skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the compliment! We are indeed for real, but I don't expect this comment will convince you. I'd love to know what we could do that would change your mind.

The same goes for anyone else reading this. Are you worried that we are too good to be true? What could we do to become more trustworthy in your eyes?

Cheers, Fredrik Stromberg (cofounder of Mullvad)
Ask HN: Are Managers Necessary?
I'm a tenured software eng who has worked in several startups since 2013. I've never accepted a managing position though have been asked.

Looking back on my career, I noticed that I tend to leave or avoid startups that have created a management layer between executive leadership and ICs.

I understand management is necessary (at a Peter Drucker-level understanding) for a growing business.

However from practical experience, it seems to me that when you start hiring managers is when you start introducing overhead, cruft, and the dead weight of bureaucracy to your organization.

As an eng, I can happily move from company to company lending my strengths as an IC in early stages, and jump ship when things get too formal.

But is there an argument for founders to consider that managers ultimately do more harm than good? The first counter that comes to mind is that you simply cannot scale without management. However, I'm curious to hear others thoughts on this and if they've witnessed alternative approaches that show promise.
I don't think that has anything to do with it, because of this:

> It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only, not for the entire haxx.se domain.
It has viper-mode
For full flavor, you'd have to include references to landmarks which no longer exist: "if you pass the vacant lot where the old drugstore used to be, turn around, because you've gone too far."
I wonder how this line of research will be commercially exploited.

Although the reached depth of field was much shorter, this work reminds me about Lytro [0] Illum, a camera capable of refocusing the image after being taken. Announced in 2014 it received significant hype, but it never reached commercial success. One factor that hindered its adoption was the absence of a standard file format and the corresponding viewers for their "living pictures" – adopters were forced to publish their images on Lytro's website in order to allow viewers the ability to refocus the image.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro
You think Google is reducing info Chrome sends in its user agent string in order to limit the ability of Google to favor Chrome?

I can't imagine Google would be doing this without some sort of back-channel method of tracking this exact info. They're likely just removing this info from visibility to other websites, giving themselves a competitive advantage. Man, that sounds a little paranoid, but...
death grips's song culture shock

Useless information occupies every open space inside your skull

You know whats going on every day every night

Everywhere swear you're so international

...

Whatchya gonna be when you're grown young blood?

Gonna be a helpless drone

Won't ever have to think

No your head'll be linked directly to your cell phone

The virus is alive, I can see it in your eyes

The infection is full blown

...

Shiva slashin through your flat screen

Is nowhere for you to hide

Strangled by anaconda thumbs to the soundtrack of world genocide

why am I thinking about this? your life is the sum of the things you spent attention on. because there are serious detriments to the mind in not being able to regulate the inlet of information.

infinite scroll news feeds that lead us to internalize every trauma on earth via constant exposure leads to a mental firewalling, leads to defamiliarization and derealization of one's own neighborhood or even internal struggles. to build a map of the world, it needs to be world-sized, and my friend, our brains are not. so we compress the world to simple pictures and stories. but we don't play a role in them.

compression leads to division - you are confident that your source of information of preference surely is giving you a balanced picture of every side of a story. furthermore you are so confident about this, you feel as though you can predict accurately what your perceived opposites pay attention to. so why bother wasting precious mental resources on establishing connections to them also, when you feel as though you're already getting that for free.

after which you then become suspicious of anyone who acts as a bridge, surely they are just a rogue saboteur from the other side, since your own picture is clear enough to tell you the real truth.

soon you have a broad enough big picture understanding of the topic that you can derive ultimate conclusions of the logical consequences of any concern. but you find that they all lead, at their terminus, to another story, but always a story of either great suffering or triumph. thereby validating your trenchant persistence to save the world.

so furthermore, every enframing that began with simple factual statements, is a road whose destination is a really emotional call to action. it all becomes instinct, every conviction becoming something you feel hot in your bones.

because you have no real effect on the stories you live through, you live through picking which stories you attend to. you become virtual. all the while, you never learn the names of your neighbors in the apartments next door, you never have conversations with the grocer, you use your gym time to catch up on podcasts, you take selfies at marches, you don't hand the beggar a 20 and you don't make eye contact with them, you don't leave your phone at home when you go for a walk in nature, you don't go anywhere without your airpods, etc..

and i say that all really feeling terrible about what is going on in ukraine, just in case you were looking to read this in a way such that you thought i was minimizing that
are you sirsadalot?
apparently the new approach is to scalp lawn that is nonfunctional.

no one seems to realize that soil left uncovered will transpire water content, at the physical rate of evaporation, rather than the regulated rate of phyto transpiration.

the base of the problem is that LA is a bubble, and the maintenance cost is returning negatives.
Working remotely is better than all of those things, iff you commit to doing things correctly and writing things down.

Doing things correctly would help if you were in the office too, but you can paper over the inefficiencies of doing things incorrectly by wasting more time on the backchannel communication face-to-face.
Every time I see "fediverse", I think it's some kind of US federal government cloud, until I remember that it's something else... I'm still not sure what.
1. Reduce your needs.
I wish all fame could be attributed to somebody doing their job well, or doing anything positive at all for that matter.
USA-based.

I personally use it to evade IP-based tracking, for random example LinkedIn. Try browsing LI from your home. LI will suggest that you connect to others in your home. Even though I have a fake LI profile, not linked to other members of my household, so this doesn't actually invade my privacy, it's still yucky that they maintain a shadow connection between us. There are tons of sites/services that do this kind of simple yet invasive tracking.

I also use it in rare cases for torrenting or downloading content. I normally have other methods for torrenting and seeding privately but in some cases I want another level of privacy (nothing illegal/bad/censor worthy, and therefore would be ok with law enforcement connecting the dots through VPN), a level that VPN serves well.

I am glad that the VPN providers sell people on nonsense, on protections they can't guarantee (to Western countries anyway). This makes the service actually available at all. To me it's an analog of the https-everywhere cargo cult, that makes it super easy these days to get a free SSL cert.

No technology is perfect. It doesn't make it useless.
Try Doom Emacs (either to use it long term or to steal its approach).

Starts in under one second for me.
My opinion is that "real" randomness looks less random than artificial randomness.

That's why Apple changed iTunes random music shuffle to be less random because people complained that it wasn't random enough and replayed songs too close together.

https://www.cultofmac.com/181517/why-itunes-shuffling-order-...
Can somebody explain what “neuro-normative” is?
You won't see citations for these for the same reason the citations in Demore's memo didn't matter. Facts have no relation to articles of faith.
Yep. Money where your mouth is. Corporate management has a history of only responding to direct incentives, so if they want me to believe anything they say, then they have to give themselves a direct incentive to follow through with it.
And less repairable. Fabrics are more often a blend.

However, we are fighting against the market on this. It is the same as the software subscription vs one-time-purchase model.

The economy depends on people constantly consuming, buying new things. Trend started long before Amazon and Wallmart; they just accelerated it.
That is probably a better fit, yes. Not perfect, since I was still intellectually stimulated by trying to improve the environment and processes, but every attempt inevitably hit a roadblock. I identify most with the 2nd and 3rd categories in [1]

However I think it's more valuable for me to keep using the term burnout, especially in situations like this. To a manager, burnout and boreout look the same. Ideally you could inject 'boreout' into the public consciousness, but it's more realistic for me to say I was experiencing burnout with different root causes.

[1] https://www.inc.com/melody-wilding/3-types-of-burnout-accord...
Math in the Real World
What can the website do on your desktop that it can't do your iPad? Why does it need these buttons?
Same here. I saw the email this morning and my heart sunk. I know I'm not a big customer (I'm on the lower tier plan, $10/mo) but Postmark was a rock solid part of my setup and now I'm not sure how long that will last or when/if my plan will be seen as a waste of time/money. Postmark was so incredibly refreshing after having been exposed to a number of other products in the same space. I'm glad for the team but apprehensive about the future.
Is this filtering an extra feature like parental controls or corporate filtering? Or was this just blanket filtering applied to all Vodafone customers?
Designed for minds that are not neurodivergent. Basically, a system that directly disadvantages people who are ADHD/autistic.
I think that a lot of those things can be replaced with new techniques as time goes on. Just because this is how we did things yesterday doesn't mean there aren't better ways to do this it just requires some thinking and investment, IMO.

The tooling that has been developed during the pandemic has taken this space forward by leaps and bounds and I expect this to continue.

Instead of focusing on the how, I would focus on the outcomes you are looking for and lets investigate paths forward for those outcomes.

My two cents: There is still body language over video calls, Miro and other whiteboarding solutions work pretty well, not every day needs intense whiteboarding sessions so have onsites when those are required, and good riddance to the lunches with colleagues. If we wanna have lunch let's get on a call and/or have some one-on-one time setup instead of thinking that lunch is somehow a team building exercise.

Not to mention the IMMENSE benefits you get from remote work. Having those tradeoffs and changing the way we work: I am all in.
This reads out of touch with why curious people use Hy, like me who wanted to get going with an easily accessible language and ecosystem (Python) while rewriting bits in Hy to grok some lisp magic.

No, of course I wouldn't have reached for CL first and it's disappointing to read the top-comment is this.
I've long suspected that memory storage in brains is holograph-like, with each neuron storing bits of many memories.
Exactly. This is a case of "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
> What are people using VPNs for mostly, if they're living in a country without internet censorship?

I find it's a convenient way to prevent services beyond my ISP from knowing where am I based on IP address.

All of those apps you have on your devices presumably have permanent connections back to their servers and they can very easily tell if you're at home, out on mobile data, in an office, or in a cafe/public library or even in a different country.

With a VPN, they currently think I'm in Dallas; which I'm nowhere near right now.
A better way to interpret "constraint" in this is as the "limiting factor."
I don't make 6 figures lol. If I made 6 figures I'd pay someone to drive my ass to work and back.
2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217337

1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31231112
NASA chief says cost-plus contracts are a “plague” on the space agency
I am not further enough in my F# journey to have tried this, but you could technically pair it with orleans for actor oriented systems ?

Love the language though I have spent only a week working with it. It seems to have a lot of things I liked in Kotlin.
it makes them feel good.
Management is necessary and in my experience even in a so-called “flat” hierarchy an unofficial hierarchy of management inevitably arises.
Non-locality :D
Nope; I have a TP-Link router.
As a Cupertino resident, I'm pretty upset with their WFH policy. At the very least they should have let small teams choose their in office days.

Now I need to keep track of which days of the week they have to be in the office, because traffic in Cupertino will be 2x-3x worse on the days they are in the office.

Their choice of forcing everyone back on the same day is not only bad for their workers, but it's bad for all of their neighbors and the planet.
> just wasn't a rounded rect with a black mirror

Are you challenging Ives to make a car that is a rounded rectangle with black mirror finish?
Important to note, Ireland's grid is fairly carbon intensive:

https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/IE?wind=false&solar=fals...
That’s perfectly reasonable in the short term. Long term however we don’t want to endlessly extract CO2 either, so eventually we will want a pure equilibrium state with zero net gain or loss in atmospheric CO2.
It's a deliberate turn of the typical management canard that workers constantly commit "time theft" by not being on-task for the entirety of an eight-hour day.
>Only if that's considered to be in the child's best interests.

I don't have to argue against you. I can just point to the leaked draft that argues against you. It specifically cites safe haven laws which allow people to anonymously put their child up for adoption. These laws have no consideration on what the child's life would be like with their biological parents or after they become a ward of the state. The mere existence of those laws is legal precedent that it is acceptable to abdicate care over a child post-birth. Why shouldn't that be possible pre-birth?
I agree! You're welcome to do whatever you want. But I am a friendly person and find it easy to make friends with my co-workers and we don't even talk about 'work' most of the time. I still have lunches with my colleagues from years ago that live in the same city, even though we don't work together.

Not every perk is about oppressing your freedom or exploiting your time and labor.
My USA centric answer. I can't really speak for the rest of the world. And in the end, all I can really do is mention the cities that I could, to one degree or another, see myself considering for relocation.

As it happens, I live in Chapel Hill NC today, and I'm pretty happy in this area. Not sure that there is anywhere in particular that I would feel strongly compelled to relocate to. But don't relocate here, this place is getting crowded already. :p

That said, I used to travel a lot for work and got to visit quite a bit of the USA, and I can call out a few places that I really liked and could see wanting to live in to one degree or another.

1. Portland, OR, or the PNW in general. I love this area. Not sure I'd want to live in Portland proper, but somewhere in that general area. I like it mainly for the scenery and the outdoor environment. If you like to hike, mountain bike, etc. and enjoy lush green scenery, mountains, waterfalls, etc, places like the Columbia River Gorge are amazing. And Portland does have lots of good food and nightlife, so that's good. The one turnoff would be the frequent rain during a large portion of the year.

2. Chicago. I doubt I'd ever want to live in Chicago year-round, simply due to the harsh winters. But otherwise Chicago is one of my favorite cities in the US. There's plenty to do, plenty of great food, good public transit, friendly people (for a big city), and is just generally somewhere I enjoy being. I've always said that if I ever win big financially in some way, I'd want to have a condo in downtown Chicago to be my second home.

3. New Orleans. Again, not sure I'd want to live here, at least not full-time, but man is it a fun place. And if you like Cajun food... 'nuff said. Also, lots of live music and friendly people.

4. Miami. I have always felt a certain affinity for South Florida, and grew up as a Dolphins fan, so there is some allure to the idea of living in that area. I like the weather there, being near the beach again would be nice, and you can't beat the food and nightlife. And being close to Hard Rock stadium would be big for me. The downsides - sea level rise may bring the beach a little too close, and it may be a bit too noisy, busy, and have a bit too much crime for me to want to be there all the time.
Git History with Elixir
I agree with the import of this, but there is an economy to games, and if it turns out that the gamers really do just want another installment in the old style, you're missing out on that significant segment of the market until you do just that. Art is only art if it gets made, and at least frequently, someone has to pay the artist for the art to get made.
Even more frustrating: You can't just pick the campus you want to work from. When I worked at Apple most teams were distributed by seat availability not co-location, so you could be on the same campus or set of buildings but all work in different parts of the offices / campus so all meetings with exception of critical ones were held in a remote fashion in conference rooms anyway. So it wouldn't have mattered if I worked in Santa Clara, Apple Park, Infinite Loop, or Sacramento (yes, they have a campus there), or working from home, 80% of the time. They even had a shuttle that went from Sacramento to campuses every single day. It was so odd to me even to this day.

This was a common source of frustration for employees because they couldn't just work at the office closest to them or work from home. Very few people I knew there worked directly along side their team while I was there. I'm sure this wasn't true for everyone though, however I think it was at least at the time, the majority.
Most people are not forced to have lunch with their colleagues, a lot of people enjoy doing so however.

I always went out by myself when I wanted to eat alone, or sat at my desk with headphones in watching Youtube and eating.

You can communicate with people to help them understand you'd like your break to be a solitary one.
Please consider shielded Zcash Txs too
I like this idea. If I already have a home office, so I get paid this extra fund too? Or does my coworker only get it because he doesn’t have a home office?
We've known about this impending problem for decades. That no Albertan political party has been honest with Albertans about the future is disappointing. Easier to kick the can down the road.

Nuclear could be the thing that provides a route forward. Given BC's seismic issues, it's probably not a great place for nuclear power plants and there's really no more rivers to dam. Alberta should be pivoting away from oil and toward becoming a nuclear power provider to BC, the Prairies and the United States.
Great piece of advice and very elegantly put!

To add to the social aspect, I like tricking myself into being held accountable by talking or mentioning ideas that are in very early stages. If I never share my thoughts with other people they are almost not real at all.
I think you might be interested in the Iiyama G-Master GB3467WQSU-B1. It is a 3440×1440 px, 34-inch monitor which works at 165 Hz with 0.4 ms response rate. It is a Vertical Alignment monitor, so its viewing angles and colors are less awesome than OLED or IPS (but still has an excellent mean ΔE of 2.3). It does not use Pulse-Width Modulation (if you are sensitive to that).

Its only big drawback (preventing me from buying it) is that I occasionally play competitive games, and that monitor has FreeSync but not G-Sync, and I use an Nvidia GPU.
The thing that gets me with the elsagate material is that it is weird. More weird than offensive. Is this just machine written content that has gone a bit nuts?
This is one of the hardest and least productive approaches to investing. Basic skills in general security analysis, knowledge in depth of a number industry sectors, and seat-of-the-pants experience that comes only with real money bets in the market trump macroeconomic analysis.
Ill try to convince Elon Musc.
The Maven model works pretty well. Namespaces avoid the squatting issues seen in Cargo, and some ground rules avoid NPM disasters like packages disappearing.

I understand not wanting to deal with the hassle of running a repo, but what about tooling around decentralized git repos? I can’t imagine distributions picking up Hare packages in larger numbers.
in other words dca is the most effective strategy for your average investor?
it can depend on the stage of life of the small company.

I've been at my current company from it's series A, through a series B, a layoff, sale of one of it's IPs/customer bases, and ultimately sale to a holding company.

I agree with your overall point -- working with a small group of people who all know each other is great. I've had the opportunity to work with some people for the better part of a decade, and having that kind history with coworkers can be a real boon for communication and planning. It's also much more impactful when a coworker decides to leave.

The real shift towards a more sane work style happened after the acquisition by the holding company. It came with a layoff at the start, which was really disruptive. However, since then, there's been a huge focus on profitability rather than growth. Willingness to make big investments is much more conservative.
Also, you know Apple's stance. If they even respond to the open letter, expect that they'll want you back in a year or two, anyway.
> the binary quality of fungibility

The fact that Monero has been growing the minimum ring size over time, as well as refining the decoy selection algorithm, shows that fungibility, in the sense of transaction graph obfuscation, is more of a spectrum.
> 100%

There are games that democratize the power of the GM a bit. Very traditional RPGs are into putting pressure on the GM to be a one-man band for the players' entertainment, but the more "modern" ones share the authority, get the players involved in worldbuilding and/or expect the players to be proactive (rather than just respond to the GM)
This sounds a bit like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Having lunch with colleagues has nothing to do with 'backchannel communication'. Sometimes it's nice to hear about where we like to go camping, or what cities are nice to visit in their home countries, or ... nothing to do with work or shipping products.

No matter how 'correctly' you think you're doing things, you still haven't convinced me after over a decade of shipping products that online whiteboards are useful, or refuted any of my other points.
Persig’s wife just released a book of unpublished writings of his

On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063084643/