skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a manager myself I've had a couple of experiences where my reports have read others negative experiences on HN and presumed it would be true for them also.

It's very disheartening to not be even given the chance to fight for more money for my team.

Be kind to your manager. If you're seriously interviewing around at least drop hints in your 1:1s so your manager can start the ball rolling about your raise internally.
> Apparently this is happening a lot in Web3? What a great way to kill a potentially promising new step in technology.

My pet conspiracy theory is that "the smoking people in dark rooms" wishing to kill any hopes of truly autonomous (eg. self-financing) decentralizes systems invented the "Web3" term and associated cocktail of host-killing ultra-aggresive virulent memetic weapons and stealthly gifted it to the unsuspecting community of people trying to combine "de-centralized autonomous oraganizations and platforms + de-centralized financial infrastructure"... now the fools have took the poisoned candy and are killing themselves and others with it while attracting all the vultures there are (con artists etc.)!

...then again, the internet was also awash with weird cult-like ideas at the beginning then it normalized to something that's at least clearly useful to everyone.
The first Irak war (aka "Desert Storm") was not under the Clinton admin, but Bush I, but I agree that the lingo it gave us ("surgical strikes" and the rest) is mostly bullshit.
You don’t need Jesus to become a better person. We are flawed, and we evolved to be aggressive apes, but we also evolved big brains and we can now decide we don’t want to behave the way our ancestors did. One day at a time, all we need to do is to decide not to be that murderous ape.
They are also bombing Yemen with the support of the United States. [1]

Hospitals are bombed, cluster bombs and "chemical" weapons are used, etc. Where is the international outrage and 24/7 news coverage?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_inte...
>The Nielsen Norman group has some good stuff on usability within hierarchical organizations

Can you give a link?
>Can I write a random distro ISO to an SD card and expect it to work on any RISC-V board that has the same pointer size?

Yes, you will be able to, at some point.

>I just checked the Ubuntu RISC-V download page and it has 2 different ISOs for 2 boards from the same vendor!

No board out there is RVA22 compliant, as RVA22 itself isn't done and closed. It is expected to be this spring.

By the time large scale production of boards happen and they ship to the masses, this will be a solved problem.

I do not expect this to happen this year. Maybe the next it'll start to pick up.
<< means shift left (moves the bits to the left side)

1 << 1 = 2 because (0001 << 1 = 0010 = 2)

3 << 1 = 6 because (0011 << 1 = 0110 = 6)

>> works in the same way

2 >> 1 = 1 because (0010 >> 1 = 0001)

The other operators are exactly the same you'd find in electronics (and boolean algebra):

~ is the NOT operator

& is the AND operator

^ is the XOR operator

Sorry, I don't have a visual representation for this (I haven't looked for a link) but I would strongly suggest to write it down on paper and do some small exercises (checking with the result then on your favorite programming language).

On a day to day basis, you'd likely not use these operators at all, but as soon as you start decoding protocols or working on a bit-level, those are super useful!

I would suggest trying to decode a bitstream protocol to really grasp the concepts: you'd use masks and bitwise operators a lot :)

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Edit: some useful links I've found:
https://www.interviewcake.com/concept/java/bit-shift
Requirements analysis changes as you move from B2B to B2C and to CC
(what I call consumer communism)

As a young engineer working on bigger institutional projects we
followed the classic waterfall processes, fact-finding, system
analysis, separating out functional and non-functional, stakeholder
mediation and so on. Stuff mainly worked and we had gruntled clients.
Although things took many years, and ran over budget, but not too
much.

Getting into smartphone related startups after 2000 I saw a wholly
different culture. It wasn't just the Agile thinking, but the
movement to mobile always-on tech made almost everything part of the
maintenance phase. Companies no longer even try to ship finished
products. Anything can be added or changed after the product is in the
"consumers" (not customers) hands. Time to market and sheer speed of
development has changed the requirements landscape.

After 2015 I noticed a far more disturbing shift. Requirements are not
even part of the picture. The customer will "have what they are given
and like it". Why?

As we know, for many ventures the profitable part of business is not
giving value to the customer but extracting value _from_ them to sell
to other businesses. The product is merely a vehicle for foisting
features upon users who are made a captive audience via lock-in,
legislation that mandates products or complexity that hides function.

In this "hostile technology world" any requirements come from parent
companies or partners in the rent extraction game, or are dreamed up
internally. The job of marketing is to push/sell these features as
"necessary and inevitable" and of customer/public relations (if it
exists) to deflect disgruntled consumers or assuage their fears and
disappointments with empty assurances.
China made an exa-scale super computer with 14nm tech
It's Confirmed Tyrants Love China but Why?
If humanity is still around stars won't exist anymore. It's a horrific waste of resources. Any advanced civilization would deconstruct all stars with active fusion to prevent them from losing energy to fusion - and keep that mass for black hole power plants.
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Redwood isn't "completed", but it's not unavailable. Evaluating it via `fdbcli> configure ssd-redwood-1-experimental ` is encouraged, but it hasn't seen sufficiently deep evaluation and verification that it's been set as the default ssd storage engine yet.

Not all releases got blog posts. Which ones did honestly had far more to do with the people involved in the releases at the time than any technical merits. This is the first feedback that I've seen where the blog posts were used as a signal of worthiness or stability, so we'll see if we can try to be a bit more responsible about making release posts.

Releases that are posted to the downloads page are all equally considered "ready to go". They appear a bit slower than what gets tagged on github, as the production environments in the core set of companies supporting FDB development are used as the last stage of QA before an official release. (Though this distinction might be less clear as the downloads page was recently redirected to the github release artifacts page.)

You can find the 7.0 release notes at https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/documentatio..., which will appear in the documentation once the public site is updated to 7.0 (which happens once the first official, public release is blessed).

All that said, the regular release cadence so far has been about every 6 months, which I think still does qualify as "glacial".
Summary of the article in quotes, below.

"Time after time, (mis)leader after (mis)leader from around the world has confirmed their lust for China's dictatorial powers."

"China is not just any type of dictatorship. In fact, it isn't even communist."

"We can gain insight into the answer by looking at a curious, reoccuring theme in the controlled establishment media propaganda about China. I call it: "China Is Horrible! . . . But Wouldn't It Be Nice?""

Rockefeller:

"The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."

"if China isn't communist, what is it? The answer is simple: China is a technocracy."

What is technocracy?

"There is the straightforward and innocuous definition supplied to the public, which holds that technocracy is simply government by a scientific and technical elite. And then there is the hidden assumption on which this definition is based: namely, that that "scientific and technical elite" is beholden to the "Superclass" from whom they derive their funding, their research cues and their values."

"The global power elite are perfecting their techniques for controlling the human population and China is the technocratic laboratory where they are testing those techniques. This is why Trudeau, the mainstream media and all of the other organs of the establishment "superclass" really admire China."
> These individuals, totaling 81, were convicted of various crimes including murdering innocent men, women and children. Crimes committed by these individuals also include pledging allegiance to foreign terrorist organizations, such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Houthis, targeting residents in the Kingdom and traveling to regional conflict zones to join terrorist organizations. They also include convictions for targeting government personnel and vital economic sites, the killing of law enforcement officers and maiming their bodies, and planting land mines to target police vehicles. Moreover, the convictions include crimes of kidnapping, torture, rape, smuggling arms and bombs into the Kingdom.

A little bit of a baity headline
Everything you quoted is couched in the stated assumption that one wants to be Agile already.

If you don’t want to be Agile, then don’t. I don’t care. However, if you’re trying to follow Agile principles, there are right ways, and there are less right ways.

It looks like you just want to argue. That’s great, it’s just not for me.
So glad that hundreds of billions of American arms and tax dollars are going towards this lovely, progressive country.

I once had the opportunity of talking with one of Boeing’s PR directors. When I asked him about their missile sales to Saudi Arabia, which has killed hundreds of children with them, he essentially told me that Boeing had 0 responsibility for what the end user did with their products and that they would sell them to whoever could pay as long as the US government didn’t care.
Show HN: CareerCupid. OkCupid for Jobs
Drones Are Beating Ambulances to the Scene – and Saving Lives
Isn't this the same bs that has been around for decades under the guise of 'company culture and values'?

The fuzzies that are needed to distract the underlings while we focus on maximizing profits and 'rightsizing' the worker bees?
My single favorite line of JavaScript
I feel this is an overly simplistic view of depression.

I imagine there's a thousand reasons for a state like depression to emerge — some, but not all of them external. I think the Venn diagram of people with depression and people whose "lives suck for whatever reason" is not a single circle.
Kestra: Infinitely scalable open source orchestration and scheduling platform
If you don't go through the hassles of anonymously signing up with the hoster in Russia, and also paying them anonymously, then there isn't much point in this. As soon as the server can be traced back to you (in a way that convinces the court) you're toast.
Ukraine started using Clearview AI’s facial recognition during war
Wasn't Bush Sr the one that went to Irak for the first Gulf war? And this one was clean, at least compared with US war that followed, and way cleaner than any European war of the 90s.
But the constant job hopping among engineers can come at a cost: Higher expectations of productivity from the go. Less training. and similar.

If you hire someone, knowing that they'll only stay for 1-2 years, you obviously want them to be as productive as possible for that time period. In traditional engineering firms, you'd probably spend the fist N months on training, and won't get to touch production in a long, long time.

This culture kind of reinforces the "hire fast, fire fast" mantra that tech companies love.
Why are people still being beheaded as a form of capital punishment in 2022? Aren’t there other forms with more dignity?
Things were much looser in the good old days, people used to explore Tibet solo and even hitchhike. But this became effectively impossible after the riots in 2008 led the PRC to crack down.

For what it's worth, even now the guide can ride along with you in your car, they don't necessarily need their own wheels.
They have leveled cities. That Kyiv is still standing is because it is well defended, not because of Russians being particularly careful with damage minimization and as you may have noticed the war isn't over yet.
As Putin has lied to the world about essentially everything regarding Ukraine, I tend to not believe anything Putin or Russian officials tell us about the war.
Why does Google hate the regular Linux Kernel and the regular Linux userland so much that Android doesn't have much Linux resemblance?

I remember that wen Nokia did N900, it was pretty compatible with mainline Linux.
Yep and they're bombing it just because SA doesn't have an army. They do have an Air Force though.

Saudi Arabia's only option is just to keep bombing Yemen, they have no ability or will to actually invade it. They just use their fancy toys to bomb them to the stone age every day.
"...The West has imposed the harshest package of sanctions yet on Russia with the explicit goal of crippling its economy and financial system. The most impactful and surprising development was the sanctioning of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) by Western allies.

Cutting Russia off SWIFT won’t be as impactful as most suggest. Sanctions have crippled Russian major banks’ operations and sent the broader economy into freefall. Neither cryptocurrencies nor a digital ruble can sanction-proof the Russian economy.

March is likely to see more sanctions from the United States and its allies, but it remains to be seen whether sanctions can affect the situation on the ground in Ukraine in any substantial way..."
Maker Faire Producers Talk from Kyiv About This “Strange Day”
True. It's stupid. :)
I think the title should change here to a more neutral wording and to better reflect the content of what's on the linked site. (Maybe a link to a news story about this would be a better choice, as it could offer context that this Saudi government site isn't providing):

This site doesn't say that the executions were carried out in one day

This site doesn't say anything about beheading

The word "just" is becoming something like all caps in headlines and I'd assume it isn't in the spirit of HN to use it in a headline not taken directly from an article.
The Scientist as Rebel

Not directly on topic but interesting thoughts from someone with a controversially optimistic view of climate change.
The Russian version of events is very easy to access, and widely reported on in the west.
It has been two weeks and Russia lost 12000 soldiers and 1200 vehicles, while capturing one major city (Kherson). They have also made no gains in last week.

That is somewhat of a fiasco for someone who is supposed to have deployed order of magnitude more soldiers, tanks and airplanes than their opponent, and claimed they will win in few days.

EDIT: thanks for the correction, got the cities mixed up.
I'm not justifying it, but at most companies a budget is set for a team.
Most CFOs rule with an iron fist and so any money for raises comes from general budget raises.

As a manager it's your job to wheel and deal within that constraint. Eg turn a vacant role into a less senior position to free up budget for keeping a valued team member.
That sounds so large it has to be overstated?

I'm always a little suspicious of claims of benefit fraud that aren't backed up by court cases. They're very easy to inflate. Someone loses their job, fills in a form incorrectly, gets paid, the error is discovered a year later: was there really fraudulent intent, or is it just the combination of means-testing and the difficulty of discovering someone's true circumstances?
https://nitter.net/GergelyOrosz/status/1502957116776198144#m describes the second response as a "status that is not an error (also not success)" so it was quite clearly not a matter of an error with an unhandled error code. Another tweet also says explicitly that they handled all errors that were defined when the code was written.

Tricky.
To be even more pedantic, the grandparent could absolutely be describing PWM - PWM is pulse width modulation - it means that there's a fundamental frequency, and within each cycle the stove is "on" for a period and "off" for the rest. The "on" period length is varied (modulated) based on the power requirement.

What "PWM" doesn't define is the fundamental frequency. It could be 0.1 Hz or 10 MHz. Just because the fundamental frequency is slow doesn't make it not PWM.
Why? Seems perfectly accurate, purely factual.
Just alone the fact that people like us who are arguably part of humanity’s most advanced people must believe that climate change is the biggest problem is a very good indicator that humanity will not survive, particularly because you and we are unable to identify other far more immediate pressing challenges that make climate change a relatively meaningless concern even if you accept all of its premises and motivations for concerns about it at face value … a totally other large issue.

Just alone the fact that people cannot even speak freely without censorship and of certain topics in order to discuss objectively whether they are legitimate or possibly a greater risk than climate change, specifically because the conversation and topics themselves are forced and enforced, is also a very good indicator that things will not go as well as people want to tell themselves.

You say we are on the cusp of interplanetary existence? Just alone the realities of that state are likely to cause more problems that could lead to extinction than not. For example, it is far more likely that humans will rather rapidly diverge in evolution between planets for several reasons, which can lead to all kinds of issues not directly related to whether one of the species of human will survive.

We are in a global toxic relationship with each other and are not even clear about fundamental questions of agreeing on basic facts or being able to even just examine whether all the basic assumptions are correct. How one could expect that to allow us to face of extinction is beyond me. However, it strikes me that lying to oneself of faking it til you make it will simply not impress a cold and calculated mistress as reality.
I think it's more like how humans have handled and weaponized too-complex-to-fully-understand information since the beginning of time. Old-shool religion kind of lost its power and usefulness, classical political ideologies are too diluted to work as intended, and now we're (re)inventing the next-gen "religions" on top of capitalism and science...

Every time humans try to "make some sense on what they can't fully make sense" a subgroup of them uses it as a tool to concentrate power... all old is new again...

Then again, the previous version of this, political ideologies, almost (or is still trying to get us) killed via full nuclear war, so this shiny new thing can very well be a "black marble"...
The so-called pax mongolica:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
Yes, that is indeed the case. My vague understanding, though, is that negotiating passage by sea on a cargo ship is not particularly difficult, it's just expensive.
> I don't disagree with most of what you said, but I don't think that's a justification for censorship.

> I don't think that, to paraphrase, "people believe dumb things," is a good justification for censorship.

You keep saying "censorship". Downweighting disinformation search results is far from censorship; it's just un-gaming the trolls' SEO gaming.
Unlimited leave is actually a dirty trick. On average people go on less holiday under such a deal, because there's no "use it or lose it" incentive to take time off. Everyone works under the anxiety of wondering how much holiday is acceptable and whether they're taking too much or not enough.

I prefer what my employer offers: 30 days paid holiday plus the ability to sell days back to the company.
How else could a fusion power plant generate power?
As long companies keep using human resources and labor instead of investing in intellectual assets or partners the situation will never get better. People are no longer motivated by money alone, as money is just compensation, not incentive. Companies tend to be ignorant in that regard.
As someone else who tangentially operates in this space (and formerly directly), I can concur.

It might sound strange to those unfamiliar, but the “low level admins” who fill out the DG Declarations do for the most part, in my experience, take this part of the job very seriously. Along with entire chain going all the way up to loadmasters, CBP agents, pilots, etc who do final checks on all this. A lot of people lied and heads will definitely now roll.
They'll just update an endpoint and break access. Integrations require constant maintenance because the big tech companies don't care much for legacy support. Well, any kind of support at all, really.
I don't know the answer, but some more info here might be interesting: https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/fraud-info-sheet.pdf
But the cuban missile crisis incurred the cost of risking nuclear war.

And what for?

Both parties had sufficient capabilities to achieve total destruction of the enemy, missiles in cuba and turkey or not.
Plus there already were 150+ nuclear weapons on cuba that the US didnt know about and that the SU was prepared to gift to Castro to placate him. But Castro seemed to unstable so the SU retrieved those in the end.

The US response nearly led to a nuclear war for no strategic gain and even then it nearly led to a nuclear armed Cuba on its doorstep.
Bitfields are standard, what are you talking about?
> There may be a lesson for nato. Russia’s initial failure to gain air superiority could be explained away by the Kremlin’s secrecy over the decision to go to war and a lack of planning time, says Mr Bronk. But in his view, the air force’s passivity could also reflect inexperience or incompetence.

Where is the line between "objectively assessing an enemy's weaknesses" and "blatant wishfull thinking" ?

While we're discussing how bad the russian air force is doing, cities are being bombed constantly, and the ukrainian governement is imploring for a no-fly zone that no one will enforce given it would mean engaging with, guess what, the air force. Oh, and starting a nuclear war at the same time.

Maybe it's an operationnal failure on Russian's side - but if so, they carved themselves a situation where they can't really _lose_, even if they can't win quickly.

Hopefully something will change the game - but I doubt "hoping for the other side to secretly be stupid" will cut it.
My guess is they the word "discretionary" tends to come up, and all leave still has to be approved a respectable amount of time in advance.
That if you trust Saudis official media.

In all cases, Saudi will have to share a report that dehumanizes the murdered ppl. You cannot just kill without citing reasons as to why. For the western media, they include words such as ALqaida and ISIS. Needless to say, they don't have to provide any rationale for their Saudis citizens, since they ultimately have the god power and the monarchy.

A friend of mine, went to Saudi for a job. He was let go just because he tweeted stuff that criticizes the Saudi government and their involvement in our country. And he was lucky he was detained!