skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more appalled by the need to lousily tape this 72pt Calibri label on what is indubitably an intercom at the entrance of an "intelligence" agency:

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/11/st...
It’s funny that you could ask the same question to anyone living in San Francisco, particularly Tenderloin.
New sales pitch:

It stops 5G _and_ kills cancer cells.
I went to the army and spent many days at an outdoor range shooting at targets with an automatic rifle. I was a pretty solid shooter and earned some medals. Yet I fail to see where is the "cool" part. Shooting is just another skill you practice in order to kill.
> I’m reasonably sure I would have avoided that based on the uncompressed
I'm not so sure I would have.

If I'm driving at 120km/h , at night, chances are I'm also tiered and reacting that quickly at that speed with limited vision would have been a coin toss for me.

I'm all for making these cars safer but we are watching that video, knowing the truck would be there but fail to consider all the extra context around it. I think accidents can and will happen with self driving cars, no matter what we do.
I don't really want to get into an item by item argument. Rather I'll ask, what do you propose that is the essential missing feature you seek that is not already covered by one of the many available options out there?

At the moment, for me I would pay nothing as there are lots of editor options that I already use and already fill my needs.
Have you considered if much of this is due to debt-based currency?
If people hold valuable fungible tokens, it becomes possible to make collateralized loan products and even synthetic stable tokens such as DAI.
Strange, my many searches didn't find it. I stand corrected.
The queue can be WSJF-t and still be long. Crux of the problem is OPs issue might not be as important as OP thinks.

Now if there are too many people waiting on the central team and all requests are valid the company should address the single point of failure. Grow the central team, train more externals to become contributors or agree to have duplication to a certain agree. Not everything is worth a platform with today's tools and (SaaS) services.
Curious about the wording of this title, is there code you could write that represents each of the quadrillion mainframes on your laptop.
> They still need to hire.

But they don't need to hire in NYC, and companies look at other regulations when deciding head count.

For example, you'll see a lot of startups freeze hiring at employee #49, since in the US (and other countries), there's a ton of HR requirements that kick in, including submitting IRS documents on magnetic tape.

One of Netscape's early advantages was that since they knew they would hire thousands of people, they skipped over all of the entry-level HR systems and started with enterprise-level systems. It was controversial at the time, but turned out to be the correct decision (the first exec was from SGI, so knew what growth looked like.)
Echoing other comments, your company was acquired. The way you're used to doing things sounds like it's quite different from how the new owners do things.

I can't make any sort of judgment call on which is or isn't "better" based on a brief HN post, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that it pays to be adaptable and to scout out the post-acquisition lay of the land before you let it affect you too much.

You don't want to create an impression of being a "difficult" employee "left over" from the acquired company, as unjust or unfair as that may seem.
We’re blaming the wrong things for San Francisco retail theft
The judgment, however, is that while one is not the same priority any longer, one's priorities are necessarily devalued, due to the a competition for resources, namely, time. I see the common explanation here is to just shrug at the state of affairs. Is this the best management can do? I can see why Fortune 500 companies die now.
Strict ordering and sequential layout allows you to efficiently split the work and process these systems in parallel (or with SIMD).
It's going well! We're inviting a new cohort in early Jan. We've got the app going in Flatpak and that lets us target a lot more distros. Hoping to ramp up invites pretty quickly if things go well.
>>If professional means

>It means that a dot in the upper right hand corner makes the function "unusable".

I'm pretty sure professional has nothing to do with dots in the corner. There's really not much to defend about this change, and this change really reduces the utility of macbooks for many people who derive their income from work using that macbook. Hopefully, apple gets the message from users and fixes it.
I think you're the only person talking about vaccines here?
Then they can do it like the LHC. Each country contributes, but it happens to physically located in one member country. Either EU feels like it is strategically important to not be dependent, or it's not. By your response, it is clear it is not an important agenda item.
Without regard to the actual conclusion, I don't one should necessarily apply lessons learned in sensible languages to this abominable offspring of German and French that we, for some reason, use.
All positions are now unique use a guid designation and have the same minimum as maximum are immutable. To change salary the position will be retired and a new one will take its place.
It's not a strawman, it's a direct response to grandparent comment in this thread, who said:

> getting the $100k worth of stocks a year is at least as good as just getting the cash

I am arguing that getting $100k worth of cash is always at least as good as getting $100k worth of stocks. You're saying that it's not realistic to have the option to get cash instead of stocks, and that's true but it's besides the point.
Just leave and get a job at another startup. Some people are desk jockeys and some people are field agents
> If something urgent & important

Who said OP's task was particularly urgent or important? Maybe it's getting pushed down the list because they don't have a prioritization problem. We don't know - all we have is OP's (limited) perspective.
exactly this. once you have paying customers you don't want them to grow to hate you and look for an alternative.

So don't break stuff. If you are google or aws then fine do what you want. There will always be another customer along soon.

but YOU are not google or aws.
> I know for sure that it's possible to be highly productive at a large company with a lot of bureaucracy -- but I also know for sure that new employees who try to bypass process and question the priorities of other teams, before they learn the ropes and build credibility and trust with other people, do not succeed.

This is 100% correct. It takes time to find the people who can help you get things done and also time to build relationships with them. As others have mentioned, jobs (depending on the job of course) that one person can handle easily in a small company may take the coordination of multiple departments at a large company. For this reason you have to take the time to grow these relationships with those around you and in other departments. With time you'll find friends that will gladly help you accomplish the task you are looking to do!
Yes. Quit. Join a startup (we're hiring).
A good deal of US banking legislation came into being in response to various crises. Like the Federal Reserve Act in response to the Panic of 1907. It's pretty normal.

A lot of this legislation exists to provide buffers to protect people from all kinds of situations. That's why we have legislation and regulation.
> unsafePerformIO (printLn ...)

This repetitive talking point is getting boring. Go figure whether it's tracked now:

{-# LANGUAGE Safe #-}
-distrust-all-packages

> What meaningful information does this signature says to me? That it does some IO? That's an extremely useless information, especially if most of your code is IO something.

That's an extremely narrow view which you wouldn't have if you ever tried to implement a safe sandboxed environment.

> What granularity does IO have? Does [...] throws any exceptions? Maybe, maybe not.

what does it have to do with tracked parallel mutations?

> Neither is prudent in real world, neither gives more value than takes

define prudent and define real-world.

> It doesn't matter if it allocates or logs

have you heard about referential transparency? It's the thing your "theorem prover" example does not have.
Not a fan, its trying too hard to look like OSX. If you like OSX, just go use the real thing.

See also this clip by Chad, I mean Nick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUIKdIY7Y8
so much irony
Agreed, I am amazed at how often I hear of a few million rows being considered a large table.
Jack Dorsey caused an uproar with a bizarre Web3 Twitter rant
Efficient carbon capture and sequestration.

Ubiquitous renewable energy.

Privacy.
A standard dvb dongle with tsduck to extract specifically the teletext pid should do the trick.
You can also use tsduck and hides modulator to inject your own teletext to your tv. Or you could use it to inject a HbbTV web page and do whatever you want. Like including a teletext JS emulator.
It's a nice filter, but not a glitch. True glitch should unpredictably damage data or device. The point is to seek aesthetics in malfunction. The generator mentioned in other comments https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/ looks more authentic.
I don’t think an account is actually required for UniFi, although it’s the default route. It enables remote management, which is an nice feature for techies helping parents with wifi problems.
Could you elaborate? The point of it is to asperse what exactly? What is the point of view that someone is attempting to socialize? That people should not care about privacy if they have nothing to hide?

So Big Brother has a bot create a post like this to make people think that other people want less privacy? Why wouldn't a bot just post something pre-written by an actual human instead of some weird collage of robotic-sounding sentiments like, "I look forward to bringing solutions to the US government"? That is not something a human would actually say. It it supposed to look like it was translated from another language? Is it just to waste our time trying to decipher it?
Although to be fair, while this has been super annoying, they are slowly getting there with recent releases. It definitely has the new product manager 'start from scratch clean slate' vs 'inherited mess' while co-existing vibes. Once they have hit parity, the cadence of this new team's releases should turn into a feature because they are consistently releasing updates/fixes way differently to previous management.

I still hate that the iOS Protect UX/UI has never used their own app beyond 9-5, as dark mode was removed and the interface is PURE WHITE. The iOS Network UX/UI designer has clearly used their app at night, hence a dark mode existing.
Setting up teams for inner source work can be done and tends to earn itself back, but most teams aren’t set up for this. Typical solutions for the issues you mention: trusted committers to review and merge work without having that role burden the whole team, contribution guidelines to set standards, 30 day warranty to avoid getting code dumped in their lap that’s broken but also avoid having too many owners of parts of the codebase.

Anyway, I would recommend going to the inner source commons website and reading a few of the success stories like paypal’s.
It's also an AT&T building.

It's possible that under it is a Ma Bell logo or something ancient from the long, crazy corporate history of American telecoms.
My favorite $LargeCompany move was a few years ago, when my friends highly compensated (6 figure equivalent) summer intern class didn't get IT's permission for internet access at the company, for 2 weeks.
This seems like a big yet simple feature that Postgresql is missing. I've used this many times in SQL server.

I'm surprised there is not native function. Does anyone know why?
The prime minister announced 2 days ago that the Passe Sanitaire will be changed into a Passe Vaccinal, meaning PCR tests won’t be able to get it.
The problem with crypto is the ownership (edit: maybe I should say authorization to transact) is defined only by the private key.

You may get lucky with KYC, but who in their right mind would gen a collision only to get caught on the cash out?

You're not in control once someone has your pk unless you can mobilize a 51% attack to fix your problem.
> Tell me you never ran a large code base in production, without telling me.

Your post does a good job of that.
Too many fools willing to part with their money. This new generation has not experienced enough financial fear to properly manage their financial risks. In additional social media is promoting rich and luxurious life styles, resulting even in those who can not afford to lose, gambling their life savings.
IMDb Pro does a very good job of this. But you do need the subscription.
Drilling and filling would probably work better.

I guess by the time you got enough thermite in the ground it wouldn't be very efficient.
If you just opened the article, you would have read that it uses the system-provided engine, so WebKit for MacOS and eventually Microsoft-flavoured Chromium for Windows.
Imho they shouldn’t waste resources on a product that no one asked in an already competitive market since they’re not adding anything new.
Why it is not Jerusalema?
To sift through all of the noise, the answer that makes the most sense is 1 word: quit

In your own words it “sucks”. If you don’t want it to, your only real options are to accept the new normal, or find a new job. In organizations of that size it will be a grinding multi-year (decade?) marathon to make any company-wide change.

If you’re an engineer, and have an acquired startup on your resume, you should have no issues finding a new role at another company that has your ideal employee size & culture.

Edit: I don’t mean quit today and walk out. But rather, have a new job be your new primary goal and start the search. This will help you get through the days you have left (you’ll be amazed how much mental relief is provided when dealing with a stressful situation, but then realizing - I don’t have to deal with any of this much longer), while being responsible and not leaving until you have a new gig lined up
In this radio programme (which can be downloaded), three academics discuss A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens was 31 when it was published in 1843; it was an instant bestseller.

Some random discussion points in the programme:

- The conceit of seeing the past, present and the future has an immediately appeal to every reader.

- Scrooge is an unpleasant character, but Dickens doesn't want the reader hate him. Instead, the reader accompanies Scrooge on his journey.

- Is there a bit of Scrooge in all of us (including Dickens)?

- Is Dickens a sentimental writer?

- Is Dickens too wordy a writer? He is prone to excessive adjectives ("Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!"). The guests think it makes the text lively.

- Dickens creates vivid descriptions of 'cut-aways' and 'transitions' - one of the reasons the work transfers so successfully to stage and film.

- Dickens believed people could change. In constrast, fellow novelist Charlotte Brontë did not really believed people's true nature could change (according to one of the guests).
This was built during modernism, when architects developed an allergic reaction to what they considered excessive frivolity in ornamentation.

They did this to the Verizon tower in Lower Manhattan, and arguably I think it looks worse than the old design. https://www.6sqft.com/skyline-blights-ugly-verizon-building-...
You may interested in my comment below. And yes, after helping a family member set up a TP-Link mesh I will do my best not to take part in expanding their coverage again. I'm not affiliated, just a bit psyched about discovering that there exist alternatives. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642616
PCI-E cards with this chip cost about $15 today, and 2.5G Ethernet switches just over $100. Post-gigabit networking has become truly affordable.
I have used Tuple at work, and its pricing was what kept me from using it for personal project and sharing with others outside of work.
DIY Radio Altimeter
Look at all the fatalities and less serious crashes and you should be able to calculate if Teslas are over or under represented in that data. I honestly have no idea if they are or are not.

I think you underestimate how bad human drivers are. In the US, something like 100 people per day are killed in car crashes. Depending on how many Teslas are on the road, seeing a video like this every day may not be that surprising. If bugs in self driving tech kills 10,000 people per year (30 a day) but the overall fatality rate drops from 35k to 25k per year, it could be seen as a win.
The driver from Realtek is GPL2. Maybe the code quality is not good enough for the kernel.

https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-in...
you mean like Vivaldi?
"Cheers" had an interesting solution to a conflict over who should come first, or perhaps more accurately who should not be second. Ted Danson and Shelley Long both wanted top billing.

The solution was to have Shelley Long on the upper right of the first screen with names and to have Ted Danson on the lower left of that screen. The credits were the consecutive screen type, not the long scroll type, so the two names appeared at the same time.

Long would be read first by someone who read down, and Danson would be read first by someone going left to right. The producers were able to convince both Long and Danson that they were not second.

The rest of the main cast each got a screen afterwards with just their name on it.

Here's the credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS0VQOHX7lM

When Long left and Kirstie Alley joined the cast as the new female lead and there was now no question than Danson was the star of the show there were no more special screens. Each main cast member got their own screen, with Danson's being the first shown.

Here's that version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGdpE8Dsr0U
> On Windows you are always an update away from […] news, the weather, advertisements popping up […]

Block msn.com at the DNS level. That removes almost all of these annoying bugware.

I have a bunch of these rules as part of my pihole blacklist, that works surprisingly well. Adding msn to it was really a visible change when using windows.
What’s wrong with Synology Drive?

It’s working just fine for me.
That's a great insight. I wonder if it'd be practical to defer them until after the causal operation was complete

say translating all positions, then calling all of the triggers for the positions component.

that'd keep everything in tight single purpose loops and preserve cache lines.

fair enough that it'd probably make execution order harder to predict, but also in theory it would be in the realm of possibility to generate a plan and print out the order that things would happen in.

(I'm not positing that this is actually worth doing or that the pros out weigh the cons -- just toying with the idea)
I’ve got one of those, it’s pretty nice. Last I checked (multiple years ago) it phoned home to a .cn address by default. I don’t remember the details – please verify for yourself.
You should send this write up directly to the CEO.

You can either quit because working a big company can suck, or you can get moved up the chain of command if you are the type of person who actually cares about this problem and wants to fix it.
>How is it attractive? It looks extremely oppressive.

not really mutually exclusive. More positive description would be that it looks imposing. Also it's in a sense aesthetically honest because it reflects what it does openly, which is rare for surveillance infrastructure and even kind of ironic

I find the opposite to be unattractive, which is this sort of Silicon Valley HQ childish design where surveillance and power is hidden behind rainbow colored ping pong tables and so on
I can buy the part about putting up fences between business people at the tech team. Been there, done that, modernized project management. But the "thank you"s, bonuses and all that? Complete fantasy. :)
McDonald's Forced to Ration Customers' Fries in Japan
I hear you. We're pricey. Just curious – what would a workable price/model been for you?
That's bad, but nothing to do with eminent domain.
Anecdote here. I live in Nigeria, what you'll call a third-world country, and our Covid journey has been funny.

We basically took much precautions earlier in the pandemic but later on reverted to life as usual. Markets, restaurants, offices, et al are wide open and people are going about their lives pre-pandemic, however our Covid rates are relatively low; barely 3,000 deaths from a population of 200 million+ if we're to believe the data from our health agency [1].

More so, we're only about 2% vaccinated [2] (I'm included in this group), but with that quite dire rate, I don't really observe a gloomy pandemic around us. I honestly can't point to anyone in my social circles who died of Covid, but there are a few infections whom all recovered quickly.

I'm still trying to understand why, because my common sense expects that Covid should be dealing with us due to our very low vaccination rate. Are the numbers forged? Are we just ignoring the misery around us? I can't tell but I'm hoping for a scientific explanation. Perhaps, if there's an expert immunologist around here should please give me an opinion, I'm all ears and asking in good faith.

1- https://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng/

2 - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_W...
Isn't that 30 meters one of the dimensions of the surface area that was inspected?

If they actually inspected 30m into the Earth, they'd have plenty of opportunity to kill everything in the way as they did it.
This one made me LOL:

My mistake on SunOS (with OpenWindows) was to try and clean up all the
'.*' directories in /tmp. Obviously "rm -rf /tmp/*" missed these, so I
was very careful and made sure I was in /tmp and then executed
"rm -rf ./.*".

I will never do this again. If I am in any doubt as to how a wildcard
will expand I will echo it first.

I read this, and just had to go try it because I couldn't picture it in my brain. Here it is:

$ echo ./.*
./. ./..

So if you're in /tmp/ and do 'rm -rf ./.*', it's

rm -rf ./. ./..

and ./.. is .. which from tmp is /. Thankfully we have protections against this now. Back then, not so much.
Do they publish source code or binary drivers? If it's the latter, the article points at why they might not want their competitors to read their source code: the drivers matter a lot, and starting from theirs might well cut the development costs for a competing product in half.
Mmm…maybe. Same was said about Japan in the 1980s. Let’s look again and 25 years and see.

USSR had enormous growth in the early years (well, after adopting the NEP) all through the rural electrification period and were favorably contrasted with the 1930s depression in the west. It didn’t work out though in the long term.
There are no restrictions, and you're free to evaluate the software for however long you need.

You're expected to purchase a license if you continue to use the software.

They're just asking nicely instead of crippling their software after an arbitrary time limit.
Must be running on a NeXT 486.