skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

A looser, less perfect, but more easily applicable and economical heuristic that I have is:

- Is my (layperson) interlocutor mostly contrarian and skeptical of others? Then there is very little chance that trying to point them in the right direction will be productive. Being a reasonable contrarian requires a very high level of expertise.

- Is my interlocutor mostly curious and skeptical of their own understanding? Then my friend, this person is a rare golden perl, and I will spare no effort or patience, because in almost every case these people are the ones who haven’t lost the capacity to learn.
I agree. I've had lots of these kinds of interactions— it's definitely possible to "put out feelers" on whether someone is really excited about a thing or just going along with it.

Yes there is a slight risk that that action will put a damper on the other person's interest, but it's not a huge deal to recover from— either by amping yourself up to assure them that you really are excited for the thing they're excited about, or taking the initiative the next time to make a thing happen that you know you can be excited about and follow through on.

I've definitely also triggered the damper reaction accidentally in the past when just trying to make an innocent inquiry about a start time or something, so even if you rarely do it for real, it's good to understand these dynamics and how to navigate them.
Obviously it's not anonymous to the interviewer. Clearly in this case it was anonymous to the manager receiving the feedback. I think this is not too uncommon.
The one piece missing from this is article is the fact that some people do actually have a vested interest in the continued success of the company even after leaving (e.g. option/stock holders). Not that your feedback will likely have any material effect on the value of the company, but you never know!
I agree entirely, I was just being clear about his perspective.
The castle is paying like 1/3 they were paying for coal+transport, they're paying for the heat as they go and the crypto mining company is handling the ASICs or GPUs or whatever - the castle doesn't care about that at all (this kind of project is not unusual around here, it's not one-off - energy companies have special tariffs for them now).

Unless you know about someone here who would offer this kind of deal with heatpumps, it's passe. The castle does not have enough money to invest, they're using donations from people to at least fix the most important problems - so projects like this are extremely important because every cent counts.

They can't invest $XXk and hope it returns in 30 years because they're never going to have that sum to invest, and if they had, they would use it to fix the castle, not for heat pumps. The castle needs it now, not in 30 years.
In my experience, HR will end up painting something banal as the main reason for an exit instead of ever (publicly) admitting to some creative or strategic differences.

Saying "the new job is closer too" will lead to the narrative that the reason was 100% based on commute time.
Right. The plaintiff should not have been riding a motorized vehicle on a sideWALK, thereby increasing potential risk to himself and others for grievous bodily harm. He failed his duty of care to using the vehicle and infrastructure as it was designed.
Sabine is on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw
This post, and the many people here celebrating their preference of desktops and wondering why anyone would ever use a laptop, spurred me to get under my desk and disconnect everything from the USBC breakout box so I could wrap some electrical tape around its fraying cable. Thanks, I've been putting that off for months now.

FWIW the great thing about laptops for me is that I can plug it into my desk, with a big monitor, when I'm at home, then unplug it (just one plug now, used to be all of four, which takes about 60 seconds once you've figured out a way to make sure the business ends of the power/usb/monitor/audio cables never stray too far from where the lappy lives) and go sit out at a cafe. Or in a park. I really don't miss having to spend all my work hours in the home office.
They are made using (different versions of) SCUMM. ScummVM is an open-source engine that can play SCUMM (but nowadays even non-scumm) games
Hopefully the government is looped in to decisions to attack nuclear submarines in international waters unprovoked.
I have my eye on the EV6 but I'm bummed that the moon roof is only on the most expensive option (practically Tesla prices), and that when these products were announced they were supposed to come with Witricity's wireless charger, which seems to have been abandoned.
And what? The CDC's narrative has also fallen apart. Moderna is pushing to authorize a FOURTH mRNA injection for otherwise healthy young men who've received 3 shots and may have already had omicron and are immune.

This is contrary to WHO guidance in which the risk of heart problems outweigh the minor benefit of maybe not being hospitalized from contracting a strain of COVID-19 (delta) which has been eradicated thanks to the weaksauce omicron variant.

That is chaos.

The science is literally _years_ behind on this, and it's clearer than ever that Pfizer and Moderna are trying to rake in as much $$$ as their FDA friends will allow them to.

First, do no harm.
The best exit interview I ever gave was with the incoming security manager. I laid out all the gory details for him, told him what he was going to find and where to look for it. It was a delightful interview. The organization didn't really want to deal with the reality, but it was a pretty big business risk nonetheless.

Sadly, for them, he promptly quit a week later. I don't know for sure if it was my exit interview that convinced him.

Other than that, I generally follow the advice in the article. Keep it kinda bland. But that's mostly because I'm old and very experienced, and by the time I leave it's because management has clearly indicated they're not going to change things. I've already told them the problems, because I'm not afraid of retaliation. So everyone is on the same page, and if I don't like that page, I step away.

It helps to have a strong network of good former coworkers so I can just find another gig if this one doesn't suit me.
I am struck by the author's expansive comfort in the use of "we" to describe their military organization, even in the context of historical events. I have never felt such a strong identification with any organization I was actively participating in, much less with its existence before my involvement. I wonder what accounts for this.
I'm a mathlet who is working slowly on learning more. Can you elaborate on the connection you're drawing?
They are speaking from the perspective of a manager, so HR isn't leaking identities to them.

Although based on what they are saying, I don't think it would be hard to de-anonymize this info - exit interview feedback looks different than general feedback, and if it's in any way specific (and if it's unspecific it's not super useful) it's almost always easy to identify who it's from.
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but quite a few on here from 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'

https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/oifnames-of-fa...
A bit before my time, but maybe a physical capacity order, to a non fungible pool. The infra is quite different now (mostly to avoid this kind of inefficiency)
> Doing this for the whole world sounds easy but it's one of the hardest things you can possibly do. Imagine if a million people suddenly loved you. It's almost impossible not to feel elated. Now imagine if a million people suddenly hated you. It's almost equally impossible not to feel devastated. But you can do it; and if you do it, you can unlock true happiness, true freedom.

I don't understand the paragraph at all. Are you saying detachment is like being hated? If yes I have no idea why. If not why would it be so hard?
What do you mean excuses? It's just history. It's said for the same reason, because history.

I'm sorry it offends you but nobody in Australia is overly motivated to change something that has no practical impact and given you don't seem to be from a Commonwealth country I don't think you are entitled to complain about it either.
I think for the reality of this case it has to do with the law as it existed at the time of the accident.

As for dangerous conditions (at least by common, reasonable expectations) being allowed on private property, that is something to be quibbled over in state legislatures. For me, the question is whether it is reasonable to expect someone to be injured and a dangerous public sidewalk which is used by people meets that expectation. If the city zones or builds a strip of concrete so people can use it for transportation, it should be maintained properly for that purpose.
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> This isn't a positive

It's a silver lining. It's shameful that the need exists at all, but it's definitely a positive for the people who are getting mostly screwed by the status quo but would otherwise be getting completely screwed.
Non-math fields have more subjectiveness, for one. Second, much higher barrier to entry. Someone can investigate something, read some relevant literature, and become an amateur historian, but the barriers to being competent at math and physics are way higher.
then they are not professional, taking constructive criticism come with being being professional
Briane Greene is very knowledgeable about physics, and brilliant at math, but his main life's work isn't as physicist. His work is embedding physics in mathematical models in a way that is does not generate empirically testable predictions. His string theory work has the same amount of support as real-Universe physics as does a Baptist preacher's sermons.
Every sufficiently non-obscure field has crackpots. Most only see ones in their own field, but if you end up as a volunteer handling the wikipedia email queues, you'll see them across all fields.

Some fields have more crackpots and more persistent ones, I think it's an open question if that's due to to the field itself or how it's presented in the media.

I'm confident that if there are frequent high profile articles on the field that talk about "unsolved problems" or "fundamental limits" that this acts like crackpot catnip.
I like the title property, especially on <a> elements, but always found that there was too much delay to discover it as a user. Like I wouldn't hover that long on a link/abbr unless I knew something was going to pop up.

I think this is one reason people quickly move on to using popover libraries for simple popovers.
> If you are really committed to a mission, even one you've decided to leave, I would think you'd want to give feedback that can help improve the chances of that mission being successful, even if there's a personal downside risk.

Let's not have any illusions about the "mission" that 99% of us are on. That mission is to do mind numbing meaningless work on some ad-tech platform because they pay us 3x the median salary to do it. Don't ever think for a moment that your company cares about you or your affinity to their "mission" at all.
Writing a triangle rasterizer is not that hard. What APIs like OpenGL give you for free (other than a performance boost) is walking all the pixels that are covered by each triangle, and computing the barycentric coordinates for each pixel (and then using these to lerp the vertex data). So that's what you have to replace by a CPU program.

I find the much harder part is how to setup the architecture in such a way that the data flows through your shader pipelines without an unbearable amount of boilerplate. 3D APIs don't help with that - if anything they make it harder.
> All feedback is anonymous, rolled up with non-exit feedback, and delivered to managers/leads periodically so it can't be easily linked back

Oh sweet summer child.. No feedback is anonymous, ever. It can be 'confidential', which means that HR can disclose it at their discretion or as appropriate.

As a manager, if you get value from the exit interview, with all due respect, you're doing it wrong. All the feedback which could be part of the exit interview should never be a surprise or an added value after the fact.
HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, EVER.

Ive been in orgs where HR was literally sleeping with head of sales, and had me fix phones with dickpics and BJ vids and etc btwn employees...

uh HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.

Do not confide in them, especially anything personal.

Also, if you have an IOS device - log into your apple account and confirm the devices tied to it.. HR will (in many SV orgs) attempt to add a device to your apple account to monitor you.

BYOD is a nightmare for personal privacy, and HR depts will use personal info against you.

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EDIT: Just a reminder that Uber literally went after the medical records (HIPAA violations, at min.) to slander a person calling them out for sexual misconduct
I am not a violent person. I always seek to de-escalate at every turn & I'm very good at it.

Most incidents turn on the smallest details. A 4' metal pole with a sharp point on the end is a very meaningful thing to have in your hand. 99% of any incidents will be with dogs. So it's more about appearing big and formidable than it is actually needing to fight. Do not run. Stand, brandish your weapon, and make noise. People aren't that different from dogs. This is one of nature's strategies: appear big & scary.

If you were hiking and descending many challenging pistes with slippery rocks and whatnot, you would be happy to have a walking stick to help you.
The tree in question:

An Indian laurel fig tree, is considered a major invasive species in Hawaii, Florida, Bermuda, Central America, and South America. F. microcarpa is widely used as a street and ornamental tree in areas of coastal California that are free of regular frost. Its strong roots can lift sidewalks and pavements, and many California cities no longer recommend planting them. In Southern California, a population of the symbiotic fig wasp is now established, which allows the ornamental trees to produce fertile fruit. Seeds are spread by fruit-eating birds, and F. microcarpa can now spread without direct human help. Naturalized populations have been found in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Ventura counties, including on buildings, bridges, and other structures, and as an epiphyte on other trees, especially palm trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_microcarpa
> I'm happy things like this exist to at least give people more options.

Risking getting killed and having to kill people to pay for your education and being happy about it is up there in the list of "only in America"
I am not afraid of doing an exit interview and putting everything on display, specially if leadership is toxic. It's important for HR to understand problems within the company so that they can be addressed.
I have done this with no issues arising from it even though I have referenced that same employer in my resume.
they said they were a manager, evidently the responses come to them in such a way that they feel it is anonymous.

However, I have a problem seeing how the data from an exit interview if truly anonymous would be at all useful. But they said it was useful for them as a manager as well, so...
It is airborne. Distance works. Vaccinated spread less instead of not at all. You seem to be deliberately misinterpreting other recommendations to paint them a certain way.
Whistleblowers get destroyed in the culture we have right now, they loose everything. It don't think its reasonable to ask people to destroy their own lives so that we might one day find out about the horrors that companies do only to watch as nothing is done to resolve it with the perpetrators.

If the circumstances were different and the public didn't stand for such widespread mistreatment of those that stood against illegal activity then there is different advice, but far from having protections for whistleblowers as it stands we only have punishment.
There would have to be a lot of people leaving simultaneously for it to be anything but obvious who it came from.
I had two exit interviews at the same large corporation with very different outcomes.

1) The formal exit interview with HR. The HR person was apparently called to do it on her day off (no idea why they didn't just have someone else do it), and made sure I knew it, complained that "we just spent a lot of money on those classes you took and you were on track for Leadership training." Seriously? People leave: it's a cost of doing business!

2) The VP of Engineering called me into his office to say goodbye and ask a few questions. Specifically, he wanted to know if the company's diversity programs were accomplishing anything useful (I'm black) or if they were just fooling themselves. In his words "you already have another job, so I'm sure I can trust you to be completely honest." I took him seriously and tried to give complete, honest answers to. Truth be told, I loved working there. I just wanted to move away from that part of the country and had a great opportunity.

HR's attitude pissed me off so much that if I didn't already like the place I would probably have badmouthed them to anyone who asked.
Sorry to hear that. This is a good reminder to everyone else of why you should try to avoid identifying yourself on anonymous surveys, even if you aren't saying anything risky. Everyone who gives their name, or makes it easy to figure it out, makes it that much easier to identify those who really want the anonymity. (Same principle as using encryption and Tor even when you don't really need it.)

People who provide negative feedback on these surveys do become targets, and not always for retaliation, but because companies (or the subgroups inside them) don't want discontent to spread, or would rather have an unquestioning happy employee they can manipulate.
The linked article shows biological effects of low frequency electromagnetic fields, then argues that cell phone signals contain low frequency components "in the form of on/off pulsations, modulation, and signal variability". But cell phones cannot really transmit at low frequencies because their antennas are too small compared to the wavelength. That's why they use high frequency carrier and modulate it. If you look at the spectrum of the transmitted signal, there's almost nothing at the low end.

For this effect to exist, something in the living cells need to rectify the high-frequency radio signal. I wonder what it is. There are no semiconductors or p-n junctions inside the cells. There are bug detectors that work by using this principle, and they are not triggered by living tissue.
If anything my friends and I are damaging our ICE or hybrid vehicles by taking short trips we have no business taking. Even in cities that have made some progress on walkable neighborhoods, it's often the case that the place you want to be is in the next neighborhood over, which is a worst case scenario for ICE engines.

These short trips would be much better in an EV.
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> Can you point to some sources on this.

No, but I've heard it many times. I've also seen plenty of talk about the trade deficit not being a deficit at all, as the balance is foreign investment in the US, which is not counted.

> so the global language of business is kinda irrelevant

Attend a trade show. They're in English, even in foreign countries. Every single one I've attended.

The bottom line is, which companies do you invest in?
That's exactly my approach, too :) Thin client laptop + GPU workstation in the basement.

Docker Image and Proxy are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30909178
> Would you prefer that employee voice their opinion during exit

If it's something really important, e.g. safety culture, then the employee should have already raised this much, much earlier.

If the company didn't listen then, then evidently they see concerning behaviour as an acceptable cost of running their business in a certain way.

I think it's bad to say anything revelatory in an exit interview, as it shows you as someone who isn't prepared to speak up when you notice something wrong.
> Here's a much more salient example:[refusing to block Russian sites]

Starlink doesn't run their own DNS, so they're not going to block them there. And I would guess that such a simple site is hard to block by IP address - it's probably on shared hosting.

> Musk is clearly pro-Ukraine,

He is? He supported Ukraine giving a high profile plug to his project. If Kim Kardashian wanted to plug my product on her social media I'd do a ton to make it happen, but it doesn't make me a fan.
Nope, it neither matters or is a net positive outside perhaps of a group of very loyal customers. I do it because it pays really really well.
Good points.

As this is such an emotionally charged topic, they're likely not thinking with such long term logic. It's more of a reactionary thing
This is a fair critique!

It's just more nuanced than "I don't want to watch shows with ads".
> When the machine has 2x the number of segfaults of any other machine in the fleet, you send it for repairs

At that scale, it's quite likely sent to repair automatically and whoever's on call just gets a notification.
> High tolerance for feeling ignorant, confused, silly, inadequate, a novice

What are some tools to do this? When I feel I don’t know something, I feel very anxious, stupid and unhappy. How did you develop the skill to be okay when ignorant?
In this context, the government is the employer. Why are you treating it like a different one?
> "Oh shit, Amazon does 6 interviews? We should do that too!"

Therein lies the problem. Doing things because someone bigger and better is doing it is not the right decision making process
That's a strong accusation against the people who predicted and then found the God Particle.
A more practical and commonly used solution would be to use a cheap laptop to remote into a desktop computer. I've known people who've used chromebooks for this exact purpose.
Yes, I would like to make those decisions. No, I don't think I'm owed the right to make them. To say otherwise would be silly; if we all honored such a right we'd be forever trapped navigating an interminable labyrinth of negotiation and consensus-reaching.
You need to provide more context. A tweet isn't news. Who is this guy, what did he say, how did that impact Musk?
It's only an argument if you don't acknowledge that 1) you have no idea what kind of apps I build and 2) it's fair to say that we're building different kinds of things.

The behaviour you are describing would indeed be frustrating. It describes (well) many of the sites built with SPAs, IMO.

Thankfully, that's not at all what I'm talking about. My stack - server rendered content, Turbo Drive for asynch page loads, Stimulus for light client interactivity that doesn't involve permanent state - is amongst the most battle-hardened.

In real terms, hard page refreshes take hundreds of ms on top of whatever data is sent. Turbo Drive can replace content in whatever real-time is, which is especially noticable on mobile devices. A properly constructed Turbo Drive powered app can therefore feel native to most users, but with server-rendered content.

If you haven't tried it, you might be shocked when you do.

As an addendum: Shoelace is not my site, and I share your distaste of "Loading" prerolls. That said, a quick blue line across the top of the content area that you only see for the same amount of time you'd be waiting for content to load anyhow seems distinctly fine - and that is, not coincidentally, exactly what Turbo Drive does out of the box.
If they weren't taking the feedback prior to you quitting, they certainly aren't going to take the feedback after you're gone.

And if you weren't giving the feedback prior to you quitting, you haven't been doing a great job of preserving the value of your equity up until now.
Ah, that's a interesting system. I can see how something like that would work well