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Ask HN: How do you deal with favoritism in the workplace?
And when you are not the favorite one...

I am a software engineer working for a mid-size company, we have a lot of processes we have to follow, every engineer has their own areas they work on.

The company I work for also has a typical structure hierarchy where subordinate have managers and those managers have their own managers and so on.

Though I have noticed that there's a lot of favoritism involved with some of those managers, for example, some subordinates are not allowed to access specific resources and people who are promoted into management role do so because they have a better relationship with someone from management.

Then they get all the benefits that come with that, yet those of us who do all the "hard work" and have more experience don't have that luxury and we are told excuses such as: "The company doesn't have any criteria for who is allowed to access so and so".

Have you been in this position before? How do you deal with it?
7) Project estimation
having thought about it a bit, I think the idea of terser accurate models being "better" is the core of the idea of "beauty" in programming (and probably elsewhere).
But why? The Hacker's Delight author justifies it:

>Several of the variables below could be "short," but having them fullwords gives better code on gcc/Intel.

But does the same happen in the "adapted" code? Does forcing 64 bit variables on a 32 bit architecture give better code?

Wouldn't it have been better to just leave the compiler to choose the best appropriate size? (I guess you do that by just declaring the variable as unsigned? I'm no C guru...)

Also, the fact that all of them renamed the variable un32 to un64 tells you that they didn't have the slightest idea about what they were doing :D
It’s really hard to read such posts. The tool is only as good as the contributor, that’s all there is. Great things were built in all languages and frameworks. For god sakes, stop blaming the tool by doing naive comparisons with other languages/framework. Nothing’s perfect, that’s a given, but these kinds of post smells so much like entitlement. You don’t need to trash your previous framework/language and discourage others. If you struggled using node don’t fool yourself that it was because of the tool and try to do the hard work of introspection and understand why you failed.

Disclaimer: In case you think I’m bias toward node, I’m more of a python fast API guy, but I have tremendous respect toward NodeJS performance and async elegance (and even more when mixed with typescript)
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The article leaves it ambiguous over why Lucy Le was in the road.

So to clarify for anyone thinking "that's not the car's fault, they would've been watching for pedestrians on the sidewalk," there were no sidewalks. Only road.

Not uncommon for suburbs in the US, because why would anyone want to walk when you could drive a 4000 lb SUV everywhere?
and they didn't even get started on social sciences..
Most of those people on their phones are probably using the GPS to get to their destination. I know that some of them are being irresponsible and using Facebook or something, but phone navigation has replaced the map quest printout of my day with everyone young and old in my circle.
Did you read the Twitter thread? It cited examples of his quite objectionable opinions.

Granted, he might have thoroughly recanted those statements, but they are always going to be baggage that the FSF is going to be stuck defending, which is not part of their mission.

Surely, there are other people who made better decisions about what is defensible and what is not.
Ask HN: How do you deal with favoritism in the workplace?
And when you are not the favorite one...

I am a software engineer working for a mid-size company, we have a lot of processes we have to follow, every engineer has their own areas they work on.

The company I work for also has a typical hierarchical structure where subordinates have managers and those managers have their own managers and so on.

Though I have noticed that there's a lot of favoritism involved with some of those managers, for example, some subordinates are not allowed to access specific resources and people who are promoted into management role do so because they have a better relationship with someone from management.

Then they get all the benefits that come with that, yet those of us who do all the "hard work" and have more experience don't have the luxury that comes with that, and we are told excuses such as: "The company doesn't have any criteria for who is allowed to access so and so".

It's very frustrating, I am a very hard working person and high performer yet my manager keeps taking credit for my work and due to him being the favorite one among the management crowd, he gets all the credit and special treatment.

Have you been in this position before? How do you deal with it?
If it worked by default out of the box, nobody would have to "clarify" that you can decrease Julia's computational slowness by increasing the human time and effort spent on cache management

:/
Interestingly, this change in demographics is also associated with a shift in voting from republicans to democrats.
Yes, management generally.
> It's mostly down to vehicles being larger over the timespan measured.

My neighbor's Smart Car and Cooper Mini beg to differ. Also, the proliferation of electric cars requires shedding weight in order to get more mileage. Sure, we still have lots of massive SUVs on the road but I would dispute the notion that vehicles overall are getting heavier on average.
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Those numbers are absolutely, sickeningly staggering.

1 litre of petrol produces about 2.3 kg CO2. That means, a bitcoin transaction is the same as burning 163 litres of petrol. Absolutely insane.

I decided to do some more numbers. It means that driving a Tesla for 25.31 km produces as much CO2 as burning 1 L of fuel from a CO2 equivalence point of view. Put differently, Teslas get 3.95 L per 100 km from a CO2 equivalence point of view. Compare that with, say, a Mazda 6 which apparently uses 9.8 L per 100 km from a very quick search.

From a carbon emissions standpoint, Teslas are about 2.5x as efficient. Reasonable, to be sure, but not the order-of-magnitude difference I might have guessed if I had to take a stab in the dark.
DNA is "translated" from code to proteins using codons. There's a very good chance that the codons used would be completely different from our own, disrupting viral replication.
There are an incredible number of topics that are deeply entwined with culture and issues of many kinds, that doesn't mean it's useful to turn a local law concerning garage mechanics into something about race. Would allowing only minorities to work on their vehicles at home solve the problem? It seems obvious (to me, at least) that it wouldn't, so why would race need to be brought into the equation when it's so much easier to communicate about the core issue rather than discuss things in the context of a more complex issue of race and equality?

The likelihood that it disproportionately hurts members of a certain race wouldn't matter if the issue was solved in a way that benefits everyone.
Considering how niche it is, that's a super snappy and well designed site!

EDIT: Just saw they had outages, but I guess nobody ever expected it to be trending on twitter. Works fine for me.
The second problem is it becomes an arms race. If I’m in a normal height car and get hit by the monster trucks out there today, I am more exposed. So I buy a big monster truck, to be safe.
That only makes other consumers consume the fossil-based energy instead, overall CO2 production would remain constant. This is zero sum unless renewable plants were explicitly installed for mining bitcoin.
5 months severance is a bribe to try and keep employees quiet and mitigate the risk of a lawsuit and/or PR disaster.
If could be done for the guy in your linked example, he was lucky and you shouldn’t be giving people false hopes. More and more bank apps are requiring phones that can pass Safety Net, and Anbox won't.
Roads are millennia old - cars only were invented relatively very recently. They could not have been in the designs.
People use iOS/iPhones BECAUSE of how tightly controlled the App Store is. It's like Atari vs Nintendo. If I wanted pure "freedom" I would have gotten an android, since they have at least fixed their performance issues now.
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:shrug: I don't have a bank app installed on my phone right now. And there are absolutely going to be Open Source 2FA apps being built for Pinephone, so I'm good there.

Currently, I don't use a banking app because I don't trust my bank to have that level of access to my phone with a proprietary app, and because my bank's app isn't particularly good in the first place. So I'm not really losing out by using Pinephone. In fact, I might have more functionality after switching, since Android development is a mess and on a Linux platform I might be tempted to build something quickly for myself that periodically pulls down the CSV data from my bank and does a few things with it.

I'm not saying that proprietary devs are going to start mass-building apps for this, I'm just saying that for a segment of the population, this may turn out not to be the problem you think it is.

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Apps on my phone that I need replacements for:

- NewPipe

- Podcast app/music app

- Maps

- AndOTP

- Signal (and/or Matrix)

- Orgzly

- Email

- Good browser support

- Maybe a few misc utilities, probably something I'm forgetting

Do I have confidence that those apps or equivalents will be ported? Honestly, yes, I do. It would not take an insurmountable amount of work to build a Linux ecosystem that was more functional than my current phone setup.
It still happens even in 'classic' synthesiser industry. Aphex Twin did a collaboration with Korg few years ago, he was providing feedback to them and created some excellent product demos like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUT01p-C2xo

He also had input into Novation Bass Station II: https://novationmusic.com/en/news/bass-station-firmware-v414

AFX Mode

Electronic music legend Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, has already played an instrumental part in the Bass Station II story, having provided guidance for the implementation of the micro-tuning added with Firmware v2.5. His conceptual contribution to v4.14 is even more profound, however.

Letting his imagination run riot, Richard envisioned the decidedly radical notion of having a discrete set of synthesis parameters assigned to each note of Bass Station II, either variations on a ‘seed’ patch, or disparate sounds designed to constitute a chimeric whole. Although this sort of thing could already be kludged using very fast program change messages, having multiple sounds active at the same time would clearly be a far more creative and efficient system.

AFX Mode is the realisation of James’ out-there concept. Put simply, it lets you modify your Bass Station II patch on a key-by-key basis. Use it to introduce subtle changes to a sound as you play up and down the keyboard; divide the keyboard into multiple zones (one per key if you like!), each playing its own sound; or create entire drum kits in a single preset for triggering manually or via the Arpeggiator. It’s a truly inspiring feature that really does open up a whole new world of sound design and performance possibilities.
> I only go for morale and relationships (though I do need to take a 20 hour flight to get there). I couldn’t imagine this working in lab based companies but for a company like ours offices are bad or neutral for productivity but useful for mental health.

It is like that when people go there to socialize. It is different if company culture treats offices as places to work in.
It seems publishers have figured out that injecting identity/race into every single topic gets views these days. What is the benefit of analyzing increasing pedestrian deaths by race here?
350 kW CCS chargers are spreading fairly quickly, so they are probably right.

The experience is still better for Tesla, but it probably doesn't represent much of an advantage, parity will happen in a couple years.
Eh, kind of. Perl as a teaching language is obviously terrible, but on the other hand Python outside of academia is basically the DSL to call numpy. I think the problem is, more simply, competition. Now that Perl isn't the only reasonable dynamic language (you have ruby, python, nodejs...), people have more choices, and are ultimately just going to use what they already know as a 'plumbing' language.
This is a remarkably generous offer too. Most people getting buyouts are lucky to get around 1 week per year of service and no healthcare. Five months pay and six months of healthcare is enough time to build an MVP.
They are being bribed to leave quietly and not make a public stink.
They can fall back on the usual refrain. "We didn't know" "We couldn't have known" "We used the best data available at the time" and they also have a new out "Blame Oxford, it was their drug" etc.

What's Pfizer's reputation? Seems to be fine among the masses, despite decades of mismanagement and killing people.
>Do they pay taxes on tires, fuel, etc.?

Yes, yes, and in many places they also have to register them and pay taxes at that point as well.
Just don't confuse it with PyPy, which is entirely different...
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You can safely operate a vehicle and still hit someone. Of note from the article,

> The group reported about a third of pedestrians were intoxicated when they were struck
For something similar from the same time: https://archive.org/details/MusicOnThePDP1X/02+Little+Fugue+...

Adding a few sine oscillators to the MIT PDP-1 (yes 1) and then togging them really fast to build up notes and scores.

A video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Led4jL-DnPk
It mostly works as you described + the app lets you add any repository.
The Renault Zoe (which outsells any Tesla in Europe) came out the same year as the Model S, and is about as low end as (Western) electric cars get. Focusing on the low end apparently worked in that case...
It is concerned with the lowest complexity method of doing so, which is directly related.
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Pedestrian ≠ cyclist.

Regarding your actual point, obviously the roads meant for automobiles and similar are the only way to get from A to B for almost all A and B, leaving many cyclists no other choice than to ride among automobiles.
Like they say in boxing, "protect yourself at all times."

Earbuds or headphones while walking near a motor vehicle road with anything shy of a barrier-separated sidewalk should be illegal.
This article only touches on what exactly makes roads deadlier, but it's an interesting topic. For example, increasing the curb radius at an intersection is generally seen as good for drivers, because it allows the driver to take the turn at faster speeds. However, this increased speed increases both the curb to curb distance for pedestrians and the speed of collisions.

The article touches on SUVs being more common and deadlier, but doesn't go into why that is. For a typical sedan, a pedestrian is struck at the legs, then rolls over the car. By contrast, an SUV strikes a pedestrian in the chest, and is pushes the pedestrian forward because it is too high to roll over. This means that the pedestrian both has a higher delta v (direct impact vs glancing blow), a shorter collision duration (single impact vs roll), and a more fragile region (the torso has important organs that the legs so not). All of these combine to increase the fatality rate when hitting pedestrians, turning a broken leg into a death.

I know that sometimes SUVs or trucks are needed, such as for electrical workers who need to get to a repair site during/after a snowstorm. In most cases, though, there is a social responsibility not to buy SUVs, due to the danger they pose to society in general.
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They don't need to cover all edge cases. They just need to be better than an average human and otherwise fail safely.

The life threatening situations are rather simple and reactive. It's a car colliding with something at a high speed.

No deep planing or human level negotiations necessary. Well designed LiDAR cars will almost never be at fault of killing someone.

I was predicting [0] in Nov 2018 that a next self driving car fatality will occur with 50% chance before March 2020.

80% before March 2021. Well, self driving cars are safer than I expected back then.

And Tesla should get there too sooner or later.

Also, the govt approach is proving to be quite risk accepting.

Tesla already killed and injured many people when on autopilot.

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/776/when-will-the-next-f...
This helps in that you don't connect directly to the image so it doesn't leak your IP and other info that would be available from the connection.

Marketing emails still send unique URLs for each recipient so they can associate your email address with opening any images and links. Google's proxy doesn't remedy this.
This attitude is pretty clearly victim blaming. You don't blame women for being sexually harassed for what they wear or black people shot by the police for wearing a hoodie or something, I don't think you should blame victims of traffic deaths for their deaths over the perpetrators.
I use afternoons for focused work, no calls, so it works for me. In the morning I usually work from the kitchen taking calls etc as I can make coffee etc and everyone is still asleep anyways. Calls are definitely an issue for coworking. I even considered designing and developing modular call booths for coworking space at one time (when I ran a space).
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In NYC, you're wrong.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-a-new-fre...
Yuppies, hipsters, bugmen, they are all the same. Obnoxious yes, but they don’t deserve this level of dehumanization. Maybe that’s what forced them to become bugmen to begin with? For what ever reason their base personality is not acceptable, so they replaced it with consumerism.
Thise priorities are things drivers care about.

You get people doing 40-50 in a 25 when the road is as wide and straight as a 40-50 mph but the speed limit has been reduced because there are homes with kids nearby.

Make the road narrow, add curves to it, and suddenly people will do lower speeds naturally because they don't feel like they have as much of a buffer.

Same reason you're more likely to find someone speeding on a highway than down a narrow side street
That be be so, but having it on your lap or at the transmission shifter so you have to look away from the road to look at it causes the same effect I see: the driver is not paying attention to the road.
I was trying to help a family member set up a new tablet for their kids, and we literally could not find any Add to Home Screen feature in Firefox anywhere. It's there on my phone, but like 80% of the menu items I have were just not there on this tablet.
I ordered one and then realized the GPU is from 2008, doesn't even support OpenGL ES 3!!!

Trying to cancel the order, even if supporting the initiative would be nice, my 3D MMO needs OpenGL ES 3!
I can't help but wonder if a large part of this is the advice of "pick your battles, don't engage with others you disagree with, you're just wasting your energy" and similar being applied far too broadly.
The reason is Purism are trying to make as free (as in "free software") smartphone as possible: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Is this Reddit as a whole or specifically /r/UKPolitics?
Congrats on the launch! +100 for keeping notes and tasks together. I think it's an under explored area.

I really like the design, and how minimal you've kept it. I've been working in this space with Amna [https://getamna.com] and I know how hard it is to get the design right. It's soo easy to keep building UI for everything.

One thing I found frustrating was closing out of the "console" when I was clicking out of it. Since it was invoked with a mouse, my hands weren't on the keyboard.

I'm looking forward to where this is going!
And don't pronounce PyPI as pie-pie. It's pie-P-I.
Green points of EVs are negative compared to fossil fuel public transport even.
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Most of that subculture divide is on type of car rather than rather they work on it in the first place. Trust me, there are plenty of car clubs consisting 90% of white boomers showing off their pristine garage queen 1960s muscle cars who would also be inconvenienced by that law.
Utah can pass all of these measures they want but I suspect the Interstate Commerce Clause will override this such that only pornography which is made, produced, hosted, and attempted to be consumed in Utah would be legal to filter.
It must be a way to generate clicks at this point. There isn't any benefit
My impression is that other industries are often already back to the office, ignoring state guidance.
> Why would this project be more effective at doing this than iOS or Android?

This is an excellent question. The basic answer is that the incentive structures are different. Apple’s platforms are primarily designed to efficiently deliver commercial software. The app-store, the apis and everything else about their OS ecosystem is designed around the idea that packaged Apps, immutable to the user and remotely maintained by a commercial developer, are the answer to solving end-user problems using computers. They implement this model better than anyone else, but it’s not the only model.

Two other models are GNU Linux and it’s open source ecosystem, and the Smalltalk model as exemplified by pharo. In both of these models, the user isn’t just a consumer of Apps or the system, but is an active participant in creating it.

I’m not suggesting that either of these are the solution as they stand. I’m just pointing out that the iOS / Apple model is not the only possibility. You are right that just competing with it directly would fail. Even Android is failing at that.

> I don’t see why people other than ideological technologists would want to use this phone.

This is perjorative sounding, but a reasonable concern. If the answer was ‘people would use smalltalk instead of buying apps’, or ‘with Linux people can build whatever phone they like’, then I’d agree with you.

Of course we need something that end-users can plausibly use without being a technologist.

My argument is that we can actually build such a thing, and that it can be much better as a ‘bicycle for the mind’ than iOS.

> Many companies have tried before - Microsoft, Amazon, Canonical, and failed.

This is to be expected. A company trying to compete with Apple on their terms, even if they have the resources of Microsoft, is going to fail.

The answer will be a low-end disruption - something that is good enough, but also capable of things that iOS is not because of the commercial model. It won’t come from one company trying to take on Apple directly.
The quote, "Artists are the storm troopers of gentrification." comes to mind.
Ugh. I already know what the comments are going to look like from reading the headlines.

Perspective 1: Cars are, by default, supreme on the road. The use of personal motor vehicles on public roads should be an assumed right, a first principle of modern life. Non motorized transport should be assumed to be lesser in all cases. Complaints about ‘distracted pedestrians’, and people ‘misusing’ a bicycle on public roads.

Perspective 2: The enlightened one whose eyes have been opened. Personal cars are the absolute devil. Unredeemable assholes drive pickup trucks with hoods as high as my forehead. Etc, etc.

How did we get to a place where this is so contentious? Why is everything politicized to extremes.