skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative approach might be to let subscribers browse a warehouse of inventory and select items for you to move into their apartment. That might broaden the appeal of what you are offering to a larger audience, especially families.

I really like the idea of having a company take away all of my furniture when moving out, and if even one third of it didn't get trashed that would be a win.

Finally, a lot of people only buy new furniture because they are afraid of pests hitching a ride. At some point you will need to address that from a quality assurance and liability perspective.
You mean turning the phone off?
His post on Berkson's Paradox is excellent!
They wanted to put emphasis on the pause?
Is anyone aware of some event that kicked off this posting? Has a particular game misused the symbol badly?

It all makes sense but I am not sure if it has been submitted in response to some recent egregious misuse.
Phantom. The Robotic Chessboard Made of Real Wood
I'm looking into adding some sort of REST API layer to a Django app and I've been reading some negative things about Django Rest Framework (DRF), which is the default choice for this functionality in Django-world. This project is inspired by FastAPI and is potentially a lighter weight alternative to DRF and I'm wondering if HNers have experience with it and/or DRF.

My hunch is that it's probably better to stay with the Django way of doing things (DRF), in spite of the online chatter calling it bloated.
It is ridiculously fast for what it does. There’s another question that it does plenty of unnecessary computations for the end-goal and is probably not a good basis for.. well anything to be honest. It is not good at layouting, nor interactions.
In the US, that frequently involves crossing 6 to 8 lane roads with 40mph+ speed limits, and 200ft setbacks to allow for huge parking lots. Or an actual highway where only motorized vehicles are allowed.
Out of curiosity, how do you achieve sub 2%? Did you dilute with RO water at packaging time?

I've made a 2.9% English Mild by way of a partigyle brew that resulted in a very low OG. Low enough to make me concerned that the yeast would struggle. Perhaps that worry was unfounded.
It seems they intended to make a pause after "but". For that purpose "..." instead of the comma, would actually fit better.
I hate this kind of article. It's an opinion from a knowledgeable person, but it offers no insight at all. The only difference between what Diller said and my uninformed curmudgeonly grumpy opinion is that he used to run a studio.
> but it just seems silly to call something a PIP that is actually not at all a PIP.

Or it's too good at being a PIP ;)

Many PIPs (in my experience: most PIPs) are not good faith attempts to allow a poorly-performing employee to improve. The decision to fire them was made before the PIP was issued, the PIP is just documentation to protect the company in the case of a lawsuit.

Amazon's approach here - if correctly reported - seems like it takes the step of embracing a PIP for what it actually is, by making it purely a documentation/justification task and eschewing the (often make-believe) step of letting employees fulfill the requirements of the PIP.

Overall I'm very much against non-transparent PIPs. Short of gross behavior, employees deserve to know if they are going to be let go for performance and prepare an exit plan. Not to mention PIPs are often arbitrary and capricious - not every employee on a PIP is actually poorly-performing. At the very least it gives people time to jump ship.
The overwhelming majority of parents are now non smokers and no schools are accepting of smoking. Smokers on average are addicted and would need to smoke some time during the school day and during their time at home.

What you say is correct you could certainly decrease the chances of being caught but on net out of 100 smoking teens 90 will end up getting caught trying to smoke real ciggs whereas hiding a non scented vape is so extremely trivial that the situation is reversed. 90 will escape detection.

There is a distinct difference between those two circumstances.
I once worked at a company that paid $1K to employees who got patents. Most employees (that I knew) never bothered, or only when they actually invented something. But this one manager and one of his reports formed a 2-person patent brainstorming club. They'd book a conference room regularly and spend the meeting thinking up worthless patents. As an example, one that I remember was something like "spellcheck in a context that usually doesn't have spellcheck." Others were nothing other than descriptions of products we were working on, such as "A web based interface for communicating such information from such a person to another type of person."

If you looked in the meeting room, you would see these two giggling like kids, slapping the table, falling out of their chairs. They each had stacks of patent awards in their offices. Most of us had none. I am happy that they had so much fun, but that is what patents are in practice.
Short INTC 56, 60, 65

Stop loss on all three lots at 70
During this period in which some people feel like defending Dominion Voting Systems against over-the-top accusations, let’s recall that electronic voting systems are historically incredibly problematic, and difficult to trust. ES&S and Diebold systems had quite a list of exploitable flaws.
> Both sides might be playing a game, but the fact you are playing the game shows you have comprehension and you are a player.

Yeah, except don't think for a minute you're a player in that situation, you're the one being played.
Games is the mirror of the real world. Also, games are art. You can't judge GTA for bringing people joy of killing virtual people.
A technicality perhaps, but their example of a python closest_integer() function chokes on some valid Python numeric literals. Feeding it "0.490_000", for example, pops a ValueError exception.
I Kant argue with that. But you would at least agree that basic 3d modeling of your world is at a lower level of difficulty than say understanding the intention of drivers or someone giving directions?
Im trying to find something as well, closet I've found is
https://www.redcross.org/local/puerto-rico.html appears to be Fortnight tournament to raise funds for Puerto Rico?
I don't think you should always know. I also updated the language.
Correct it does go before the conjunction, and an optional one after if you want to draw a pause.
There’s a Heisenberg principle at play here as anybody that knows they’re on the thin ice is going to respond to that knowledge in some way.
In the UK the tax system actually promotes such behaviour. But this the domain of larger consultancies that charge 1000 and up per day per developer and hire junior developers on a lowest salary they can get away with and have a senior supervising them.
Now with IR35 changes this will be more common.
I just emailed you. Thank you for following up on such an old comment thread.
Is this... what's the word... ethical?

"Our investors think so!

Well, I mean, if the investors think so, it must be.
If you haven’t been in one of those without a helmet or any other protective gear - you missed a lot.

But to answer the question: Germans stopped putting MG42 on sidecars, so they lost their utility [1].

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twee_duitsers_op_mot...
> Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form?

Yep, that's what I would go with. I can't see a use case for a comma after the "but" in British nor American English.

> I guess people feel like they would speak the sentence with a pause after the conjunction

Even this feels off to me when I read up to the "but" and then pause (as opposed to pausing on the "you").
My dream in life is to work myself out of a job. To take a bunch of the hard frustrating stuff out of things, the next guy doesn't have to suffer through solving the same problems.

With programming, solutions aren't physically quantized except in the sense sufficiently skilled person hasn't run into an articulation of problem and solution they can actually understand yet.

Programmers aren't an odd bunch. We just like writing encyclopedias that people can read, understand, and build off of so someone can find something cool to do with it.

There's just a point where as system appreciating people, we can see where our own work is obviated or worked against if you just toss it at a machine that mangled it in such a way where the underlying ideas and knowledge is lost.
I don’t think they are implying that.
If someone’s preferences are based on metric A, and another method provides better results with regards to metric B, even if metrics A and B are correlated, this needn’t be a reason for the person to prefer the proposed alternate method, because the current method may still provide results with regards to metric A.

Telling someone that tomato is a more vibrant red than chicken, will not compel them to prefer the taste of a tomato to the taste of chicken. (In this example the “correlation” bit doesn’t apply, but, whatever.)
Yeah, not arguing that, just wanted to point out that languages have different “activation energies” — one may be able to convince management to add some kotlin to the codebase, but it is much harder for a more exotic language.
Registering is one part of a thousand part process. Ask a small business owner, other than geography, would you rather operate in California or Texas. 9 out of 10 will say Texas.
I have encountered co-workers who bring a clear negative contribution to the team. I am not taking of not making enough of a value for the company for what they are paid but rather damaging the company even if they were paid nothing. These people have all been eventually let go by the different companies I have worked for.
It's correct in German, which otherwise has basically the same grammar as English.
I didn't downvote you but I can see why some may downvote you and it would just come down to "how" you said it, not necessarily the substance. It is all about delivery and that can be improved to be a bit more friendly. There are a lot of people working on this, it seems, and the tone that I felt from your comment was "pfttt, still not good enough". So that is why I _think_ you got down voted, but I don't know for sure.
> But -- also observe that the liquid oxygen is not "pancaking" on one of the magnetic poles!

This video shows a close up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGEev8qulA In particular look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGEev8qulA&t=1m55s

> Are these two effects related?

I guess no.

In the first experiment, the effect is just the attraction of a paramagnetic material to a high magnetic field area. The idea is that the Oxygen does not modify the magnetic field too mush, but it is attracted to the part where the magnetic field is strong. This video looks interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36QpPvEh2c The bridge is not important, you should be able to add a few drops and they will stick to the magnets, and add more drops and they will stay in the middle until the bridge is form.

In the second experiment is more like a surface tension effect, where the high electric potential increase the surface tension. Also, the water is dielectric, so it will change the shape of the electric potential and make it higher in the bridge. So you can't add drops to each side because the electric potential and the surface tension are not high enough. In the experiment they put the cups together so the usual surface tension is enough to create the bridge because they are very close, and once the bridge is formed they separate slowly the cups.
Calculus captchas do exist, which I guess proves the point!

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/03/09/a-complicated-ca...
> In an increasingly uncertain world, this protective use of the red cross emblem has become more and more important. In the past ten years, there have been 162 fatalities among Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement personnel including two Canadians.

I don't understand how these two sentences are related and the article doesn't explain it as far as I can tell. They seem to be vaguely insinuating that video games appropriating the red cross logo have caused these deaths, which is surely an absurd claim but I can't figure out what else they might mean.

EDIT: A lot of defensive responses. To be clear, no one is impugning the Red Cross or disrespecting the work they're doing. I merely don't understand the reasoning in TFA.
I think that he was trying to sabotage competitors. I saw this behavior at UC Berkeley. An ultra competitive, almost 4.00 student intentionally gave the wrong approach to another team in our graduate level computer architecture course. My understanding is that the pre-med students at Berkeley engaged in this behavior much more extensively.

This unethical behavior is rewarded in zero sum games and systems graded on a curve like most tech companies and UC Berkeley will exhibit this behavior.

The student went on to a masters at Berkeley.
1) Solving a problem you don't care about: You will lose motivation

2) Helping users you don't care about: You will lose motivation

3) Choosing cofounders you don't know well

4) Not having transparent/honest conversations with your cofounder

5) Not launching: Do you remember when Uber launched? No one does. Get started.

6) Not using analytics: Measure how people interact with your website/product

7) Not knowing where your first users will come from

8) Poor prioritization: Don't waste your time going to conferences and meet-ups, talk to customers instead
"There is no way the management companies know anything about noise levels or neighbors"

They actually do, because they receive complaints from tenants. They should be required to document that information and provide it to potential renters.
Luckily that isn’t what the internal document says.
It says not to go into the Focus tool, and refocus (heh) the conversation on the areas needing improvement.
The green cross is generally the recommended alternative.

Note that this isn't normal copyright, the red cross is protected under the Geneva Conventions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_International_R...
He could have done his job and met all the requirements, including attendance, and had his side business. A former boss of mine worked for a city office where he was in the morning that let him have a flexible schedule, owned a consulting business where he worked in the afternoon, and was a partner in a gym where he worked in the evenings. He did all that for 6 years and eventually reached his goal -- no boss, all passive income (ownership of the gym, tanning salon, real estate), paid-off house, etc.
What's wrong with just making a small fortune these days, holy fuck
Why people go to work to places that treat engineers like some farm animals?

Zero respect to the craft. Plus the company is avoiding taxes, so everyone gets paid less thanks to that.
That's interesting. Is the pause there in spoken German as well?
Ok, here's my problem with the movie theatre industry. There's 100+ years of fantastic historical content and we're not doing anything with it. 99% of what's shown in theaters is new releases. I understand we don't want to "go stale" as a society and that movie producers also need to make a living, but the balance is just way off.

I would pay good money to see "the good the bad and the ugly" with my kids in a couple of years. If you compare movie theatres to classical music we seem to play only 10% new content at concert halls, the rest are the 100+ year old classics.
FB is evil and all that, but it was quite helpful to obtain organic answers on many of my complicated questions mostly due to sheer size of their communities.

I also was able to find a buyer for my condo with very little effort.

I rare click on cat videos on FB.

I use FB for what it is good at.
Yet if you work in a warehouse, this policy apparently (from other commentators) applies to you too.

I run the servers for an open source multiplayer video game, one of our frequent contributors used to work in the shipping mines at amazon. So I'd say it's an issue. Also one of our maps had a lot of work on it done by a bioware employee in map design who also created one of the valve sponsored community maps for tf2 (cp_coldfront).

The difference between the soda example and the computers example, is that people who do tech work tend to have tech hobbies. Nobody who is a chemist at coke is going to have a hobby creating and random releasing drink recipes on the internet in their spare time.

Anti-moonlighting clauses also fail to take into account one thing: If your employer is attempting to control all hours of your life, they should not be allowed to pay less then min wage for those hours. a $125k salary is still less then Seattle's Minimum Wage when you extrapolate it to all 168 hours in a day that amazon apparently wants to be able to control. ($14.30/h).
I have a home theater. I love watching high-production quality shows like The Mandalorian on it - but I also like getting out of the house.
I saw the comment earlier and this post today. However this paragraph confused me both times, so perhaps needs some editing:

So the PDP-7, PDP-8 and PDP-11 directly influenced the
development of CP/M, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows 1 through to ME.

A different line of PDPs directly led to UNIX and C.

It is well known that Unix was written on a PDP-7, then PDP-11. In fact a few paragraphs above the post states the same thing. So, not a different line, unless you count a subset as that?
Note that 3.2% is by weight (weird, I know), which is about 4% by volume

Edit: update link

https://www.americanexperiment.org/minnesota-last-state-stan...
> I do think there is creative expression involved in writing code as well, however, I need to understand your point better. Code is just being written in a programming language, whereas a prose/poem is written in a natural language. Both can involve creative expression. I would like to hear more about how exactly you are distinguishing the two which may hold in form of say a revised law. What would a revision to the law look like which enables the code to be always free of creative expression (that copyright protects) but still leave books, paintings, etc., still being open to copyrights protection.

I would suggest the form of the code is irrelevant, unless published in a way that exhibits its form AND violated in a way that exhibits its form. E.g. perhaps in a blog about code practices. Code being used to do things is not an expression like poetry. Much in the same way actual language cannot be copyrighted outside of doing a performance. Thinking of an acute example is difficult, but you cannot, for instance, copyright a pickup line at a bar and prevent others from using it, though you may prevent them from publishing it.

But pointing again to the fact that it doesn't really matter, because if we fixate on form being relevant, we can train machines to copy intent while distorting form. The complaint of copilot copying code verbatim is a red herring to the problem at hand.

edit: though to your other point, I think patents on code are not acceptable either.
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As far as I know... nobody at Amazon when I was there got taken off "Focus" (whatever it was called in the past). They only ended up leaving the company.

But that said, I think Amazon had a very long interview process. Too long. (But I hear it's gotten better.) And so to grow fast, they need an easy way to exit people... that's not a bad thing.

Interviews are never a great way to hire people. Working with them tells you a lot more about personality and work ethic and commitment.

From what I've seen, I don't disagree with any of the employees that had been on Focus. Like generally speaking, we showed the people the door who needed to be shown the door.

For the good of the team, some people just don't fit, or they distract... a lot of it was personality, but a lot of it was really they were lacking the Ownership quality we needed.

If you have someone waiting for 12-levels of approval, they just slow down the others. I don't know quite how to say it, but it was a common thing you'd get someone from a big company... and they had various processes in mind when doing anything. We need that "Bias for Action" instead of anyone just looking to do things the way they did them at past jobs.

Or we had a guy who thought, "We're Amazon, we print money... let's just solve all our problems by throwing money at them." Oof. Amazon is, silly as it sounds, a startup at scale. And their Leadership Principles really speak to this.

Some people just don't get it.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/about-us/leadership-principles

Anyway, my 2 cents, as a former Amazon employee... It's good for any company -- especially one that wants to grow fast -- to exit about 5-10% of their workforce every year. Find the ones that aren't doing what's needed... and encourage them to go work somewhere else where they can add value. I never saw anyone bullied, I never saw anyone put on "Focus" who shouldn't have been there.

Playing devil's advocate... given so few people get off "Focus" plans, what's the point of letting people know they are on it? Kind of just seems like a waste of everyone's time. Some conversations just burn hours, no?
The silliness is in the pretending its even a pip at all. It's not. Management is just reporting low performance to HR, which is neither a process for improvement nor newsworthy. It's specifically anti-employee, but it's not news. Amazon has always been anti-employee.
You don't survive 4 years without doing that. Remember someone gets voted out each year. Your goal is not be that person so you can't help a newbie. Someone new has to come in and screw someone else over to stay.
I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying. DNSSEC validation occurs step by step through the recursive resolution process. You can't simply request records from a recursive server and then DNSSEC-validate them yourself. I don't think DNSSEC works the way you think it does.

Basically the message here is "DNSSEC will work when customer DNS servers go away and everyone just runs their own". Ok, I'll add that to the (long) list of obstacles to its adoption.
> Instead, tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations, the specific areas where they need to improve, and offer feedback and support to help them improve.

As long you are effectively communicating performance on a regular basis, I don't really see the point in telling an employee that "we're formally thinking about firing you" other than dropping a morale bomb in the workplace. If you're telling an employee that their performance needs improvement in general, it stands to follow that termination is a possible result.

Either people improve when they're told their performance is bad, or they don't. Workplaces without formal PIPs don't tell employees to their face that they're thinking about firing them either. Not sure why the formal paperwork makes any difference.

Although maybe I'm missing something, I've never worked at a mega-corp.
Many first person shooters and their health power-ups.

Also, my googling found this: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/01/17/indie-games-develope...
There are many types of PIPs, and Amazon seems to be trying a new flavor. This one seems to be about managers focusing (hence the name) on floundering employees, giving them the attention they need to get back ok track. And maybe telling the employee "you're getting extra attention" could make them pessimistic and less able to be improved. It's a good theory, anyway. We'll see if it works out.

Of course the other, darker possibility is that this is an attempt to take the evil parts of the PIP and get rid of the actual improvement. Keep the "build a case against the employee so we can fire them without a lawsuit", ditch the "actually trying to improve their performance". I prefer to think this isn't the case.