skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been a manager and I've realized that a huge portion of it is a communication problem. Not all of it but a big portion of it and not many managers realize this.

When I was a new manager I noticed an employee that would just get everything wrong and do things with a low amount of quality.

Turns out the problem was with me. As a new manager I failed to communicate and define objectives clearly. I simply assumed such things were obvious. The employee assumed different things and as a result his work output and what I expected were mismatched.

After some time reviewing my own behavior I began spending a huge amount of time defining and planning out the scope of the project at hand. I take the time to make sure that objectives and what's needed are completely clear. When I did this the employee in question delivered beyond expectations.

Turns out this guy was a literal technical genius and that his performance problems were largely communication problems on my part. The guy can literally solve technical issues no other engineer can solve and could finish his tasks twice as fast.

Other high performing employees I realized weren't necessarily technically advanced. They were just better at predicting and meeting my expectations and that was the key. They were managing me, and I wasn't doing any management.

If I hadn't reviewed my own behavior I would've went down the wrong road of firing a technically superior engineer while only keeping the people that could "manage up" better.

I will say that there are tons and tons of managers who don't realize this and even adopt a philosophy around managing as little as possible. What these managers don't know is more than likely they are letting go of engineers who are not only technically competent but technically superior by subconsciously pre-selecting for people who are better at predicting what you want rather then people who are technical wizards. You can recognize these types of managers as they have a bias for certain types of engineers who take "ownership" of something or essentially manage a product so you don't have to. These people are good people to hire but at the same time this philosophy is not scalable.

There are places for both types of people in a company and a company does worse if it only has one type.
A nuclear reactor creates more than just waste - it creates new elementary particles! And yes, those new elementary particles are highly radioactive.

Amazing no?
It really depends who owns the station. I've seen great work from Nexstar stations. So far, the stories I've seen from their approach to cable news, NewsNation aren't bad. They might get more CNN like as they approach 24 hour coverage.

Edit: I work for a competitor to Nexstar who overall does very good work but I wouldn't recommend to avoid a conflict of interest.
What free or (non-free) DNS services is everyone using?
Most of the material isn’t readily water soluble and a lot of the radiation is alpha particles which aren’t very dangerous. The really dangerous stuff has a half life on the order of minutes/days/months. It’s also hard to breath in the particles unless they’re attached to something like smoke. Uranium miners in the 50s who didn’t smoke had cancer rates no higher than the general population.
The Silence Is Deafening (2020)
Yeah, exactly - with this context the article makes a bit more sense to me! :)
>But is it really so different if we replace race with religion?

They aren't completely replacing race with religion, many Palestinians are black and my understanding is Israel is quite racist towards its black Jewish population as well. European Settler colonialism has historically been quite racist.
I’m reading it out loud to my family (every character has a different voice). It’s a very mixed group with lots of discussions.
But is it a small size limit that affects realistic usage? Don't you have performance issues if you use a CRDT implemented in JavaScript and running in the browser with large files?
Agreed; an ugly but reasonable solution to a real problem. However! I wish they'd put a URL in the email which brought you directly to the message in question once you logged in, rather than forcing you to navigate through the whole web UI and messaging system to find it. They never do that.
If you omit the Content-Length header from an HTTP request, the server will not process the request body.

See: https://reqbin.com/Article/ContentLength

"If the value of the Content-Length header is zero, or if neither the Transfer-Encoding header nor the Content-Length header is specified, then the message has no body. "
> If they showed the driver the ride details beforehand, drivers could not accept the ride and passengers would never know

Then you go back to the taxi problem of there being no rides from or to predominantly black neighbourhoods.
I mean, all Trump had to do was sneeze and CNN, MSNBC, NYT all worked themselves into a furious seethe for the next two weeks about how that sneeze was literally basically Hitler and that’s it, that’s the final straw, the world is coming to a literal end now because he’s an unhinged fascist dictator or something.

Mind you this is all coming from “respected” and “establishment-accepted” news organizations to boot.
Google translate from russian shows: Free mouse only in mouse. Perhaps someone could kindly offer a non-marsupial translation?
Abstracting the Graphics API for a toy renderer
NISO Guidelines for Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and Sorting of Numerals [pdf]
You would be performing them where you (your body) is located at that moment.
JetBrains is no longer operating in Russia and Belarus. They went to extreme measures to demonstrate their support for Ukraine and against the invasion.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
Yes this exactly. I think just looking at a map of ukraine is enough to see that while we are showered by ukrainian success stories to the point where you'd think russia is completely stalled in their invasion... the reality is quite different. Here's a good updated live map with a frontline overlay:

https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/The-War-in-Ukraine/09...

Keep in mind the war started 3 weeks ago. The americans didn't even reach Baghdad 3 weeks into their invasion of Iraq in 2003. It's just all reminiscent of the Armenia-Azerbaïdjan war in 2020 in terms of "false social media driven hopes". If we want to help the ukrainians, downplaying the russian threat is like the total opposite of what we need.
What is really exciting about this is that we have finally achieved alchemy!
Yes usually reading from a completely-open Elasticsearch or S3 bucket is labeled "a hack". Good on them for admitting fault.
Concur/SAP now has an E&Y service that tracks how many days you worked in a state through your expense reports. (So obviously doesn't catch personal travel where you were working.) I was actually expecting to get hit for a couple short trips last year. I wasn't so there must have been some sort of threshold even though NC supposedly kicked in with even a single day.

But, yes, in general people pay even less attention to this than they do to paying use taxes and my accountant has never asked me anything about this kind of thing in the big questionnaire he sends me every year.
they behead all of them?
That's not being employed, that's running a business.
The US has killed thousands of “militants” (and many people who were certainly innocent) with drone strikes in places where we’re not engaged in active conflict and without due process. It may or may not be wrong, case by case, certainly arguments to be made for both, but seems about the same motivation just further away than SA killing militants.
> technics 1200 mk II

Ah lovely, same decks myself! Thanks for the advice!
We don't import a lot of LNG from Russia. Gas coming from Russia comes through the pipes, not LNG. However, we don't even use gas a lot in Finland (it accounts 3% of the total energy production).

The electricity prices are through the roof for other reasons (and have been for almost a year now) and are not related to Russia at all.
Chinese food security is generally lower than that of the west

https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-sec...

The US ranks 9th whereas china ranks 34th. They're not going to famine or anything but food prices, or really just inflation more broadly, could be an issue. The reason china stockpiles grain is because it doesn't produce enough for itself.
> It explains, for example, why I do not rob my neighbor's house when I know they are on vacation even though I could almost certainly get away with it and thereby achieve a short-term profit for myself.

Does game theory explain why other people do steal? Should we assume that thieves' circumstances are different enough that stealing is rational?

Game theory is sometimes a useful way of thinking about human behavior but it's a stretch to say it "explains a lot of it". The various ways people come to value things and make decisions are opaque. It's begging the question to insist that these processes are explicable by game theory, especially when so much human behavior seems inexplicable.
Due process might not be so clear cut [0].

But that might be tainted by my personal values. I personally value a legal system that refrains from the potential of killing an innocent person.

[0]: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/execute...
> My gut instinct is that it is a protection from caste discrimination

You’re probably right. Not even a decade ago in New York I had to call cabs for my Ivy-league educated, well-dressed black roommate because they would curiously blow past him.
Can Public Health Be Saved?
Does that include the drone strikes?
Yes, as I said, the technology accelerates things somewhat. But to put it in a computer science context, it's like slightly reducing the constant on an O(n^3) algorithm. You're making things faster, sure, but you're not really going to affect the time to create a vaccine.

Said differently: the slow part of creating a vaccine is doing the trials to make sure you have safe and effective target.
I found Hofstadter's _Le Ton beau de Marot_ fascinating, and also almost nobody has even heard of it!
There is one solution to the death problem, Russia ends their war of aggression, a war of choice, and a war of conquest to illegally expand their borders. Illegal because they are parties to agreements saying it is, which they've reneged on.

Surrender is a likely false hope for survival. Given Putin started a war with multiple agreements in place saying Russia wouldn't, why trust any future agreements they're a party to?
at that point we're already in a nuclear war due to the EU collective defence provisions
The tutorial system seems way better than what most schools do. Interesting that one of the oldest schools seems to have one of the most sensible systems, possibly because they've resisted the pressure to make everything more scalable.

The average American private university costs $45k per year (about the same as Oxford's international tuition) so you'd think they'd have the resources to do this as well. As far as I know only a couple actually do it (e.g. MIT) and their student-tutor ratio isn't as good.
so why not keep using it? if the reactor creates even more radioactive material then the initial material?
1. If we look at history NATO, it is not a defensive alliance. It is a mostly defensive alliance. Many people here don't even know how the NATO was formed and the promises given to Russia? Russia thinks NATO has expanded beyond control. They don't want to be fully covered by it? Also, there are other strategic interests like Crimea, etc...

2. With this logic NATO doesn't have anything. The power of NATO comes from its member. And, it is a conglomerate of powerful nations?

3. Because it considers itself as a bear. Why does the US invade other countries in name of democracy and freedom? It is all strategic interest. Why does China care about the small island? Why does China get anxious when the US tries to shrug off its hegemony by making new nato like groups, supply arms, and ammunition.

Geopolitics is a very complex topic. Again, I am not trying to justify any war crimes. I am just giving my opinion. I hope peace will prevail soon.
As an CS instructor, my solution for that was to have a skeleton level of unit tests but to switch in a full suite once the deadline passed. Your grade was based on passing the full tests.

Practically everyone who "played fair" got the same grade for both. Occasionally, I would add a test that tripped everybody up and I'd have to go see what happened. Anybody who overfitted, however, got crushed.

My favorite assignment was always the next to last project (before end of semester deadlines start getting crushing). I created only a single unit test to verify the test suite runner was functional, and the students had to submit the rest of the pre-deadline unit tests. And I would switch in my full suite at the deadline. I told people that anybody who passed that suite would get bonus points that everybody was always bugging me for.

It was always absolute chaos. I only ever had one student pass the switched in suite (he got some nice bonus points out of that--didn't need them, of course). I would then reopen the project for a week (I planned for it) to let everybody else clean up their work and resubmit.

You could see and feel the difference in the students after that assignment. The fact that testing was an integral part of programming and that testing was, in and of itself, a difficult problem was a revelation--and not a particularly welcome one.
Yes Instacart, although Kevin Systrom did visit us for one of the weekly YC dinners to share his wild startup story.

Easily the most memorable summer of my life. I agree that even though we were told everything was falling apart at our batch size, it was arguably the best batch of YC, there was some real magic.
In the comment to which I replied, "them" refers to Jewish Israelis ("Everyone else in the region hates them"). Jewish Israelis are Middle Eastern, not part of the West.
Show HN: Sci-Hub Scholar – Firefox Extension Update v1.2
Sci-Hub Scholar is a browser extension that takes Google Scholar search results and tries to point them at Sci-Hub, where they can be read freely. The main selling point for this extension versus others is that it works right on the results page, rather than the article page at the pay-walled website.

One night, I decided I was going to do some research, only to find every Google Scholar Result behind a paywall. Trying to find the link on Sci-Hub, I ran into a bunch of issues:

* https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ is down

* Annoying to copy/paste title to Sci-Hub

* Didn't want to be presented with another set of search results from my search results.

I've seen some other Sci-Hub extensions, most notably https://openaccessbutton.org/. However, most of these require you to go to the article page, then click the extension's button to finally be redirected. I thought I could do better.

I recently did an update pass to update with some features others have added and requested.

New Features for v1.2.0:

* Added support for all Google Subdomains. You can now use this extension on Google Scholar websites for any country!

* DOI is now listed next to the article title for articles where the DOI was found

* If the title's URL was updated to Sci-Hub, the Icon to the left will now point to the original article.

* More accurate DOI lookups!

Issues:

* Currently, I can't validate that the article exists on Sci-Hub, due to the way Firefox handles website permissions for extensions. I do not want to request permissions for all domains, but since the Sci-Hub domain can change, this is difficult.

* I'm afraid to port this to Chrome, because I don't want to lose my Google Account over something like this.

* It's a hassle to support manifest v2 for Firefox and manifest v3 for chrome. Haven't found a good workflow setup for developing for both browser platforms at the same time, from one codebase.

I welcome any feedback or recommendations on the issues. I also have planned features, and am open to contributions! The extension is all open source and can be found at: https://github.com/djfdat/sci-hub-scholar

I hope this helps some people get access to the information they need!
Recency of numbers is very important here. Due to the contagiousness of Omicron, new cases seems to have ramped up very quickly, and dissipated very quickly as well.
ESG funds is the worst that had happened to the American entertaiment industry:

https://comicsgate.org/2021/10/30/ethan-van-sciver-is-right-...
He could, but considering the relations between Russian and Ukrainian peoples and the risk of WW3 this would most likely just result in mutiny and the subsequent removal of Putin, probably even just in reaction to that order.
"The video providers spend a lot of time optimizing their streams and networks for such use cases. You will not, and your users will suffer for it, if you try to self-host. Please, please don't do this."

If I follow these steps, what would I do wrong that would negatively affect my users:

1. Google 'ffmpeg hls nginx'

2. Encode my video at a bunch of different resolutions and bitrates.

3. Rent a server at hetzner or wherever.

4. Install nginx and do the minimal configuration needed to serve the files I prepared.

What could go wrong that would allow the video to play on a fast connection, but not on a slow connection (or slow device)?
There are a few issues with that.

1. What if I want to be picked up from or go to a “bad neighborhood” - ie a “neighborhood with too many Black people that don’t tip well”? Uber drivers would cancel just like taxi drivers use to refuse to service the area.

2. That’s way too complicated compared to “choose my pick up spot and choose my destination “.

Two other comments.

Before the woke police downvote me or flag me for being racist because of the first comment, I am Black.

If drivers are complaining about the distance/time/cost, Uber has enough people on the road to tell drivers how long a trip will probably take based on the time it will take to get to the pick up spot, traffic patterns, and the time it will take to get to the destination. But telling them those two spots will automatically make it more expensive for minorities to get an Uber.
The driver shouldn’t care where they are going, just how long will it take them to make the trip. The algorithm will price the rides based on supply and demand.

I do feel bad when a driver has to come way up north to pick me up and take me to the airport on the other side of town. I schedule my rides in advance so they know going in before they accept.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/23/...

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-cabbies-fines-...
Thank you. That makes me feel a little better!
How many tonnes of nuclear waste is produced anyway? At what point do we deem SpaceX safe enough to transfer that to outerspace?
We used to use terraform to invite people to our github org, along with a file in a repo to map company emails to github usernames. When a new starter joins, their manager submits a PR to add their username.

It was a huge mess - it would fail to apply if you looked at it funny, and it had no controls against someone typo-ing a username and inviting a random person to the org. But it solved this case at least.
AdGuard[0]. Ad-blocking included :)
It's on 94.140.14.14, 94.140.15.15 (know them by heart now) if you want to try it. I've never had a problem with them.

There's also a comprehensive list and comparison of various DNS providers at PrivacyGuides[1].

[0]: https://adguard-dns.com/
[1]: https://privacyguides.org/providers/dns/
Run your own resolver, on your local machine. It’s the only way.

Only if you have a local network of machines can you consider making one of these machines the resolver for the local network. A typical example of this might be your router. This machine should then not forward the DNS requests to some centralized resolver, it should resolve DNS queries itself.
I hope the experience does not have to be toxic or negative. Maybe the company is transparent enough to reveal it's vision enough to the employees and it is not a random and unexpected decision... maybe those who are not needed anymore are in the position to know more or less when and why so they don't have to feel that it has to do with them personally.

>take your good intentions and put them into a retrospective and action plan to fix the organization

May be this will be the path to get there. I doubt it will happen by a political plan designed by career politicians out of popular fantacies they like to sell to the masses... which then they plan to impose on everyone. That approach will most likely backfire in unexpected ways. I believe it will have to happen organically and will most likely will come about in the most successful organizations who can afford to build it... at least in the beginning... before it becomes available to everyone.

Also, it is important to make organizations responsible for this and not end up with individuals funding this through increased taxes for the working class. Next time your favourite billionaire talks about UBI or something similar, ask them if they are willing to offer unemployment benefits or something like an UBI to people they hired and let go from the corporation itself... or if they are willing to pool in extra taxes for this purpose so that multiple organizations can offer this to their former employees. They have incentives to make it the "government's problem" i.e. just use the income taxes from the working class to make this happen... and they absolve them of any responsibility and commitment to make this work.
Former MI6 Officer Christopher Steele Q&A – Oxford Union [video]
yea i guess i don't understand how its possible for these elements to be safe before we extract it but unsafe to put it back in a depleted form? and if its not depleted why can't we keep using it until it is?
> A contract which allows me to access to a pool of company work, I don't get to see individual task details in advance, cannot pick and choose it except for an overall option to leave the job

The contractor working on my house has a general impression of the work he must do. But the specifics are far from ironed out.
Same in Austria, if I want to work here remotely for any foreign company, then that foreign company would have to have a legal entity opened in Austria and hire me according to Austrian laws and pay employer taxes in Austria, for it to be legal and by the book, which of course, unless they already have an office there or you're John Carmack, Linus Torvalds or Fabrice Bellard, no foreign company would go through all this hassle just to hire you remotely.

Everyone says this insane amount of legal red tape and gatekeeping is the government's way to prevent remote talent brain drain to places like the US and prevent local remote work turning to outsourcing which, if true, is complete BS reasoning as every company who wanted to outsource did that already, before remote work became popular.

I feels it's just German and Austria having a cultural and national obsession with red tape and regulations for the sake of preserving the status quo, and not for improving things for the ambitious workers who wish for better opportunities than the local market can provide.

ATM, the only way to legally work remotely is either as a freelancer or opening your own company and contracting which come with their own set of pros and cons.