skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people insist on not facing Reality? Management/Leadership IS about Power/Conflict/Negotiation/Human Behaviour/Goals.

It is the process which is used to achieve these objectives i.e. whether by Diktat (conventional organizational management) or by Cooperation/Empathy (not easy at all) that varies.

Some selected resources:

* Speech by Dave Packard to HP Managers - https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-...

* Management: A Political Activity by Ted Stephenson.

* Managing with Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer.

* Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer.

* Power: Why Some People Have It―and Others Don't by Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Android does OCR natively as well. Drag up from the bottom part way (the gesture that opens the view that lets you scroll left and right through all your open apps) and then press and hold on some text and you'll be able to select and copy text being displayed by one of your apps.
Thanks. I'm going to look into this further.
German politician orders raid on the house of his foul-mouthed opponent.

Kids these days…
The hosted runners seem to be very varied in performance. Just today an actions/checkout action on GitHub's hosted Linux box went down to 1 megabit per second and was going to take 30+ minutes to clone a 3gb repository. Re-running the workflow an hour later had it running fine.
Or that his last name is Park or Street, maybe Square
This. Rent (inflation) has replaced taxes.
There's a saying, "You're only as good as your last success".

The French were instrumental in the American Revolution, but memories are short-lived.
Jesus Christ "revoke the babies privilege"

When did that baby consent to being conceived?
This idea has been explored before. Reminds me of a bit from Brave New World - they had originally tried to create a society where nobody had to work, but it broke down.
America's favorite fighting Frenchman!
This is interesting. I'm going to research it further. I really appreciate the feedback. I'm really starting to hate DoH - and I may just not put any IoT thing on my network that uses it. Maybe that's the way to go.

But I doubt most consumers really care. It's complicated.
> it would not have been successful if attempted in 1995 or 2000. Too early.

My point was they flopped a very short time before the iPhone, so without hindsight, it wasn't obvious they would hit a home run almost immediately.

The iPod was the big hit, along with iTunes, and it seemed entirely possible they would never have another. The lame, overpriced first attempt at a music playing phone only reinforced that.

It might be forgotten these days that the iTunes store considerably predated the iPhone.
Your point about Vietnam and Philippines wavering on direct conflict is well taken but I did hint at that.

I didn't say 'they would be going to war over Taiwan' - I would agree with you there there.

In the geopolitical realignment, they'd be in a difficult situation, and though they might not join the Asian NATO, they'd join the new Trade Pact.

Neither Sweden nor Finland nor Austria belong to NATO either, but there's a fair degree of coordination still.

But Japan, S. Korea, India would, and that's the start of a fairly powerful coalition - some of which would probably engage the Chinese Navy in S. China sea, and maybe be involved in blockades.

"Americans do not rollover when there is blood involved Plenty of recent evidence says otherwise. :

I don't know what you mean. 9/11 resulted in two major wars and that was a non-state actor.

China sinking a couple of US ships is definitely an act of war, the only question would be 'how' the US would respond. It would be in blood, not just 'sanctions'.
Hedge funds muscle in to Silicon Valley with private deals
TrackerControl
History is illegal in China.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped...." Orwell's '1984'
Freedom of speech is non-existent in Germany. It’s like calling North Korea democratic.
Be more concerned about deliberate internet shutdowns
NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get chaotic
For the GOP it’s more his healthcare stance than UBI that sinks him. And ironically the flip side is true for democrats. A lot of democrats act like they support UBI, but they really don’t.

They think it’s just about giving money to the lower middle class downward. You tell them that UBI means giving a millionaire the same check as the poor guy and the hackles get raised.
Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Yes that seems right, sorry.
Consider that in 1955 one of the companies producing the Salk Vaccine shipped 120,000 doses with live virus which sickened 40,000 children and sparked a polio epidemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories#Cutter_inc...
I don't understand why Amazon can't just start with "reasonable working standards and a reasonable living wage..." then creepily dick around with "bonus'" like paying for education etc.

Just stop being a corporate dick. is that really so hard to be competitive and NOT also be a corp asshole?
Interesting - sounds like a Poka-yoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke?wprov=sfti1
Until recently you couldn't insult any head of state in Germany and still can't insult the German leader.
NIH study illuminates origins of lung cancer in never smokers
Best Use of Money Is to Start a Business Out of It
It seems to have prestige with recruiters. When I was at Google I got several LinkedIn spams per week, sometimes multiple in a day. Whereas I got a lot fewer spams when working at Square. It pays well enough to be a great part of a career path if you can get through the hot mess of an interview process (which often takes multiple tries).

However, it's definitely lost its lustre. In the bay area software world it can sometimes feel like everybody works at or has worked at Google (obviously not literally, but ex-Googlers are ubiquitous).
How do you know what to without an instructor though?

I was not born with an innate knowledge of how to do yoga :)
I wonder if this has a medical term. It doesn't sound like depression because I still get out of bed and clean and do stuff. But everything is just "meh"
Let's face it - Clubhouse used to be interesting because the "high-value" people they managed to attract at the very beginning. As the hype falters, what's left is a bunch of "normal/man-on-the-street" people who contribute relatively low-value signals. They need to crack the longtail problem before they can take off again.
I'm curious about how the French celebrate Napoleon, and if anyone has been calling for reinterpretation of him.
Living in Iowa, the major talk radio stations have an ag focused program every morning. They routinely mention weather and crop conditions in Brazil since they're a competitor also exporting lots of corn and soybeans. Constraints on ag exports could cause serious economic repercussions throughout the Midwest.

Working in manufacturing, I cannot stress how messed up the supply chains are. I've spoken with a number of friends at various manufacturing companies, everything is a disrupted mess right now, and it won't be remotely normal for at least another year. Freight rates are crazy, shipping across the ocean is multiple times more than it typically has been, and ports in Asia are periodically shut down because of COVID outbreaks.

My wife works in logistics and today she remarked "I fully expect there will be things I need at the store that will be missing, which I totally understand because of how messed up everything is, but I get excited if they have everything."

Getting your product into a container, the trailer to the port, and the container onto a ship is plagued with issues. The process used to be straightforward, and bookings were pretty firm.
Now things change on a daily basis, adding to an already frustrating situation.
The US-Saudi ‘special’ relationship 20 years after 9/11
> Wargames are designed to be lost. It's not as useful to say "welp we stomped all over them" as it is to push the forces being tested further and further until they break, then fixing or compensating where it broke and pushing even further.

Wasn't there a pretty famous case, in a wargame meant to simulate conflict with Iran, where the red team general actually played to win but the game leaders reset things with new constraints that played to US advantages?

There are also pretty significant intrinsic problems with a Taiwan strait conflict: it's literally in China's backyard and the PLA is modernizing so the US can no longer rely on having an overwhelming technological advantage. IIRC, Taiwan's military strategy also assumes that they'll have a technological over the PRC, so they haven't embraced asymmetric tactics as much as they should.

From my armchair, it seems to me that Taiwan needs to adopt something like the Israeli model, where pretty much their whole population is in the reserves and can be mobilized quickly for a conflict. The US needs to figure out a way to reinforce and resupply it, and disentangle its supply chains from China to make that workable.

However, I'm not hopeful with the kind of leadership we have now. It's thinking is too short term and it's unwilling to make any really costly commitments.
Wellll we don’t have many protections but we do have the NLRA.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...

Not sure if she stepped outside the bounds of concerted activity though.
They do if most of our knowledge of how Apple handled this situation comes from her accounts.
TCE contamination of former semiconductor manufacturing sites in Silicon Valley is extremely common.
Firing people that actively stir controversy and attract bad press to the corp in question seems obviously like the logical thing to do. This individual clearly desires to advance their personal situation and cultivate controversy almost explicitly at the expense of their employer.

Sorry if I'm being insensitive but it just seems inappropriate to handle this via social media vs. going through internal mechanisms, and then escalate to local PD/LE. I mean I feel like if I was in a position to run a megacorp, I'd try to cultivate a culture of innovation and curiosity. If there are bad actors that are abusing other colleagues, I'd want to fire them (i.e. her alleged abuser) and do my best and make sure the abuser can't engage in any retributive behavior to the individual or anyone else (going even further than just the org) - even so far as to potentially recommend the incident be investigated by the police.

EDIT: I truly sympathize with her situation. It sucks to be bullied, abused, etc. I just don't feel like airing dirty laundry, even if it feels useful in the moment, is an effective way to force organizational change. I know of several cases against major banks that involved sexual harassment and I can't image the hammer of God force of nature damage the legal team at some of the megabanks would cause against this person (as an example), so you have to be realistic and careful. I just don't think in any professional capacity I'd ever say "wow my coworkers looked at my genatalia and I am extremely offended at this - isn't this terrible?" Yes, of course it is terrible. However, is the manner by which you are conducting your counter-offensive truly effective?

If you have cause, take notes, collect as much explicit documented evidence and then go to a lawyer. Airing out your dirty laundry will literally never end well and makes you radioactive in terms of future employment opportunities - except in this case, it's on the person - not the employer. Build your case, move slowly, strike - don't just start tweeting about your grievances. Am I crazy or what?
Are you familiar with / have you seen David Pollard's "New Political Map"?

https://howtosavetheworld.ca/2013/02/04/preparing-for-collap...
I'm pretty sure she controlled it.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, but I think it's on point. It's a good reminder that prestige depends on the audience.
The whole context here is that Apple strongly discourages its employees from having a separate work and personal phone.
> Without a solid and forward-looking understanding of the internal cultures of both Elastic (the company) and also the specific team(s) at Amazon that will be managing the future of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch, respectively, I think it's too early to tell who will end up being the better steward of the search commons here.

Amazon is the better steward of open sourced Elastic Search, hands down, because nobody else is doing it. I'm not even sure that stewardship of the technology's proliferation is TBD. Didn't Elastic close the source because they feared Amazon was taking too much of their potential revenue? Elastic gambled that only they could carry the technology forward, and they lost that bet. I'll grant it's possible Elastic could become more competitive with Amazon+OpenSearch somehow down the road, however it appears that right now Elastic is on its heals while Amazon is driving forward. It's also possible that another closed-source search engine becomes popular. That said, Elastic is built atop Lucene, and as long as an open sourced version of Elastic exists I'm not sure why you would start from scratch or with something else.

> Also worth noting that other open-source search engines exist out there; it's entirely possible that other alternative technologies will become more attractive, depending on how all this plays out.

Which open-source search engines do you think are competitive?
I’m sure as a member of that culture, your opinions are opinions are not at all influenced by any number of different political, nationalistic or cultural biases. But from the perspective of an outsider, you have all of the same criminal statutes against speech that most other western democracies have been gradually implementing. The only thing that’s slightly different about Germany, is that you also have defamation laws that are more typical of 3rd world country, like say Thailand.

I’m sure the values of free speech are important to Germans, but much like in the UK or any number of other of places, those values haven’t been preserved in legislation, and you’ve let yourself slowly compromise them away over a number of decades.
is it just me or is 'neutral' misspelled through the entire memo?
By the time he gets to "the long national nightmare known as Hannibal", it's pretty good!
There is some gold in this. The below prize is amazing. My phone does this occasionally and it’s very difficult to speak.

ACOUSTICS PRIZE: Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer — a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.
I feel the same way. I go and check out some repository, go to the issues board, and find a half decent issue, but then League of Legends calls my name from the Desktop.
Not all terms of conditions are legally enforceable.
And it's not as simple as "they are a private company they can do whatever they want".
There are anti trust laws.
I always wondered, why stick with spectra rather than an ever-expanding set of infinite-dimensional workspaces, mental models, and metaphor...?
Isn’t the point of the comment that this person has just become obsessed with yoga like they’ve seen other people become obsessed with something else? Replace yoga with hop-scotch and would you still be excited to try it?
Yup, you could be using zoom!
Show HN: Amtrak.js – A JavaScript library to interact with Amtrak's tracking API
On a company phone? You’d have to be nuts to do that.
I added a note about how you can use the Alire 1.1 release candidate to install toolchains.

> Ok, so if I download the GNAT Community Edition from Adacore, how I do switch GPS to use the FSF GNAT tool chain?

Toolchains are customizable within GNAT Studio. If you use `alr edit` your Alire-configured toolchain should be selected. I would check to be sure. I don't work on Alire, but that work last time I tried. (I've been using Visual Studio Code lately as my editor)

> Windows and Linux?

I've built and run several projects on Windows and Linux without a problem.
I suspect the response will be:

- 0

- N/A

- N/A
still, she's going to get a fat settlement from apple.

was this the plan all along?
They're a huge company. If you want to attack you need to be able to identify where they are acting badly and strike at that weakness. Calling the whole thing an evil empire isn't going to make any progress: your attacks are easily fended off.
This is a company phone.
Let’s all just blindly comment with our own personal favorite workouts like we do in every discussion of exercise on HN.
Actually all AI systems do poopocalypse (or it’s equivalent). Roomba’s just gets attention. And pets will find a way to defeat this too.
I think the sad reality is that the only way to have some sort of power and support against a megacorporation is by showing a controversy to the public. I don't know how many threads I've read about people just being locked out of their account and they've had to use HN or Reddit to get in contact with a person. From the point of view of the corp, it's bad press, but they really don't seem to act unless there is bad press.

I don't give Apple the benefit of the doubt when their entire company culture is about secrecy and forcing decisions on its users.
Developer speak: 2-3 weeks = 12-13 weeks
The comment you're responding to describes her actions more than her personal beliefs.
I had never heard the phrase, "open the kimono", before, as referenced here in a summary of events leading to her firing: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

I find it hard to see the implicit sexism in this. Truth be told, if I heard the phrase around the workplace and someone took issue with it I'd probably be internally rolling my eyes.

Am I different from the average person? Do other people have an automatic, internal and visceral reaction to such locutions that I'm lacking?
This mirrors how I feel about this. I've just learned about this today from this HN post, and the first thing I did was check out her feed and websites for something like that. It's weird isn't it? She has this whole persona/business built around this Apple thing.

And she's talking about unions and such on company Slack, come on now. Reckless lol. https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

I've worked with people like this, they cause a silent rot within teams.

I mean look at this https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1422380335703101443 - totally benign feedback so that you don't sound like you're always asking a question (I've personally had this feedback given to me!) and immediately she skewers her boss as "sexist". Bad juju.
This whole affair seems like a one way ticket out of ‘traditional’ corporate employment for life, so I’d say Ashley would be smart to be setting up alternative revenue streams—-media appearances, book deals, etc.

I don’t agree with her methods, but I do admire the commitment to doubling down.
I like the product/infra distinction quite a bit more than frontend/backend. This is basically how Facebook describes its engineers - product engineers who typically work in the "product" repo and works on UI as well as API design and data fetching, vs infrastructure engineers who work in the "service" repo and work on what you typically think of infrastructure (data, systems, efficiency, etc).

After being here for a while and speaking with recruiters from other companies, I've really grown to dislike describing myself as "backend" since I have to make myself explicitly clear that I do not want to work on "backend" portion of product and enjoy myself in the infrastructure side of the world.
The fact that pointers to Foo are "free" doesn't invalidate the notion that the * is, in some sense, a semantic extension of whatever Foo is and thus a generic type. I know that this is not literally true in the "theory" of the C programming language and type system, but conceptually it matches up pretty well.
Not sure if you read the article you linked to.

> The USPS exemption was initially believed to allow postal workers to duck the private-sector mandate, too. But nearly four hours after that understanding was reported, the White House issued a clarification saying that postal workers will have a choice between getting vaccinated and getting tested once a week, just like workers at large companies.

“USPS is not included in the executive order requiring vaccination of Federal employees. USPS has a separate statutory scheme and is traditionally independent of federal personnel actions like this,” a Biden administration official said.

He added: “That said, USPS is strongly encouraged to comply. Also, [the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration] will cover USPS through the [emergency temporary standards], meaning that postal workers will be subject to the vaccination or testing policy announced today”
Scott Wlaschin is an excellent resource. His presentations and website are incredible.
As soon as Apple enables scanning, no one controls their iPhone anymore.
> Channel Programs may only be run with root privileges

Compare to eBPF, which not only uses a JIT compiler in the kernel, but on popular Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu permits unprivileged users to run eBPF programs.

I would never assume a lack of exploitable bugs in the fork of the Lua interpreter used in FreeBSD, but the fact is that eBPF has seen a steady, if infrequent, stream of actual exploits over the years and in particular unprivileged user exploits.
Funny how people become obsessed with specific movements, specific exercise styles, etc.

In the posted video, the researchers study all kinds of exercises and environments, and the effects on the brain. Squats, because you’re going with and against gravity, had particular benefits on the brain because of the decreased/increased blood flow to the brain during each squat cycle. They were particularly interested in optimizing the physical adaptation from exercise.
I google-image searched her name. This tweet (and the one below it) came up:

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1422380335703101443

This is one of those prickly things where about half the population takes one side and the other half takes the other side.

I, personally, would greatly appreciate my boss giving me advice on how to improve the tone of my delivery during presentations.

I wouldn't call it tone-policing.

I wouldn't complain to HR about it.

And I certainly wouldn't put it on Twitter for the world to see.

Bananas.

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Update: I just saw the piece on her website where she tweets "Here's me catching my #Apple officemate randomly looking at rifle specs".

The tweet: https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1426572384736202758

(Astonishingly, she thinks it's okay to take a creep-shot of a colleague's computer screen and post it on Twitter.)

Ashley "caught" her officemate doing something naughty, y'all.

She's a professional snitch.
> If you want to attack you need to be able to identify where they are acting badly and strike at that weakness.

Can you give an example?

>> Even punishing them(fines) for their mistakes is not even a slap on their wrist at their scale we've seen this happening time and again

If this wasn't true then there wouldn't be sub-list for every wrongdoing spanning decades[1] i.e. If the punishments achieved it's purpose we wouldn't see continued offenses under same category.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon
I don't think it was ever a _stable_ country.
Isn't that "high" a flimsy thing though? It's like you're lowkey advocating for a trance like state. I'm not sure that's what I want to end up doing all my life -- be high with similar addicts.
The company also heavily pushes you towards using that corporate phone.