skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
360 degree reviews. Peer reviews, manager reviews all that shenanigans. None of that matters anyway because in the end 5- 10% people will be fired based on curve.

How satisfied am I with it? I hate it and it's the sure shot way to ruin mental health of your employees.

Tools used: Workday (which deserves a special place in hell itself)
Not trying to argue.

But, you clearly have little knowledge of religion and what motivates those with a religious outlook.

That’s all.

You seem to view religion and astrology on the same spectrum. That would be insulting, but it seems to be coming from a place of ignorance as opposed to malice.
I play Destiny 2 semi-regularly with friends on Xbox at the moment. Latency issues are sometimes noticeable (and quite irritating), even though it's obviously sending a lot less data down the wire than Stadia during play.

Theoretical concern or not, if that can't work flawlessly over my broadband connection then I don't see how Stadia can: it's not magic.

Sadly it doesn't actually matter how well it works for other people because it has to work well for me on my internet connection. The evidence I have so far suggests it's not going to be that great, so I'm not going to pay for it.

The reason this doesn't bug the heck out of me already is because I don't actually play that many online games: I'm a fan of single player story driven campaigns, and (to a lesser extent) single player sandbox experiences, as well as arcadey racing games with couch and online play. Finally, I also play a lot of more retro titles.

These are all experiences that work really well when played on local hardware that absolutely aren't going to improve via any kind of streaming experience as those services currently exist.
Nah, in gaming communities and the "little-less than tech literate" crowd.

View a Reddit thread. Not exactly representative I know, but pretty normie imo.
I agree with you on the lithium - it is far too abundant. It seems that most of the value in a catalytic converter is in the palladium and rhodium, though the platinum is worth something too. Catalytic converter chemistries vary a lot too, with some omitting platinum and some omitting palladium.

Globally, the catalytic converter industry uses about 112 tons or platinum, 170 tons of palladium, and 21 tons of rhodium per year. And an individual catalytic converter uses 1-2g for a small car up to 12-15g in a big truck. (Elsewhere I've seen 3-7g as an average for a US catalytic converter.)

https://www.thermofisher.com/content/dam/tfs/ATG/CAD/CAD%20D...

So from what I can tell, an average catalytic converter contains about 5g of PGM's which works out at:

1.85g of platinum at $40/g = $74

2.80g of palladium at $95/g = $361

0.35g of rhodium at $900/g = $315

The Washington post reports that catalytic converter thefts are largely driven by the rhodium they contain (the price of which has gone up enormously because it is a byproduct of platinum mining and platinum itself is not currently worth mining.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/catalytic-conver...
I disagree here. They don't lack marketing talent. They lack executives with a cohesive view of 'Google' the company. It's just a bunch of hyper rational utility maximizers trying to meet whatever quarterly/yearly targets they have.

By launching and abandoning products, users are rightly skeptical of investing any capital (time, money) on Google products. This notion of 'fail fast' is a myopic approach. Yes, if a product doesn't make a huge impact then 'fail fast' prevents you from throwing good money after bad. But the user base you build gets pissed off, doubly so when you build a good product and then yank it away. So on the next go around, first adopters are hesitant to even bother. It's better to just not launch the product in the first place.
Notion has been inaccessible for nearly 24 hours
I mean. Yes and no. Someone doing some CRUD apps at some car insurance firm just to put dinner on the table is completely fine.

But then you have Theranos and WeWork and all of that late '90s dot-com crap. Most of those companies had nothing to do with tech, but still raked in lots of VC money hoping to sucker people into purchasing their worthless stock after their inflated IPOs.

Of course, it has to be mentioned that the line between fraud and value gets incredibly fuzzy in tech. So much tech is "solutionized" into products that solve problems that are nonsense to begin with. Everyone believes they need cloud-this, or managed K8S, or auto-scaling whatever. The whole industry looks like a fraud at times. Especially enterprise marketing and sales. IBM, Oracle, and others have made a racket on this. And yes they have actual products with actual features, what they are selling are dreams and fairy tales. Look closely at crypto and you'll see the same cottage industry around it today. I mean, what is NFT other than credit default swaps (CDS) for the art market? It's abstracted ownership ("ownership" with a huge asterisk next to it). You even have initial coin offerings (ICO). Every thing from the dot-com and 2008 financial engineering crisis have all been replicated in crypto.
What makes you think so? I’m American and have never encountered that belief.
I personally would have 100% died at least once without antibiotics. Probably several times.

My top three favorite human accomplishments of all time are:

1. printing press
2. vaccines
3. antibiotics

And the order of the last two is debatable.
This is the problem with a default-public-broadcast site that is entirely driven by the engagement metric of comments. It's like browsing Facebook but only reading public articles; no groups, no friend's cat photos. No default-friends-only.
Microsoft is apparently shutting down its blockchain service, though: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/service/mi...
Now imagine a site that only gave you the comments you agreed with. And every time you were looking for something you only saw information you agreed with.

Now imagine Facebook or google news.
why cant twitter do something about verified accounts being hijacked to promote bitcoin scams.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I hate JavaScript. I tried learning react and redux and just gave up. All this to put a button and a field on a page. React was basically invented by John carmack to do doom 3 and copied to render web pages. Is this really required!? It's not a 3d games engine. I've worked on web apps that require a lot of page updates per minute and I still hate react. I stay the hell away from front end web Dev as it just feels like hell. Sorry drunken rant.

Edit: I also worked on a node app that should have been written in a staticall typed language. Bugs that could have been caught at compile time literally caused me utter misery in on call overtime. All because some guy in our team demanded we wrote it in node. This was way before type script. I actually feel physical pain thinking about.
The rover has wheels, right? That's clearly copying previous efforts.
The best way to improve it would be an optional UI that didn't show comments to posts.

Everyone time I read those, and I can't help it sometimes, I lose a little more faith in humanity.

The real rabbit hole is to click on a particularly pungent response's source. It's always some guy with tens per day rude bon mots to his favorite enemies.
What is hand written machine code used for these days?
At the very dawn of computer programming, folks like von Neumann were conceiving of and implementing programs directly in machine code, or its precursors. I imagine there still remain some specialized applications where directly writing machine code could be of benefit. What might some of these be?
If it is true China would never admit it. It can’t be dismissed on their word alone. Glad to see this investigated.
Wow! Thanks for the heads up. Those were some of my favourite softwares. Inspired design.
They don't give an explanation because they don't know how to give an explanation - many if not most ML model lack an easy explanation presently, they just spit out answers.

They are saying "someone should do this because it's important even though we don't (presently) know how to do this".
Good. Of course I'm not expecting anyone to prove a negative, but the lab leak theory was dismissed with very little evidence to the contrary. We know other viruses have leaked from labs before [0].

I think part of the resistance to accepting this possibility was that it was strongly associated with Trump supporters. I'm glad people won't be able to use the "that's a Trump supporter theory" bludgeon and we can start hearing experts talk about this in good faith.

[0]: https://youtu.be/HKQDSgBHPfY?t=214 (thanks to whichever HNer posted this initially - not even sure if it had to do with a covid discussion)
It really depends on how the game is made. If the game knows what latency you have, it can compensate for it.
Or an area that is simply not that close to Stadia's servers. Or an area on a bad backbone - like much of the world, like much of north america (maybe north america isn't Google's target audience though? ;)

Or - and this is the kicker - in an area that has lots of Stadia users. Which makes sense - more load, more demand = service gets worse. But that means that you end up with a messed up "regional playability" curve, where the best experience - if not the only good experience - is had by people in areas close enough to the servers, but where Stadia is not too popular as to be overloaded.

That particular caveat has gotten better over time, from what I understand. Throw more hardware at the problem, open more datacenters in the same region, and that helps deal with load. But it certainly left a well-deserved poor first-impression for many people.
A Pebble can go on for a week (longer without smart features enabled). My smartwatch, Fossil Hybrid HR, works for 2 weeks with smart features enabled. They go automatically off with < 10% battery, after which the watch still functions (I would prefer the option to put the smart features off, as well as bluetooth).
An alternative to the standard lab leak theory:

Thee virus escaped a lab, but not wasn’t actually genetically manipulated - patient zero was exposed to a naturally occurring virus during the course of their work and it mutated to become more transmissible in vivo.
> As a bonus, emscripten/WASM compiled code will also be more efficient in the browser than plain JavaScript or Typescript.

Small gains compared to the cost of implementing. 10-20%. Now you're asking your full-stack developers to know PHP, JS, C, and WASM.
So it would be more like Facebook (assuming you avoid joining FB hate groups and reading the comments on publicly-shared content).
The horoscope doesn't, but more involved astrology will take into account time and location to know the positions and thus supposed influence of various celestial bodies on you.

Needless to say, just because a system is complex and based on some concepts taken from nature, it doesn't make its claims true.
I find the definition of a decision as "the irrevocable commitment of resources" to be very useful. Plans may be made in advance of a meeting but until resources are committed and behavior/processes changes there may be a pronouncement but no decision.
You chose the single most latency sensitive type of game. If you're someone who plays those games competitively, you're better off sticking to your local rig and CRT display.

For most games and most users, you'll get the feel within a minute and forget you're not playing locally. I played quite a bit of Destiny 2 streaming and it was quite playable. Again, no comparison against my powerful local rig but I don't think Google/Amazon/NVidia are targeting 3080 owners for their streaming services.
I’d pay to not see ads, true reverse chronological view of accounts I follow, and editing features.

Collections? No thanks.
Studies have shown that any weight loss benefits of intermittent fasting correlate directly to how many fewer calories you eat, and nothing else.
There are plenty of services that would serve that role - staying connected with your family - at least as good as FB does. That's the part most people are missing, I think: that FB doesn't really have that much to offer, apart from its market share. And, because of FB monopoly, pretty much anything that hurts them is good for the market, ie everyone, in particular their users.
Nicely put. Just one point on the last paragraph, I guess somebody with Asperger's could also have ADHD. They can concentrate on something that catches their interest and forget about everything else for a while, but they can also shift their focus to whatever draws their attention next. In fact sustaining their effort over one long-term thing might be a skill they have to hone just like many other people. There doesn't seem to be a contradiction IMO.
I went 7 days without eating and realized that I spend a lot of time:

* shopping
* traveling to and from the store
* preparing food
* eating food
* cleaning up afterwards

so when you are not eating you find at least two hours if not more a day to fill.

Fasting is not just a physical practice, it's a spiritual practice. I had the best conversation about fasting ever with a Catholic Nun. Jesus fasted for 40 days, but it's not just a Christian thing -- fasting is a common practice in Eastern and Indigenous religions.
> Presumably, once Bitcoin is fully mined it may end up having the least externalities of any currency, past or present.

The "mining" is of "new" Bitcoin is utterly and completely irrelevant to the the power consumption. The power consumption is the goal, in order to verify that enough power has been sacrificed so that one is allowed to update the ledger. The "new" Bitcoin is an addition to the ledger without a corresponding subtraction, a creation of something from nothing, done as an incentive for transaction validators to spend such tremendous amounts of electricity. As that incentive goes away, transaction fees will increase in order to cover the cost of electricity.

At all times, cryptocurrency resource consumption must be proportional to the total value represented by that cryptocurrency. Anything less than proportional, and the network would be vulnerable to attack. This is independent of the particular mechanism used to incentivize the waste of resources.
Why success stories are just propaganda
It using Linux shouldn't be an issue. You could use Wine and Proton to make the difference the same way Valve does.

They purposefully hamper the systems though. So even a game like Destiny 2 is running at Medium settings on a datacenter. Just to be able to containerize it and all that noise.

You're right that it should just work from the devloper's perspective. I personally think this is all possible with existing tech, but Google failed to deliver. Game devs have weird gripes about porting to Linux.
Boot and interrupt routines (or at least their skeletons, prologues and epilogues), and implementing the tougher supporting infrastructure of higher-level languages.
Why is TikTok so popular?
Jeesh, that's clever.

I'd probably just do a giant shift and add loop.
Those ambitions are too much for me. Best in the world? I’m happy if I can do what my clients need, get paid well, and not spend every hour of the day working. I don’t pay attention to most of the hype because most of it is transient and the fads come and go. There’s really not “tons of new information” to keep up with.
Why is it so hard to detect keyup events on Linux? (2019)
RSS. Look at https://www.overcomingbias.com/ as an example of a microblog. Tweeter’s main selling point is the lack of friction, but this is also why it’s so low quality.
Lots of good points there, I’m a long time FreeBSD user too and I kinda feel the same about the continuing dependence on Linux in so many areas. I switched to Arch Linux for my day to day a couple of years ago, everything works better. It’s very hard to innovate when all your major drivers are lifted from elsewhere.

I have less sympathy on the codes of conduct complaint. Codes of conduct are pretty straightforward to follow.
Totally agree.

I was happily using WhatsApp (and had even paid beforehand when they were only charging what they needed to operate).

I invested a lot of effort to onboard family members.

Everything was fine, until Facebook purchased WhatsApp by paying about 40 USD per user.

Now I have to invest a similar amount of effort in getting people to move to Signal.
Ex cdc director also believes this.
https://youtu.be/f0_RhfT21bw

The Chinese government has a lot to answer to the world. Their cover up in the initial stages costed thousands of lives and unspeakable damage to millions of people. The irony is the world still keeps buying billions of dollars of goods from them
Why Pair Programming Should Be Part of Every Team Dynamic
What Is SafeMoon?
Out of whatever cases may exist for what you're describing (re: desperation, etc.), do they almost always involve someone getting conned?
Sea level rise can be extremely nonlinear. There are glaciers in Antarctica that are like the cork in the wine bottle. If the "gatekeeper glacier" is gone, the sea water gets into the basin that's below sea level and will melt all the multi kilometer thick ice in that basin.

Each can provide meters of sea level rise. You can check out Eric Rignot's presentations from youtube.

We don't know if the melting of such a gatekeeper glacier will take ten, fifty or a hundred years. But it has started.

You can't extrapolate this effect from just looking at recent past temperature and sea level rise - it's a whole different mechanism.
Might want a (2017) tag on this.
This theory has been mainstream since before Covid.

At the time of the laboratory's inception as a BSL-4 facility, Nature published an article describing worries that China would be unable to contain pathogens there. Here's a PDF:

https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.21487!/menu/main/t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act.IL
> how much better it feels

I think this is the most important part of the ordeal: lower latency/shorter input-stimuli loop feels better and games are all about feeling good.

I wonder how Google of all players missed it because back in 2010s they were talking how fractional second delays hurt click metrics.
The importance of Africa was historically neglected? I don't think that fits well with the "Race for Africa" and the long history of Mediterranean conflicts involving North Africa.

Africa wouldn't still be recovering from the effects of colonialism if it weren't as historically important as it was.
I'd pay to see the ads but hide the hate.
I think using the tweetdeck interface (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) also helps, since it doesn't show recommended tweets.
I won't say I rarely use paper (outside of books) but it's usually for some ephemeral purpose like a shopping list. Or my paper calendar/notebook that I often prefer to do on paper for various purposes. I have some file cabinets behind me in my office and I found a fabric print to hang over them so my background wasn't quite so ugly for video calls and recording videos. I maybe take it down to access something once every couple months. And, yeah, a stapler or paper clips is something I might use once a month if that.
One thing I've noticed about the crypto crowd is many of them seem to genuinely struggle to differentiate a scam from a legitimate business. Some are obviously scammers, but others it seems they don't really know what they're doing... they think they're running a business.
Nothing, because the only important asset FB has is its market share. If they left the EU, you'd have a functionally similar alternative very, very quickly.
Oh he definitely knows what he's doing, and there's hoping that the SEC do a McAfee on him for the pump-and-dump scheme, though this seems rather unlikely unfortunately.
There is a reason for nominal typing though, because nominal types represent an interface contract that generally goes beyond just having the right type signature, but instead it is also about semantics. It's about the parts not covered by the type system, which the compiler therefore can't check. It depends on the kind of objects you are generally working with, but beyond pure data I find nominal typing preferable, because it makes it explicit that an implementation X conforming to interface contract Y is not just a matter of type signatures.
The cautions not to use it in navigation or circumstances where you might be harmed ("yellow car driving directly at you at a high rate of speed!") or diagnoses of medical conditions ("might want to get that wart looked at, dude") made me laugh.
It’s not FOSS.
Very young children get cancer even today.
I've actually collected a list of those bad ones over the years on my blog: http://nywkap.com/other/miserable-teams.html
Common, but not universal. It’s much more common in smaller startups, and often fades away as companies scale and costs go up nonlinearly. At a 20 person company, you can throw a pile of burritos on the conference room table. At 10k employees, you need a full kitchen staff, dishwashers, food safety team, etc.

Of the FAANG, I believe only Google and FB have free meals on a regular basis.
I think a quick google search has steered you wrong. I don't think this is a huge story (I've never heard of SV40 before reading this thread), but just a little deeper...reading the executive summary, the story seems less clear cut.

"The committee concludes that the biological evidence is moderate that SV40 exposure could lead to cancer in humans under natural conditions."

And there's more. SV40's probably also transformative (observed in both mammals and humans) and the vaccine has moderate evidence of causality.

Then there's the strange disappearance of the CDC page awhile back - http://www.laleva.org/eng/2013/07/cdc_disappears_page_linkin...

And the papers correlating the virus to cancer:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10472327/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16966607/

etc
That helped clarify a lot, thanks. All of the examples you present seem very reasonable and worth attempting to improve. It does seem like most of the larger tech companies have managed to amass so many resources and power that it's not feasible for others to compete fairly.

Another similar avenue for helping increase competition which I've been exploring is a reduction in the duration and power of IP protections. This would increase the propagation of good memes and the rate at which they may be iterated upon by others.
Are motivational speeches useless? Absolutely
??? I don't remember hearing anything about genetic manipulation being a part of the lab leak theory. My understanding is that these kinds of viruses are studied all the time without being modified.
No, Amazon is not censoring these book search results. This post is false.
One the one side I really miss the BB-style format where the thread with the newest comment was on top but on the other side discoverability of legitimately good content was a mess.

"Solving" this issue with automation will most likely just recreate the already existing engagement algorithms. Strict moderation and more importantly curation is probably the only way to make it work but who's going to pay for this at scale?
I think the average article in the Atlantic was clickbait. I saw some irony in an Atlantic article recently that pronounced the Atlantic as one of the few successful quality publications in the digital age.

I thought the Atlantic was great in 2000, but today I think the article generation process starts with "let's pick a clickbait topic" and then "let's write a clickbit headline" and they go from there.

I think

https://tedium.co/

is an example of a quality publication for the web, and it's good enough that I can no longer mock Medium by calling it "Tedium" because "Tedium" is actually better!