skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article's comment to that "But if you have a crap manager it’s better to find that out clearly, and early" is, frankly, ridiculous - discussing your potential quitting is not the way how one would "find out early" that they have a crap manager - presumably they would already know very well at that point, and this would likely be a big part of why they're quitting.
> I'm perfectly fine with a substitute) is very useful to distinguish people with minor social and emotional functional differences -- those people who are, for example, able to hold down a tech job and post about autistic politics to Hacker News -- from highly impaired people such as my daughter who will never hold a job and whose verbal skills are at a three year old level.

There are plenty of people who the diagnosis of Asperger's who will never hold down a job. I'd hardly consider it "minor" even if it is relative to your daughter.
This was neat.

I spent 3 years in Keflavik, Iceland in the 90's when I was a kid and my dad was in the Navy. I remember winter getting only a few hours of daylight where the sun would merely peek over the horizon for part of the afternoon. Looking at Iceland through this map, I was able to tell that some parts have hills to their south and during winter, they'll never leave the shadows.

Of course, go just a little more North, and during the summer, the sun never sets. It just circles the horizon.
I shared 3 definitions of freedom. You're welcome to yours.

But that sounds like optimizing a society for reckless individual expressionism that the government looks the other way on, vs ensuring that every human being in society has their basic needs met despite their race, gender, gender expression, socioeconomic class, diablement, or mental health.

Is it freedom if you can shoot guns at a barrel in your back yard without getting prosecuted, but can also be legally fired from your job and not have a house rented to you, solely for being trans?
I did some analysis on this last week [https://noxville.medium.com/raising-the-wordle-first-guess-b...], ROATE left the lowest average valid answers (60.424) but 195 in the worst case. RAISE was the second best average (61.0) but a much better worst case of 168 words. Both are just heuristics, there might be a better word than either if the game were solved.
HN are out of date boomers
It sucks that people can't purchase GPUs to fill real needs because an illicit need for has been found for them instead. We now have an actual value lost in our civilization so that people can be separated from their money in an investing facade. I wish the pump and dumpers would move back into penny stocks and not waste electricity and GPUs.
"Code monkey think maybe manager wanna write Goddamn login page himself..."

You are right to feel bummed out. However much you may like your manager's boss, I don't feel he addressed his concerns in a constructive manner. Not only was berating you about your past mistakes a tone that is not conducive to future progress, but he failed to take your youth and relative inexperience into account. If there's a way of working he wants you to do and you're not doing it without prompting... that's understandable because you are fresh out of college. When you get to be my age, it's a whole lot less understandable.

Maybe you should talk with your manager about it. Sit down and say, look. I like working here, and I want to do better, and I think there are ways we can improve the quality of feedback we're getting. And just, hash it out, maybe put together a list, and then go to your boss with it.

I dunno, maybe it's not that kind of place, though. Read the room.
Thanks-- I've had dang reply to @ references before, but it's useful to know there are more direct ways of dealing with this.

I very rarely even downvote a comment, especially if I merely disagree with it, but this...
It effects ~50,000 people per year (in the US). It fails a couple.

I guess there is a lot to account for when you start talking about preventative vaccination instead of post exposure vaccination.
Well, you should have offer before you put your notice. I usually wait until I have the new contract signed. But the notice should not be a surprise to anybody.

I tell my boss that I am actively searching, don't yet have an offer or a concrete date. I also tell him not to worry and reassure I will try to give him as much notice as possible and will cooperate to close whatever projects we can close and do necessary transfers gracefully.

This lets him plan some things like grooming my replacement or put more emphasis on closing projects rather than starting new ones. Which is additional benefit for me because there aren't many things worse for me than working on a project that I know I will never be able to finish.

Also here in Poland notice period is 1 month minimum. Since it is calendar month it can even be almost two months. But I also work as tech lead which means there is way more projects I am involved in and way more technical stuff to pass.

I try as much as I can not to be a bus factor 1 employee but somehow there is always a bunch of things that people realise would like to get done before I leave because they know otherwise they will have to wait forever for them.
I agree.

Here's what GPT3 had to say when I set temperature to 0.

Q: Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?
A: No.

With temperature 0.7:

A: Yes, because there is a banister.

This one surprised me. Given that temperature was 0, I usually expect a solid response:

Q: Why is there a correlation between the number of times Trump tweets the word great and the high temperature in Pyongyang three days later?
A: Because Trump is Kim Jong Un's air conditioner.
As a flute player who has experienced my right pinky locking up after passages involving moving between the footjoint keys, you're right to be concerned.
Most people agree with new pronouns etc due to peer pressure. You haven't convinced them rationally, rather you convince them that it costs more to fight the movement than just fall in line. But a person who needs rational reasons to change how they speak will be much harder to "convince", since they wont change anything until they fully buy into the new.

The peer pressured group might think they did properly think it through, but mostly all you need is an appeal to authority and they fall in line.
Accordingly to Cuban government or reliable sources?
Fun fact:

The more elaborate portions of System V IPC trace their origins to "Columbus UNIX" that was developed so a database could run on the platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_UNIX
I'd rather have it grown locally than like coffee or cocoa beans where entire country-sized economies are devastated by US megacorps (see the reasons why we need fair trade), not to mention what they do to the environment.
I read something about how Amazon was accidentally firing people in their warehouses due to an automated system. And the HR people in the warehouse didn't have the power to override it.
That's the current situation.

When they say, "nobody knows" it means that nobody who does know is talking.
you can plot things any way you wish, but the people who invented and named learning curves plotted them so that "a lot of learning" was steep.
What is the downside of mandating this?

I can't think of a way this law could be implemented in a way that hurts anyone besides businesses that want to unfairly underpay a portion of an equally qualified cohort of workers.
I'm with you 100% here.

It's unclear how often Googhomes receive updates, but at the beginning in 2019 my 9 Mini's worked great! But now for multiple speakers they are laggy and unreliable, sometimes just ending up in a neverending ding loop.

Unfortunate to buy a product such as this and have functionality and experience quality steadily decline thereafter.

Initially I was a huge fan and in love with the product.

Perhaps I should've known better, since Big-G isn't exactly known for long-term support of anything unless it still makes them torrents of money.

Sonos are in a similar boat, buy an older controller and the app will constantly nag you to upgrade, but not allow you to upgrade because the controller is "too old and no longer compatible".
This is not true though. Communism isn't about communal ownership of all things, it's specifically about ownership of the means of production. Communism doesn't preclude ownership of personal property. You can still own your toothbrush under communist philosophy. However what you can't own is the steel plant. You can't own the roads. You can't own the Internet. You can't own the school system. You can't own the healthcare system. If it benefits society, society owns it.

You don't need an all-powerful totalitarian government to enforce that kind of ownership; the people can do it on their own. Owners of steel mills need workers to work the steel mills. Without workers, their steel mill is worthless. Without private ownership of a steel mill, the still mill is still valuable as long as it has workers. Under communist philosophy, the government doesn't need to use authoritarian powers to enforce communal ownership of steel mills, because no one wants to own a steel mill that has no steel workers. Therefore, workers have the ultimate power under this philosophy.
Do you have evidence the BlM organizers were behind the violence or intended it to occur? What percent of the many nationwide protests was it that the BLM organizers of the protests intending that to occur? Oh you’re criticizing me on data but didn’t provide the relevant statistics for your comments points. What’s more, the point I was making is that white nationalists were involved to show it was more complicated than the original poster assumed, that only takes one example. Aside from that, where were the objections to the original comments data-less claims?

I see there was no comment on the trend of anti-blm views giving cops a pass on bad behavior rather than judging them similarly.
You are conflating the organization of human activity with the most dominant form of organization today.
Capitalism made all of these things happen today. 50,000 years ago, were equivalent behaviors organized in a similar way? I don't think so.
And to think that the space of human behavior is significantly different than it was 50,000 years ago is misguided, in my opinion.
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While not the same as the full mechanism for reproduction. The cultivation section of the relevant Wikipedia article claims that there was significant large scale cultivation of the truffle in France at the end of the 19th century -- and that many of the techniques were later lost.
The problem is that they are even displaying the year. What a pointless piece of information.
Solana had over 2 billion dollars of volume transacted today. Pretty big experiment.
Because they're looking for some reality-based reason for its value, so as to judge whether it's currently over or under-valued and can rate, like with stocks listed on the NYSE, whether it's time to buy, hold, or sell. There are exceptions in the market eg Tesla, with it's P/E of ~200, or GME and the WSB nonsense, but most other stocks have a P/E ratio based on fundamentals. Fundamentals that bitcoin utilitarians are looking for in cryptocurrency and are coming up short.
There are two things being confused here. Cuba wouldn't have an auto industry if it wasn't communist, unless it adopted weird protectionist policies- no comparable countries do. Therefore, it relies on imported vehicles. Partly because of the embargo, supply of these is limited- particularly in the case of personal cars, the government had better things to spend limited hard currency reserves on while people could keep the 50s American cars from before the Revolution running (often with the motors replaced with smaller, more modern imported diesels).

However, that 'bus' seems to be a locally modified truck, probably a Soviet-built ZiL-164. There is definitely an argument to be made that the cars and trucks produced under Communism, both in the USSR itself and in client states like East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, weren't as good as their contemporary Western equivalents for all sorts of reasons.
Every province can take invidiual actions for their citizens that the federal government disagrees with. Quebec can do more than the rest.

That's not an argument for restrictive Canadian freedom, that's an argument for INCREASED freedom in Canada for individual provinces (especially Quebec)

"You don't like it -> move" is an argument that doesn't work very well across international borders, but ABSOLUTELY works within a country. If you find Quebec to repressive, move to a different province.
Sonos Wins Big Against Google in ITC Ruling
To be fair, healthcare resources in the US are limited because of lobbying by the AMA which is a doctor's protectionist racket. They limit the medical school slots to keep salaries for doctors artificially elevated - if we deregulated entrance into medical school then we would have enough doctors to go around.

And a lot of the elevated salaries and AMA power actually started during WWII with income caps (where better healthcare was a company perk to attract workers), and got exacerbated with the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s, where Medicare used to cover any procedures, so doctors could get obscenely rich via over-billing. The pullback on that actually caused doctors wages to be stagnant, albeit on an artificially elevated level.

(See Canadian vs US doctor's salaries for ex - which tracked until 1990s but recently diverged quite a bit in favor of US doctors)

Also, foreign trained medical specialists can't practice in the US without re-doing the board exams and residency - another protectionist move to limit doctor supply. There is an argument there that it maintains quality (since you can practically buy medical degrees in certain countries), but I think an easier pathway for foreign medical professionals to practice in the US could still help.

I know all of this since my mother is actually a foreign-trained doctor who re-did residency in the US and has been practicing for 20+ years.
There's also no explanation of why it's more expensive.

My understanding is that nuclear power plants are held to a ridiculously high, ever-changing standard for radiation emissions, which standard is due to the discredited linear-no-threshold theory of harm from radiation exposure.

The "standard" is expressed as "as low as reasonably achievable". Who decides what is reasonable? How is that measured? Fixed objective numerical standards would be much better.

(If LNT held, frequent fliers would fill the cancer wards of all our hospitals.)

Note: I don't particularly like nuclear (PV and iron-air batteres FTW!), but my sense of fair play is offended by the way it's treated.
I like it a lot... One thing tho' you can actually take over the www https://www.lohost.io/
I think this is a pretty normal experience for a new dev. I had a similar thing happen to me after one of my first projects, a guy who I didn’t even realize was my technically my boss pulled into a meeting room and asked me why I took so long. It bummed me out a lot because I thought I had done a good job and in a reasonable time. I got over it though, and apparently they did too; I ended up working there for another 2.5 years before changing jobs because I wanted to move back to my home city.
+1 "the dawn of everything" by Graeber is a lovely, fun, and inspiring read.

it's because Graeber expands thinking on history. who is to say he's right? it's not about that, it's about realizing how much we think we know about history... that we really can't actually know.

filling in the gaps is something people are great at doing. doesn't make it true though.
I just wanted to drop in my phone and that’s on the screen and that’s it…

I’ll handle the rest.
Thanks for posting op.

One idea I'm looking at implementing: Separate RSS feeds per topical-text-file. I keep my own organization of text files on various topics. At the bottom of each file where RSS updates would be helpful, I place an RSS heading, and underneath it I run a snippet that shows recent RSS updates for that topic only.

The upside of this is that you can work around the need for an "information diet" because you're narrowing it down to one specific RSS topic in the first place, and you're getting a simple, topical feed based on a single current interest-of-focus.

Inspired by my current feed reader which has this absolute information-zoo feeling to it. :D

Just an idea but it shouldn't be too hard to get going.
It depends on what you mean by machine learning, but in practice stuff like video game enemy AI generally avoids deep learning for many reasons behind cost or scale. Time, tuning, complexity, and consistency for example are major issues in the real world.

Sure the SCII AI eventually became very strong but it’s also somewhat immersion breaking to see all the odd stuff it ends up doing. And that’s with a well tuned game, in something under active development you end up with a host of other issues.
Oh I didn't even realize they had SMS. I was just thinking I could use push messages instead of SMS.
There's literally a link to a repository of papers in the article: http://techlab.bu.edu/resources/articles/C5.html
Gabe Brown goes a step further than a simple no-till philosophy. He promotes a very dense grazing of cows as well as cover crops which do bring fertilizer back to the soil.

This is the most relevant quote I could find on his website. I can guess that some may quibble over the "chemical" modifier in front of fertilizer, but I remember his book going more into discussing the reduction in fertilizer use, so I'd start there if you are curious.

> The misuse of chemical inputs (pesticides, chemical fertilizer and herbicides) is also detrimental to soil life. For this reason we do not use synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, GMOs, and glyphosate. We are working hard to eliminate the use of herbicide.
http://brownsranch.us/soil-health/
fun fact: all french grapes are grown from american root stock [1,2] due to an infestation in the 1960s. one could argue it is a benefit so that if either country is struck with something like this for truffles, they can share.

--

[1] https://www.alearned.com/wine/

[2] https://gizmodo.com/how-the-great-french-wine-blight-changed...
Which provider did you end up using?
I would tend to favor an approach based on support commitment and distance from the core functionality. Cars are really two products, a pretty mature transportation system and (these days) a low-end entertainment/map system which a cheap Android vendor would be ashamed to ship. They’re used to supporting the mechanical side for ages but software support is much rockier.

If the vendors had to support full functionality on those appliance-like systems at no cost for the 10-20 year service life of the vehicle, it’d just be CarPlay/Android Auto because they know that’s not their strength. “Smart” refrigerators would similarly not be common if they couldn’t orphan it after a year or two.
I'm not suggesting China has been hiding bodies, but with a demographic where diabetes and obesity is almost non-existant, the mortality of covid-19 is very low. You shouldn't see any excess mortality, which means you can hide the true number of cases by lying about cause of death instead.

> An effective containment strategy _is_ possible

Not at any cost I'm comfortable with.
It's impossible to tell from a write up like this.

You could have taken a little project and turned it into something big, not leveraging knowledge and resources, and maybe misinterpreting requirements of it being 'quick and dirty'.

Or - you could have a manager who lacking in perspective, which is entirely common.

To boot: you could be both right, or both wrong as well.

Boss could be needlessly nitpicking, at the same time as he's right about the time required. Maybe he's just in a bad mood, or under pressure, or miscommunication the requirements himself.

It's also very typical of devs to nitpick their own projects and fuss around features they don't really need, corner cases etc. and forget the 'big picture' and take too long.

It's a really, really hard thing to fathom.

I suggest talking to your manager, letting them know that you thought you were doing well enough, that it's a surprise to you, and maybe dig in a bit on the 'actual requirements', make sure that 'timeline' is part of that. Also take a moment to make sure that you're leveraging the right tools and team knowledge, and that you're on board with the internal coding standards, and make sure to ask about communicating - its' important to you that you're doing a good job, so if something is 'off' you want to know right away from your boss. Oddly, if there are weekly updates or something along those lines ... none of this should be a surprise.

Finally: Don's Sweat It.

It's going to be ambiguous like this for the rest of your career, whatever you do.
Try your best to put it into context, roll with it, keep your chin up, move on. If you're even asking questions like this, you're probably going to be ok.
It's unclear if you actually read what you're replying to. I'm obviously responding to the parent I responded to, not the GP. And you apparently missed where the GP referenced a litany of reasons why the guy fired was an undesirable employee, and then "eventually" the women came forward and apparently that was the last straw. Focusing on the women, and completely ignoring everything else, is pretty telling.

Let the downmods begin...
All the unnecessary things Microsoft added to Edge in 2021
Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension
I’ve been working on a salary share site for accountants[0] recently and this is great news. More people need salary transparency. I think the site will be obsolete if every state does this though…

[0]: https://nomorepizzaparties.com
It's also surviviorship bias. He quit his job and it worked out. So what? I can point to my brother-in-law, he's constantly quitting jobs and he's basically broke.
They actually stated 10 months was way too long and cited many reasons. So that's not advice, that's reporting what didn't work well. I think we're all on the same page here 10 months is way too long including TFA.
The difference is you replace your phone every few years so it doesn't matter if parts become obsolete. A car has to work for at least a decade so any tech in it will become problematic later in its life.
Begin to interview on the side. You will be replaced in 3-4 weeks (or earlier).

If someone doesn’t like you, it’s very rare you will get them to change.
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>"You should have used established crypto library calls here instead of rolling your own SHA-256 implementation with probable bugs. Please fix it"

in this case, i would say something like "hey, we need ot[or should] use a cryto library here since it's battle tested, rolling your own crypto might have issues [yadda yadda yadda]".

it makes it feel like it's not a single developer decision, but a team/company wide one.
I used Firefox for 19 years. Just left for Edge in August 2021. They just kept cutting features. I'm not someone that thinks alternate rendering engines are relevant... userbases are, that's where power comes from. I also wanted to move to my native browser, get the benefits of the billion dollars pumped into Chromium, and move to a major vendor for longterm support and advanced features.

That said, in my quest to find a new home, Brave came in a close 2nd. It's the only non-niche browser other than FF that's open source. Open source transparency with a focus on privacy? Everyone should be signing up by default. And the only one of those two built on Chromium, which fighting ~70% of the web on that has become pretty ridiculous. Brave is the only place if you want the best of every world.

I am firmly in the Edge camp, because other things matter to me as well that I won't go on at length here, but Brave is the only other browser I'll be keeping tabs on.

Congrats to Eich and the squad!