skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of Russian color. The CEO FB posts in Russian:

- the 1st, sounding great in Russian, yet hard to translate, is "work energetically like f&cking or f&ck off"

- the 2nd is "looking for a great PR professional in Russia"

https://vc.ru/hr/277765-glava-xsolla-obyasnil-massovye-uvoln...

While without directly offensive words, not like the FB posts above, his message firing the people is still written in a very insulting disrespectful tone. "Write me a long letter". Russian term is "izdevka". The message is written with a lot of mistypes and Russian language mistakes. It doesn't look to me like it was written in a rational and/or sober state.

Some points from https://app2top.ru/industry/xsolla-ob-yasnila-uvol-neniya-za...

- slowdown of growth is the reason for layoffs, and thus decision to cut 10% of salary budget

- primarily firing rank-and-file, not management

- time spend in git/IDE wasn't considered in the evaluating employee efficiency

- most layoffs in Perm is because salaries there are lower than in US

I get a feeling that he is losing it, like he probably got teared a new one by the investors or something like this, got drunk and got that epiphany ... The metrics collection was probably going for some time, and finally they found a use for them.
https://youtu.be/hbLiehrC2DQ?t=1443
We're having a field day with this one!

I know it's rare relatively speaking, but between this, Blizzard and others, it seems insane how disconnected a CEO is from their company.

While short sighted, thankfully this doesn't represent the norm of companies.
I found that there was basically nothing that I could find which would allow me to mount a filesystem as if it was natively connected securely over the local network without going to real enterprise stuff I either couldn't understand or didn't have the hardware for.

Everything I found was basically FUSE style things where it looks kind of like local storage but any time you want to use advanced features or high performance it would fail.

SSHFS was secure and easy to set up but was maxing out the CPU on my NAS and also did not support file permissions.
There was a great investigation from the NY Times that dived deep into this exact topic. Facebook execs freaked out that their search engine for ad marketers was being used to identify the Top 10 most popular posts of the day. No surprise but all of the most shared posts were all from Fox News or similar far right leaning authors, and that made the executives freak out. The old guard of the company was fighting for transparency but they lost the fight. The overwhelming consensus was letting researchers have access to their data would only cause negative PR and had to be stopped.

Great article and definitely worth a read. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data....
The commerce clause is not worded expansively. The supreme court over the last ~century has expanded it expansively.

As far as the right to privacy, see the 9th amendment.
I didn't implement a CNN from scratch, but a few years ago, I wrote a blog post on CNNs [1] because, like the other commenters, I could find almost no decent blog content on what exactly a CNN was. Maybe it will help in your efforts.

[1] http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2017/02/24/cnns/
I believe the implication there was that low-performers favored by upper management (for reasons like nepotism) were kept as opposed to productive employees whose performance is not reflected in "tick the box" KPIs.
I'm sorry you've only ever worked for incompetent management. I assure you that is not universally the case.
I am pretty sure there are differences between various groups within the same skin colour (blacks), with a different skin colour as long as it is not part of any of the other mentioned groups (whites), from the same continent as long as as their eyes are squinted (Asians) or within people who speak a language derived from Latin as long as they are positioned south to the US (Latinos).

Why Americans think that those arbitrary parameters are on the same scale that we even compare them or that they matter more than other parameters?
Yeah, I completely agree. Redis makes a great cache with richer operations, but less efficiency than memcached. Using it as a system of record in any context will come back to haunt you in the worst way.

I first ran into the more minimal append only log persistence pattern with the jvm project Prevayler. It's not a totally unreasonable idea but has to be implemented carefully.

The fork as copy on write mechanism initially seems clever, but in practice is extremely brittle. There's a reason classic databases have a lot of sophisticated logic around checkpointing and truncating the write ahead log. It's not a problem that can be oversimplified.

I wouldn't be totally down on minimal btree implementations, but 1000 LOC is pushing it. Even LMDB as minimalist as it is, is around 10k as I recall.
Apple has been scanning your photos locally for quite some time now. They've been detecting faces, making collections, finding pets, etc. This is just another step in what they have already been doing.
A guy at my job is a gamer and describes it as "buffing the group." Just as in a game, the healer could be the team MVP, but if you measure DPS you are never going to realize it.
> There have been only two amendments to the U.S. Constitution over the past 50+ years

Did you know the US Constitution and Bill of Rights was massively altered in 2008 without a two-thirds majority of Congress nor any majority of the States legislatures?[1] In fact, this is so, and it was done pretty much by one man ironically abandoning his own career-long ideology of strict constitutional interpretations with an argument entirely based on, figuratively speaking, bullshit. We know what the Founders intended because we have the minutes of the Constitutional Congress in which the Founders debated whether to include a right of self-defense in the 2nd, and this was intentionally left out. "Because most Americans believe something," is not a rational nor strictly legal means of altering the US Constitution, and, in fact, the notion floated then was not true. (Prior to 2008 most Americans did not believe the 2nd included an implicit right of self-defense... only the gunnutters pushed that garbage. Most Americans actually knew the truth, that the 2nd concerns militias.) Regardless of this mistake (or lie), this man somehow single-handedly changed the 2nd from a self-less right to protect one's neighbor from tyranny, to a selfish right to protect your television. This... after the (continuing) suspension of habeas corpus and the 5th earlier in that decade.

Changing the Constitution (what's left of it) is easy.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller...

[2] I may be cynical, but I'm also pretty angry about it, and it doesn't help that no one seems to care or notice that our beloved Constitution has been screwed with.
Recent and related:

Show HN: Verilog2factorio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26929370 - April 2021 (70 comments)
But we're not like the EU
We are a single nation
This reminds me of the movie space sweepers, that used humans in ships rather than robots though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sweepers
Facebook got out brained by Buzzfeed about two years ago.

Facebook themselves have no clue what they present to users: they don't like it when other entities start to form a general idea.
I think this is pretty straightforwardly what any social scientist would expect, but if we must have data, see Figure 4 of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221924/#!po=29...
Watch out for Shanghai coffee scam. Two Chinese female invite male foreigner for coffee where foreigner is forced by large male enforcer to pay large bill perhaps $100's. Guy in my hostel got stuck for $200usd.
Sure they are. Michigan still has no murder statute. (There's a penalty statute, but the actual definition is common law).
If it was Mr. T, just imagine all the gold rings!
the civil war was about slavery
If anything the federal government was too accommodating and it still wasn't enough for the slave masters who dominated southern politics
Home Classrooms Became a Necessity During Covid. Now They’re a Selling Point
Kind of annoying, but it's an embedded database. Probably only one program should be writing to it, and data can be validated there.

If you've got multiple apps writing to it, you probably have the 'complexity budget' to use postgres.
Musicians also regularly play all the notes on their instrument. There are many once/week tasks that you’ll spend more time trying to remember the shortcut you used last week than just grabbing the rodent.
“Trendy”

You know there was a time when you might have been the person saying this about the 5-day, 40-hour workweek.

Think bigger. Expect more. Pro-employee is pro-you.

Get your vacation. Get your longer weekends too. It’s not mutually exclusive. You’re doing the job of exploitative employers for them with this take.
Or birds of prey becoming pissed and more territorial.
I'd bet your right. This is close to a termination for cause. If someone fired my reports for cause (rather than a we need to lower burn layoff) without my signoff, I'd be right out the door with them.
What's good for the goose isn't good for the gander? Of course it is when you're the goose. Telling someone that what they are doing is bad even though you're the one doing it is gaslighting too
Have you all connected with https://www.svix.com/?
You're just being presumptive, overreaching in conclusions and overconfident in your narrative. I've seen two studies linked recently about long COVID. Neither included vaccination as a test variable. Since these two studies were recent and newsworthy enough to link on HN I'm assuming your "There is no data supporting widespread negative effects from the vaccine after a year." boils down to there is no data because we didn't look for it. There would be no data of asymptomatic long term effects of COVID if we didn't search for that either.

I have 0 problems with people at risk of serious COVID getting vaccinated, in fact I convinced my grandparents to do it. I don't really see what it buys me as a healthy 30 something year-old with no preexisting conditions, other than likely being a day out after the shot.

>We could have reached herd immunity with the vaccine by now, and variants would no longer be of concern.

How does that compute ? I thought nobody actually believed zero COVID is possible ?
What do you think of Vimium for Chrome? There's also a Firefox port: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
Unity was designed more for touchscreens, so that Ubuntu could make smartphones based on it. It didn't work out apparently.
I was the go-to on almost every team at my last job when there was a hotfix, major risk change, security fix, etc. I knew the whole system pretty well and knew how to find and match up our awful logging to actual code and find the flaw far faster than anybody. I'd develop and test a fix and quietly discuss with that team's tech lead about risk vs reward concerns to see if they agree or want to discuss changes, then I'd get a pull request out there.

The management / executive team would always hear about major crisis hotfixes, then immediately see my name on the high visibility pull request. Thus, they think I personally must have been the cause of the problem. Somehow I was on every team and responsible for every feature, every hotfix, and the poor work every team developed that irritated clients. (Funny how I was never responsible for the positive things, though.)

Then there'd be companywide meeting / email to cover what happened with a screenshot with my name by a hotfix with comments like "Let's not have to do things like this going forward." "Some of us have to actually work for a living, and heh I don't know about you guys but _I_ don't appreciate having to panic review things like THIS!"
Then you refer to a fantasy.

Billions are immersed in fantasy.

One might call that a classically religious debacle.
It's still a red flag that needs to be explained. Unfortunately most employees will assume they did not leave voluntarily. The OP's reticence to jump is understandable
Social Medication I believe
Couple quick departures is alright, but I recently interviewed someone who was like 10 jobs in 8 years…
You are totally free to do that.

FB is totally free to ban you..

I mean they're a gussied up advertiser, of course if you mess with their "engagement" or bottom line they'll ban you. It's like the "rubber hose crypto breaker" XKCD.
What are some vertical mouse recommendations? I currently have an ancient Anker vertical mouse and am curious if one of the $100+ mice is worth the upgrade.
this is dead wrong

The constitution is a broad documented to be interpreted

It's not a step by step manual or grocery list

> If you do not like the laws in other states, discuss and persuade the voters of those states to change their laws.
Or better yet and occasionally easier get the federal government to change the law for the whole country, benefiting everyone
This generation's equivalent is Google Tilt Brush in VR. Now open source [1] - maybe they'll add some music finally

[1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt...
Darwin can run limited MacOS applications provided they don't use a proprietary Apple MacOS library. Airyx is so limited and doesn't have a lot of users to be worth suing over I think.
Yes, when developers enable passcode protection, the guess rate limiting is based on the OS default because it's accessing the same subsystem responsible for unlocking the phone itself.
I would totally buy one.

Does your project have an RSS feed anywhere?

All I can find is CrowdSupply's "email me" form, which is basically an invitation for them to spam me about ten jillion other crowdfunds that I am not interested in. Your project would get lost in the noise.
Yes that’s right. Most of US bank coverage is through Yodlee. We got started with them and have stuck with them so far. Tinkered with Plaid a little but Yodlee’s per-user pricing works better for us than Plaid’s per-account pricing (power users tend to have lots of accounts). Haven’t revisited this in a while so things might have changed but it’s a pain to switch data providers so the benefit has to be very tangible.

For some reason, many of our users find our bank sync to be more reliable even though everyone uses the same providers underneath. I routinely conduct user interviews and this is a common piece of feedback. I like to think it’s a side effect of us building bank sync in-house in the past (which is a royal PITA to build and maintain). But that somehow let us build a more robust system on top of the same (unreliable) bank data aggregators.

Anyhow feels like I’m rambling so I’ll stop now :)
Slightly unrelated, but it says that Buffer gives 3 months of leave time to parents ANNUALLY. That seems a little bit excessive, and surely gives a little bit of bias against hiring parents for Buffer...
Ah - so, we should not change our behavior based on new knowledge? Perhaps we should also allow chemical companies to dump toxic pollutants because we called that living before the clean air and water act...
Eh? According to this article by Nate Silver, Trafalgar did reasonably well in 2020: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-death-of-polling-is...

Especially considering polling in 2020 was way off across the board.
How many bits [are enough for sufficient dynamic range in sound and images]?
Communist logic:

Three prisoners in communist East Germany were talking about their crimes.

1: "I always got to work five minutes early. They convicted me of spying."

2: "I always got to work five minutes late. They convicted me of sabotage."

3: "I always got to work exactly on time. They convicted me of owning a Western watch."
How to Use Data Types and the Python Type() Function
“Show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome”
In the US, all of the at-risk population who wants to be vaccinated has been. The only people who can't get vaccinated are children under 12, and they are at virtually zero risk.
The whole book is under a proprietary license that forbids commercial use (and forbids modifications). CC-BY-NC-ND => Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives.
It seems like if you are on trail for crime x and you destroy evidence of crime x.. well it must have been the worst version of crime x and you should get the maximum sentence for crime x.
60's and 70's. I don't know why that period was so magical. Not just movies, but all arts.
I'm not sure I'm getting your second sentence.
What the US did is nothing short of amazing. They lead the early race on the science and continued to lead .

China is complex. We underestimated their totalitarianism but they also had solid science which we ignored, reporters on CNN were happy to contradict China's head of health. China got the genome online when the death toll was one. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947.1 That seems fast to me.

The report is missing the media. They seem to have been the most destructive force during the pandemic.

Only recently Europe has overtaken the USA on vaccines uptake -

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
This is a disingenuous poll, in that it lumps all possible requirements into “a mandate.” The specific question was: “Do you believe taking COVID vaccines should be mandatory, or should taking the vaccine be a personal choice?”

That’s a useless question, since very few people are ever going to support the government forcibly injecting people. They didn’t ask the much more useful questions, like support for employer mandates, retail/restaurant mandates, permitting companies to mandate but not a government policy, and the other realistic choices.

If you’re thinking “Why would someone conduct a poll with a useless question like that?” it’s because the poll was paid for by https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Convention_of_States_A... . They’re aiming for a low headline number and designed a poll question to deliver that.

For neutral COVID polls, https://today.yougov.com/covid-19 is a good start.
And the Clipper chip!
We tried that with a law firm I worked at. 10 hour days, 4 days a week. There is always the fifth day where someone needs you to be at work for something. When Non-IT employees learn that IT gets 4 day work weeks, they want it as well.
It's quite easy to extrapolate this and in a few steps end up in a boring dystopia.

First it's iPhone photos, then it's all iCloud files, that spills into Macs using iCloud, then it's client side reporting of local Mac files, and somewhere along all other Apple hardware I've filled my home with have received equivalent updates and are phoning home to verify that I don't have files or whatever data they can see or hear that some unknown authority has decided should be reported.

What is the utopian perspective of this which counterbalances the risks for this to be a path worth taking?
The problem with "gamifying" work is well-known to anyone who actually studies human motivation. Any exercise of control, and especially anything that makes people focus on their performance rather than the actual task they are doing, is bound to decrease motivation and quality. When kids worry about the test and their grade, they learn less. When professional athletes start worrying about the score instead of trusting their bodies, they do worse. This is a pretty basic feature of human psychology, but for some silly reason we think we can outwit it if we make our methods of control "fun" enough.
speaking from experience this isnt going to end well. the employees that didn't get fired will feel betrayed and you will lose alot of good people with the institutional knowledge of your systems. some people that remain will figure out how to game the system while contributing as little as possible.
I know everyone will think I am crazy, but I actually like to get work done at work, and I am so fucking sick of everyone bunking off and never being available with the change to remote work!

It is a real problem! People are just bunking off and not working!

I also saw this when people were in office, however. Eventually, some people just stop doing work completely and coast until they are noticed or find a new org to be a parasite of, a surprisingly rare occurrence.

And I say this as an extremely lazy employee who often checks out at 4pm. It gets BAD with some people.
>As an aside, does anyone else get richard feynman vibes from the way geohot speaks?

I've definitely noticed it as well. It's that very specific northeastern accent combined with his sheer enthusiasm for everything.
I disagree. NeXT / macOS has been a pretty stable target for a very, very long time. If you’re going to clean room implement anything, a stable thing is a great target.

macOS has, however, been making superficial changes that people don’t care about. A free macOS desktop alternative would build on a stable set of core technologies, and let people do the crazy things that they want, and not do the crazy things that they don’t want.
The trouble is that having WiFi access is often a prerequisite for said apps. Some options also require rooting, which I have done, although it is fairly impractical.

So for logging into a WiFi hotspot, it’s a tricky proposition.
Similar to an experience I had in my first job - repairing electronics (pcb’s, components, tuning radios and lasers) for supply chain environments and we were (loosely) reported on via how many jobs were completed per day and the average for a technician was somewhere around 5, so 25 per week.

The experienced technicians would leave the base stations though as they took a long time to troubleshoot and repair, so customers would get upset that the turnaround was slow. But these repairs were also profitable because extra labour and parts margin. So I would take them on - win/win I thought - happy customers and billing the expensive jobs, heck someone has to do these jobs. The problem was that you couldn’t complete more than about 1.5 of these jobs per day on average.

Anyway, new lab manager comes in, crunches numbers and they decide my work rate is too low and I’m no longer required…

I still wonder to this day if it had an impact on turnaround of those devices.. I would like to think they realised what they did. I also learnt not to get too far from the herd even if you have the best of intentions.
Before rendering judgment, please read SQLite's own page on the subject. I think you will see that the choice wasn't sloppy but thoughtfully designed, https://sqlite.org/datatype3.html

My takeaway from that is: (1) for many people, SQLite is not your database, but you already knew that, (2) it is nice there exists a database out there with this flexibility, if you want it, and (3) if you choose it, you might consider declaring columns NUMERIC. From the documentation: "A column with NUMERIC affinity may contain values using all five storage classes. When text data is inserted into a NUMERIC column, the storage class of the text is converted to INTEGER or REAL (in order of preference) if the text is a well-formed integer or real literal . . . If the TEXT value is not a well-formed integer or real literal, then the value is stored as TEXT." So NUMERIC is kind of like TEXT except when the text is a pure number.

Some ask, why would you want a database like this? I don't know, perhaps to match your application language if it is also typed dynamically. For example, PHP.
The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
Apropos HN, I'm reminded of a quote recounted in Portraits in Silicon (Robert Slater, 1987) and attributed to Howard H. Aiken, original designer of the Harvard Mark I:

> Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

https://books.google.com/books?id=aWTtMyYmKhUC&pg=PA88
Since you worked on an actual contract catching these sorts of people you are perhaps in a unique position to answer the question: will this sort of blanket surveillance technique in general but also in iOS specifically - actually work to help catch them?