skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
censoring seems like a strong word. it's likely some automated system that based on some frequency analysis detecting whether the dislikes were authentic or not (by some defn of 'authentic').

Without such systems it's trivial to just 'clickfraud' relevancy systems out of whack. Of course Google has has a long record of playing cat/mouse games with this type of behavior due to the entire SEO industry who would manipulate rankings and other signals.
my main gripe with zoom on linux (besides being forced to use it at all) is that it sets my microphone volume to 0 every time i join a new meeting or breakout room
some arguments I've seen (not endorsing any of those) are

a) it makes you inflexible (i.e. you cant readjust by constantly hiring people that fit whatever your new goals are better)

b) it means you are to easy on people and keep low performers around

c) b) means it also makes trajectory upwards harder for good employees, so the good employees are more likely to be the few who quit
I don't think it works with "params" - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Jetson – 1 Person “Drone” / aka VTOL ultralight aircraft
PSA: AllowedCPUs only works with systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1. Until Docker 20.10 you needed unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0, and Ubuntu just switched in 21.10.
If you started using your desk items as a weapon and swung them at a person in a manner that could reliably kill them then the court would consider you to have a deadly weapon as well.

If you use an item in a manner that can reliably kill people then you use a deadly weapon even if it wasn't intended to be a deadly weapon. Is a pair of scissors a deadly weapon? Yes. Is a heavy hard blunt object (like a statue) a deadly weapon? Yes.
There was a time when a fresh install of Windows required over a day to bring up to current, if you didn't have install media with the latest service pack already applied.

MacOS updates are fairly slow, though, so I don't know if it's a clear win. But I also don't think anything has gotten significantly worse in recent years; there have always been good parts & bad parts.
Calm down, Phoenix Wright. I read the article that OP posted. That shows a huge Twitter thread of John Cleese complaining about things. I’ve read other news articles about other times he was on Twitter complaining about things.
Devs: there are no 10x engineers!!

Orgs: okay you are indistinguishable cogs and we will treat you as cattle

Devs: no wait not like that

Truth is everyone knows that who or which teams takes a task matters immensely. We know that if Bob leads it’s gonna suck and if Alice does it’s gonna rock and finish on time.

Managers know this also.

But we’ve constructed a corporate culture where this is not allowed to be said. So we bend over backwards to pretend everyone is equal and capable of the same things in all areas. Then we secretly make sure somehow by magic the truly critical projects are routed to the people and teams with more reliable outcomes.
And a lot of the time you could just as well embed pieces in other languages in your Access application connected to MSSQL (or oracle or whatever)
Thanks --- I did know about that. For whatever reason, though, that doesn't appear to reliably bring back all notifications, only some of them. While I definitely could be wrong, I'm just about 100% certain that I've had notifications come and go that aren't to be found in the Notification Center afterward.
> This is done whenever a system or algorithm converts data from higher dynamic range representation (more bits per quantum of signal, like a pixel or audio sample) to a lower dynamic range representation, it's called a bit-depth reduction.

You are mixing two things here? Bit depth reduction is a specific term, it refers to the reduction in the amount of information you want to _convey_.

Compression is be reducing the number of bits/pixel averaged across the whole image. Good compression algorithms will not be spatially uniform, it's entirely possible that pixels in some parts of the image are compressed with more bits/pixel than pixels in other parts.
I appreciate your time to explain that, thanks. I'm now off on a journey to find the exact line between what is a brace and what is a stock! Take care, my friend.
From the article:

> People, as a whole, cannot be treated as an abstraction where the actions company leadership takes impacts everyone in the same way. The people who are most effective will be disproportionately likely to leave if you turn a knob that leads to increased attrition.

Damn correct.

An observation of mine is that a company may recognize the most valuable employees in informal ways. For example, they may have some peer recognition awards that the same employees get because their peers know how valuable they are, but due to other constraints (ex, politics) they may not hold a title/level that represents this. When the company turns the nob, as Dan says, these most valuable people are the first to leave. Management is mostly oblivious, but the other engineers know.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently reading about kdb (and family) and I’d think a lot of the skills you need to use it are very applicable to other systems. You may even be further ahead of the game than you realize. The main gap I’d guess would be the jump from finance process to product process. That’s just time and I’d just start interviewing.
My guess would be either stack ranking or concern about the Dead Sea effect.
Ah. I didn't consider that all the Apple products might be traveling together beyond Anchorage. That makes more sense.

P.S. BOOOOOO on UPS, who just claimed they tried and failed to deliver it while I was standing on my porch with the Ring camera on. So much for spending the night migrating. Hello, Monday night happy hour.
Splunk stock on track for worst day in almost a year after CEO exit
This depends entirely on what you're doing.

If you're at some adtech company where the entire point of the advertising is to cancel out some competitor's advertising and you're only there for the paycheck, efficiency is irrelevant because the company could be destroyed by a giant meteor and nobody else in the entire would would have any reason to care.

But not all jobs are like that. Some people make medical devices that save lives. If the company is inefficient, they don't save as many lives, and that matters. Some people are in charge of making loans to people or selling legally mandated insurance and the rate the customers pay has a significant effect on their economic well-being. Some jobs are in the production of food and the work impacts the quality and price of food. Some companies make fire suppression systems or automobiles or industrial equipment, and it needs to be safe without being unaffordable.

Not all jobs are an exercise in futility.
> A similar thing happens with retention. A great engineer I know who was regularly creating $x0M/yr4 of additional profit for the company per year wanted to move to Portugal, so the company cut the person's cash comp by a factor of four, causing them to leave for a company that doesn't have location-based pay. This was escalated up to the director level, but that wasn't sufficient to override HR, so they left. HR didn't care that the person made the company more money than HR saves by doing location adjustments for all international employees combined because HR at the company had no notion of the value of an employee, only the cost, title, level, and location5.

I laughed because I've been on the other end of these conversations (poaching a talented engineer going remote). I guess I have some random HR department to thank!
It'll be interesting to see if Fortran makes a comeback. In some ways, modern Fortran is a kind of nice language.

I'm mildly surprised for using Pytorch in HPC workloads since
I didn't think its forward mode autodiff was great (unlike the reverse mode autodiff common in the NN world).
Which is why certifications, audits, and minimum mandated standards are critically important.

The market just yawns at this stuff, until it gets fragged. Then it forgets and the cycle repeats.
So it requires one on-chain transaction per pair of parties instead of one per transaction? Clever and I suppose useful but seems a little limited in use, given that the funds are locked the whole time. Good for two parties that frequently have transactions going in both directions?
Truly an amazing output! Did you really do all this in 2.5 months? Seems I need to dramatically up my coding game!
They're never going to financially recover from this

edit: I am now realizing this is not $500k per worker.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
A whole sub dedicated to making firefox look however you want it to. You can edit the entire browser with css like a website.
Yes but the difference I had in mind is that Cloudflare is generally available (i.e. I can't host my website on OpenConnect) and they don't seem to push as far into local deployments. I've never seen a Cloudflare trace route stay entirely on my ISP's network whereas that's usually the case for Netflix.

Now, that might not be faster — my local Cloudflare endpoint appears to be ~16ms vs ~20ms for my ISP's Netflix deployment but it can tell you whether they're routinely underprovisioning peering capacity even if it doesn't give you as much data as a distributed test would.
Agreed there is a small cost, but it is possible, which is at odds with your statement "with Snowflake, the data never comes out".
This. If the business can't sustain itself because of labor costs it's not just those unfilled positions that suffer. If this happens too much you end up with demand for those ancillary jobs that folks are willing to do for market rate but can't find openings for.
I rarely notice trivial changes these days since they are little more than change for the sake of change. Whether the change was made by bored UI designers, to keep up with the latest fashions, or to give a visual indication that the product is being updated is something that only the developers can answer.

That being said, it can be more difficult to differentiate some inactive tabs. Some tabs lack a favicon (e.g. PDF files) and the close button blends into the text.
Do you have to pay to export data out of Snowflake? Yes. They have a nice guide on how to spend money doing it (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-unload-overvie...).

Do you have to pay to export data out of Databricks? No, it's already sitting where you want it.

Which one is open? I wonder
Which is exactly what should be done; cf. "Induced demand" [0] - adding more roads just adds more congestion, it doesn't reduce it.

Also a bit rich of the author to link to ti.org to prop up the claims - a site he runs (and which looks like it time-traveled here straight from 1997).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
The people in charge of the desktop environments >99% of people use don't agree unfortunately.
Thank you for taking the time to check it out!
"bitcoin is for illegal things" is the OG handwaive argument so nothing substantial was needed to swat it down :)
> It can literally destroy small companies if an individual's unique contribution isn't properly understood and valued.

It's generally cheaper to poach engineers than to buy a company. Just food for thoughts.
Can someone enlighten me on what actually happens? I run zoom (desktop client) everyday for short standups and hour+ long architecture/tech discussions and code reviews, and I've never really noticed the CPU usage?

(Linux Mint 20 with 5.14.12-xanmod1 on a t480s, which reminds me I need to reboot since I have 5.14.18 installed and waiting...)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Courts certainly can be biased (there are many famous examples). Reporting of court proceedings can certainly be biased too.
People die if you hit them with in the head with a fist sized rock, that is what is required for something to be a deadly weapon. A metal rimmed skateboard can deal more damage than a rock so it is a deadly weapon.
The problem is distinguishing that from Google using Gmail, Youtube, Docs, etc. to promote Chrome. You don't know whether someone stopped using Firefox because they like Chrome better or because they hit enough of those “we pinkie-swear it's not intentional” friction points and got tired of swimming upstream.
> black print, black background. it's the coolest possible color scheme

https://i.imgur.com/41biB.jpeg
A few years back mattresses were full of springs and padding etc, were huge and bulky.
Now they are made of layered open cell foam(several layers with different natures( plus a cover. They then found they could shrink the volume of the mattress by ~~75% or so by putting it in a heavy plastic bag - suck out 90% of the air and the air pressure flattens it and ship the resulting mattress as a far smaller package. It weighs the same, 40-50 pounds of foam worth $3 a pound, plus the mattress cover, and sell it for ?? $1000? You can afford a 100 night warranty ~ about 10% want their $$ back. I expect competition to soon bring the price down - no secrets or patents here.
Time will tell.
Want some fun next Halloween? Stick a few pins in a Casper delivery box and watch the mattress muscle it's way out....
Starlink Dishy Teardown
A team where you have to ask who is going to do the work is one where people can’t get help when they are in trouble. It shouldn’t matter who gets assigned to it first, if they can’t do it, someone with more experience will step in.

This is what those stand up meetings were supposed to be for. It’s not supposed to be a meaningless ritual. If people can’t get help, or are afraid to ask for help, something is wrong.
Why are Zeppelins not a more prevalent solution?
I'm an introvert, I love working from home, I live in the woods with a 1/3rd mile long driveway. Since my youngest went off to college I'm here alone with her fish and a cat. I go into town once or twice a week for supplies and the rest of the time I'm just out here in my little sanctuary enjoying the lack of people.

That said, even I know that while individuals matter, teams matter more. And I don't see anything in this entire post about how to build a team or sustain a team or inspire them to support each other. Absolutely nothing about how you can develop skill and aptitude in junior folks or redirect conflict or conveying the importance of actually shipping something vs running marathons on the tech debt treadmill.
You know all the shit that has to happen in the real world to keep people happy and invested. All I see is an ode to the 10x'er and how sucking up to them might keep them around long enough to be successful.

I love HN and the community overall but there are few things more predictable than this story making it from new to the front page lol.
I made a career of fixing broken things.
Well, noted I guess. I probably dismissed the idea in the wrong way then. Next time I'll just say "'deadly weapon' is a very low bar and doesn't mean much".

It's not productive to argue about definitions, even if they don't make sense to me. My intent wasn't a semantics argument.
Obviously it doesn't apply everywhere, but in the context of the places around the Great Lakes that use surface water, the only significant cost is the wasted energy. Water consumed by the reverse osmosis is going to get treated and returned to the environment, and there's not any kind of shortage.
Can you name another nation that has had such a global, and active, military presence as the US has had, particularly since the establishment of formal air-forces?

We are also talking about a military that does not only have a recent string of burrowing civilian casulties, like in Afghanistan or Syria, but has been doing so in plenty of other conflicts.

So yes, it's a bit difficult to believe that in decades of war the US ever only shot down two wrong planes, most likely that wikipedia list simply ain't anywhere to complete, like most of them.
> P.S. BOOOOOO on UPS, who just claimed they tried and failed to deliver it while I was standing on my porch with the Ring camera on. So much for spending the night migrating. Hello, Monday night happy hour.

Oh man, I'd be on fire right now. Drinking is probably the best alternative.
> Also we are generally wealthy enough to afford cars and they fit a whole family a lot more comfortably.

I'd disagree with comfort - sure sitting in a car is great but a motorbike brings it's own comforts like easier parking and faster commute. I think we can all agree that the worst parts about commute is the traffic and parking - getting rid of these does change your perception of the experience significantly.
I love reading these threads and thinking this sort of stuff to myself... How much of twitter's infrastructure is self-perpetuated or otherwise exists just to serve other infrastructure? You obviously cant fit everything their business does on a single machine, but you could probably get dangerously close with enough determination. Especially, if you just focused on the core 280 character tweet abstraction.

An options order consists of more data than an average tweet, and we can certainly process them at a higher rate than twitter would need to go in practice. Many financial exchanges operate on a single thread. 1-100 million transactions per second with jitter measured in tens of microseconds. I don't see why other software products & services can't leverage similar concepts.
You're scoping it to Russia, but I feel the conversation expanded in scope to cover additional instances because the conversation now includes 'never attribute' in the parent chain. In the expanded scope the answer is yes they are different. In the limited scope the question trivially goes the other way, because it is defined to go the other way. It could still be that it went that way because of incompetence though, or not, we don't really know. Which makes doing so intellectually dishonest. It is begging the question of whether there was malice. In this case, seeing as there haven't been regular examples of the intentional creation of space debris, it is also skipping past the other condition that was supposed: a history of incompetence. Moreover, in this particular case, there would seem to be some probability of cosmonauts dying after a breach of the space station leads to the loss of life. So it would be more like you're technologically advanced friend killed one of his friends and destroyed an art project in expectation. Which, actually, is the sort of thing that happens more often because of poor weapon handling. We see this kind of thing happen often because of poor trigger safety in terrestrial weapon use which we are more familiar with.
> The drug is one of the safest in the world.

This is not true at all. Ivermectin has some nasty neurological effects (vertigo, seizures, blindness) at high doses.
Well.. this sucks. I got one of the SmartHalo 2 devices and now it looks like it's pretty much a brick. :(
OKRs are definitely one of the best ways to measure. Two difficult problems to think about during implementation:
1. How to fairly evaluate whether the O is an audacious goal or not across employees. Employee A can make a truly audacious goal and employee B can make a seemingly audacious goal but actually very achievable with moderate efforts. I think it is gonna be quite difficult when you have lots of employees.

2. How do you grade people fairly ? Most companies will not be able to resist connecting your key results to commission/bonus. As a result ,employees setting truly audacious goals will be disadvantaged. If it is truly audacious, it means it has a smaller chance of success. Sooner or later, people will try to game the system if they don't want to be hurt by the system.
> Cravath, Swaine & Moore

That looks familiar... I could swear I've seen that on GrokLaw, but of course it's been so long I can't for the life of me remember which side they were on -- or even which case.
re #7:

https://energypost.eu/dispelling-nuclear-baseload-myth-nothi...

> ‘Baseload power stations’ are inflexible in operation, in the sense that they are unsuitable for following the variations in demand and supply on timescales of minutes and hours, so they have to be supplemented with flexible peak-load and slightly flexible intermediate-load power stations.

As far as why nuclear plays poorly with solar, for example, consider a PV system that generates, at noon, 100% of demand. You'd want to shut down alternative power sources at this time - that's not efficient at all with nuclear or coal.

As far as safety, what are your thoughts on cancelling Price-Anderson accident indemnity laws, and having owners and operators of nuclear power plants accept full liability, no pass-on to the taxpayer?
Eh, normally I'd defend Mozilla, but they can go fuck themselves after their recent behaviour and changes
Teams are mentioned near the bottom in the section about reorgs.
But isn't the security of proof-of-work derived from it being cost prohibitive to put up more work on a fraudulent (e.g. double spending) chain? So if energy becomes an order of magnitude more abundant or cheaper, doesn't that just mean that the amount of energy spent on mining will increase by the same amount?
Reminds me of being a classical percussionist.

me: *plays quietly*

conductor: can you play that a little more piano

me: *plays very quietly*

conductor: a little more piano even

me: *pretends to play*

conductor: perfect
It's the same kind of bullshit as teams being penalized for meeting 100% of their goals because it means that their goals weren't aggressive enough. I can't say whether the strategy is effective or not, but MBA types seem to love it.
>They're never going to financially recover from this

They already have.

Oh, and it seems they've just recovered again.

And once more.

There it is again.

Oh god the recovering won't stop!
From the wikipedia link:

> Vera filed a civil suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California against O'Keefe and Giles for recording him without his permission, which was a violation of California law.

While recording that conversation appeared to be illegal, that is neither "for causing harm through their sting attempts and disinformation" and definitely not "multiple times".

I'm all for calling out bad actors but at least call them out for what they've done vs what you imagined.
Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Majestic Spiral Galaxy 230M Light-Years Away
>>> Gaige Grosskreutz, who admitted on the stand that Rittenhouse did not fire until Gaige's Glock 17 was pointed directly at Kyle's head

>> I've more or less read that fact on NYT though.

>> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/us/kyle-rittenhouse-gaige...

> Would be interesting to see the percentage people who only saw the first headline: https://archive.vn/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/202...

What does a Washington Post headline have to do with a New York Times article?
The best UI is the one that you are familiar with.

Messing with UI for little gain is a middle finger to existing users. Hope their "increased adoption" is worth annoying all their current users.
Deaf person is also 2 words. lol
The Symbolics software is still proprietary, I think. The MIT CADR software is available and can run under emulation, but last I heard it was not all the way there. I'm sure some people here know more about it than I do.
It's not xenophobia when their legal system incentivizes hacking foreigners and hacks just happen to keep popping up from Russia. Nor is pointing out blatantly obvious trends "left".
Yep. It's had the side-effect of making me use the keyboard for everything, which is a net positive, but the design itself makes it more difficult to target specific tabs with a mouse.
Why was there even an edge there to begin with? Did it do anything? Hopefully one day they can remove the edge of the window as well. Imagine thinking that was a good idea.
dram is build out of small capacitors, fab process to make lots of capacitors is incompatible with one to make a lot of fast logic.