skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the author eventually understands— users almost always want the features they ask for, but they may not the interpretation of them you've created.

I recently started working in design after being a developer for more than a decade. Back then, planning how things should work for users felt frivolous compared to coding. Beyond that, getting working code in the editor just felt so good that I never wanted to put it off. These are the excuses I'd make to avoid really thinking about the users:

- I can clean up the interface later

- I'll figure out what features I can support when I figure out how it's going to work

- I've got a good intuitive sense of what would be most useful and how people want things to work

Unless the tech requirements are extreme, knowing what features are helpful and how users will use them should inform development— not the other way around. Also, overestimating your understanding of how people want something to work almost always leads to suboptimal results. Unfortunately, this mindset led to clunky, miserable interfaces that many people rejected. Worse, core users would learn to love it because they had no choice, and they'd develop bad UI Stockholm syndrome. Nothing carves a lousy user experience into stone for all future users like reliable core users demanding nothing changes.

Obviously, solo intern projects are an edge case, but this case study perfectly illustrates the necessity of user-focused design is in software projects. All the better if you can find someone who specializes in it.

UX expertise brings:

- deep experience reasoning about the way people use things

- knowledge of many workflows, working styles, and personalities

- understanding of how much deviation users will tolerate

- familiarity with user research techniques and their shortcomings

- ability to distinguish between research signal and noise

- knowing where to dig deeper or seek more data

- understanding what needs to be prototyped vs. mocked up vs. textually described for tests, and ideally the ability to do all three

That perspective built into this project from the beginning would have completely changed its trajectory. Users would be less irritated, and the developer could have used wasted rewrite time making a more valuable end product.
I wasn't arguing whether or not name-and-shame works, I was arguing that it's wrong to do to begin with because it doesn't bring us closer to our goal.
The difference between then and now is that it’s now ingrained in the tech savvy executives that you cannot put anything in writing that would be construed as collusion. At best we’ll see “Call me to discuss” or “Lets get together to understand”. It’s not going to end because it hasn’t ended. Only the paper trail for the astute has ended.
And still people will balk at the suggestion that developers should unionize.
I share the same sentiment. Thanks for sharing xkbarkar
>"I want to focus on the fact that people find a need to protect Apple."

I do not think they're trying to protect Apple. They are protecting their choice. Same as people "protecting" Python, Rust etc.
Maybe he would still be alive if he didn't try to fake his cancer treatments https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alternative-medic...
If you opt into the class settlement, you absolve the defendant of all liability so you can't sue them yourself in the future (for the same issue). If you don't join the class, you can still sue the defendant separate from the class. Not sure if that was the reason for the commenter above opting out, though.
Apple pays employee x, Google offers x*1.2, Apple could retain by offering x*1.2 (or more). Apple instead decides to collude with Google to not poach from each other. Now all companies everywhere decide to do this. Wages get fixed.
the lawyers got to split a bit more money
I read this as, everything the leaving employee was complaining about and said they wanted finally happened, but they still chose to leave. I'm not sure which is right.
Wonder if has to do with Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate expiring. That's my guess; some supporting infrastructure didn't update.
that's way worse than 1:1 unless all integers between 0 and 255 occur in the first 256 digits of pi, which I'm 99.pi% sure is not the case.
As a (former) scientist, I should also admonish that it is generally in the professional scientist's best interest to prolong the perceived complexity of any given thing to keep the grants coming. Even if they're not influenced by an interest outside of their scope, it's a mental habit that can be hard to break.
I know someone who was an exec at Astec in the 90s and Apple was notable for being willing to pay a premium for their power supplies (I think for better efficiency and miniaturization).
Agreed; if you’ve accepted a job offer, reneging on that deal because your current employer made you a better offer isn’t a great look. It’ll be remembered by the hiring company and the individual who made the offer, and that can follow you around for a long time, making future job searches a lot harder.
You can’t really get objective goal posts (for herd immunity for example), given how unpredictable the virus and people’s clustering are though?
You can drop the phone in an RF blocking bag if you want to go off the grid.
No, it crucially doesn't. Any action whatsoever, a warning, anything, against this recruiter on the basis of their ILLEGAL COLLUSION is wrong
I agree with the sentiment, however it does not appear folks are putting actual science forward in their arguments. How do you rank people sticking spoons to their face and saying the vaccine magnetized them alongside serious discourse?

The "questions" that Tucker Carlson are not "questions" at all. "What if taking the vaccine turns you into a newt? I'm just asking questions here" (not an actual quote but along the lines of his questioning). People asking questions in good faith should definitely be discussed, it's the only way forward. People asking "questions" purely as a method to sow doubt and further their personal agenda is harmful.
> However, when reviewing the code behind the admin interface, we found that it contains a hash of a default factory setting administration key. We purchased multiple used ATMs from different sources and our investigation revealed that each had the same default key configuration.

A used device should contain no PII, or any other data of the previous owner.

However, using default settings is a sane choice when preparing a device for second hand sale. Yes, even if these default settings are insecure; that is solely the responsibility of the new owner.
I would love to know what the margin boost is to AWS as a result of Graviton. It's cheaper to customers but I have to imagine better margins to them - so kind of a win/win. It's just amazing how they're pushing it out to every AWS service at this point. We transitioned over our RDS instances to Graviton this last weekend and have a nice performance boost with ~10% savings.

Disclosure as I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage - but we'll likely be adding Graviton recommendations to our suite of cost saving recommendations on https://www.vantage.sh/ to give per resource views of potential savings (i.e. you can save X% on this Lambda function based upon the costs we saw by switching to Graviton, etc.)
Are they also going to remove Python, Ruby, NodeJS, PHP, and every other programming language runtime? Why not?

Hopefully Graal gets more traction, so these Java (and Ruby, NodeJS, Python etc) apps can be compiled to native code, if just to bypass odd decisions like this.
To do that you have to give up more information about what you actually bought which IMO is an even bigger privacy issue than what we're currently giving away.
And now power supplies are getting another step smaller and more efficient by switching from silicon transistors to GaN. (https://www.cui.com/blog/how-gallium-nitride-gan-enables-sma...)
A lot of the problem I think comes from messaging and deliberate bad-faith interpretations of messages.

Claims that "Masks slow the spread of COVID" gets interpreted as "Masks stop the spread of COVID", and so when we have mask mandates and yet COVID still spreads, people use that as evidence that masks are worthless.

It's interesting that people can draw opposite conclusions from the same scenario. COVID has continued to spread despite mask mandates. Some claim that means the masks are worthless. Others (including me) would claim that, despite how bad it is, the spread would be even worse without them.

> individual decision making

In most cases, I agree that people should be able to make their own health choices. You wanna eat McDonald's for every meal and walk less than 50 steps a day? Go for it. Hell, snort a few lines of cocaine for dessert if you want to.

But when it comes to a pandemic, it's different. Sure, the vaccines are 95+% effective, and masks might be X% effective, and social distancing is Y% effective, and so on...but when >30% of the population has zero interest in doing any of that, then you can take every protective measure you can (Besides just staying in your house) and still get the disease from some asshole at the grocery store that doesn't care if they spread it.

Also, consider last year's toilet paper shortage, and the short gas shortage a few months ago. Individuals will often act irrationally in their own interests rather than what's good for everyone as a whole.

To think of it another way, when at a pizza party, you will have some people who take 3 slices of pizza because there might not be enough for everyone so they want to make sure they get their share. Others might only take a single slice because there might not be enough for everyone so they want to make sure as many people get some.

Individual decision making only makes sense if people aren't selfish.
"Issues with Magic Transit and BYOIP" apparently, looks to be identified now.
The case numbers in Alberta are half of the peak earlier this year (when Delta started ramping up). And yet 70% are vaccinated but only 3% were earlier this year (May).

Begs the question as to why the system is falling apart now and not earlier this year.
> management has the mindset that we're all cogs until it's too late

I hate reading this. Not because I think people who say it are wrong, but because so many engineers have had experiences that lead them to believe it. During my management career, I risked my own standing in a company more than once to back up people in my org. If a manager isn't willing to risk their own skin to make sure their team is treat with dignity and respect they aren't a leader, they're just a politician.
What you are saying is P/=NP
It's both. There are states with dumb laws on the books, such as "seven or more Indians are considered a raiding or war party and it is legal to shoot them" in Montana. It's legal cruft, and needs to be formally repealed.

Police officers use judgement and selective enforcement all the time, seemingly whenever it benefits them, and this case was no different. The officers wanted to rain hell on this guy, and they justified it with legal cruft.
Worth pointing out that Covid is considerably more nasty than influenza, even the 1918 strain. Had it been Covid, not H1N1, at that time, the death toll would likely have been of biblical proportions - no supplemental oxygen available then.
There was a lawsuit about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> I think it spurs conversation about the monetary value of art that has been brewing for decades

You say it was "brewing", I say this exact same conversation has been "spurred" by one "art" piece after another for all those decades. The only claim to fame of this umpteenth "I could have done that"-elicitor is that it attains novelty over the last "newsworthy" iteration by risking a fraud charge and career-death.

Nobody outside of Warhammer circles pay attention to Warhammer memes. The only reason the general public pays so much (negative) attention to High Art Memes is the money involved. And that's exactly what they want, isn't it? "Provoking discourse" (aka pissing off the plebs by flaunting vain exchanges of wealth, and then scoffing at how uncultured they are for not getting it).

Warhammer memes do not need the plebian masses to be the butt of their circular joke, though. By that measure, Warhammer memes are far more valuable to society than the article's brand of High Art, because Warhammer memes produce net happiness, but High Art deals in misery and negativity and trolling.
I wonder if it would be possible to combine the two, e.g., have parameters always displayed in italics with each parameter having its distinct color.
Anyone else noticed Russia is become way more aggressive with opposition? Assassinations. Jailing opposition then fabricating charges. Arresting those that may or may not have helped the government in the past and charging treason. The trend is getting ugly.
The current fab here in Chandler, Arizona recycles all of its water now.
defeated by a $5 wrench attack à la XKCD
As a manager, even if you see The Signs, you rarely have 100% confidence: it's hard to tell if they're taking days off because they're interviewing or because their toddler is sick again. And if you take a punt and ask if they're going to leave, that's not going to go well: even if they are, they're going to deny it until the offer is signed, and it's going to come off as adversarial.

IMHO, once the switch of "I can't take this anymore and I want to leave" has been flipped, it's very difficult to flip that back. So your job as a manager is to do regular check-ins at sufficient frequency to identify and correct any issues before they get to this stage -- although as you say in your last paragraph, often these are outside your control. Which is why I've had X people leave my team in the past year, and am currently interviewing myself.
"restricting freedoms of unvaccinated"

No shirt, no shoes, no service.

TOTALITARIANISM!!!
Interesting, because this sounds like wild speculation - yet you've stated it as if it is a cold hard fact. Do you have any sources or statistics to back this up?

In 2018 the Swiss financial sector accounted for 9.1% of GDP. For comparison, in 2018 the US financial sector accounted for 7.4% of US GDP. To claim that it is _entirely_ banking is just plain wrong. To insinuate that there is no innovation elsewhere, (but there sure is in good ol' America), is just insulting.

>Financial markets in the United States ... In 2018, finance and insurance represented 7.4 percent (or $1.5 trillion) of U.S. gross domestic product[0]

>Switzerland’s financial sector ... as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). In 2018, it represented 9.1%[1]

[0]: https://www.selectusa.gov/financial-services-industry-united...

[1]: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gdp_switzerland-s-financial-sec...
The article is neither making or debunking that claim. It is debunking the claim that apple revolutionized computer power supplies by borrowing the switching power supply design used in oscilloscopes. It’s the second sentence of the post.
The last good Apple computer was the ][. The /// was crap, the Lisa was crap, the Mac was crap, the Mac 2 was crap, etc.

Apple should have taken the //gs seriously, wiped out the PC AT clones and choked off Microsoft Windows before 95. By then it was ][ late.

Keep Woz in charge, evolve the 6502 to 32 bit and 64 bit, that is where it’s at.
I don't think the author was suggesting that it was the right time to think about this - they were more just reflecting on their emotional response.

When I close the video meeting, I settle. My mind is racing. “Can I try something to bring the person back?” A list of grievances sets in, and I go through a loss cycle for days. It’s a breakup. I let go.

That doesn't read to me like they're thinking that finding something to bring the person back is a plausible outcome.
I’ve been in that situation with the 1% manager, and it still doesn’t end well. The manager resigned on my behalf after getting “drunk and sad”, which I had to rescind, then that same manager out of shame eventually fabricated a story to get me fired which led to a legal dispute due to the nature of the claims. Sounds fine so far right? Bullet dodged?

Until I applied for another role 6 months later and the CTO knew the CEO of the former company, where overnight I went from completely technical and culture fit to even my recruiter being ghosted by the company.

The moral of the story here is if you’re exiting then don’t really bring it up unless you’re entirely prepared to exit that same day. When things go south, they hit rock bottom and the consequences go beyond the four walls of your office.
Goals should be achievable. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can but we'll never reach 98% no matter what we do.

Fortunately CDC data shows minimal risk to children. The estimated infection fatality rate for the 0-17 age group is only 0.001%.

The main benefit of vaccination is reducing the risk of severe symptoms. Vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus, thereby putting your family at risk. There is probably some reduction in contagiousness but we don't have clear data on that yet.
Shouldn’t be very hard. Just go for the PMI and Agile/Scrum certs. It seems like there’s a lot of entry level or otherwise young Agile PM’s out there.
Nothing really. I retained the right to sue for my own personal judgement, which I have not done.

The main thing I got was the satisfaction of writing a letter to the judge pointing out that the attorneys who were representing my class ignored my attempts to communicate with them. I dug up the letter:

To the Court for the High-Tech Employee Antitrust Lawsuit,

I am writing to explain my decision to opt-out of the proposed settlement for the lawsuit against my former employer, Google, and their collusion with other employers. I was a software engineer at Google 2001–2006.

Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel are some of the leading employers in my industry. The harm they did to software engineers, particularly junior ones, is enormous. It’s not simply the lost wages in the settlement period; the market distortion set back the careers of my friends. Artificially lower wages compound for years as new jobs’ salaries often depend on previous ones. Brilliant young engineers lost opportunities to advance their careers because they were unaware of opportunities at other companies. The harm done was significant and I do not feel the settlement is sufficient.

I’m also opting out because I am unimpressed with my nominated attorneys. The fact that Judge Koh ruled the original settlement was “below the range of reasonableness” suggests my attorneys are poor negotiators and have not represented the plaintiffs effectively. I do not see wish to participate in a settlement where they receive $80M+ dollars. Also personally, I’m irritated that they cannot even do class members the courtesy of answering email sent to the published contact address of **@****.com. My emails of April 29 and May 10 both went unacknowledged.

Thank you for reading my letter. I do not wish to speak at the Fairness Hearing.
Democracies don't die from a single stolen election. The remedy is in the courts to determine if the election was stolen and then in the legislature to fix whatever problems allowed it. Convincing people that democracies must be saved by violent revolt is what kills democracy. The true enemy is lawlessness, not the other half of the country.

Fraudulent elections are happening in countries that are, in fact, no longer democracies and have not been for some time.

I'm open to arguments that the U.S. is no longer a functioning democracy, but the ability to still have mostly peaceful transitions of power and for election audits to come back clean reassures me a little bit.
I was once fired after sharing with my manager that I was looking elsewhere. I had other managers at the same company who were safe to share this with, but my manager at the time was not, in retrospect.

Keep it to yourself; it just isn't worth the risk.
I would expect a significant number of the immigrant drivers in this scenario would live extremely modestly, like sleeping in their cabs all the time. And they would send as much money back to their families in their home country, this behavior is seen in other such scenarios with imported labor.

It's tough on the worker, but good for their family and home country. It's cheap and compliant labor for the employer. But for the host country as a whole is it good? All that money being sent out of the country instead of spent locally can't be good for the host country vs a native worker.
To your last point: "All models are wrong, but some are useful."
According to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina..., AZ is being used all over the place.
Except it isn’t… being a citizen isn’t the same as being a consumer, like you understand how much harder and more impactful it is to change the country you live in than the channel right? Yikes.

the same things are said about twitter or facebook, its absurd.
Part of this book is the claim by Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky [1], a nonpartisan professor, that Covid-19 cannot infect bat cells. Petrovsky's original papers on the lab leak hypothesis was rejected by the Big Journals, and censored by BigTech [2] after the issue of a lab leak became politicized [3]. The question of being able to infect, or showing low selectivity is a key one. If Professor's Petrovsky claim that Covid-19 cannot infect bat cells, and is ideally optimized to infect humans only, it raises serious questions.

Professor Petrovsky also postulated a third scenario, that this was a coronavirus accidently cultured in lab experiments, not a research target, making a lab escape situation fundamentally different.

[1] https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/nikolai.petrovsky

[2] https://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19475-journals-censo...

[3] https://undark.org/2021/03/17/lab-leak-science-lost-in-polit...
Is that the MQTT part causing the problem, though? I have a bunch of Z-Wave devices on my network (using openHAB, which drives the Z-Wave hub dongle directly), and response times range from under a half second to several seconds, depending on phase of the moon. I expected that since Z-Wave is a mesh network, pushing commands out to devices that are farther away from the controller could take longer.
Thank goodness for the Zynga diaspora! Zynga was ahead of its time when it came to building data driven products. They were the first company to get it down to a science. We're lucky to have so many ex-Zynga product people come across Amplitude. You, Siqi, Bret, and tons of others were hardcore early supporters of us and we would not have been successful without you. Thank you, Teej, and keep the feedback coming!
I hate that sub with a passion, I really do. Morbid schadenfreude at the deceased under a thin disguise of “awareness of the dangers of being anti-vax.”
In a normal year 40 % of the food the US grows ends up in the garbage, Canada is even higher at 50 %.
The phrase too little too late comes to mind

As the current top comment says: if they knew about it weeks in advance, why was it only after resignation was handed in they thought "oh wait I could try salvaging this"

People don't quit jobs, they quit managers
Almost all of the digs at Apple have been things that apply industry wide and it is an interesting observation. There was one recently worded something like "EU to require Apple to update phones for 7 years" but if you look at the actual proposal, it applies to all phone makers and Apple is the only one anywhere close to compliant to this proposal.

Other scandals like Samsung disabling the cameras when unlocking the boot loader go practically unnoticed. Almost everything said about Apple is true and I don't dispute that, but people seem to believe that Apple is the only one using questionable labor, gluing in batteries, or applying software restrictions when it's basically industry standard right now.