skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen this in many companies other than Google and shockingly even at startups.

If setting an OKR is meant to focus the team and maximize effort towards solving those problems, this approach is counterproductive because it completely fails to measure the effort exerted towards a goal.

You could have a 1.0 OKR and you could have 2 cases.
1. Set it too easy, didn’t have to do much to achieve it
2. Set a hard goal and produce a Herculean effort to achieve it

The latter case isn’t accounted for. It’s is glaringly obvious but the dull manager types don’t seem to want to acknowledge the difference or the fact that the latter behavior, if incentivized, leads to better and more predictable outcomes.

Instead, the effort is met with a blanket: “Too easy, didn’t set a hard enough goal”.

This incentivizes people to set easier goals that they can meet comfortably and slack of 20% of the time so that it doesn’t look like the goal they set was too easy.
I’ve been led to believe that all non-interactive tasks only run on the efficiency cores by default. Of course code can request alternate priorities.

It’s entirely possible that Apple has written things like the spotlight indexer to explicitly make sure they run that way as well, or it may just be an intentional result of the policy.
Seems like a shiny repackaging of Finicity/MX.com with little value added. I don't see any reason to recommend this product to anyone. Or maybe they're targeting a different market. This solves exactly none of the issues I've had working with almost every bank aggregation API on the planet (Yodlee, Plaid, Finicity, Tink, Nordigen, Belvo). And boy, do they have issues.

As the founder at Fintable.io (personal/SMB finance plugin), I deal with bank connection issues on a daily basis.

- Screen scraping is 1. flaky and 2. insecure because it requires saving credentials and is 3. not realtime and 4. doesn't work with 2FA. Account balances can be out of date within minutes, and cannot be refreshed without another auth

- 95% of banks on the planet don't have OAuth APIs. The 5% that do have APIs that often don't serve customer needs because they provide the absolute minimum amount of data to meet the requirement. For example CapitalOne's API only provides access to 90 days of data. American Express does not provide access to invoice metadata, which makes reconciliation hard. Who can provide dedicated direct screen-scraping connections to banks with all the data that users want?

- When building a generic fintech product (as I do), global bank coverage is essential. The least bit of innovation Stripe could have done was save me the trouble of having to integrate 5 different APIs to get access to US, European, Latin American and Australian banks.

- In the same vein, connection to 90% of accounts is useless for many users if they can't access the other 10%. The number one need for financial planning software is "to see all my accounts in one place". Most people have at least one account with some obscure institution or overseas bank. If they can't see all their accounts in one place, this isn't solving the problem.

- This is just an API without a GUI dashboard. Another common complaint I've heard from my leads that Plaid/Finicity is only for programmers, or companies that have programming expertise. What if you're a marketing firm with need for no-code bank data visibility?

- Only 180 days of transaction data and no statements? This is much worse than Plaid and Finicity.

I guess it's nice if you can verify ACH details faster, but even then the coverage is worse than Plaid, and so I don't see any reason to recommend this product to anyone. Zero innovation and objectively worse than the current offering? Who is the target market here?
Navigated on a dark website in Safari, Firefox and Chrome and couldn’t reproduce the issue. When I click on a link, the browser loads the page and when it’s ready the displayed page switches to the newly loaded one without a white flash.

Should you encounter white flashes, try preloading likely next clicks (e.g. next page, or first search result, or where the mouse cursor hovers 200 ms over a link) with `<link rel="prefetch" href="theurl">`[1]. Make sure your HTTP response headers contain caching instructions, otherwise prefetched pages are requested immediately again by some browsers.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Prefetch
For Node.js there is a nice library called PDFKit (https://pdfkit.org/) which offers a canvas-like API for drawing graphics, text with ttf fonts, and other graphcal elements. I would say it's pretty good if you need exact control over the PDF output.
Nothing in your screenshot suggests that the site being an SPA is responsible for the download size.
"linux" doesn't seem to include ARM32.

$ ./npt

lisp initialize error.

Aside, while I do appreciate the enormous effort in writing a CL compiler and the generosity in offering the source code for free, I wished the project would state its objective and expected life-cycle.
yeah , agreed -- but that doesn't really say anything about parents' point.

in fact it makes just as much sense totally flipped -- lots of highly effective people who have been successful in this world have had terrible interpersonal skills.

Presumably the point being made is that interpersonal skill doesn't predict success in business 1:1, and that deciding to throw a portion of applicants out due to perceived social issues is necessarily throwing out some thorny individuals with fantastic individual ability for the sake of the herd.

I can't say whether or not that's good or bad -- but as someone with terrible interpersonal skills myself I tend to hope that someone would alert me to my individual faux pas rather than silently ridding themselves of my presence all together.
> This stunt would destroy all of their future prospects.

Or is a high-risk, high-reward way to launch a political career. I can see someone running for office with this as a cornerstone of their campaign.

I don't think it's a good plan, but maybe it is or is perceived to be by the leaker.
"MDMA can help treat depression!"

You don't say...
also, random dude from audience plays drums for Foo Fighers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll7lfZZjR4A
Started using Tailscale the other week and it just blew my mind.

But: Now that they have more money, I just wish they could spend some time making it enterprisey and not hobbyist-ey.

Things like: improve all the screens with high-density modes so we can filter thousands of devices, not hundreds. And make it integrate better with Windows Intune for hands-free deployment i.e. if we're a Hybrid 365 environment, please detect the users credentials from their Windows install and login automatically. Maybe release an installer for enterprise deployment that silently downloads and installs the latest version so that we can i.e. integrate it into a Windows Autopilot unboxing experience.
> I'd imagine the Gates could get far more bang for their CC bucks by lobbying for revoking the EPA/FDA/OSHA/VA. A few billions in the right super PACs and CC might be reversed.

So, your claim is that if we didn't have the FDA or EPA, then we wouldn't have climate change? I haven't such a ridiculous claim in awhile. What's the logic here? Even disregarding the other Federal agencies that you seem to dislike, how does the end of the Environmental Protection Agency hinder climate change in any capacity whatsoever? Is this just sarcasm implying that if more people die due to the absence of these agencies, then there will be less of a collective carbon footprint?
It isn't just inducing stress that tells me they are an asshole. Interviews are inherently stressful, there is little need to intentionally add extra stress on top. The dishonesty is also a problem. Interviews are a two-way street. The first impression this gives candidates is that their employer will think nothing of lying to their face and employees will so regularly be under stress that handling stress well is one of the traits they find most important. No thanks.
counterpoint, it isn't underpaying. it is the market rate.

>Voters and dollars spent on political speech.

If the dollars go the other way, will you change your opinion?
Probably only for companies without a business model.

Sentry is amazing, I pay for the business tier for three different Saas products I'm building. It's a game changer.
Previous EBUG thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716279 NHL stunner: A 36-year-old accountant who has never played pro stars in Blackhawks win 2018, 85 comments
Totally agree with this. I'm also an advocate for giving people substantial pay rises every year. It sounds profligate, but the alternative is that people leave for the so-notorious-as-not-to-merit-explaining pay bump one gets from switching company, and all your institutional knowledge ends up churning practically continually. It's probably the biggest thing I learned from my (former) time doing eng management.

(Also, fwiw, it's a non sequitur - I sat in Latin classes for 8 years and I still can't remember the conjugations well enough to explain why, but, long story short, it's a verb and so it doesn't obey the familiar rules of (even Latinate) English noun endings.)

((Also, that was a very classy and magnanimous response to a – speaking of the comment as distinct from its author – very classless and pusillanimous comment. Chapeau to you. I can't say I'd have managed the same myself.))
The fact that you have to pay to see the standard should tell you everything you need to know.
What was the fraud? I'd consider myself a super-user and the main issues I encounter are lack of reasonably priced listings, a shift to hotel-like professional listings which are boring and defeat the purpose of using airbnb, and exorbitant cleaning fees and the like.
> That statement is a tautology.

This is giving me vietnam-style university flashbacks.
Or, option (d), the court intends to neither overturn Roe nor the lower court ruling in Dobbs, and deliberately leaked a draft written by the most inflammatory member of the court in order to show people "look it could have been worse". These are, after all, seven of the smartest people in the legal profession. I suspect that they intend to overturn only some very technical aspect of Dobbs appeal and remand it back to the appellate court for further proceedings.

I can almost imagine the conversation between Roberts and Alito: "hey Sam, the debate is pretty evenly split here; why don't you draft us up the text that you'd publish if things lean your way? Then we'd have something tangible to pick through."
I'm in webdev to access any employment opportunities. Moving to kernel/embedded would be fun but it almost feels like jumping to another industry. I have no connections and no idea how to find a good company (e.g. what is the Joel Test for hardware companies?) I have gone on a few job sites and sprayed/prayed my resume, which so far has gotten zero interest from anyone. OTOH I'm lucky to have landed where I did so it might be for the best that I stay in webdev.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-IGNvfrg8 Scott Foster appearance highlights
I would love something like this, but I do not think I am at the level to be able to build something like this, at least not in a reason amount of time.

I've not used Redux for anything before, but I will look into for sure. I've heard the name thrown around a few times on here, and I could probably use something like that. Just nothing that would require a staunch learning curve to use.
I prefer to use real problems with the work that have already been solved. It shows what the day-to-day is like, you know there's at least one solution to the problem, and you aren't asking someone to work for free.
> and a broken bone will ruin your mood

Curious thing I've noticed - physical ailments had very little effect on my mood as a child, but have a significant impact on my mood in my 30s. Something even as simple as a cold can make me unwilling to be helpful, empathetic, etc now.

Why is this?
...and a very young James Earl Jones, in his film debut!
DXM is one of a few dissociative compounds besides Ketamine that I feel should be further studied for psychological and emotional benefit, the most important, in my opinion, being Methoxetamine (MXE).

If anyone that has any pull is reading this, do trials with MXE. It's Ketamine on steroids.
I think they understand what they need to say to get investments. This could be a huge development in fuel technology. Or if could be to fuels what the Hyperloop is to transportation.

The OP explains that the main reason why they aren't delivering fuel is because they can't perform the carbon-dioxide separation cheaply enough. So, they have a plan to deliver cheap captured-carbon fuels, once they solve the issue that has consistently eluded companies seeking to produce captured carbon fuels. If they manage to solve it, great that's an awesome invention. But until that actually gets solved, they're one of many synthetic fuel companies that are blocked on the problem of carbon capture.
When it became legal here several years ago, I tried it out a bunch. Turns out I'm the kind of person that cannabis generally makes anxious/paranoid. Probably for the best, but I'm kind of bummed it isn't as fun as people always made it out to be.
Not everything needs to be treated as a mission-critical account of the highest importance. I recently had an app for a home appliance ask me to set up 2FA. Yeah, sure, because my IoT dishwasher or plant monitor is such a critical respurce worth protecting.

If someone really knows what they are doing, let them not use 2FA. GitHub is different from Facebook, in that we're supposed to know what we're doing with technology. Let hacking sort out the stragglers.
Here is "drawing a triangle"

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/webgl/webgl_drawing_a_triangl...
What is the point of messing with scrolling behavior? Do people find this to be an improvement over the default?
Why did Argonaut have the ability to design early GPU hardware when it doesn't seem like anyone else had the interest, background knowledge or tools?

(And how did Nintendo find a company in the UK to work with considering the language barriers?)
One of my isolation projects was to put together a watch using an ETA 2824-2 movement from EBay. You might want to consider buying the parts you want individually. Match a case to a movement or it's clone. Find a dial that matches the movement complications and the case diameter. Find hands that match the movement and the case diameter. Most of the work is in the identification of parts, putting the watch together is really just like slapping a small sandwich together (minus putting the second hand on, that... is a test of dexterity, perseverance and commitment, the shaft you have to set it on is ~0.25mm).

Often a seller will be a small time watch maker and their components will all fit together, a good way to save on shipping.

Result: it's become my favorite watch, I wear it every day.

Next project was to use a bunch of cheap clone parts and a 3d printed dial, still working on that one :)
> chooses an imperative language to define circuit topologies

hmm.. maybe that's ok if they don't go too overboard and encourage a functional style

> uses & as an in-place, mutating operator

that's it, I'm out of here
>The entire point of getting the private sector is that their incentive should be to do it in the most efficient manner possible

It seems like a common misconception that businesses do anything in 'the most efficient manner possible'. A business's incentive is to do things in 'the most profitable manner possible'. It happens that efficient and profitable have a lot of overlap, and business schools love case studies about eliminating inefficiencies, but in the real world it is often easier to boost profit thru marketing/client relations/lobbying than thru searching for possible inefficiencies.
The cleaning fees not being included in the first sort / visible price is ridiculous.
I love the smell of ASP.NET and Telerik in the morning...
I will look into these. Thank you for sharing.

I doubt I will be able to roll my own version of whatever these project due mainly because of time constraints and because I am the only developer working on it. Since we have adopted all the Agile stuff, Sprints are basically deadlines and not very...Agile.
I should have been clearer. After thinking for a bit I did start asking questions, but the interviewer didn't give me any useful information. IIRC I asked if I could assume the problem was small enough that I could just do a brute force search of possible solutions and the answer came back that no, they needed a solution which would work for any size; I know I asked other questions but I can't remember what they were.

I wasn't silent for half an hour, just for the first couple minutes; but I didn't write any code (which is what the interviewer was pressing me to do).

(Speaking of entirely new algorithms though, there was an interview question which was a thinly disguised 3SUM, and they expected the very obvious N^2 solution; my interviewers were shocked when I pointed out that the way they had structured the problem, the density was high enough to use a convolution and solve it in N log N time.)
It's easy to do it, but I have never really heard of anyone doing it successfully like this. Most programmers come up with a basic plan and then just start coding it and things evolve from there. As the saying going, "a battle plan never survives contact with the enemy."

I'm incredibly impressed with programmers that can visualize a large program and the end product actually resembles what they originally envisioned. That is a gift.
I'm not the one who named it. You're welcome to try and establish a new name for the phenomenon.

Also, yes, "toxic femininity" is also a term (and is even linked from the other page), but for some reason I don't think you were asking in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_sexism#Toxic_femi...
Agreed! I would only want to work with people for whom this test isn't a big deal. No thanks indeed.
Has to be vaultwarden (BitWarden) password manager. And a home Plex media server.
Make use of TeX and Friends source code for handling PDF symbols, then it is much easier to check different implementations. For example, TikZ/PGF package has both PS and PDF implementations of the same graphical objects. So you can see how PDF literals or PS specials come into object stream.

Also it is really not that cryptic but very much laborious, hence many people rely on classical tools to generate PDF instead of handcrafting pdf files from scratch. Here is a nice introduction from a decade ago for you https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2010/09/grow-your-own-pdf-file...
I would say that you've paid the opportunity cost of learning the interlocking systems that compose into your application, and the processes required to update, test, and deploy it. This composition occurs across various boundaries, inside and outside the process, the network, and so on.

The FAANG-ist is one that can pay that opportunity cost quickly and completely, such that they are able to reason about the system with confidence, particularly when it comes time to reverse a feature or bug request into a set of commits. Or, more likely, a set of experiments and commits based on the outcome of those experiments. Given that there is no unified language of application design, doing this requires detailed, specific knowledge of every sub-system involved, the abstractions their authors used, and the ability to translate between them such that you can imagine the entire causal change from input to output. This is hard, and it's why you make the big bucks. (Interestingly, I first wrote "bugs" instead of "bucks". :)
Before camping got wimpy: Roughing it with the Victorians
The FBI is the wrong actor. The US Marshals is the appropriate federal agency to deal with court security.
Like seeing whether a first date is rude to the waiter, or the Bronx Tale car door test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJdqzRM6Dw?t=55s
Well, there's certainly a deprecation cycle in play, and some things may be on their way out that I would rather see kept around (e.g. they seem to have given up on getting the case statement-- given/when-- working: it's tough to do it right without built-in types), but seriously you seem to be behind-the-times on how the project is being managed. If they implement a version 7.0 scheme again, I guarantee they'll do it without breakage: you'll need to say "use v7;" to turn it on.

I have a feeling you're reading Richardo Signes wrong, by the way-- he likes to play up what a negative kind-of-guy he is, and makes critical remarks about the state-of-perl in public that some people take a little too seriously. Perl-haters gotta hate, and they really loved to link to his talk with the title about how perl is an "Ongoing Disaster" or some such.
The main limiter to what you can host is RAM. RPI4s currently go for a premium. Additional they have hidden issues like being picky about power supplies. bottlenecked by IO via USB3 if you want an additional NIC and non-SD storage.

You would be better off with a like-new Dell Wyse 5070 off ebay for ~100 (and occasionally less if you're patient). Supports up to 32GB ram and an M.2 SATA slot.

You'll have much better IO, stability, and capacity compared to RPI4 for not much more cost. Power envelope of the system is pretty similar, the 5070 idles around 5W and loaded down it goes up to ~15W and is fanless which is in the neighborhood of the pi.
> and if there wasn't anything for him to copy down into his interview notes I wasn't going to pass the interview

Also like outright lying, given what happened next. Not exactly the best company culture.
British Intelligence has bars inside their offices. In fact the British security services are basically an oxbridge drinking society.
I think one of the key takeaways for me is just how important the 29 day+ stay is for them as an emerging category which sounds right to me... in part because I enjoy that style of travel but also because lower than that Airbnb is just not very economical and many of the short term listings are basically like hotel rooms anyways, so why not go there if you're only in a city for 5 days and need to check in at 10pm.
How to resurrect a coral reef
Would you please share sources? I need to discuss with a doomer.
What’s terrifying to me is the casual nature of use of this powerful drug. Even for the slightest pain we’ll take a couple of basically free pills and think nothing of it. The older you get the more power you have the more aches and pains the less empathy.

Huh. Explains a bit! :)

The links with adhd and autism are scary too.

My hypochondriac mother guzzled these pills like candy.
I quite agree. Not every GitHub account is mission critical. Some are created only to submit homework or to segregate one's online identity. Adding mandatory 2FA is an additional burden, especially if Microsoft ever decide to enforce the use of mobile numbers.
Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix social media
Well, they know beforehand than they are evaluated for an interview...

It's a bit like psychological or sociological studies. All the time, for ethics reasons, the researchers must tell the subjects than they are part of a psychological or sociological test. But, the test is generally not exactly what is said to the people. For example by testing something hidden or by using actors. See for example the Asch conformity experiments or the Cognitive Dissonance Experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

https://explorable.com/cognitive-dissonance-experiment

In this case the people where told than they where tested, no surprise here... That said, is it really ethic to trick people by telling them than they are tested on "something" but in reality testing them on something else ?