skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I could complain about it at length if you get me started but the root cause is they have a process where you have to take all your ideas before a committee of senior engineers and get permission to do anything, and the people who are on the committee are unfortunately not qualified for that purpose, they just happened to have been early employees who blundered into fancy job titles. Aside from that there's also a special clique who do whatever they want to do without regard to that process and the existence of the clique is incredibly corrosive to morale within engineering.

Coming from Google, where you definitely do not need to bow and scrape before Jeff and Sanjay, and even if you did they are both gods who are more than qualified to comment on your ideas, the Dropbox system was a big shock.
enums depend on the database. In general they're better than categorical strings (varchar columns) if the number of categories is below 256. The primary benefit is data quality (no typos allowed), but performance benefits also exist.
What have teams been doing to hit those OKRs? How are they measured?
You might be talking about something different. I'm thinking of the stereotypical Karen who's angry at the shop assistant because of some pricing or stocking mistake made by somebody else. If your Karen is standing up for a victim of bullying, that's not really what Karen commonly means, I don't think.
Eh, I don't know. I think Apple's profit is in the tens of billions. On that scale, $100M/yr is peanuts.
Because earning money that contributes to R&D equates to giving away that technology for free? Surely when a business earns money that is allocated to R&D to enable them to earn more money?
This is very common for companies with holiday-linked or time-linked sales. It's much easier to make your big chunk of sales in Q1 (October-December for Apple), then have the rest of your fiscal year to spend that money. Getting all your revenue in Q4 is much harder to budget around.
Hate to break it to you, but what you call "Enterprise Development" is really just "large software projects", for which many find the "simple and powerful scripting language" inadequate.
> Ember has never accepted this. I love that!

Totally! It's really impressive how they've adapted, evolved, and kept the framework going, so much that one of the most popular websites on the net has trusted it for their core site (linkedin).

I kind of fell into working w/ember because a startup I was at happened to be using it, and then it just became so familiar that I stuck with it. Really happy to see stuff like mho coming out & pushing the framework forward.
A lot of people bring up the issue of commuting, which I think is a bit thorny. Here's a quote from one of the comments below:

> I feel vastly more productive with not spending 2-3 hours every day commuting

Your commute is not your company's business. They might try to make it easier by implementing shuttles and flexible work schedules, but at the end of the day you signed up for this commute. If you work for Google, you certainly had the option of working somewhere else closer to home. You chose Google because you liked what they had to offer. They chose you because you seemed really good. They could have chosen someone else who lived closer to their office. I doubt that they take the commutes into their hiring consideration, within reason. So in other words, you thought that the extra time it takes to earn the Google check was worth it. Why bring it up now? Please don't use the "I give my company more of my time now" argument, because nobody believes it. You just simply get up later in the morning and get to see your family earlier in the evening. A more honest statement would be along these lines:

> I have reclaimed 2-3 hours from my time that was previously allocated to earning my paycheck, and I now redirect it towards other activities. Those activities range anywhere from 0-100% on the scale of how relevant they are to me being a better employee.

(I was inclined to not start at 0% of the range due to the clear benefits of distancing yourself from your work regardless of what you're doing... but then I remembered a consultant I recently met who offered his services while being a full-time employee at Google. When I asked him if he'll be able to perform his service reliably due to his supposedly challenging day job, he grinned and said that WFH has been great for his consulting work. So 0% it is.)
Same here. If what they say is true, that there was viral reproduction in the vacine, theres no way is gonna pass. They schedule a session in congress with Anvisa to defend their position, and decided to not show up to the meeting. The resistance in allowing European heath agencies entering and inspecting it's labs is also a bad sign.
How much profit did Epic make on their $490 million cut?
If you're playing games you're not out and about or lying in bed.
This is quite poignant. It reminds me of my own time in middle school, which also happened during the recession of the early 90s, when the endless optimism and expansionism of the 80s, with the Berlin Wall coming down and boundless real estate gains and an expanding economy, finally came to an end. There was the oil price shock, the fall of the Soviet Union, and of course my most notable memory of being briefly trapped in a house while helping my dad on a contract job doing a second floor addition by the expanding wave of the LA Riots. 63 people killed and the National Guard marching through Los Angeles.

And I didn't know it until I read Into the Wild a few years later when I went to college, but 1992 was the same year Chris McCandless died, with great debates in all outdoor communities on whether he was an idiot or a hero. He stayed for a while in Slab City out in the Imperial Valley, with many residents living permanently in RVs. That place is amazingly still there, maybe an even better expression of whatever is left of the myth of the American frontier, public land owned by the State of California, donated by the Marine Corps, with people allowed to just live there as long as they want, with no real addresses or government-provided services and sometimes not even real legal identities.
I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic, but if not, this is wrong. If you were swayed by the article's point that Fortnite made "only" $700M on iOS, consider that revenue from mobile gaming accounts for half of the revenue for the entire video game industry, across all platforms — console and PC combined.

Source: https://www.statista.com/topics/1906/mobile-gaming/

edit: fixed source
"Deru kugi wa utareru" I believe? This is something cultural that continues to surprise me in the ways it manifests in society. Speaking as an American though I really can't be throwing stones.
I'm sure some employees are less effective from home and others are the opposite. Looking at their earnings reports from the last few quarters, though, it is pretty clear that the company itself is reaping massive benefits from the pandemic and WFH culture.
In California you have to buy serial numbers from the government, even if the manufacturing is just for personal use. There's also laws that make it illegal to make guns out of certain materials, and any pistol/handgun is basically required to be single shot/bolt action.
Brazilians are easily played
ASP.NET Core, it's a great ecosystem with great tooling, and C# is fantastic language to work with. I develop on Windows, deploy to Linux with Docker, docs are great too.
Yes, there is phosphorus in dog waste. Does it contribute to algal blooms as claimed in this article? Apparently, yes, in some areas where dogs are pooping on the edges of water ways. So not really applicable to most people and easily avoided by picking up your dog's waste. Which you should be doing anyway. It's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the fertilizer that's used on the lawn that dog is pooping on. And it's even less impactful than agricultural fertilizer use.

And they want you to feed your dog vegan food because they're not obligate carnivores? I'm sure there is a way to do it, but I don't know of any company doing it well and even these unproven brands are stupid expensive.
I've been wanting to try nhost, but if it's something you'd want to put in prod fairly quickly, I'd go with Firebase.
See: Hindenburg Research, Muddy Waters Research
Well I am talking about all the bill of rights, not just the 2nd amendment but ya the SC has upheld the 2nd and is incorporated under the 14th. Sometimes I feel like we are getting gaslighted by people wanting to curb the 1st and 2nd amendments by saying they don't mean what they plainly say they mean.

> so we shouldn't pretend that there's overwhelming support for the status quo either.

I never said there was overwhelming support, I just said that there was a process in place to change if we want to. I don't like underhandedness, if enough people want to "fix" or eliminate the 2A, then someone one ought to propose a new amendment plainly stating as such and see how well that goes.
Also the actual values were 4-5x (12 or 15 versus 3 cycles), adjusted up to 10x for pipelining.
The model takes pictures, encoding the material structure, as inputs and not photographs.

Seing the pictures in the article, the model produces very coarse results from very simple inputs.
> UML is usually "too much", or places the focus on things that don't really matter.

Design is important where separate teams and systems interface. It's less important when a team understands the system well. That's what class diagrams aren't very useful. That, and I can explore them in my IDE, and really, complex class hierarchies are a smell that something's over-engineered.
You're right, I was hyperbolizing somewhat, and I honestly hadn't looked into either of those designs closely before. The Liberator12K looks like it uses a steel barrel, which makes sense. I'm surprised the PM522 works as well as it does but I guess if any fully plastic design is going to work halfway decently, it would be a .22 Revolver.
> how much is due to Jony Ive's departure

Apple is clearly selling to the masses here.

Most people don't know or care who Jony Ive is, and the MacBook Pros and iPads don't look meaningfully different in any way.

I'm shocked anyone thinks Ive's departure is relevant at this scale.
Exactly. Sony and Microsoft likely take similar 30% cuts. I suspect that contracts with those companies forbid disclosure of that information, which is why Apple is the scapegoat here.
https://at.amulet.garden/
What? You can certainly play games when you're outside (see: Pokemon GO) and you can certainly play games when you're lying in bed. Unless I missed your point?
I talked with a friend with ties in Anvisa. After all the bullshit the current president make they go through, with all the hydroxychloroquine thing, they kind of done a no interference pact over there among the staff, to not allow political pressure to dictate the result of their work. That say, nothing is immune to politics. But I don't think this was the case.
Which is arguably stupid as it makes you focus on improving specific numbers instead of your product/service. Crude example:

OKR: Improve customer feedback ratings from 4.2 to 4.5+ stars

Result: Customer support personnel start handing out free upgrades/bonuses/merchandise to complaining customers, resulting in many 5 stars reviews and while not solving any problems customers are facing, still achieving the OKR.

Measuring performance by numbers instead of personal judgement (from managers/team leads) is problematic.

Edit: It certainly makes sense in some departments (like decreasing page load time from 2 seconds to 1[0] but forcing that across all verticals is retarded.

[0] then again you could achieve that for example by deleting all JS from the site

/rant
You can use anecdotal stories or, you can look at quarterly earnings. That’s how one can objectively measure how productive a company is. If the earnings are there, it’s hard to prove that remote is, a least, a hindrance to productivity.
12,000 people sharing their salaries in this spreadsheet. Please add yours
Yeah, I was only talking nationally. That said I think CA is the only state like that, so long as you are otherwise allowed to own firearms.
I wonder if there's any metaphorical value in this phenomenon
> If you're playing games you're not out and about or lying in bed.

I mean, I don't play games in bed, aside from a nightly crossword, but it's certainly feasible to do so. Similarly, many people play games while "out and about" (colloquially meaning, not at home). I don't anymore, but I had lots of colleagues at my last job who brought in their Nintendo Switch's to play during lunch.
"The 85-year-old went against the medical advice of his doctors and voluntarily walked out of the hospital for a young patient, as per his family. 'I have lived my life. Saving the life of a young man is more important,' he reportedly told doctors."
A) There's only so much housing near campus buildings.

B) Prices can become extreme near campus buildings because landlords know they can charge exorbitant prices and still find a tenant.

C) Moving to a more expensive place impacts you _and_ the rest of your family via shared rent, utilities, etc..

D) Your significant other, if you have one, may not work at the same company. So you may end up shortchanging your spouse and taking time away from them and their lives?
Did you miss the iMac announcement last week?
The respone from Gamaleya: https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/sputnik-v-...
They mean private in the sense of private sector vs. public sector, not equity trading.
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Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
You are, in fact, mistaken. If you go back far enough, you hit a high quality account banned for a stupid reason, without notice, warning, or discussion. After that one you’ll find accounts that shitpost, but before that... good stuff!

But there’s no value in arguing over this. I long ago decided it was more fun to burn the bridge (by rudely stating things that are true) on this set of browser/cookies/account/IPs. I’m not going to dox myself to prove that your second paragraph was wrong. Especially when I concede that _after_ I got banned stupidly and unfairly, I decided to fight back by becoming ban-worthy.

The “optimist” in me thinks your a decent person who happens to have some big blind spots and biases, and you might eventually figure out how to address them if you meet the right set of people and start to learn from folks who don’t look like you. Maybe you’d realize that there are a collection of things that HN encourages, all of which contribute to a “safe space” for certain people, while excluding others.

I hope my optimistic view is eventually right.

Edit: thank you to the peer post to this comment that gives an example of this happening to them a long time ago. I didn’t want to dox myself to show it’s a real thing.

I’m adding this as an ‘edit’ instead of a reply to the peer post because this account is just barely allowed to post at all.
MD doesn't want it, and I don't think there's a mechanism to give it back against their will
>But in social media, the people who white the posts are the users, in other words, ourselves.

...except when they aren't? how many psyops and trollfarm/clickfarm stories are necessary for it to be an imbalance of power?
For $210 million (that's only Epic's contribution), they could've created a first-class marketplace ecosystem. In reality, it's neither first-class nor worth whatever they're paying to actually run that department.
Most scientific journals only do peer-review by sending articles to other scientists. These scientists, most of the time, only check for logical errors, and are not able to replicate the experiments.
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This totally depends. My experience has been that my team is way more effective since work from home (we even work less hours) but that doesn’t mean other teams have the same experience.
Feminism is not just about giving undeserving women an advantage for no reason, it's about equality. All careers and professions need to be at least 50% women otherwise that is definitional proof of sexism. The sex-gap in tech is not any more important than the even bigger sex-gap in septic system maintenance, which is why it would actually make more sense to call all such access shafts "womanholes" to actively encourage women to become sewage system workers. Men don't need patriarchal notions dispelled from them to feel comfortable taking dirty jobs; Women do.
People putting their eyes out with Hanlon and Occam's razor always makes me sad.
You're talking about the problem of multiplexer system calls. The kernel is actually moving away from that model towards one of fine grained operations.
Just throwing ideas around:

I feel like streamers paying for usage beyond a certain threshold of simultaneous players might solve both problems.

That way they could play it for free capping out at fewer players (number chosen to still perform ok while your autoscaler catches up) and if it's fun, pay to include all their viewers next time. Then you could afford to increase your reserve capacity accordingly.

Depends on the game, but if the usage pattern seems too "one-shot" for a subscription to be appealing, could sell in the form of advance bookings, so you could prepare for large crowds ahead of time.
Exception: Lichess
Just to clarify, are you saying Fortnite made as much as half the total of the e tire gaming industry on iOS?
Dunno how to edit, so I'm replying to myself.

Please do not throw dog poop in your compost. It's possible to compost it, but you can't just throw it on the pile. And even then you can't use it for food plants as there's no way to ensure parasites are no longer present.
I don't think he said he works at Google.
One could argue the bullet is an unwilling participant. The firing pin is the real perp.
I really do _want_ to play Vainglory on my mobile devices, but unfortunately SEMC decided to spend all their money creating an esports scene for the game out of thin air and nearly went bankrupt in the process, which in turn led them to sort of abandon the game in a half-broken state and go for the Hail Mary play with Catalyst Black

</rant>
I’m not convinced that bringing in European managers will solve the distances between cities, the fact that the rails and right-of-ways are almost entirely privately owned, and the fact that Americans are generally comfortable with an auto and airplane model of transportation.

I use rail when I visit multiple European cities. It’s great. I also don’t see a reasonable path that is “we need better managers” but instead “we either need to pour gigantic piles of money into buying railroads, which is either an eminent domain taking or a massive giveaway to freight companies who own the rails now, only to find that no one wants to spend every bit of a whole damn day getting from Boston to Las Vegas and so will fly anyway.”
Well, my father in law 79 years and mother in law 69 years, both retired Russian Physics professors living in Austin - - and rather suspicious of vaccines, were "coerced" by their daughter, who leads a hardware verification team at Apple, they got the Pfizer vaccine, doing well.
I really like tool, but dislike a lot of the dark patterns. I love how fast and intuitive it is. I also like having all the info on one page to look at. The dashboard is great. I like most of it, so I won't speak for the good and will focus on the constructive criticism part.

* Not being able to save progress after you enter all of it is devious, but really turned me off. I don't just dislike it. It might be the one thing to permanently turn me off from the tool. I just spent 20 minutes adding all my info, and now you want to hold me hostage, unless I get a subscription? How dare you. (hyperbole, but I'm feeling sassy)

* Why should I care about the theme so soon ?

* No, I am not paying for a financial management tool until I have at least tried it out for 3 months.

* If everything else is absolutes, I would keep 401k as absolute too. (Also just call it 401k)

* On the same note, is my employer matching 50% of my contributions or 50% of my income ?

* It makes no sense to make the landing page the 'what is projectfi' blog page instead of the 'Official plan' page

* It makes no sense to open 'where you are today' instead of 'official plan' when I click on my account

* I won't pay $30/year even if I liked it. The tool is a one-and-done sort of thing, and I would be more down for an upfront price. I might pay $30 to buy it up front if I get to use it 1 year for free and see if I like it. I would accept a shorter timeline for other apps, but sadly my financial information just doesn't change fast enough and I would need 1 year before I recognize if I find it useful enough.

* If I am using it long term, I don't want to rely on someone's server staying up. Can you offer this as a client-side app ?

* Feature request - Export to Excel

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OP, I hope you don't take this harshly.

I genuinely like the tool ,and the only reason I agreed to write such a huge review of it is because I'd like to see it get good. Best of luck, you might just get me as a customer if it was a purely offline app with excel exports with a one-time fee.
I guess you think that it's okay for the community to be bad in some way but it's not okay for researchers because science ethics should be higher than community ethics.

It's an interesting perspective I guess it comes from the idea that communities are sort of unstructured and it's not as important that they have ethical standards as high as science because science should be more objective and people need to be able to rely on it and trust it. I guess someone could adopt this perspective that seems to excuse community bad behavior while condemning researchers behavior because they just want to get out of any accountability in this particular case. but I'm assuming that you genuinely feel like this and have had this view from before this particular incident.

I simply disagree with this view, I think everyone should behave well or at least held the same standards.

It also seems that you're (or you were when you commented) very angry and hurt by the actions of the researchers and so I guess that you're probably involved in the Linux kind of in a way and felt betrayed by this action or I had some similar experience with scientific people in the past. I wonder how much the opposite of the community is a result that they were successfully deceived and if they had caught these patches and prevented them from being merged and their reaction may be entirely different even if the research is behavior was the same. But I suspect that would still be outrage because probably a lot of people share your view to some extent but the researchers behaviors should be held to a high standard than their own.

Just seems to me that you're not really open to hearing my point of view on this and that's got nothing to do with the merits of my view it's just where you're at. But because it seems like you're not able to hear my view on this or engage with that I just didn't really feel there was a point to continue the discussion. Have a good one
Zawi Hawass is like your over-zealous Wikipedia editor. He controls access to Egyptian antiquities. He has one story, and won't tolerate confusion. Everyone working has to be careful not to publish anything that might motivate him to exclude them.

Not so different, really, from a lot of professors and Wikipedia editors, but with the power of the State behind his opinions.
I'm extremely late to the thread, but why is pointing out that manicured lawns may have negative environment effects now political? I'm genuinely curious because after reading this thread you get the impression that you shouldn't be allowed to exist because to do so would be a political act.
Simply due to the numbers of users. Getting to 2 billion users is an insurmountable obstacle no matter how good your app is.
Frequently the old syscall just ends up as a stub that calls into the new implementation though.