at the end of the week, and the following week will be spent recovering from the overwork.

(Side note, my personal tracking has only gone down to a minimum of 40 hours/week, but it would be interesting to track productivity with a shorter work day/week as well.)
Wiki – Affirming the Consequent
Not the commenter you responded to, but Northrup Frye at the very least tried to take a systematic approach to literary theory, using Aristotle as a model. I would like to peek into the parallel universe in which his approach in the Anatomy of Criticism (1957) became as widely adopted as, e.g. deconstructionism.
It isn't a question of suffering; if they can pay the loan back without suffering then everyone is a winner. Horrible policy is when the government sees people who work hard, save responsibly and honour their commitments ... and then that government puts a thumb on the scale to make sure the responsible got worse outcomes than free-spending fools.

Presumably we all want those free-spending fools to live without suffering (I certainly do). They should have food, shelter and freedom to improve themselves. If they can't pay the money back then it is stupid to pretend they will (and politically destabilising). But all this doesn't outshine the fact that people who paid off their student debts the hard way made better choices and probably worked harder to boot.

Sometimes the rules need to change midway through the game of life, but the government shouldn't be monkeying around with the score at the same time. The people who borrowed money and couldn't pay it back made terrible choices. People who made good choices should be rewarded more than people who make bad choices and given first pick of resources and opportunity. Otherwise people who make bad choices will end up owning stuff they'll muck up and in positions of authority where they will muck stuff up that they don't own.

Now that is mean to the people who took out loans. Bad luck. If they want a nicer tone they can cover their own costs. It isn't reasonable to take someone else's money, government rolls in and hand-waves paying it back (probably has the tax payer cover the costs in some complicated bailout, who knows) and then expect everyone to be treated like they are behaving responsibly and respectably. There has to be some level of recognition the magnitude of the mess-up here. People are making life-shatteringly bad decisions and dragging other people with them. That needs more consideration than wiping the slate clean and shrugging hard.

But obviously the usual bankruptcy process (they've got nothing and basically start from scratch) would be fine. If they're broke they're broke.
Two factors, I think:

- Social security is far better. You of course need to save for bad times, but getting sick will cost you practically nothing (you're always insured and the insurance will pay you 2/3rds of your wage) and when loosing your job (which is already far harder than in the US) you'll be covered quite good for 18 months and fall back to basic social support after that

- Generally a bit lower standard of living. It's not bad, of course, but 100k$+ cars, for example, are usually only leased via work, and 2k$+ laptops are a rather large expense to many people.
Is it unusual for it to take this long to move through the chain after it's noticed?
Getting two cities vaporized followed by unconditional surrender and your enemy rewriting your entire governing structure does not seem like a successful military outcome.
I have been very interested in CHR (constraint handling rules) for this kind of activity. It was developed (I think) to provide a systematic basis for the various constraint libraries to 'speak the same language' instead of being implemented without knowledge of each other.

I don't see much literature out there on it (after the mid-2000s) but it always seemed a conceptually elegant way of doing forward-chaining (and inference) in the way of most rules engines. It only has a few simple rules: simplification (remove data/rules), simpagation and propagation (new data).

The best part is that it embeds very easily in Prolog.
I'm in this camp (though AMD, not intel).

It's so much better than Docker for Mac.
Two questions I had was: 1. is there some way to cache (eg LRU upto a size limit) the results of transformation functions. 2. They mentioned custom header fields as a way for clients to pass along data what about query parameters do those get passed along?
I was always wondering why global shutter was not a thing on high end cmos sensors.
“Bait” means poison, right?
I tried git-absorb (git-autofixup is Perl? Installing things with CPAN needs sudo? Sorry... I don't have a good Perl situation and don't care to have one.) and it did not immediately work correctly. Maybe git-autofixup is better; idk. Also I misunderstood; I'm expected to `git add` before using these tools - after that, the commit/rebase only takes me a few seconds; I already knew what commit it was bound for when I staged the changes.
You won't always be drawing the lines you historically ignorant idiots.
Coming soon: A new book about FOSS strategy in business
I'd wager the demoscene is pretty conservative to begin with. All the comporules and jargon derive from the Warez/cracker scene in the late eighties and haven't really changed much since - only the capabilities of the hardware has.

Eg: an "intro" means a demo made against a size limit. It's called an intro because cracked games were spread with little introductory animations (sine-scrollers, chiptunes, you know the drill) by the cracking groups. These couldn't take too much space lest the game got too big to easily distribute. Then, people started making intros without having a game to distribute them with, and the rest is history.

But that's >30 years ago now and we still use the same term and the same size limits (4k, 64k) as back then.
Demos are still made nowadays. http://www.pouet.net/ lists 84845 prods in archive (although that includes tools, engines, etc.)

If you want to mirror, https://files.scene.org/faq/ says its archive is about 2TB, or about 15625 of your old 128MB USB disks :P The archive from 1990 demoparties is already 5GB!

I know your comment was probably tongue-in-cheek, I just wanted to share the actual numbers.
Science is our new god
A mouse population spike happens every summer/autumn in the wheat belt during and after the harvest. I don't think this year's numbers have anything to do with predator populations, it's probably just warm weather and a good harvest.
This is going to sound silly but I’m absolutely serious: where are the cats?
Why don't you block ads? What is wrong with you?
I came here to bring this up, I use a Key2 daily and have used a UniHertz Titan for a time. Many applications don't handle odd screen aspects very gracefully. (Like Instagram opting for zooming stories instead of lettering).

But sticky headers are the bane of my existence.
I never said it was
So what. You're not representing everybody. Some people do want to receive the notifications.
Really excited to see this. Being part of the scene was absolutely fundamental to finding passion in tech and understanding how creative the process is at the core.
Let’s not get me started on tiny tap areas. Virtually every graphic designer I have ever worked with is ignorant of Apples 44 by 44 point recommendation.

They just want their designs to look good, but give no though to how they feel, especially when trying to use them one handed or with disabilities.
Who is defining race, racism, and whether treatment is detrimental?

If an AI sends more police to areas with more crime, and those areas are poorer and have more black residents than average then:

* is the data good or are we just sending more police where more police already got sent (and made arrests and thus appeared to have a higher crime rate)?

* is this a good thing because law and order are important or bad thing?

* is it discrimination or does the higher crime rate justify it?

* if the same system sends fewer police officers to an Asian or Latin or other neighbourhood that has low crime numbers, is that good or bad? Is it racist if white communities get fewer police officers and crime goes up?

* if it is discrimination then is it because of race or poverty?

People are very excited to should that AI (or machine learning or whatever) is racist. But no one wants to have the hard discussion about what any of that means in any practical case. As long as that's true were just going to rehearse the same tired arguments we've had for 50 years but with a computer making decisions instead of a person.

Personally I think we could make more progress by making local police accountable to local leaders. Then if communities want more/less action on a given type of crime, they can get it. And no one feels they're being oppressed from afar.
Show HN: Polar Bear Blog – Minimalist Markdown Blog for Google Cloud Run
I start design at iPhone 5 (320px wide in portrait orientation). However, it will often work down to 300px or less.
From another article - https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-settles-with-cftc-for-6-5m... -
“Importantly, the CFTC is not alleging that any Coinbase customers were harmed or that any wrongdoing occurred. Rather, it’s describing the activity as reckless but not intentional. This activity is no longer occurring, the CFTC said Friday.”

The behaviour described otherwise is clearly intentional, so Coinbase’s PR seems to be trying to whitewash their history.

It makes me believe my hypothesis that Coinbase deliberately (through purposeful neglect or action) allows or causes the platform to become inaccessible to users when Bitcoin price starts to skyrocket - to block and prevent impulse "HODLers" from selling, allowing enough time for the impulse of many to quell, among other consequences; I'd be curious if Coinbase collects login attempt data during this time, failed logins, or if their whole website including login system is also down.
>The monarchists at the times of the French revolution always flew blue, and the republicans that wished to abolish it flew red.

That's just... false. The monarchists universally flew white banners. The Republicans were literally known as the Blues.
US culture is way more inclined towards business than European culture. American tech-enthusiasts were thinking about how to make money. Some European enthusiasts were, too, but not at all as singled-mindedly as US ones, no wonder the US owns the tech industry today. Games were a big driver for everyone on both sides, so both sides got a significant piece of the pie there (Asia was way too far back then, and arguably ahead of either).

I started learning to program in 1985, was part of a somewhat relevant demo group, attended The Assembly '94 in Helsinki, helped organize some enocounters in my country, etc...
People are free to spend their own money however they wish.

If you think you (or the government/society) can spend their money in a way that is "better" than they themselves can, take it from them (e.g., taxes).
If they were submitted to demo parties or shared in another fashion, the demoscene has it at pouet.net or demozoo.net or scene.org
I've enjoyed my time in the C64 and later the PC demoscene and I'm amazed it's still going pretty strong. Perhaps not on the level it was at during what was arguably its peak in the mid-90s, but still.

It has certainly shaped a fairly large group of people currently working in our industry, even if they were only tangentially aware of the scene (perhaps with cracked games as a gateway drug, as it was in my case).

Kudos for getting this organized.
That's a fair point, though I think you're intensifying and extrapolating my feelings too far :P

For some cultural/creative practices that are dear to me, I'd be ok with seeing them die out than become bureaucratised/preserved/reified. On the other hand, I love classical music, which could scarcely be less institutionalised and sclerotic, and I value historical, ethnographical and scholarly work about culture. I have all these slightly-conflicting feelings at once.
Good faith is hard to define. If I genuinely think my proposal is the way to go, hence I use this technique to push it through, is this good faith? Or if I'm tired of discussions on a difficult topic and just want to move forward with anything, does this count as good faith?

It would be nice to have a workflow for group discussions that is robust against the faith differences. Just like we have specific workflow on voting in politics, doing it independently and resisting some of the human crowd instincts.
GCP is behind. They're are behind in niche services to be fair but behind nonetheless. Nothing that prevents building similar services, but coming from AWS, I routinely feel frustrated by lack of finesse and comparable offerings. IMO, GCP's greatest benefits over AWS are:

* BigQuery

* Tighter k8s integration with GKE

* Single message service (PubSub)

Unless BigQuery is your first class citizen, I would avoid GCP.
I had an iPhone 6 (same size as SE2) for a year after the 5, and then reverted to the SE1 because the 6 was just too slippery with its round edges, and just a tad bit too wide to grip it naturally, and I had to use the Reachability feature quite often. So while it may work for you, I can’t personally recommend it over the 12 mini.
This isn't exactly the issue with the cacao production industry.

Like coffee, I believe the industries that are able to produce higher quality beans with more equitable and fair labor practices are doing better than the countries that continue producing cheap cacao. Something that I am under the impression is less supported by European chocolate producers.

My source is my time as a chocolate maker in the US.
why is it so pixelated, I would think I could be done better, nice for amateurs or a teaching tool but for the one that really do holograms its not anything like what can be done at http://geola.com/product/ilumogram-applications/, just my thought it will be just a novelty... words from a holographer
You probably mistyped the title. The original title is: LEVERAGING Machine Learning for Game Development.
Why don't you use an adblocker?
Carting Lane Sewer Lamp
Just for info, I know 2 people in London that make more than £100k/year and they are both contractors; they reached around £60k/year at max as employees before changing to contractors. One works for the government doing mostly nothing (not kidding, he explained what he did in his first 6 months - probably worked 30-40 hours in total), one works from London for some companies abroad. If you want to get 100k as an employee it's very tough or closes to impossible, but it is doable if you switch.
> If Apple can’t get it right, then how can we expect anyone else to?

Just because a doctor smokes does not mean that them telling you that "smoking is bad and that you should stop" is incorrect advice:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I agree. In addition to a visual anchor, I find that it makes handoffs a lot easier - there are visual queues that can be used to see when someone is about to talk, which makes it easier to avoid talking over each other and knowing when to stop talking.
Hi HN community! After discovering the Bear Blog, https://bearblog.dev/ (which is completely different from the Bear app, https://bear.app/, by the way), I wanted to rewrite it in Go and provide an easy way to deploy on serverless Google Cloud Run. Cloud Run allows you to use your own custom domains and the service will also provide an SSL cert. Here's a link to the GitHub repo as well: https://github.com/josephspurrier/polarbearblog
Launch HN: Kanda (YC W21) – Let tradespeople offer finance to their customers
Hey HN! We're Phil, Rich & Rob, the co-founders of Kanda (https://www.kanda.co.uk). We allow general contractors (electricians, builders, etc) to offer pay-monthly options to their clients. Contractors get paid in full like normal, and their clients pay us back over time.

Rich was an electrical contractor and after running his firm for 10 years he started to find it harder and harder to compete on price against bigger companies because they could offer pay-monthly options to their clients and he couldn't. When he started to look into it he realized how unrealistic it would be for a little guy like him to be able to offer a pay-monthly option anytime soon.

Why? Because lenders put arbitrary barriers to entry like needing to have a yearly revenue of a $1M, so local contractors like Rich get frozen out and bigger companies can dominate the market. Over 80% of construction businesses are local contractors and most of them face the same problem Rich did.
So, together we set out to build a solution and we ended up with Kanda.

Kanda is an estimating tool that contractors can use to send clients estimates. When the client receives the estimate, we (Kanda), will offer the client the option to pay the contractor in full (like they normally would) or to pay them monthly.

If they choose to pay them monthly, then we pay the contractor in full once the client signs off the work and then the client pays us back over the term of the finance agreement, which could be from 10 months to 10 years. This not only helps the contractor to compete on price but it also makes it more affordable for the homeowner to have work done on their house. Win-win.

The way we see it, buy now, pay later is revolutionising e-commerce (for good or bad), and the only reason it isn't happening in offline services like construction is because it's hard to standardize the process of a contractor offering the finance. So, that's what our product aims to do. It aims to standardise how contractors send estimates and how they offer finance. Making it easy for them to do both.
We’d love your ideas and feedback on what we are making.
This seems like an implementation error - why not treat the user as if they were not logged in?
My guess is that it's a field that was harvested in the past weeks. Harvesting crops makes a lot of edible material fall to the ground. I believe the "leftovers" from the harvest attracts the rats.
If you are on HN, you should know how to install a PiHole between your router and smart TV. There, no more ads.
Quiver Quantitative: Free alternative data for retail investors
Yeah, had it said "Georgia" instead I would not have had the same confusion OP had.

I guess it's one of those unspoken rules we don't know we know.
If not following the guidelines makes your app hard to use or glitchy on some of Apple's lineup, I don't see why you wouldn't expect Apple to reject the app. This reflect poorly on Apple because it makes it look that some of their devices are 2nd class citizens within their ecosystem.

They should follow the guidelines when not doing so causes usability issues. If your games is usable on all devices then obviously there's no problem.
Show HN: Wi-Stalk – Analyze Wikipedia User's Activity
A single character able to hold 1 to 9,999 is pretty compact
Thanks, you just said what I was going to comment on.

One additional thing: over use of devices is also a problem. Apple tracks use for you and I find the weekly reports useful. Apple does not need us to be addicted to social media and marginally useful stuff on the web, their business model doesn’t require it.

I don’t want many apps on my devices and I don’t want every web site to effectively be an app on my device. If I do spend time on a digital device, I either want to be doing something useful, or working on a book project that hopefully some people might find useful. It takes some care to not waste time, and since I am approaching my 70th birthday, I have stronger feelings about not wasting time than I had when I was younger.
Front Page of Hacker News on the Day Steve Jobs Died
to some extent, it's a "don't hate the player, hate the game" situation. I think it's actually great that we have a system where craftspeople can continue to see returns on developing their skills way past the *good enough" point. what's not so great is when the value of a thing is dominated by the logo on it rather than its design. but it's hard to point to a specific person whose fault this is. if you can 10x something's value by putting your stamp on it, why not? and if you're the watchmaker, why not let them?
The last time I was working with molecular modeling, proteins were still the main target. With the advent of cryoEM, glycobiology of proteins can now be discerned. Now, AI is starting to be able to predict entire secondary structures from sequence alone. It will take massive computational power, but I can see how toxicology may soon be able to be predicted from in silico experiments.
> But on your device you can get to these icons as well, try to find out how!

Uhh, I scrolled just like the emoji keyboard (which every iPhone user has figure out) and it worked? There are also partial icons at the edge hinting of more to the right. This wasn’t/isn’t exactly hidden.