skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm far from perfect as a manager, but I've always worked to help employees working for me evaluate their career options inside and outside our company. I've had open conversations with my bosses about what my goals, skills, limits, etc. were. Many times, I've "saved" employees (from quitting) by helping them see a better path here than they expected was possible. Other times, I've said "holy crap, that sounds amazing and, even though I really value having you work here, I have to advise you that I'd make the jump if I was in your shoes." I've told my boss when (and why) I was interviewing for other roles. I've also told them when I've been totally satisfied and not intending to look for a while.

I could work for a boss that I couldn't trust with that data, but I much prefer working for one that I can and I try to be the one that my directs can trust with it.
There is incentive to discover but not to share.
I’m pretty sure you’re about to be fired. You should give your notice as soon as possible and immediately look for a new position. Getting fired should normally not come as a surprise to you. If it does you’d have to be completely clueless, or there are things going on outside your control. You seem self conscious so the former seems unlikely.
Non-inflationary currencies cannot work as currencies. Period. People will buy them and hold them just because of their non-inflationary nature, distorting and destabilizing their value, making them useless for short-term holding and payments which are the point of a currency.
In many rural parts of the country (say, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, where towns are quite scarce, roads are flat and straight, and there's nothing to hit in between), even grandmotherly drivers regularly exceed 100 MPH just to get there in a reasonable time. I don't want any cars monitoring drivers for conformance to silly laws. The fact that it took us a decade to kill the silly and counterproductive nationally-mandated 55-MPH speed limit should act as proff that the government frequently gets these things wrong. It's important that people have the ability to simply not comply, rather than having their technology force them into it.

If they actually do this, I'm predicting a run on old pre-controlled cars and trucks, and a thriving black market in circumvention technologies!
That's a bad stereotype. It's far more common for autistic people to have the ability to relate emotionally to others cranked up to overwhelming levels (hyper-empathy), which makes them avoid situations that require relating to others out of severe stress it's usually causing on them - leading to other people perceiving them as unempathetic.
Most miners in Almaty are fleeing to Kyrgyzstan now.

They have by far more valuables on hand than any bank. One shipping container farm == few megabucks depending on generation of ASIC miner chips.
With all the sensationalized headlines around flight cancellations I've been looking for actual data on the number of flights cancelled, and really appreciated the graphs and analysis.
Yeah, imagine getting upset when someone with a disease almost defined by being slow on the uptake and honest about it hasn't acquired a cultural change that happened during their adulthood.
> project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long

Yes, this is quite common. The problem is seldom on the performance of developers though, but rather on the misaligned expectations.

Your managers boss is probably stressed out about commitments or promises thy made that cant be met due to such expectations or otherwise really don't like being uncertain about a reality they have little control over. People generally hate uncertainty.

The solution “agile development” came up with wasn't to improve developer performance, or provide better plans, instead the main focus was to tighten feedback loops.

By having frequent “inspect and adapt” cycles with stakeholders two thing happen. First expectations are frequently brought into alignment making it easier to adjust other plans. Second it provides an opportunity change plans, thus providing more control.

It is my experience that stake holders provided with both expectation alignment and control tend to feel safe enough to not worry so much about deadlines and budgets.
It’s less about being unable to access our emotions than our emotions being frequently influenced by sensory (over)stimulation — we learn to ignore them because they often tell us things that aren’t useful.

My main trigger is light — too bright, bad color, too much flicker, all of which can cause me to get “irrationally” angry in a conversation about any mundane topic. I’m not really that passionate about most of the things I get overwhelmed by, so my heightened emotional state because of some sensory stimulus is not useful.

All my anger/sadness tells me is that it’s bright and I need to either put on some sunglasses or turn off the lights. I have learned over time not to blow up at other people about it because it’s not their fault, and they’ll think that I think it is if I have a meltdown in front of them.
It’s not Betelgeuse fyi
Cuba is equivalent to NK? Doesn't Cuba mostly incarcerate journalists, while in NK people are publicly executed for importing Squid Game?
That's a good reason to vote better and political activism. Crypto currencies are in no way a solution to the scenario you describe.
I think your last statement indicates how bad that feedback session reflects, not on you, but on the “boss”. On the one hand, we all have bad moments, that might have been theirs, which sounds pretty terrible though, especially in context of you having limited experience. On the other hand, while if you discuss he/she would probably apologise, it sounds exactly like the kind of boss that will throw you under the bus when the going gets tough.

Early days. One of the key things you get with experience is the cold blood to wait some things out and to not let minor or major incidents get under your skin. If/when this becomes a pattern assess it against the rest of your experience and decide on your best path forward.
In the case of DNSSEC keys are distributed with the zone, so the trust anchor is the DNS root. Of course, your parent zone could lie about your keys (just like it could lie about your other records), but don't you think since DNS is already an attractive attack vector (as it can vouch for CAs to publish a trusted certificate), relying on it exclusively for certificate distribution would reduce the overall attack surface?

I'm not saying no trusted parties is the end goal (though Tor's onion or the GNU Name System work in this area), but maybe giving dozens of corporations/institutes the power to impersonate your server (from a client UX perspective) isn't the best we can do.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830060
It's unlikely the big boss treats anybody differently. Eventually that kind of toxicity eats away at the org. People saying not to worry perhaps haven't worked with people like this. Always be ready to make a move.
I'm skeptical of this story as well. Not that I don't believe in this kind of thing. But its a bit hmmm
Ask HN: Is HN Comment Pagination In?
I started seeing links like `15 more comments...` at the end of large comment sections. I know @dang always posted a pinned comment telling us that pagination will be in soon. Is this it?
The Boss's quarrel is with your manager, not with you. A pleasant and professional "I'm working at the direction of my manager" is warranted.
> Your boss is gaslighting & intimidating you.

Yep. And it won't be the last time. There are a lot of people who deliberately manage this way - in fact, a lot of times they're promoted to management because they act this way. For the most part, it's bluster and you can ignore it. It's really, really hard to find programmers and, no matter how good a programmer they found, the next one won't be as capable as you because he/she will need to spend time coming up to speed on the codebase as well as the rest of the company.

That is assuming of course, that you're actually doing the best work you're capable of. If you really are slacking off unreasonably, stop - but if you're not, then there's not much else you can do except be fatalistic about this job and take comfort in the fact that in our business, jobs are easy to come by.
"The government is simply the most powerful violent group."

100% right. But let's not lie to ourselves that this is also morally right.

You may kid yourself that you are freely doing something meaningful when you vote to be governed by someone else, but the reality is that is based in fear (of others or the government).

You don't in fact need governance when you meet family members for social occasions. This natural behaviour can scale up.

But no, I don't think we are heading towards freedom. I think government is too powerful. Government would create the anarchic situations to allow for the strong paternal government response. In fact, this is how it has so much power now! It creates the objects of fear, and proposes a responses that just happen to require more from its citizens. More money, more control, etc. Its a one-way street.

Unfortunately, you cannot comply your way out of tyranny - so we are heading towards greater slavery and greater governmental control. This is because people are unable to take responsibility for their decisions - they don't even know what right and wrong are ffs. (Do not do unto others..)
> I see the part about trackers, what about ads? Doe sit also block YouTube ads?

Ads are the way the internet can be funded. For most free sites, they need to either be subsidized by another income (see say a personal website that you host yourself - you pay for the domain and hosting if it's not local). Or by either selling a product (see many software companies), or lastly by using ads (see YouTube, Vimeo, and numerous other video sharing sites)

I understand targeted ads being a nuisance and vehemently despise the datamining that supports said systems. But ads in general aren't an evil until they obfuscate the core material of a site. When you block ads, especially on YouTube for creators who use the platform to attract ads and sell their content then you prevent people who've worked to supply their income. If your issue is the ethics that are at odds with Alphabet and the privacy concerns, your fight is with your government to restrict them, Alphabet's own trackers (which you can work towards disabling).
"Steel can be made carbon free, but so far it's all made in a blast furnace with a lot of coal."

Most (think I'd heard 75-80%) of it is made in electric arc furnaces from scrap steel these days. This is a big factor in the Rust Belt's decline and Nucor's (and China's) advance: we made enough steel that now we have surplus scrap, and it's cheaper to melt it down and reform it than to dig more iron ore out of the ground and make steel in blast furnaces.

I thought aluminum production was also largely in electric arc furnaces, and the main CO2 contribution was generating the electricity used for it.

Edit: apparently it's about 70% of steel in the U.S. is produced by electric arc furnaces, and they produce about 85% less CO2 than blast furnaces. Aluminum is produced in electric arc furnaces, but with carbon electrodes, which release about 1/2 lb of CO2 for every pound of aluminum.
Definitely - I guess my biggest takeaway with my post is... keep size in mind (in terms of vuln surface area) - but don't let it become a time sink.

In the quest of the smallest image possible, one can bring about many unwarranted problems.
lets do a bad thing because other things are bad and we do them isn't wisdom.
Why not? I don't think that's an issue if the actual data is already sitting on a third-party cloud in some middle-of-nowhere undisclosed location or being transited through various other cloud services, right?
Looks like we've found another one!
Nobody owes more money than the rich. This is true of countries as well.

“Wealth” as most people think of it comes from power over money more than from the absolute value of net worth.

I had a lot of credit card debt in University. I was the richest person my friends knew. That money gave me access to people and opportunities I would not have had otherwise. Today, I owe a million dollars ( mostly mortgage ) but am considered quite well off I think. Don’t get me wrong, I am far from wealthy but I am probably the “richest” person in my family.

In University I used to joke that if you gave $50,000 to a penniless man with nothing, he would have $50,000 ( be doing pretty well ) whereas if you gave it to me I would be broke and it would not change my life at all. Today, I guess it would be several hundred thousand instead but otherwise still totally true.

If your average Latin American country was able to borrow as much per person as the US owes, they could build roads and factories and hospitals and universities and chip foundries and be instantly wealthy. The only problem is who is going to lend it to them?

Wealth is not what we think it is.
>So I think I will not respond to this thread again.

Ok, you won't be missed (nor remembered), pathetic leftist gate-keeper of the word anarchism. Hopefully you find a True Scotsman worthy of the title.
I'm reminded of what I'm going to call a poem, but which isn't a poem, but more of a long saying. I can't remember the exact wording (if someone remembers and has the link, please link it!) but roughly:

If you tested your program, congratulations. Your program is now tested, incorrectly.

If you tested your program, and verified that the tests are correct, congratulations. Your program is now verified to do the wrong thing, correctly.

It has at least two other lines which I can't even think of the paraphrasing for.
Agreed, being able to trust it is probably what I want in order to use it at my job to get shit done - being able to understand it/implement it is what I want to do on my own time.

Unless you're one of the rare group who gets paid to implement it in x language/library/technology, it's more of a mental exercise than anything, something nice to go "ahhh cool!" when you understand it, then move on.
> end result was him getting promoted even higher.

because of course it was :(
> The people who own `.` can simply issue public orders to the people who own `org.`. They can set policies, demand payment, demand the removal of hosts, and so on.

Maybe i've missed a few episodes in the DNS wars saga. Do you have a few links on this topic? I wasn't aware that ICANN felt powerful enough to threaten to take entire TLDs off the root zone.
the weird part is these surveys undershoot by 20-30%, so HR gets to come up to you and say "we'll based on our extensive research we think this is a good number"
It's hard as a new grad to know how to always be on the same page as your manager, much less your skip-level. But, you've now learned the lesson. While fresh it would be a good time to be a bit humble and even a little contrite. Admit that everyone was not on the same page, and proactively ask for weekly 1:1 with your manager and biweekly/monthly with your skip-level. They are there to help grow you in your young career.

Also, maybe go on an interview or two. Can't hurt to have the confidence that other offers are possible if this goes further south.
You called in sick yesterday and went to the beach with your buddies? I'm glad you did! We all need a mental health day once in a while. Being happy actually makes you more productive in the long term.
Why is the plateau unavoidable? Apple has a lot of money, they can hire top talent
In the far distant future, supertypers will use prescience to achieve 10000WPM, like guild navigators
Was this a tech company?

I just tightened up the intro explaining whom this post is meant for, and assumed that high-demand industries would be pretty immune to this kind of insanity
Huh, that's super interesting. Well, VSCode, for me, at least, uses way more memory than Obsidian. I believe you that it's faster, I'm just very confused (and curious) as to why...
The average citizen doesn't know wilderness survival because they don't need it to survive and thrive. Throw a dumb 18 year old into the army and they will probably learn it just fine.

Learning to read takes way more time and energy than learning to use crypto behind a VPN, but we do it in part because it makes us successful. Basically every child learns this complex task. It actually turns out that just spending time to practice a procedural task is a perfect substitute for intelligence, for many many tasks. I think obfuscating traffic is one of those where maybe some people will take a lot longer than others but almost everyone could learn. If VPN or tor becomes a critical component to someones livelihood they will learn to do it or someone will profit from dumbing it down enough that they're able to.
A lot of "Kazakhstani pools" are not in Kazakhstan physically, but are just people who buy their shipping container miner farms.
Yes, coaching your bosses is something that most people completely overlook as an option. After all they are bosses, and you don't question the boss!

But once you spend some time in the industry you've seen enough that you can recognize the mistakes of your superiors, and you feel comfortable enough to point them out. Because what are they going to do, fire you? Better to be fired by a stubborn boss who refuses to learn than to work under one, I'd say.
It is a very interesting book, which I just so happen to have read last week. Also I live only 15 miles from where he farms in North Dakota.

I just wanted to mention (based on the book only, I don't know that much about him otherwise but would like to tour his operation this summer) that his approach is so much more than no-till, which itself I would say is fairly well known. An insane variety of cover crops, livestock grazing, and business strategy (his son and direct to consumer aspects) are the most interesting parts of what he does.
It looks more comfortable to type on than a traditional keyboard. That to me is more important than the speed improvements.
Oh, it's obviously true. I have a lot of experience with "high-functioning" autistic people, and the rationality is like the most obvious thing to me. Or maybe #2 after sensory overload.
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Dude, I think you might be a little obsessed with violence. We are talking about open source software. I have no idea where you are going with this.
Chill out. Let the nerds have their math money and live and let live.
I don't support the idea, just wondering out loud.

But I agree, it's lose-lose situation. Just hard to imagine it could be worse than what we have going on now.
It sounds like you are taking flack for your manager's performance. You will take the flack rather than her for reasons. You'll figure it why eventually, I'm sure. If I were you I wouldn't put myself in this situation again.
It seems very rational to me to stop reading once I see how the author tries to instrumentalize the medical condition of a "famous" child.
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I'm sure the HN collective have seen some particularly interesting and educational moments in recruiting. I'd love to avoid making mistakes and learn how to make better selections.

I'll post mine as a comment.
INS?
this is like some kind of reverse occam's razor argument but i feel like your point is blunted by the fact that there are lots of companies making tons of money off of viagra derivatives.
> On the second point, I can only congratulate you if you manage to keep everything so organised and compartmentalised! It's something I've aspired to but always fallen short of.

If your boss/company values it, you'll do it. If they don't, I don't feel obligated to wrap this up before I leave. Typically, they tend to reward folks who prefer not to write good documentation and rather code features. It shouldn't be up to these folks to fix the problem their manager/company culture has by suddenly writing docs when they have to leave.

I think training someone on work you've done in the last few weeks makes sense. But beyond that - no. If my manager wants me to work solo on a project for months and doesn't want me to train someone until I announce I'm leaving, then it's the manager's headache - not mine.
Actively approach them to start a discussion on how to improve. Propose regular 1:1 with them, let each know you talk to the other so no one feels left out.
Why shouldn't they pay it? Who should?

In the end it is Argentinians who vote or not vote, protest or not protest. I was born in Italy after decades of extreme debt that we pay to this date to our creditors. It is the responsibility of the previous generations in the end and it falls on us.
It's just a bit delayed in relation to John Titor's timeline. On the bright side, we may have time machines after all ;-)
Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that's no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don't think I could have forseen

That's a pretty unfair judgment to pass on your work based on a decision that was almost certainly made at a level far above you.

I don't know if this is mentioned explicitly, but your company sounds small. Here's something I didn't learn until a decade into my career: good managers are expensive. The corollary to this fact is that good management is frequently too expensive for small companies to afford. That means your managers will likely be, at best, inexperienced, or at worst, actively harmful (for example: they don't really want to be managers).

I suspect that your manager is blocking and tackling some of the boss's bullshit. Giving your manager the benefit of the doubt, and assuming that's the case, it sounds like she made the mistake of putting you in a position to receive some unconsidered feedback from the boss without positing herself as a moderating factor.

I don't have great guidance for you here - just context. If the tech challenges are enough to keep you happy, then stay. If it's weighing on your mind, and an honest conversation with your manager (if you trust her that much) doesn't fix it, then leave. (The job market is red hot right now. You'll be A-OK.)

I will say that this situation does remind me how tired I've become of working small cos with lousy management. I've just spent enough of my life dealing with it.
My mom is a nurse and when she worked Gerontology she said the #1 predictor of a bed opening up on their ward was a family member coming in and telling their sick relative that it was, "Okay to let go".

We think we are being kind but it's the kindness of talking someone into jumping off a cliff instead of trying to climb back down.

If you want your family members to have the best chance of coming home, tell them that you are not ready for them to go and that you still need them.
> Affordable

Not really, that’s the main reason why iPhones aren’t very popular outside the US.

I can get 2 good Xiaomi phones for the price of an (outdated) iPhone SE. I’d love to get my parents and grand-parents on iPhones to simplify their life but at that price that’s not happening.
Who says crypto is going to solve "society's issues"? Maybe that is what you like to think that crypto enthusiasts think, but that is not what we actually think.

But I guess such narrative makes it easier for you to defend your position in your own mind.
The embargo has had zero positive effect. Why pointlessly punish the people and strangle their economic livelihood just because you hate the government? We don’t do it to other countries with equally bad or worse governments. After reaching half a century it’s pretty clear it was pointless torture.

And besides, I’m not sure if there’s a single case of such actions truly helping the people. Authoritarians thrive when they can point to another country as their source of economic troubles. America’s greatest success came from endlessly pushing its consumer goods and media at other countries.
Would you leave your own children in the wilderness to die in case they were born sick or deformed?