skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing you raised has anything to do with this situation which is what we're talking about. Pointing fingers wildly in every direction isn't going to solve this problem. I'll never say the US has a pristine track record, however what they are doing right now, I'm in support of. Even if they haven't acted appropriately in the past.

I can oppose Yemen, I can support Palestine, I can oppose the coup in Guatemala - all while I reject the actions of the Russians in Ukraine. These are not mutually exclusive positions and there is nothing hypocritical about it.
What an incredible project. Does anyone know of any good interviews or written content from the engineers?
>This isn't a factory where you have to solder a set number of devices to meet your target numbers. This isn't an animation studio where you have to animate a certain number of director-approved frames ("footage") a week in order to meet your performance expectations.

Wait you don't have KPIs?
Have you ever tried to pick up seawater with an electromagnet?
> Censorship is part of existing as part of a society though

I suspect that's exactly what Putin would say if he were challenged.
Which somehow is a dream on a few networks.
> I learned it’s better to deprioritize that table and pay the normal amount of attention to everyone else. Better for those all to tip at a standard rate and give them a good experience than to let one group drag down the whole floor.

The correct business response is to petition management to staff more accordingly so that no table has to be de-prioritized (going by the book on customer service)... Also other measures can be taken, like stocking napkin dispensers and condiments on tables so that trivial requests don't over-burden staff.

Applying attention rules to customers is a hallmark of bad customer service environments, while people are already paying a set price on the goods and/or service a restaurant delivers that should be planned for by management properly. A bad customer service environment only serves to ruin business.

If we create rules like this for how to deal with customers, based on assumptions about them, it can also wrongfully reinforce bias and discourage customers from returning which often drives even some of the most popular businesses (Denny's for example) down.

Management too often plays the training tape for employees without reading their own training book properly.
I've followed Petter on YouTube for ~3 years now and really enjoy his work. I think he does a very good job of crash analysis, really level headed, no drama and backed up by his work as an experienced pilot.
Color, what? That looks more like Advance to me. Very nice though.
Libya did have a UNSC resolution, sure. Kosovo didn't. UN involvement aside, NATO has shown a willingness and a capability to carry out military operations on another continent (Africa obviously in the case of Libya).

The only reason people don't label that as offensive military action is because they've bought into view that the US is a benign hegemony.

You may agree that the US is benign. That's not the argument. The argument is that global powers (notably Russia and China let alone anywhere in the Middle East) do not view the US as benign. Now you can say they're wrong but that doesn't matter. Being right or wrong on this is irrelevant.

Failing to account for how other people might not view it this way is a big part of what led to this crisis even though it is still 100% Putin's responsibility in starting an unjustifiable war. This isn't an either-or situation. Even though Putin is 100% wrong, the US can also be wrong.
YMMV, but it's personally entirely the opposite with what I've seen in the design industry, which feels somewhat similar to software in the sense we're both building things.

IC's that I've seen on my end to have a little more latitude to actually design things and have a small amount of independence there, wheras managers are stuck with the 'keep the project going' paperwork, people paperwork, shielding the team from the politics, etc.

(I've personally found a way to sidestep a lot of that, but so many of my previous managers have burned out to the above reasons.)
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The super needy table may not be likely to tip well no matter how much you bend over for them anyway. Though they are unfortunately also the most likely to leave exaggerated (or even half or more completely made up) bad reviews over the smallest detail that they see as having been wrong.
> Good journalism requires context

Almost uncanny how that context always leans in a certain direction, almost like all the MSM were owned by the same people.
Fortunately, for restaurants and perhaps for everything, I don't seem to notice anybody caring about yelp reviews or ratings anymore, and that's been the case (in Austin, Texas where I live, anyway) for years now. I mean, how often do you check on Yelp before deciding to check out a restaurant? I think it's been over a decade since I did such a thing, if I ever did. It may be precisely the tendency you mention, that is the reason people stopped caring about yelp reviews.
> For instance - I disagree with you on the lab leak theory and laptop comments. I understand you feel about them strongly, but I think you are smart and should reconsider the source material for those claims. Further, I feel the way you expressed it was regrettable: "blood on their hands" is unnecessary and inaccurate. You could have phrased that in ways that were more accurate, more effective, and less inflammatory.

Notice what you're doing though. The information content of this is effectively the polite version of "stop being mad and wrong, go read a book."

It contains no actual rebuttal of anything. You present no new facts or reasoning, only an assertion that you disagree which was already implied.
They might be happy that their carbon independence finally becomes a thing and that their doomsday finally reifies. Worsening the sanctions until Russia cuts the gas is exactly aligned with their view of the world, and the worst thing that would happen would be peace.
I've seen this sentiment on twitter a lot, but why is an established person doing a kickstarter considered a cash grab?

Kickstarter is not only a crowd funding platform but also a pre-ordering system, it's mighty convenient, why not use it as such?
Ooh, thank you for the recommendation!
You are focusing on an event. I am talking in much larger scale. I hope that makes sense.
Find a sales co-founder maybe but if it's tough to go on I am sure someone like you will be able to land some really cushy senior dev positions.

Please realise that the infra business is all about managed services. Imo nobody cares about Postgres replication specifically but if you could offer distributed sql with high availability then you might be in the game. Check out Scylla, their founder is also a software guy and pretty technicaly but they also have a sales team. Try to answer why would someone not use Aurora or RDS and what use-cases does your service have. Good luck.
Any evidence that democrats “operate the antifa terrorist network”? There were riots in Portland after Biden was elected, it seems antifa are mostly anarchists and not a fan of the current Democratic Party either.
This is cool. It took me a while to figure out that you want people to click the test button on the sidebar to try it out, not the "Test model" buttons unit tests in the bottom right side. Unit tests might benefit from a different kind of icon. I tried the "Interactive Mode" toggle button too, and that didn't do anything obvious.
Well depends on how you frame the question right? To validate your idea you have to ask the right questions and penetrate all the bias and politeness.

So for example you can ask them this:

"Give me your honest answer. Let's say I had the product ready and finished and perfected right now... would you or would you not buy it from me?"

You really need to drive at this, you don't need to actually "sell" it. Validating an idea isn't a casual thing, but you don't have to go as far as actually selling it.
I don't think you are too cynical. This sort of thing leaves a poor taste in my mouth.
...although it does sound like you found a low-politics way to find out which of your coworkers are worth listening to.
some people are stop-oriented and some are go-oriented.

i realized that there were a lot of the first at a company i worked at when i had a ready-to-go release shut down by legal, pr, and some other group all in the same week. if we were successful, they get nothing, but if we messed up, they would have to stay late.
I have no idea why you are saying that. OHIP still has a waiting period of 3 months.
> I do wonder why the Shortcuts app seems to be reinventing the wheel.

Shortcuts is cross-platform, and so designed from the ground up to work sanely under the limitations of both macOS and iOS.
Sounds like the most likely common element is phone number. You could have been the victim of a SIM swap attack, where the bad actor used your number to do BadStuff(TM) getting your number on a block list. Or, if you got the number recently, it could have a bad reputation attached to it.
The tyranny of the vocal minority. Surely one of the worst unintended consequences of everyone being on the internet
Do you remember all the reporting about russia and trump during this time? Would you call that news fake or not fake?
I agree with you.. I decided to build this clone to test my skills in bubble no code and to see how far i can push bubble.

It was quite easy to do a basic version of tiktok, but as you said the algorithm is a whole another level.

Within bubble this isn't possible at the moment but maybe in the future it will be.

One thing as coming from a programming background i still think no code is so far behind free code.

But so far im impressed with how far no code programs like bubble have become.
> “expresses hostility by being unreasonable and difficult”

Sadly I’ve seen well-intending ASD/Asperger’s folks be
written off as hostile. It’s a tricky balance to build culture of positivity without blocking neurodivergent folks from amplifying a team with their unique gifts.
Being a shit-bag and. a bully just isn't a "war". Arguably the controversy saved most of the legacy media landscape from financial ruin and gave them 4 more years to adjust to some new revenue models, the NYT in particular seems to have figured out how to pivot to a profitable online subscriber model that works. It wasn't clear in mid 2016 that they would be able to do that.

You can make a good case that the guy damaged the discourse and eroded trust in institutions, but news and journalism have flourished in recent years.
Being on HN has shown me one thing, when your accounts get locked or banned (and they will), the only way to get them reopened is to have a REALLY HUGE MEGAPHONE.

That means you either need a social media account with thousands of followers, or manage to write your story up in a way that will get you to the top of a major news source, such as HN.
I don’t think the
Ukrainians would be down with that.

They’re crazy/brave enough to defend their democracy and organize militias to bolster their armed forces and have already taken out a Chechen special forces unit and a Spetznaz Maj Gen.

I’ll let you explain your plan to them.
The thing about funded startups is that their founders have a lot of access to capital. Whether that's through their educational or family connections, (almost) every startup you see starts with someone who can make a few phone calls, have a few meetings, and raise $200k.

Making interesting/important tech isn't usually the way that people get funding. It's more about finding a strong business need and working up a product to meet that need. Here again access matters: if you're not able to call on half a dozen CTO's to tell you about their challenges, you're gonna struggle to meet a need.
Without attention rules you're constantly rewarding people who seek out unneeded attention. You need to give employees an out when they perceive someone is abusing their attentiveness.
That why question sure is haunting isn't it.

For example, I invented a programming language for board games and the #1 question I generally get is "why isn't that a framework".

The hard part in life is learning to embrace your quirks.
Why? Im not interested to answer why our router is not capable of that, and there is no such router in the market.
But on a serious note, some enterprise networks are unsecured enough, that you could probably login to root of their server from anywhere in the world.
So there is ongoing investigation but are there any charges?
Understandable in light of sanctions against Russia. However, this truly sucks for him as an individual, particularly in light of what he had to say about the invasion. The man is truly pained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFN0s53RpGY
There's definitely good reasons to do it, they're just kind of rare to see in a modern digital stack. DC offset is hard to introduce unintentionally and subsonic content is usually removed early in the mix, not on the master (if they aren't, it's arguable a bad mix).
I feel like it is pretty indistinguishable in STS if you lost because you made an incorrect decision somewhere or the run is unwinnable. Something like Zelda or Metroid you can reach a point and the game has some kind of obvious solution or key you need. STS has too many solutions to the problems of what you face and no way to go back and recheck things. The fact that it is almost impossible to find an unsolvable STS seed seems to indicate that their approach is pretty good. Player frustration in STS except for the tiny number of runs indicated in this post is entirely skill based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Highway_3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fillmore_03_Hwy_33.jpg

Flat. Flatter. Flattest. With virtually zero change in elevation there is very little to see but pavement and sky.
This seems pretty common in our field. There will always be people who put down others to try and make themselves look good because that's how every corporate culture is incentivized to run. I have not seen any serious attempts to address core issues like this at any company. HR only reacts to protecting the business, and that means retaliation for speaking up usually, especially if the bad coworker is a boss favorite.

Also, managers will blame you even if you bring up an issue, but it's not slated into the sprint. Then when the issue blows up in production, they'll say you should have worked faster to address it previously when it was noted, or that you should have placed more emphasis on it during the sprint planning when really, the final decision wasn't in your control in the first place. I've seen this happen on my teams in the past.

Tech is just all around toxic, and these things happen quiet frequently at larger companies.
I'm probably wrong about my assumptions, but presume you are open to any kind of constructive feedback, so here it goes...

Maybe you're overkilling with the infra stack.

I would simplify until having a mature product, especially if I'm bootstrapping, which I think is your case.

Right now, you're still a bit far from MVP, from my point of view. Those $200 can probably be reduced by 50%-75% if you compromise on stuff only important to non-alpha services (i.e. 99.99% availability). A single EC2 box should be enough. Maybe look into Postgres or another FOSS instead of BigQuery.

These $100-$150 savings per week can go into promoting your service, getting as much attention as possible to maximize feedback.

Good luck!
I doubt even 10% of the code I've written over the last 15ish years is still in use, anywhere.

I doubt more than a quarter of it ever had an overall positive effect—monetary or otherwise—large enough to justify the cost of writing it.

I've spent probably a third of my career, spread out here and there, working on projects that all the ICs could tell were doomed for super-obvious reasons (clear failure to find product/market fit then doubling down, entering a market very late and with only a few percent of the investment it would take to have a realistic chance at it, that kind of thing)

Then there are vanity projects like a company's annual investor report app. JFC.

Working in tech feels like being a small part of some kind of horrible random input process that feeds the capitalist pyramid above.
I think it's more of the latter. The shapes are not there to help him do arithmetic in a more efficient way. The shapes are there just because that's how numbers are represented in the author's brain.

I experienced similar things growing up. For my case, it was usually colors. Each number was associated with a specific shade of color, but in my case it was less about the numbers themselves; it was more contextual. Eg. The number four represented different colors depending on whether it was describing the time of day, the number of floors on a building, or amount in currency.

I had brought this up in my youth only to be met with derision and threatened with being labeled "abnormal" by the authority figures, so I worked to suppress and hide this aspect. (South Korean society had a lot of backwards ideas in the 90s).
Would love to chat about data tooling!
I'm painfully aware of this type of developer. Usually they really are very smart and talented, which is what allows them to act this way. In my experience, they are initially respected, then they eventually lose that through constant conflict and then leave with a bad reputation.
Plus, you're not getting a decent tip from them no matter how hard you try.
Gotta love how discrimination is so easily spread. Like, this guy has said very many times in public that he doesn’t support the invasion, but he’s Russian, y’know?

It’s sad how humanity just keeps doing the same thing over and over…
This is one of many incidents of government agencies that run amok and often unchecked. If the US public were to be informed of the true scale of the American intelligence apparatus it would destroy the US's public image for decades.
I used to have Viesna (spring) - https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/ussr-tv-vesna-c-276-3d-...

It even had an additional electronic component which made it accept PAL signal, in addition to its native SECAM.

PS: Some say SECAM was technically superior to PAL, but dunno.
How are they treating him considering he's still in the UK?
You are in essence saying that if Russians conquer the whole of Ukraine and put all Ukrainians in a few pockets, Russians are the rightful owners of the place and Ukrainian fighting back after the fact is unprovoked aggression, if enough decades pass without Russia losing control of Ukraine?
Research Intimacy
Nobody cares about Yelp.
How about:
Security groups
Creating load balancers
Creating and managing access to cloudsql vs rds
Gcp internal request limits
Gcp documentation is not task oriented. (How do I “X”)
Getting effective support is impossible.

That looks like at least six important things that are significantly harder on GCP.

Don’t get me wrong, I like GCP. I just hate that they are failing in ways I think are so clear and simple to fix if they’d change their thinking.
Oh also, critical components being alpha/beta and unsupported, but no alternative existing. (I’m think of the kubernetes monitoring thing who’s name I forget)

One thing I HAVE liked is cloudshell, being able to spawn an authenticated shell into any resource without having to figure out access from my location.
There is also pretty nice "James Webb Space Telescope Virtual Experience" in VR:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/891960/WebbVR_The_James_W...
>Some team members output has severely dropped. I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example. Also work and free time has mixed to a point where people just randomly take hour or two to go skiing or for a walk and routinely just quit at the normal time.

Dear god, people enjoying their life. This is the worst. Clearly society can't function unless everyone is miserable.

Have you ever considered that maybe the entire 8 hour work day is bullshit? That it is entirely possible for people to contribute productively within different time-frames?

>I'd argue my Quality of Life has gotten significantly worse especially since they closed gyms. Yes, they are now open, but there is also like a meter of snow outside so I probably won't get to the gym until spring actually starts.

What does this have to do with working from home? What could remote work possibly have to do with your inability to stick to a gym routine?

>I'm sure we will lose some people since they want to be 100% remote and that's fine.

You won't "lose some people". Unless your company has the pay and clout that Google has, your company will be decimated by a wave of people quitting.
> Except productivity has not stayd at the same level. We can clearly see that we've been pushing fewer features per quarter into production.

> assuming that your productivity has dipped do to the pandemic.

Why do you not assume that productivity has dipped due to the pandemic and instead believe it is because people are working remote?
You can try with a function to simplify the cli:

$ rip() { curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode 'q=$@'}

$ rip heartbleed bug
Your comment drives to the crux and puts the issue in context, thanks.

It is the lack of things to look forward to or be excited about that causes and sustains burnout. Be it in the scope of a single project, or career development, or an entire generational legacy, we have lost hope.
This seems like it incentivizes egomania and Putin type behavior and, to skip straight to Godwin's law, seems like the same mindset with Poland and such back in the day, no?

I'm also to really sure why should it be different when Russia decides it wants to invade, say, Estonia? Obviously, they'e in NATO, but so what? Why shouldn't we throw them to the wolves as well? Better that than to risk nuclear war, yeah?
I suggest you first read some of his free stuff available on his website before going in.

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/brandon-sanderson-online-li...
I implemented quick sort in AppleScript many years ago (to see if I could, not because this is a good idea), and it was excruciating. Very much the epitome of read only code :D
I find your answer emblematic of why the war has started and will probably only end after very bad losses for both sides (Ukraine specially, as the theater of war).

You speak as if Ukraine alone had demands to make, despite the fact that its territory is currently occupied and whatever leverage it had before the conflict started, it has lost already.

The only way to stop a conflict peacefully while your country is occupied is to make concessions. I understand you might think Ukraine must not make any concessions at all because Russia is on the wrong here... I agree Russia is bad and a bully in this story... but that doesn't matter if the objective is to stop the war. The objective, right now, is not to make justice, that's beyond anyone's reach by a long margin... it's to avoid further loss of life and Ukrainian infrastructure (which if destroyed, will take a full generation to be re-built, and will be paid for by several future generations).

Russia is somewhat weakened by the Western World's sanctions, but Ukraine is on its knees right now and quite frankly on its last few breaths as an independent nation, despite everyone rooting for them (there wouldn't be 60km of Russian tanks just outside Kyiv otherwise, with the other largest cities except Odessa already surrounded by the Russian army, and already badly damaged).

When a bully has a knife to your throat you don't get to make demands, unfortunately.

I am not sure bravery is something to be admired when you know that the cost of your bravery is your country being completely destroyed and whatever you were fithting for simply being bombed out of existence. Ukrainians will live on, and the less destruction there is now, the better equipped they will be to react appropriately when the time comes, but the time just isn't now.