skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it really surprising that you think this happened at all companies you've worked at. In my experience, the difference between good and bad companies was exactly how much they recognised merit and fired bad performers.

Note that "bad performance" is very team specific, if I'm shoved into a spaghetti DS code base and told to not write tests or refactor, then I will definitely end up as a poor performer.

And unfortunately, people being people, lots of managers/leads make decisions based on unexamined emotional states, which tends not to lead to rewarding merit.
>>The media only ever amplifies what it finds

You mean likes: the media only ever amplifies what it likes and wants more of. There's like 1m people at the pro-life march each year that get zero press.
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> Also home to the world's oldest chicken, who lived 16 years

frowns in Colorado

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
I'd add Pandoc to all the ones mentioned in sibling comments.
Guide to Plan S: the open-access initiative shaking up science publishing
Conventional distro, very slightly fussy kernel because of the BPF stuff.
Of course companies don't do anything out of the goodness of their hearts. Companies will do as much evil as they are allowed to and as much good as they are forced to.

The society should act accordingly.
Why are people in comments treating Bessemer as small town America. It is a part of the greater Birmingham area and Job opportunities abound. It’s 10 or 15 minutes from Healthcare/Banking center clad Birmingham. If you can stomach the crime between Bessemer and parts of Hueytown, you can make an absolute boat load of money. I live like 15 minutes from Bessemer myself and have had to go there or through there many times.
I don't trust my ability to discern poisonous from benign varieties so I just leave the all where they're at and let them finish out their days in peace.
> I think we may be saying the same thing from different angles.

Yes, I thought I was agreeing with you.

> So are you saying it's easier to move from middle class to upper middle class today than before?

Absolutely not. Quite the opposite, in fact.

>> There's a much harder ceiling above the middle class than there was before.

That is, those in the middle class have a much harder time rising to upper-middle class than they did in the past.
No objection that most of EU is better than the US in these regards, but Amazon warehouse workers get some of the best healthcare insurance that I’ve ever seen in the US. Similar to what the top-level-commenter pointed out, I guarantee that the warehouse jobs in Bessemer provide among the best healthcare available in the town.

The US as a whole is awful at providing healthcare, but healthcare is a particular area where Amazon actually is going way above what is normal and is provided astonishingly well for its workers.
Poundbury
Unless they're going to stop using banks with branches in New York, that's not going to help a ton if the IRS gets funded.
Show HN: In-Memory Graph Database (C, SvelteKit, D3)
In 2013 most people were happy with every new shiny app, and now that web is looking more and more like an app, is that an issue?
Poll: Privacy vs. User Experience?
I am planning to start eCommerce, which ideally respects privacy. But for a startup that is just beginning, I want to track user activities like page visits, user clicks, etc., to understand how my product is doing and suggest related/valuable products to them.

But with an endless rant on privacy, I believe I should not track users whatsoever and respect their privacy.

What you think is a sensible(if not best) move for a startup in such cases.

Please upvotes respective choice which you think might good for us. Also, do suggest your opinion on comment.
Don't track users whatsoever.
Track users and don't promote your startup as a privacy ninja.
Show them the Opt-in/out option for privacy?
Track and still promote your respect privacy
Wouldn't that be a false negative?

A false positive would be when a high-performer is perceived as being a low-performer, and terminated for that reason despite their superior productivity.

I can certainly imagine this occurring, especially to employees who are socially deficient, but then you start to get into the quagmire of politically- and socially-motivated terminations, which I think is outside the scope of this discussion.
They are muxers, which allow you to put already-encoded audio/video (though in the likely case they use standard codecs ffmpeg can also handle the encoding for you) into these file formats.
Speaking as someone with a rather odd fetish and no convenient origin story, crossed wires has always made the most sense to me. For a great many of the people I've spoken with about their fetish, it doesn't have a obvious spark or societal pressure, it's just something they've been attracted to for as long as they've been a cognizant human being.
Which goes to tell you how good their software is. It is better than anything other companies have to offer for video conference calls with many participants and screen sharing, which is why our university is using it after we had evaluated all competitors last year in April.
The usability of Canva is exquisite.

Seems limited but it is limited in all the right places. Saves so much busy work when for example designing a presentation vs PowerPoint or Slides. You if just want to get shit done just use Canva.

Big omission not mentioning Affinity products, excellent Photoshop and Illustrator replacements for a one and only beautiful payment of $25.
Scaling LiveJournal(2007)
I remember things like getting initialized by at boot cleanly vs coming back from sleep and having to remember the no-boot-state setup.

It's like savegames - I think it's hard and bug-ridden so some folks just add checkpoints and don't bother with complex restores in the middle of the bossfight with rockets in the air.
It is not xenophobic to suggest that.

However; since the "leaked virus" narrative was mostly parroted by rightwing media, and promoted from an overtly racist and xenophobic administration and political party, (in the USA) - it very much muddies the waters. There's also some very strong, direct evidence, that political appointees discussed (over email) strategies for subverting messaging from actual scientific experts who had actual data and studies backing up alternative explanations.

It would be nice if such narratives arose organically from actual events, and could be discussed openly. But that's impossible in our present political environment, and that's one of many many hazards of far-right politics. Any questions? Just ask Galileo his opinion on the matter.
Maybe this is a Gnome issue? I've been using sway as my main driver for 2 (?) years now and I don't encounter any of the issues that you see. I'm running with firefox and most other apps forced to wayland and was actually surprised how easy it was.

The main issues I encounter are about screen sharing. At the moment it does not work for wayland apps (i.e. wayland apps don't show up in the share this). Supposedly there is a way around it, but I've not yet needed to investigate. The other issue is OBS not working (I guess also because of screensharing). And the third issue is some weird bug in Zoom, where if I open the participant or chat window, it becomes extremely laggy. So much so that I can't really type in the chat window because there is such a strong lag, that I finished typing before the word appears. Similarly the video feed becomes choppy.

One other issue was that Pycharm was having issue opening some menus/windows but that seems to have been fixed now.
My wife was working at a Starbucks in Munich and started at 10 EUR/hour, which is like 12 USD.
I found this blog through HN a while back, and it's been interesting seeing it grow in popularity. I can't think of much else that as reliably ends up on the front page!

It's a bit redundant seeing every post, but the discussion does tend to be interesting, so I still enjoy seeing them here.
I am rather novice with C, but decided to challenge myself by trying to build an in-memory graph database similar to Redis. Subsequently, I built a client web application using SvelteKit (just released in beta) and D3 to visualize the graph.

Demo project (SvelteKit/D3): https://github.com/kubejm/spidey-db-demo

Spidey DB (In-memory Graph DB in C): https://github.com/kubejm/spidey-db
Gnome is still by some distance the most popular user interface on Linux, and is also very strongly opinionated and appears to lack customization options [1]. The project's "our way or the highway" approach is frequently vocally criticized and compared to Apple's approach, but as a whole seems to be appreciated well enough. I wouldn't say the Linux community as a whole are assholes about this.

The fact that many online Linux users take offense to lack of customization is not really something to worry about in my opinion. I used to customize Linux installs endlessly, but only truly found zen when I stopped worrying committed to stick to Fedora's default install.

[1]: Besides the point but Gnome is arguably far and away the most customizable desktop shell on Linux, as its extension "mechanism" consists of literally overwriting the JS code that powers its shell interface. For better and worse.
Have you read HN's most famous comment about Dropbox? Do you know why it's famous?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Monster Mash: A Sketch-Based Tool for Casual 3D Modeling and Animation
Honestly though, what you said did entice me to start reading the article so there's also that. :)

It's OK to have a little more background before the start of the article. It's a technical audience, they'll not just take it but as you can see, some will actively ask for it.
Yes it runs fine on Windows 10. Version 4 came out in 2012. Old, but not ancient by any means.

Edit: I mispoke, I'm using version 4.4.1. Not sure, how different that is from 4.0
I suppose if you really wanted to you could encode the data and read it back via the aux in on the sound card, quite like the old cassette tape computers.
There are similar limits on photos/video. MMS photos are resolution capped at ~1MP, and videos have are compressed to be barely legible.

iMessage transfers photos/video at their native resolution.

Which means that if three iPhone users send photos in a group chat, everything's great. Add one Android user and all four are degraded to MMS quality levels.

I think my next phone will be by Apple, specifically so I can enjoy the seamless image/video sharing the rest of my family has. Probably a few generations back - I don't need the fancy cameras and screens.
Does Amazon not provide health care to their workers?

https://www.amazondelivers.jobs/about/benefits/
I dread the day when I will be forced to switch since there is nothing like EXWM for Wayland and it's hard to see how such a thing could be implemented.

I don't care for "smooth" or "every pixel is perfect" so to me the trade-offs are all negative.
> Maybe it's defeatable, but it's still fighting against user preferences.

It's not "defeatable", you're not fighting anybody. You can turn off CSS in Firefox in 2 clicks: View -> Page Style -> No Style. What's happening here is that you're being served a text document, and optionally, if you want to, you can download a separate list of styles that will make it look pretty.

This is like buying a bag of cheese at the grocery mart and getting mad that the a recipe on the side of the package is trying to force you to cook a certain way. Nobody is trying to force you to do anything, we'd just like to have the option of having sensible defaults that look nice without being forced to write custom CSS clientside for every website we visit.

And if it's really that awful of a problem for you, then file a pull request with your user agent to get rid of CSS. It's not the website's fault that your user agent is requesting random files from the Internet without your permission. It's not the server's job to tell your user agent how to display HTML and whether or not to use CSS. Your agent doesn't have to do any extra work here, it just needs to stop going out of its way to request extra files on every website it visits. How is it the server's problem if your user agent can't do that?

You're making this out like CSS has to be "circumvented" or something, but it is easier to build a user agent that ignores CSS than one that consumes it. It's less work, not more.

> The analogy is if the text documents dictated the editor settings

They basically do in Emacs: most specialized buffer-types like Magit and Org ship with their own modes that they expect you to use that have their own keybindings and settings. And Org literally does what you're describing. It allows you to override variables locally per-buffer[0]; everything from column widths to TODO colors to indentation to list styles can be specified using CSS-style declarations at the start of a file.

This is also really common in the terminal world for things like manpages; many manpages will use terminal escape codes to color/bold text, and most hard-code their own indentation using whitespace. And even in regular documents, rich text files and PDFs allow you to specify color information and fonts.

The main difference in all of these examples is that most of them are less user-controllable than CSS is. I can't override how a PDF displays; I can't easily change the indentation in a manpage. Globally disabling buffer settings in Org-mode can be problematic because styling information is mixed with functional information like archive locations. In contrast, I can easily disable and override CSS, and it won't affect the actual content of the page at all.

> That's what GNU docs do, they use defaults

No, not by your standards. The GNU docs do ship CSS. The docs ship with multiple style resets, they set the font size in code blocks, they override list styles, they set fonts as well. So GNU docs are willing to override user preferences for code blocks, just not to make the page work well on widescreen displays.

[0]: https://orgmode.org/manual/In_002dbuffer-Settings.html
1. I could certainly do a better job of framing my arguments to avoid doing that. What gives you the ability to speak on behalf of entire groups?

2. Sure, but my point is those are the ends of the scale and every company or organization is somewhere on the scale. Your argument (as I understand it) is that you can keep personal politics separate from where you work, a political entity which interacts with all levels of politics. Small companies have an incredible impact on local governments. I don't think you can keep those things separate if you have meaningful choice about where you work (most tech workers and tech jobs). There are lots of jobs where that is not true. I'm not talking about the politics of the cleaning staff at Raytheon or Greenpeace, for example.
Pay people to fix these i-hate-my-life bugs.

I've seen companies run shelves full of sleep-wake machines. sleeping and waking. sleeping and... yawn... waking.
What are you doing with all this free time you have right now?

If you're anything like the average person, you've probably filled it with _something_. Take a moment to assess if this "something" is worth the time you are spending on it or if you're just using it to pass the hours in the hope you'll get a change of heart.

If you're just using it to pass the hours - aggressively cut those activities out of your life. You'll be surprised how motivating being bored out of your skull can be when it comes to getting work done.
I use a lot of reference photos as a professor and a designer. I keep a long list of sources, but as I go I always download as much as I can. I have seen countless resources dry up or get locked down to sell some prints.

Many of the ones on this list are great, but for my purposes the ones that lock the high res image from being easily downloaded aren't really honoring the spirit of their usually breathless release announcements. A simple rights notice would keep me or any real business from using it for commercial purposes.
Spain to subsidise electric car sales with 800M euros to 2023
The App Store is broken because it wasn't designed to work
Healthcare isn’t free in most countries in Europe.

Germany and Netherlands for example the payment is in the order of 100 euros a month for health insurance.
Perhaps you tried it before key cross-signing? In that case, you had to verify each of your devices with each of your participants devices. Now you only need to verify once per participant. It's much better now in general.
Mask RCNN Implementation for Image Segmentation – Tutorial
> failure to desegregate our schools

Beyond the oblivious benefits of having different communities of students commingle, how does desegregation help poorer performing school? I was under the impression desegregation was more about providing more equal access to better run schools than improving poorer preforming school.
>Yes, in other words one kind of activism is considered worse (or less 'neutral') than others.

You could also say that one kind of activism is considered more PR friendly. It's obvious that a company lobbying for lower taxes is directly beneficial only to that company, and that's why we don't hear about it. The problem I think a lot of people (myself included) have with the more obviously "social" corporate activism that the article describes is that it feels extremely fake, and corporations are only doing it to make themselves look good.

In 2017, Coca Cola put out a commercial[1] that depicted a heated kerfuffle between protesters and police. Then a celebrity walked onto the scene and handed some people a nice cold can of coke, and everyone started smiling and relaxing like the problems that brought them to that point were solved. Everyone rightly hated it, and it was pulled. How is anyone supposed to believe that that any of their activism isn't just a form of PR? When I see CEOs of gigantic corporations (including coke) go on TV to talk about how some new legislation is going to hurt the little guy, I can only roll my eyes and wonder how anyone in their right mind can believe them, or why they are being given a chance to speak on the matter in the first place.

I believe the most beneficial thing a company as big as coke could do to help anything would be to pay their fair share of taxes, and that any form of activism they engage in is a distraction from the fact that they will never willingly do that.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/pepsi-ad-kendall-jenner-...

edit: s/coke/pepsi/g, which I will leave because just lol what a dumb mistake
> even if

Bullshit. In Italy only the lowest income brackets get free healthcare, everyone else has various degree of copay. And even then you get terrible services, with queues several months long for exams and quality far inferior from what you get going trough the private sector.

And when I worked and lived in Dublin, same story, I had to pay 270€ for using emergency services at a public hospital and was lucky to have them covered by the private insurance my employer provided.
A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations
Signing created binary with valid certificate usually prevents most of antivir problems, as they act way more lenient in regards to those binaries.
> The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it's poor people better

I believe The USA spends most on social welfare than any other country.
I am also working on the same. Here is the link https://hn.ariesfab.com/newest
I am currently working on the dB part.
I've seen what non at-will employment leads to in Europe, and it's pretty good.
Well to be clear, I would agree with you if I agreed that closing up shop was actually likely. If we assume that just the very act of forming a union, regardless of its demands, would inevitably lead to closing up shop, then of course I agree that forming the union is counterproductive. Where we disagree is on whether or not that hypothetical is very likely.
Could you clarify what you mean by "I invest in people"? I found it quite fascinating but I might be misinterpreting or projecting.

Is it "I invest in people with sound business ideas", or "I invest in people whose approach has historically shown their company will do well", or is it something else?
Worst case: Our planet ends up with Kessler syndrome and nobody will launch a satellite for quite a while... But in the bright side, I'm fairly sure your stocks wouldn't be alone in tanking if that happened.
User expectations, or executive expectations?

In my experience, the effective expectations of users are remarkably low. If you were to survey users, you'd get the impression that users are very particular. In reality, users tolerate all sorts of things that most of us on HN would consider primitive or nearly broken. If most web applications actually relied mostly on constructs provided by the browser/DOM rather than JavaScript, the average user wouldn't notice or care.

But there are product owners who power trip on the possibility that they too could be just like The Google, so they want everything to be unnecessarily animated and dynamic. On top of that, many of them want Silicon Valley programming at San Fernando Valley prices, so not only do they request that their web applications be unnecessarily complicated, but the junior devs they hire are given no direction and the code gets bloated, wrecking performance (which matters more than "delightful" UIs).
Expect to continue being amazed in 2041 when they still work and in exactly the same way.
5 Pillars of High Performance
I'd give them a little more grace. It sounds like the M1 requires a different approach than other ARMV7 cpus, and that fact wasn't documented.

Mimalloc had to trudge through the same thing: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/issues/343
To truly appreciate what nix provides, take a look at this example script that uses nix-shell as interpreter and marvel at the fact that running it is as simple as running a binary after you have nix installed.

```

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell

#!nix-shell -p "(pkgs.haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (ps: [ ps.text ]))"

#!nix-shell -i runghc

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Data.Text.IO

main :: IO ()
main = Data.Text.IO.putStrLn "Hello, World!"

```

While nix is sometimes hard to learn, it is often a much simpler solution and it works for all languages so learning it is well worth it.
Years ago, before I ever developed a taste for mushrooms, I cut down a eucalyptus in my yard. Next year I had a couple of Morels pop up through the gravel near the stump. Never saw them again, and I lived there another decade or so.
Windows 10. TBH i very rarely visit any site with WebGL (that i know of), though it does seem to work by visiting some shadertoy pages.
Amazon is situated in Seattle, and the incompetence and corruption of goverment here is well-known.

I wouldn't search for evil intent in those moves.
Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes
"In Europe" in this case means "Western Europe". I'm pretty sure many would take the $15/hour over the social benefits in say, Bulgaria.
Yeah, outside of Berlin a lot of eastern German states/cities have lost people IIRC.
A Real Estate Company Owned by a CA Billionaire Accepting Bitcoin Rent Payments
> the employer is incentivized to hold back raises, benefits, and concessions until it's time for negotiations

The employer is incentivized to hold these back in any case, absent some countervailing pressure (e.g. retention against competing offers, if they exist, etc.). This is why the largest raises (in tech, at least) typically come when jumping companies.
Hard drive seeks used to be the way I'd tell if the Windows 98 SE machines were doing something or just hung - if you didn't hear the hard drive seeking it was probably time to reboot.