skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through half of it. I think it has promise, but not really sure I would call it a handbook. Some things are just strange to me:

> A senior employee comes to you with a competitive offer in hand, asking for a promotion. You investigate the situation and decide that, since you really don’t want to lose this employee, you will cave and give them a promotion.

> You have just created a strong incentive for political behavior.

Hard disagree. People look for more responsibility / jobs all the time and when they come to you saying they want to stay and this is their condition, you better honor it and not call it "politics". They don't have to do that at all and now you're back to hiring or backfilling.

This is also literally the opposite of the highlights saying:

> Attract, nurture, coach, and retain talent.

> Keep an eye on your team's health and happiness.

> Give your team a clear path to progress in their careers.

Also this section on remote work is so out of touch:

> Always have your camera on for meetings and touchpoints. Please ask others to do so as well. This is non-negotiable. There should be no state in which you are working where your camera can't be turned on. If you look like ass, own the fact that you look like ass and understand that at some point the people you are talking to will look like ass too. If you don't want to turn the camera on because you are sitting in bed and it's all messed up, then get out of the bed and go sit at a table or something. This isn't rocket science. Be 100% of yourself at all times, but be professional.

An executive definitely wrote this. I bet they don't show their face to every call they take. The pandemic has made this normal, but prior to it I think this would be challenged. I don't need to see your face to work with you. Sure let's do it often, but not 24/7.

> The terms “management” and “leadership” are often used interchangeably, but they are actually two distinct things. In short, management is tactical and leadership is strategic.

This attitude I think harms the merit of what management really is. Management is a noble profession that people think is separate from leadership. They are the same regardless of what you think. I think Clayton Christensen said it best:

> “I used to think that if you cared for other people, you need to study sociology or something like it. But….I [have] concluded, if you want to help other people, be a manager. If done well, management is among the most noble of professions. You are in a position where you have eight or ten hours every day from every person who works for you. You have the opportunity to frame each person’s work so that, at the end of every day, your employees will go home feeling like Diana felt on her good day: living a life filled with motivators.”

I would overall call this a generic self-help guide for someone who happens to be a manager. It literally includes word for word ideas in the most random places like GTD, stoicism, and even a section on sales?
Both Paddle and Gumroad are cheaper than Fastspring. Both are Merchant of Record and take care of taxes. Gumroad included. Paddle is straight 5% always. Not sure Gumroad starts at 10% but it goes down if you sell enough. And it can go to really low 3%. The problem being Gumroad is not customisible as Paddle is.

I don't think there are better options. Thats why everybody in software is starting to use Paddle.
I’ve had this thought as well, though always regarded the “functional” skills to be more of a coping mechanism for the lack of high-throughput state. It’s not that I’m naturally good at systematic thinking, but that I’ve been forced to become competent, and I envy the person who can operate wholistically.
Source? Why would they do so only on Ubuntu?
They've been at it for years, but it's been a difficult problem to solve. Tangible progress has been made in the last 2 or so OS updates, however.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/talkin-treble-how-an...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/qualcomm-promises-th...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/android-10-has-the-f...
But wasn’t the scientific consensus already that Newtonian physics was unable to explain certain observations, i.e. everyone already knew Newtonian physics was false? It’s not like Einstein just published a paper that said “nuh uh, all the experts are full of shit and here’s why…” and then proceeded to use powerful rhetoric to convince everyone they had been wrong.
Canonical love making bizarre decisions like this. Just look at Unity and Mir.
A lot of orgs don't control their promotion cycle.

Imagine a local unit with the budget given for promotions from global is announced after the yearly promotion discussions of all team leaders happened.

So they had to come up with some form of ranking so that the cut off can be made based on the available budget.

So even if 15 people had done all that their team leads said would be necessary for a promotion the decision hinges on some internal ranking as well as a globally decided budget.
Is there any reason why the user in question couldn't turn off warnings at that point if they don't want to bother with it?
Well, a huge chunk of them are/were.

Some months ago when reading stories about banned books in TX - I started comparing articles written about it from left-wing / main stream news - and other places.

Then I ordered several of the books listed as being banned.

I must say that I don't think the graphic-novel version of the handmaids tale should be on the shelf at the local under 18 school (imho).

The teen's underground guide to sexual.. something like that. I think parts of it are great for high schoolers who want to learn, and/if their parents are cool with that knowledge being sought after - I like the way it's worded.. but then the chapters on abortion and gay stuff.. I can understand why there is a movement to keep it off the shelves of school libraries.
(which further research I found that those things were added in to the book after it had been in print for a number of years )

The linked story links to a page which highlights race/gay/historical percentages / numbers.. which links to a pen america study (https://pen.org/banned-in-the-usa/) for it's gist..

which states:
Health-related and/or Sexual Content

A subset of 283 titles (25%) deal with sexual or health-related content.

After doing to small amount of research I did, I would say there is much more overlap on these things than is being shown in the raw numbers - and I could see that even if a group of parents in town X were okay with a gay black two mommies living hard in the USA story - if it had graphic illustrations like the ones in the hand maids tale I got - I would expect that many would say no - that should not be there for unfettered access to the kids.
Not great. When standards become whatever Google feels like it is due to their market share, you end up breaking the web for users outside of Chromium

I've recently found out that Firefox/Chrome treats viewport sizes differently when zooming in/out. Which one is correct behavior? I have no idea nor am I interested in digging through pages of RFCs so I just ended up doing a user-agent check and use logic per browser.
Just seemed right to share: https://twitter.com/github/status/1517986014114975744 :)
American companies are mining the Finnish language for unique brand names
On FF, I get a blank page. Given the domain name, I thought it was a joke until I came here and read the comments.
Mine prompts me to restart when I load a new page, no option to postpone as fat as I've seen.
I don't see how it's hypocritical to give democratically elected governments different possibilities that random private companies.

It's government's job to put constraints on companies, stopping them from becoming the absolute assholes they become if they have no limitations. That does not make them authoritarian.
Interview: Ramez Naam, futurist, author, and investor
> Systems improve over time.

They at least change over time. Not all of them improve.
> then it is reasonable to expect that they won't go too much further.

Is it reasonable to expect that whatever social/political forces have pushed them to do this will stop there?

It makes no difference really if Twitter is out in front leading this or being dragged along kicking and screaming against their will. Is there reason to think "okay you can all stop worrying it's definitely stopped here and won't go any further"?
This is a vast oversimplification of the range of transgender experiences, and the connotation that people "fake" being trans is all too familiar, but misinformed.
If a wikipedia article is edited, one can still find the old version in the history. But if it's outright deleted, there's no trace left of its content, in archives or elsewhere?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosemont_Seneca_P... shows that even the history of the article was erased.
If you want RJ45, they also have a switch with 10G RJ45 ports built in: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs312_4c_8xg_rm
Not when Mozilla will just disable things like ublock origin and umatrix, without telling the user.

browsing the web is *dangerous* without them.
I’m just not a big fan of laws where just about everyone could arguably be breaking them in some small way. That’s a lot of faith to put in regulators to always act honorably.

Vaguely worded laws can also lead conservative corporate counsels to make decisions like geoblocking all of the EU
If you want to know what Exxon's PR is thinking just listen to your average Texas senator.
On Arch, it's 50:50 on if it will prompt for a restart, or just start having crashing tabs.
As a first-level manager you're not in control of compensation policies but you can certainly impact promotions in many ways. I have had many managers who were honest about the lack of promotion or a bigger bonus.
I’ve seen enough people putting off the chrome zero day updates to understand why Mozilla is resorting to a snap package for updates.
Some people loved it, some hated it. Some (this includes me) used it where it did offer advantage. I do not use Pascal to write servers (even though I could and did for some particular situations). I use maily C++ for it. But for developing lean and mean desktop GUI apps for multiple platform I find nothing better. Also I am not sure what pascal are you talking about. The one "derided by comp scientists" and current Delphi/FreePascal are one universe apart.
Numerous libraries will take recommendations for book purchases.

Acting on those tends to scale with the reputation of author and/or publisher, but there are reasonably good odds.
Yes, any vehicle that can be drive with a motor.

Here’s an out there scenario - a few power generating aircraft or satellites in high orbit sending power down to drones at lower altitudes, and vehicles on the ground that just have inverters and motors. No costly batteries, let alone the logistical supplies required for fuel and maintenance for combustion. You are no longer limited by the slow moving fuel vehicles; a blitz is a whole other thing now.

Generators and solar arrays are the backbone of most forward operating bases - no longer. You have so much more freedom and space as you are no longer restricted by your power / fuel requirements.

It will shift the balance of war, vehicles, infrastructure, logistics.

For less military uses - imagine doing away with power cables entirely. No more costly infrastructure built above or below the ground. Just a few towers (much like mobile phone towers) transmitting to households. Depending on where the technology goes, imagine not needing batteries in anything anymore. You’re just hooked up to the wireless grid for power too.

It’s still in its infancy, but this is pretty significant.
Why would they? If there were many small banks competing with each other for the consumer's money, the free market mechanics would have quickly brought the interest rates up.

But hey, who needs competition. Let the banking sector be run by a bunch of buddies that go to the same golf club, and if they cock up, they can always schmooze the regulator to give out a hefty bailout package. Who would have thought the consumer will get screwed?
We basically have that with the way publishers license ebooks to libraries. :(
I just long pressed on a Slack notification and a “reply” text box appeared above the keyboard.
Declining a promotion that a manager doesn’t feel is warranted does not conflict with providing a clear career path for team members.

Promoting someone to staff engineer who doesn’t meet the bar lowers the bar for a staff engineer at the company.

Promoting based on a threat to leave communicates that one path forward is negotiation through counter-offers. Maybe that’s the culture some company are after, I don’t know.

Management and leadership are distinct. There are people managers who don’t lead their teams and senior ICs who do.
Modern monetary theory disagrees with the third one, and so do I. I don't think a currency needs to be a store of value, just a medium of exchange. In practice, we store value in a lot of things that are not money (stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, etc).

For example, if you had a system of money with guaranteed inflation at a certain level, you could produce a synthetic store of value that is not the money.
> The timing still undeniably connects the two events

Not taking any sides here, but correlation does not equal causation.
Ask HN: Email Therapy
Hi,

I'm depressed and judging by posts as of late (see below), chances are, so are you.

I go to talk therapy and it's okay. Some sessions have been life saving. But the vast majority of my sessions frankly are a waste of time. The biggest waste of time - I feel - is frequently having to re-explain things. I wish I could go all "omg rtfm" to my therapist, but that's not an option - being the nature of talk therapy and all.

Have any of you considered Email Therapy[1]? The idea being you don't communicate with your therapist via spoken word (in person, phone call, zoom, etc.). Rather you communicate via written word (email, text, slack, or go full A. Ham with a written letter).

I see very little mention of it on HN over the years [2]. Therefore, I feel like it's not a well known thing in the community. And shit, I'm right there with you, I have been going to talk therapy for 20 years and today is the first day I heard of Email Therapy.

I'm going to give it a try. I'm thinking I'll ask my current therapist if they would like to convert to this form. Otherwise, I'll be looking for therapists that do offer such a service.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_counseling
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=email%20therapy&sort=byPopularity&type=story

The posts as of late. I wish you all strength.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668506
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30923701
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862058
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31039849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132560
I have this for hearing. And after I realized it, I asked a lot of friends about their memories and experienced and found people who like me also have trouble imagining one of the senses. From remembering taste, they never had cravings and ate super healthy, lucky, to not be able to recreate visuals, touch and me missing auditory imagination.
Nice solution. You can got a step further if you have the need - your eavesdropper or malicious observer problem can be addressed by launching the network connections from inside the process space of your app, e.g. for golang:
https://github.com/openziti/sdk-golang

Similarly, this eliminates the IP address dependencies.

Sample (Java in this case - see GitHub above for various language options):
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-zero-trust-o...
>The pandemic has made this normal, but prior to it I think this would be challenged. I don't need to see your face to work with you. Sure let's do it often, but not 24/7.

my rules, since i started working remotely (so ~10y ago) regarding cameras are: on if the meeting has less than 10 people. on at the beginning from 10 to 20~30. after that number, off (since it doesn't matter anymore).

that means that for team and project meetings, my camera is always on. for dept meetings, it's on at the beginning because i want people to know i'm around and paying attention (usually i turn it off after the meeting starts properly). and for company wide meetings, it's off because there are so many people that it doesn't really matter if the CEO can see me or ont.
> I guess this shows the slippery slope fallacy isn't always fallacious.

No, it’s still always fallacious. The argument “it’s going to rain today because it’s Saturday and it always rains on Saturday” is fallacious even on the occasions that it does rain on Saturday.
My understanding is that cat-5e, for short runs (45m) you'd find in a house, can do 10gig. I'm still running 6a for all my new runs, but probably didn't need to.
And face mass layoffs, shutdowns, etc in europe?
Had to do a double take for a minute, as in my days in the Army, we could max out our AN/TRC-170 on troposcatter mode at 2.0 kW, with a substantial range on a good atmosphere day.

The use case here, however, is incredibly different. We'd typically be towing 2x 10 kW diesel generators with us, so this is certainly an interesting POC to follow.
> The phenomenon of mental illness & trauma-based clout is intriguing and I don’t really understand it.

The original sin is the convention that punishment for crimes shouldn't be determined by the type of crime and the guilt of the defendant. Instead, it's normal to start with that to get a guideline, then choose from within that guideline based decisively on the degree of empathy and pity that the judge and/or jury feel for the defendant. This is done by selling the defendant as disadvantaged.

But selling the defendant as materially disadvantaged has a drawback: as the individuals who make up the court are drawn from extremely advantaged classes, and claims of material disadvantage make them feel bad about themselves. They generally need to hold the view that all material disadvantage can be overcome by will, having that will (to overcome material disadvantage) thereby becomes a moral standard, and lacking that will becomes a second justification for punishment. A dog can resist food when it is starving if you hit it enough, so punishment actually becomes therapeutic.

With the rise of the concept of psychology and mass medicalization of normal human ranges of behavior, sentencing couldn't help but become a ritual where the defense tries to sell the defendant as mentally unhealthy and pitiable. In other words, someone physically incapable of generating the will that punishment should give them.

Punishment in the justice system is ostensibly a process for deciding on the disposition of people who have committed acts considered wrong. If the anxiety, sadness, or mental instability etc. of the person committing these acts results in less punishment for being wrong, the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that mental illness and disadvantage makes you righter or more correct. Hypothetically, the person with the perfect combination of illness and disadvantage is never wrong.

Which IMO is why we have an culture of opposing mobs being led by people with severe cluster B personality disorders, and people who admire those people also developing these disorders by imitation. It's why when you get called out for molesting tweens, you come out as gay, or why when the twitter mob comes for you for a racist joke you made, you release an essay about being molested as a child and describe the therapy you're about to go into.

Everybody wants to be weak, because the weakest are the rightest. The problem is that these people aren't actually weak (because performance of weakness is part of social climbing), and the loudest are active crybullies. Actually weak people are still voiceless and ignored. The US is spending less on mental illness. The US has a weaker safety net.
Wow, 60% is way higher efficiency than I thought these systems were getting. I was fully expecting “using 16kw of power 1.6kw was successfully transmitted”
Tesla built the means to transmit power in the early 1900's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Histor...

I would imagine alot of Radio transmitting knowledge would be useful in this domain of knowledge.
What needs to be shared is a high level arch not nuts and bolts.

At a broad level:

what are the input sources like IP address , clicks on other websites etc you use to feed the model.

What is the overall system optimized for , like some combination of engagement , view time etc, just listing them if possible in a order of preference is good enough

Alternatively what does your human management measure and monitor as the business metrics of success .

I want to know what behaviors (not necessarily how ) are used , I want to know what is feed trying to optimize for , more engagement, more view time to etc

This is not adversarial, knowing this helps as modify user behavior to make the model work better.

Users already have some sense of this and work around it blindly , for example YouTube has heavy emphasis on resent views and search . I (and am sure others) would use signed out user to see content way outside my interest area so my feed isn’t polluted with poor recommendations. I may have watched 1000’s hours of educational content but google would still think some how to video I watched once means I need to only see that kind of content.

Google knows it is me sure even am signed out, but they don’t use it change my feed that’s the important part and knowing that can help improve my user experience
Do people with aphantasia daydream? How does it work? What about drawing?

When I was a kid I would spend hours constructing elaborate daydream worlds and plot lines. They were so vivid that I could have drawn them if asked.
> Boss wants to change our iOS game icon. Changing icon requires a new build. A new build requires iPhone X support. iPhone X build target requires Xcode 9. Xcode 9 requires macOS 10.12. OS update breaks old Unity3D. Upgrading Unity breaks build.

* The iPhone X was released on 2018.

* Xcode 9.0 was released on 2017, and 9.4.1 (last release) on 2018.

* macOS 10.12 was released on 2016.

I'm sorry to say, but this sort of setup does not reflect well on anyone working on the project. Apple's call out should be considered a wakeup call.

Also, doesn't Xcode 9 only support iOS releases up to iOS 11? The global market of all iOS versions lower than iOS 11 should lie in the lower single digits.
Something is wrong with that site, the entire page is a link for some reason.
Are you seeing any healthcare professionals? You have mentioned a number of things going on in your life (depression, anxiety, substance use, childhood trauma) that doctors are trained to help with.
No, your comment is completely wrong in basically every aspect. The difficulty of proof of work (for the most part) only determines the profit margins of the miners and the volume of transactions on the network, and is also not set in stone and can be changed at any time. It's literally just another form of capital control. Also by dramatically increasing the difficulty you actually make the network much more susceptible to takeovers because that leads to consolidation amongst the miners.
That makes sense, but I still don't think you want "valuable." In practice, most of the value of real economic systems is not held in money, but in assets. In the crypto universe, Bitcoin is more of an asset than a currency (although a valueless one if you don't consider it a currency). All you need now is a good currency.