skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely not better than having a 1-1, and I never said it was. But I will argue that it's better than waiting a week to have your scheduled "mystery call" with your manager while you see everyone around you being laid off left and right. It would have been stressful as hell, and in that sense yes, finding out in a single call with the CEO is "better". I'd still like to have a 1-1 with my manager to discuss either way.
Ah yes, when your own shitty leadership skills cause laid-off workers to drop productivity, it's their fault.

This guy sounds like a typical sociopath or narcissist in management (not a leader).

What did you expect, moron?! He doesn't walk the walk. He doesn't know how to lead. He doesn't have any empathy or imagination to project into the meta cognition of those he just laid off. Pathetic! And 100% avoidable.
That's a perfectly reasonable assessment. Also, it's certainly a dream product compared to anything on the market 20 years ago. So yeah, it's fair to say the original blog post could have been more nuanced in its holistic assessment of MySQL.

But then again, you can tell he was worn down from his experience working there. The industry has a way of doing that to people.
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Non-violent Communication - One of my top 5 books easily. Changed how I think about the language we use in everyday communication with other people, and more importantly, the language I use with myself.
good idea, thx, done
Sure, unfortunately as a solo developer unless your app is a unicorn or you make several of these apps, pay once use forever doesn't pay your bills a year from now.
TBF there are many types of smiths, so maybe that's why: blacksmith, goldsmith, tinsmith, coppersmith, etc.
> "...The law doesn’t protect fairness; it protects property."

ah, the crux of the problem. we've veered much too far in this direction, and that's why we get absurdities like corporations stealing millions being punished much less severely than individuals stealing thousands. the law should primarily be about protecting people, not property (or corporations).
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Good for you, but it doesn't seem realistic to expect large numbers of landlords to do this.
When I learned computer graphics in 1983, the textbook was about half vector graphics. The state of the art was hardware “display lists” that you loaded with X,Y coordinates and the hardware refreshed the screen by itself.

Raster graphics rely on cheap RAM, which came on us exponentially and rapidly obsoleted all sort of things…like the entire field of vector graphics hardware.

At CMU the CS department ran on many shared VAXen, and some of them had a raster frame buffer. They ran coax video cables from a VAX to multiple offices, with a monitor in each office, all displaying the same thing. You had to sign up for time on the frame buffer. I know this is unimaginable in 2021!

BTW, I am definitely going to hook up my Vectrex to an RPi. TIL, thank you!
If you are are reading this far you probably care a lot about Wikipedia. Give generously if you can. https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/
I like that it can work without javascript.
weev is not blind, nor was he recently released from prison
Scrum and Agile (note: capitalised) can be very painful. Badly moderated "scrum days" are a time sink. Two rounds of planning in order to start a sprint are common. Hours spent grooming infinite backlogs. An entire class of bullshit jobs is created. And all of your work is modelled on a five-year Gantt chart, effectively rendering it waterfall with more meetings.

But it is not inherently so. It can be quite simple. It can be bloated. It's usually somewhere in the middle. At the very least, since Scrum being a thing, continuous integration, integrated teams, and simplified version control flows became a thing, since every sprint is "a releasable increment".

While every waterfall project I ever worked on (granted, at the beginning of my career) felt like it was inherently shite. A cascade of dependencies. This means that every delay has a cascading effect on the duration entire project. This means that early actions are next to immutable later on. You're pulling requirements out of your arse because you have nothing concrete to validate them against. You only know if it works towards the very end. And until then, the product is unreleasable. And I guarantee you, requirements will change. Corona happens. A CTO quits and the new one wants something else. Dotnet core is released and now you're looking at that upgrade. You learn something new but you can't adapt.

Ultimately, bad orgs fester bad methods build bad products. But please don't pretend to know everything upfront because you don't.
Why is backpressure trending on HN lately? Is there some sort of event/talk/blog post/discovery I missed? :) This has got to be the third or fourth Backpressure-related submission I've seen in the past month.
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Interesting how you portrayed Obama in a way that he's a does-only-good person. He played a huge role in Arab springs which destroyed more lives than any of the other alleged bad deeds you refer. Some probably should sue him, not for indirect roles, but direct ones.
Ah, so you were being facetious then. Should have said at the beginning, would have saved us some time and you the downvotes.
I am glad you unearthed NcNamara here.

US lost in Vietnam because people like him were idiots.

US military was not attacking, nor defending, but doing god knows what for entirety of the Vietnam campaign because cool kids like McNamara, Nixon, and Kisinger were coming up with their "innovative theories," and trying "redefining the nature of warfare, and politics."

For the entirety of Vietnam war, US military had the full logistic, intelligence, tactical, and technical capability to completely crush the North with ease.

The question is why it didn't?
Have you never been at a company that has had layoffs?

I was at a company that did ~400 people layoff during pandemic. The place didn't even have a great culture but everyone, even people remaining (> half the company) got a one-on-one chat with their manager.

There was, of course, a company all hands later.

Sure people know what's up, but it's dramatically more human to have your manager call you and tell you a.) you are going to be okay or b.) we're very sorry this has happened, it's been a pleasure working with you, please use me as a reference anytime you need. We even personally called each candidate we were supposed to hire.

Company wide zoom as notice of layoffs is grotesque.
I don't know if I agree with that. Rather than have every team on earth invent their own process from first principles, they provide adequate starting points on which to grow. Agile, Scrum and Kanban aren't perfect but they can get a team started. Good teams will take them as templates and tweak as needed.
> No one likes to wait for the computer to respond.

Ha, you wouldn't know it from using a modern computer interface. I have a hobby of counting the seconds since when I click something on my phone, a computer more powerful than supercomputers were in the 2000s, and when something actually happens. It is often in the double digits.

This may even be a result of the thing you're describing: our desire for speed has bled into our 'productivity' as developers, leading us to sacrifice the user experience for the sake of (theoretically at least) building an application faster. Though honestly, I'm not convinced that's actually happening because we've introduced so much complexity in our effort to automate as much as possible that we've actually just made everything much worse.
> "For cheap, commoditized stuff, open is better than closed for everyone."

Having an open core is only half the battle. Cheap, commoditized stuff is tuned and tweaked to within an inch of its life for the available foundries and specific processes on which it is being fabbed both to squeeze out maximum yield and to give the highest possible performance at minimum power. That's very expensive engineering for which investors are going to want to earn their money back on.
Looks good. Re: the site – the silkscreen / statement of which chip is which would be very helpful. I imagine you could make a shiny html canvas area and permit per-tag feedback on specific points (bonus points for a floodfill-detected 'label net' tool...)
Here is a bit more detail on this determined role they took to spread the speech from reuters.

"To this day, the company continues to rely heavily on users reporting hate speech in part because its systems struggle to interpret Burmese text.

Even now, Facebook doesn’t have a single employee in the country of some 50 million people. Instead, it monitors hate speech from abroad. This is mainly done through a secretive operation in Kuala Lumpur that’s outsourced to Accenture, the professional services firm, and codenamed “Project Honey Badger.”

According to people familiar with the matter, the project, which handles many Asian countries, hired its first two Burmese speakers, who were based in Manila, just three years ago. As of June, Honey Badger had about 60 people reviewing reports of hate speech and other content posted by Myanmar’s 18 million active Facebook users. Facebook itself in April had three full-time Burmese speakers at a separate monitoring operation at its international headquarters in Dublin, according to a former employee."
Are you able to use the Samsungs? I know of Chipolo and I've used Trackr (looks like they stopped updating their product). But not sure if they sell your data.
Relatedly: apparently it would be a good idea to destroy the Martian moon Phobos before settling the planet. It's a fascinating proposal and makes sense; you can read about it here:

https://marspedia.org/Bringing_down_Phobos
Is this like where people are tricked into believing “sea salt” in the diet is somehow healthier than “table salt”?
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman (more famously known for the Guns of August).

Nonfiction, but really entertaining. A must read because it's insightful on how different but similar human beings can get. It's more than just a history imo. Also a period of European history people think is important, but rarely read up on.
>But companies like Amazon also have a responsibility to the country they operate in and in my opinion should pay taxes there.

Do individuals and companies not?
People take issue with them, but picking something off Adler's or Harvard's (five-foot-shelf) or Bloom's Great Books lists will almost never lead you wrong.

But, here we go anyway (and yeah, some of these are just off those lists):

1) Shakespeare's big four tragedies are, in fact, out-fucking-standing. Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth. IMO Hamlet reads the best of those. Any would be fine to watch, as well, and may be better that way. The language, especially, is easier to understand when performed, because you have body language, tone, and other context to work with.

2) Gilgamesh. I like Mitchell's edition.

3) The Odyssey. Iliad's a bit of a bore, but with a few incredible scenes that really stick with you. The Odyssey, though, is great. Screw the haters, even the "Telemachy" portion is good.

4) Revolutionary Road by Yates, for a certain kind of struggle with identity & purpose that I suspect will resonate and provide a useful mirror for lots of folks on here.

5) Woolf's To the Lighthouse is probably my favorite book, so I'll throw that on here.

6) The 20th century gave us tons of essayists (some of whom also wrote novels and such) who are great reads. Orwell, C.S. Lewis, and Forster all come to mind.

7) Maugham wrote a lot of novels, and most of them are well worth a read.

8) Farmer's Riverworld series are probably my favorite very dumb books.
Lately there have been amazing results on pairs of web text+image, no need for labelling. These datasets are hundreds of times larger and cover many more categories of objects. GPT-3 is also trained on raw text. I think ImageNet and its generation have become toy datasets by now.
This is exactly my thoughts on crypto as well. Being unable to fix a "whoopsy" is the biggest weakness. Humans make mistakes, and computers make mistakes. When it comes to money, you need to be able to apply common sense and be able to reverse those mistakes.

Crypto seems too absolutist for this use case. (Although I should mention that they seem to discuss rolling back the blockchain whenever a big heist takes place. But if you can rollback then chain, then doesn't that circumvent the core tenant of no trust needed as now you have to trust that the group doesn't decide to rollback the chain?)
Goldman Sachs regularly lays off 5% of their 40k workforce every year. It all happens in a short period of time. They somehow manage to do it.
Coffee sounds good actually.
I’m fairly sure that refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database:

“Web SQL Database is a deprecated web browser API specification for storing data in databases that can be queried using SQL variant.

The API is supported by Google Chrome, Opera, and the Android Browser.

The W3C Web Applications Working Group ceased working on the specification in November 2010, citing a lack of independent implementations (i.e. using database system other than SQLite as the backend) as the reason the specification could not move forward to become a W3C Recommendation.”
Nothing is wrong with the existing wikipedia interface. In this case, in the course of making it 'modern', it was made worse (like most 'modern' things).

Please remember from design 101 that line and shape have meaning and can help the user understand the interface.
Why are explicit time stepping schemes the main tool used? Is it because the languages that these models are written in aren't flexible enough, or is there a math reason why dynamic time-stepping isn't better?
During both of your options, how do you think China reacts to a massive US military invasion literally on its border?

Option 1, likely results in the government of Myanmar suddenly possessing dozens of previously unknown SAM batteries that just appeared as well as tens of thousands of troops that just materialized overnight wearing brand new Myanmar uniforms. The US loses thousands of troops and hundreds of billions in hardware. Likely evolves into a full on war with China where hundreds of thousands of people die.

Option 2 results in a full on war with China where hundreds of thousands of people die.

In both these options, China is just driving resources across the border. The us has a logistical nightmare where it has to move troops and resources halfway across the world.
Your elderly Aunt was a packer... someone who needs a step by step "click this spot" list of things to get it done. She doesn't have a mental map of how things fit together, she just wants here list of actions to follow. It's how she got through life.

Programmers are mappers, most people are somewhere in between, but the few packers I worked with would be lost in this ever changing sh*tshow being spewed forth by the valley these days. That's a lot of customers to throw away.
TIL /dev/full

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/full
"Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais" is hilarious. Don't know if it has been translated.

"Android Karenina" is a two-in-one deal.
The point is that there's more overlap than how it looks like on the surface level. E.g. part of what a A.D. 1500 village pastor does is what's done nowadays by psychotherapists and marriage counselors; the role in filling the people's needs is similar even if the processes and regulations are wildly different, just as the processes and regulations of A.D. 1500 shoemaker or surgeon are wildly different than the modern shoe factory worker or surgeon.
Most people don't particularly care how things look, so long as they're reasonably familiar, well-ordered, visually inoffensive, and functional. After that, it's optimizing for performance metrics and ensuring that the client is happy with the aesthetic of the final product.

Client usually wants to emulate some elements of the latest aesthetic trend. Can't blame designers for what's ultimately a fashion trend. Especially when breaking from the trends and convention put you at risk of looking dated or driving away consumers.

Edit: some grammar
I've often wondered if its possible to use a fault line as a waste compactor and recycling centre considering all our "man made" waste comes from this planet?
I'm an engineer at Better.

This past week has been surreal. We went from verge of IPO to trainwreck. Instead of celebrating with my coworkers, I'm trying to help them find new jobs. Some folks on here are saying "it's covid, it has to be done over Zoom". While true, there are so many things that were unnecessarily horrible about it. He didn't have to do it ill prepared in a messy room. He didn't have to offer severance that ends in the middle of the holidays (rumor has it he wanted to offer no severance at all). He didn't have to insinuate that the people who got fired were a bunch of cheats.

Our CEO's mouth and arrogance finally caught up to him. This has been inevitable, ever since the articles last year about his past.

He's a classic brilliant asshole. I personally think the company is really good. At least most of it is. He deserves credit for that.

But he has no idea how to run a tech company or a traditional company of this size. He has failed to build a full executive team. We're a "tech company" without executive product or marketing leadership. The only execs who stick around are the ones who can handle his abusive and erratic behavior. Some of them are really good, but we also have leaders in positions way too big for their capabilities, who owe their position to being favorites.

The strategic mistakes that led to this layoff and the horrible way it was conducted are 100% his fault. What's public is like 5% of the story. If you could see our Blind forum, you'd see how much worse it is. And I'm sure there's plenty that isn't on Blind.

Speaking of which, we found out through the press on Friday that he's been commenting on Blind for months, without fully identifying himself (https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2021/12/03/better-c...).

If the company wants to get back to winning, he's gotta go.
Looks great, doesn't work for me:

* It seems to constrain the width to something even smaller than usual (800px?). I have 6000px of horizontal real estate, and while it would be mad to let text run to that length, the optimum is not what a phone can do. (I've tried to find out what "native" width is here, but I'm getting full-width no-constraint layouts with Firefox (no plugin, not logged in), 800px with the plugin (Chrome, logged in) and something in between (Safari, logged in).

* It hides links I regularly use behind menus (to the discussion page and version history).

I guess 9x% of people never edit Wikipedia and it might make sense to cater to them. But, then again, I'm not sure if it's the best idea to actively hide the fact that they could contribute. I also don't see as much of a difference to the mobile layout that is planned to slowly become default on desktop as well.

Edit: I found the slider to adjust page width. That's thoughtful!
Pi-Hole and uBO are enough by themselves.

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One of the Most Transformative Moments in Our Lives: Why Time Is Betting on NFTs
It does look more like a random walk through the Why's. Most worthwhile problems have multiple Why's, some of which you can do something about, some which you can't. The examples where Five Why's actually works are ones where the person doing it secretly knows what the problem is, and just picks a path that will terminate on their desired problem, I guess.

But could there still be some value to this sort of exercise? At least it terminates at something. If it is possible to get rid of that convenient or culturally acceptable blame attractor, at least one problem has be exorcised from the organization, right?
I would love to learn more about which precedents are relevant to this case.
So they claim that somehow by sticking a bunch of plastic stakes into the ground they create " a natural “particle accelerator” " of positrons that transmute the radioactive isotopes into safe particles? Sure... This whole thing reads like some crank selling snake oil.
Rules are great for when us non-pros make something that looks bad, but we don't exactly know why, we just know we made something we aren't happy with.

I mostly like skeuomorphic designs, so I'll definitely keep this one in mind next time something looks off.
> Why would I look at just their trading revenue?

Why should you? Suppose you did a bad. Let's it was a side hustle where you took refurbished ipads and resold them as brand-new ipads. Over the past year you made $2000 in profit from doing so. The cops caught you doing it and fined you $10k. That sounds like a pretty serious penalty. However, you're also a bay area software engineer making $400k total comp, so $10k is a drop in the bucket. Should they fine you $200k instead, just because you happen to be a software engineer?
I think you mean from Qt4 to Qt5.

When I first started writing Python apps using Pyside/Qt4, it was just before the transition to Pyside2/Qt5.

I put off moving my Captain's Log app from one to the other until I couldn't put it off any longer. Then, it seems only a year or less, we have Qt6 now.
> Natural eruption would considerably reduce man made CO2 emmisions in near future.

I imagine this is technically accurate, as an eruption of for example Yellowstone would utterly destroy most human civilization in North America.
Or don't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...
I'm sorry what ?
You should really be free to speak your mind about your employer (or really anything else) at any time.
It turns out, employers don't like that and add close in contracts to silence their employees.

This happens in every field, even in "tech", even though organised labor could absolutely leverage the insane demand for qualified worker to get a better deal, but I guess that's being a largely depoliticized and generally ignorant workforce for you : you get less.

Anyway you are released from any and all restrictions on your free speech the micro-second your contract doesn't specify it anymore.

If your previous employer sucked, feel free to say it if you want to.
The gag order you sign in your contract regarding bad mouthing your employer has nothing to do with professionalism, and everything to do with a power equilibrium between employers and employees.
You really need to know your Russian history to really appreciate and get Master and Margherita. You probably know enough to read Animal Farm but M+M is Russian, capital R.
The genocide has popular support. They don't need any weapons at all to carry out this genocide since it's the peoples wish. If you think setting up puppet government is a path to success you haven't been paying attention to the last 80 years of us history.
All fixed thank you! This was a data collection error – looks like one of our data vendors sent us very incorrect data.

(Sent from a new acc because my account is on noprocast)
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