skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need psychological engineering...

My method is radical transparency. I simply keep refactoring notes which I turn into user stories on the backlog. I don't take the PM seat as to when to do these user stories, yet have built up the expectation that it's an ongoing process and recurring thing.

The transparency creates a rational set. Clarity about what is currently wrong and what the benefit of the improvement is. It's kind of hard to argue against rationalism. When you do this calmly and with precision, you instill a perpetual feeling of guilt every time the PM tries to ignore it. Seed planted. 1-0 for you.

It's all in the open, the entire team sees it. That's different from a forgettable backroom discussion. The PM looks somewhat neglectful to everybody. That's 2-0.

You need to have/build a reputation of being constructive. Thinking along with the PM instead of being stubborn. So you let go of refactoring for two sprints because there really is an important business deadline, and then you bring refactoring back to the agenda. This demonstrates you're reasonable and flexible, whilst if the PM is to continue to ignore refactoring, they will stand out as the unreasonable. 3-0.

Continued ignoring of technical debt will inevitably lead to disaster, affecting real world results. Who will get the blame? Not you, you have your bases covered and it's on record whom ignored all the warnings. 4-0.

These are all mind tricks to raise the cost for the PM of ignoring technical debt. Ideally it's not needed and you just agree to reserve 20% of your capacity for it, to end the discussion once and for all.

Of course, one may also encounter a job hopping sociopath PM that doesn't care about any of the above. In that case, just inflate your user stories and do what you can.

To conclude, in a truly healthy organization one would flip the question. PMs have a tendency to be feature fetishists. It's not even their fault as internal organizations richly reward whoever has the most ambitious feature agenda, whilst everybody thinks that the PM that "fixes the basics" is a slacker. The user of the product, in the meanwhile, doesn't seem to be a topic of concern.

Rather than requiring extreme evidence for a software engineer to do the basics of their job, ask a PM per feature what its justification is. Show me the business case.

They can't. I've been in this industry for 2 decades and the consistent experience is that every long term software project ultimately ends up in 80-90% of non-value or negative value, also known as "unrewarded complexity".

If I were PM, I'd spent 50% of each sprint on refactoring, simplification, and improving the core of the product that delivers business value, rather than building unrewarded complexity. For the other 50%, I'd take the team to the bar, which I consider a good use of time.

You'd find me a ridiculous PM, but I'm deadly serious that the product outcome would be better. You can't have technical debt when you don't do loans. Plus it's more fun.
Users can only easily install extensions from the "recommended" collection. Installing anything else requires running a development build and jumping through hoops. The Firefox team has been very clear that simply developing a reasonable working extension that some people might want does not create an expectation it will ever be recommended.

So why would anybody bother writing an extension for Firefox mobile?
There's been a good number of VLIW attempts that had great peak possible performance and efficiency, but fall down in many current consumer use cases. (Itanium, NVidia denver, many GPU/DSP architectures (though they focused on what that sort of architecture did well instead of trying to wedge it into other use cases).

Think about how wide the execution unit of a modern Intel/AMD CPU is compared to it's average IPC, if you could magic up an instruction stream that filled every port, and you could remove all the Out-of-Order/reordering/hazard logic it would make the cores a fair bit smaller and power efficient while giving the "same" peak possibly performance. But more ALU ports don't seem to the the bottleneck in current consumer software - keeping them filled is. Hence all the OoO/multithreading/big caches.

And the "Sufficiently Advanced Compiler" making up for OoO scheduling on the hardware itself has been a pipe dream for many years. Maybe this will be the one to break through the apparent barrier? But it's not like there haven't been a LOT of money and very clever people working on this exact thing before - and they have all fallen by the wayside compared to current large OoO CPU cores.

So to me it's just another cookie cutter attempt at VLIW, nothing special.
At least the ongoing creation of new superfund sites is no longer business as usual for semiconductor firms.
I always wanted to start a mafioso-esque restaurant front....

The French Money Laundry

FML for shot.
> incomplete, unpolished, not quite at the "bar"

Do you think your coworkers were telling you your bar was too high?
Maybe you misread? I see a claim of 32km range from 1 hour wall charging,

when the vehicle is plugged into a regular home socket, Lightyear 0 can still charge 32 kilometers of range per hour

A claim related to solar charging from the article might be the one about the sun sustaining 35km/day for two months.
Distrust of any information from an institutional source is a good rule to live by imo and would make the world a better place
> Just for instance: one of every three kids in foster care are prescribed psychotropic medications

Not particularly surprising to me. 1) Everyone I met experienced some horrific stuff growing up, and 2) psychiatric evaluation and care was pretty much mandatory.

My experience in foster care was more positive than with the family members I was placed with who kicked me out after a few months. And yes, I had a prescription for antidepressants. I didn't take them.
> The technologies that powered the web ten years ago still work just fine.

Yeah maybe for some use cases. Rails has a lot of bandaids to deal with the new stuff and GitLab uses that stuff.
Well, the optometrists I know seem to think this explanation doesn't make sense.
PE is going after every market segment. It’s crazy.
> if they are just a number doing boring work and hate their job and have no impact

This is almost every job. You might as well get paid fairly for it.
It could be any structure, but the probability is that it will be a house or other type of housing. There are a lot more residential buildings than commercial.
And since you don't use an IDE you can try to spend this time on exploring what an IDE can do. If you really write code you can write code 10-100x faster.
What has this got to do with multiculturalism?

Did the non-white male students call for these changes, or is it part of the corporate agenda of disrupting strong social networks and bonds?
From the status page:

> As of approximately 23:40 UTC, our Engineering team is investigating multiple failures with DigitalOcean services, including our Cloud Control Panel, API, events such as creation of all resources, and WWW endpoints failing to resolve. We are starting to see recovery but are still investigating root cause and users may continue to experience elevated errors. We will post another update as soon as further information is available.

Some of our DigitalOcean resources (including the DO dashboard) were unavailable for approximately 10 minutes, though everything seems to be fully operational now.
It should be unlawful for any company to use any customer’s data for any purpose other than what is reasonably expected based on their product marketing.
SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future.
Shameless plus one, I’ve been with my wife for 10 years - when we’re both happy as individuals were happy as a couple. Sometimes people just need to do the hard work of finding happiness on their own. Someone else can’t make you feel happy with your career.
I don't think you're really aware of what "equity" means. I think that would be a good place for you to expand your thinking.
Elon to attend all hands meeting at Twitter, speaking to staff for first time
It could be that electrical district heating has a lower carbon footprint than gas heating (if the electricity is sufficiently low-carbon).

Still doesn't make it "carbon-negative," just kills two birds with one stone by using the same energy both for heating and computing.
Officially recorded temperature is measured on managed environment, so real temperature could be higher. Still, it's rare to be over 45C, and it's "operating temperature" so maybe the battery can be just shutdown on rare very high temperature situation.
I'm not sure this is the argument you are trying to make, unless Singapore moved it's position on earth. Not that genetics are any more convincing, seeing how it's only 50y.
It goes even farther back the Massachusetts health care law was originally a Republican plan dating back to Richard Nixon. The Republican had been holding it in their back pocket for decades planning to implement it as a compromise when the Democrats tried to push for real socialized medicine. Instead the Democrats put it in place undercutting the Republican as they had nothing to push in its place. that's they it has survived despite the Republican holding congress and the white house for several years they just didn't have anything to replace it with.
Ehh. I think it sometimes sucks for those for which the past lack of equity benefitted them.

Probably more than anywhere I see this in athletics with boys and girls. Certain Dad’s of boys complain about how when they were boys they could do all these things that are now off limits because they say girls complain about them. I’m not sure the girls feel the same way.
Are you saying that legislation that prevents children from accessing porn, or legislation that prevents children from creating and distributing pornography of themselves, violates the first amendment?
How do you know people will want to trade fuel for casino chips in the future?
for general GA yes but for the GA needed to replace quaternions in 3D?

I'm far from good at math but the GA article linked above has this comparision of quaternion code vs rotor (GA) code

https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/code.htm
When do you think multiculturalism was implemented? Hasn't America been multicultural for...hundreds of years? Different immigrant groups had their own culture, different states had their own culture, different religions had their own cultures, hicks/urbanites had their own cultures, educated/uneducated had their own cultures, etc.
I read the whole article, and it seems to be entirely about the push to remove Greek / Frat / Sorority life from campus and convert these houses to more traditional dorms.

I know that some people who got a lot out of Greek Life equate it with Social Life, but most college students don't pledge/rush and it doesn't get in the way of social life. There are plenty of ways to socialize without frats.
Attention > Time > Energy > Money

There's always a cost when it's our attention. We've been in a war for our attention for many years. What I don't understand is why everyone puts emphasis on social media and not digital media in general? Television held the crown for many years and still does.

Read Jerry Mander and his thoughts about advertisements. You'll never think about them the same when you realize they are implanting into your head and you can never get them out.
What does folks think about CRT as treatment for myopia? They are basically hard lenses that you only wear during night and stay glasses-free during day time. My understanding is that myopia doesn't go away but also doesn't get worse.

https://www.paragonvision.com/crt-lenses/
Doesn’t the Venn diagram look like:

(remote (Sweden))

... or am I unclear on “remote” or “Sweden”?
There's a social cost & opportunity cost to failure. If a culture stigmatizes failure there's less risk taking. Though I think it often happens at the family level too: One business failure and you're the family screw up, maybe even if you get success later on it's still held over your head.
An update in case anybody comes across this. I found you were correct and the issue was my graphics driver, an Nvidia Detonator driver in this case. I installed a Voodoo3 (AGP) with stock drivers and enabled native 1920x1200x32 resolution under Windows 98 SE with no panning. A little fuzzy over VGA, but usable!
First responders don’t, and never have, taken on unlimited risk, they take on calculated risks.
Are there specific details about what the band did?
just think how much worse it could be
I’m sure it would be trivial to replicate this project without the weird world-burning money grab purpose.

I’m perfectly happy to not support or share crypto cash grab schemes dressed up as wholesome little projects.
> Lake Lagunita was closed to student activities in 2001, ostensibly to protect an endangered salamander that had taken up residence in the artificial waters. Eventually, Stanford let the lake go dry.

Simple: Stanford should be held responsible for the impact their actions, that here directly caused harm to an endangered species.

Either they did lie before, about the salamander (then they're on the hook for lying for material gains) or showed negligence after, causing the draught.

In either case, neither the truth nor endangered species are acceptable casualties in Stanford ongoing war against its own students.
“Here is your nickel, sir.”
I disagree. Chicken have been seen as food for the majority of our existence on this planet, not pets. That now we see them as pet as well talks about the complexity and capacity for contradiction and paradoxes of our culture and our minds. I accept that biologically I thrive on chicken meat yet I am intellectually capable of thinking chicken are very lovely animals. Humans are walking contradictions.

As much as many people try, there is often no simple black and white answer to humanity's most complex issues.

But often the black and white answer is the one that's printed on the slogan.
> _lots of_ ads everywhere

Be fair and buy Youtube Premium, or use a better Adblocker?

> Ads load better than the video

Maybe because they are shorter and there are less of them, so proxys can better cache them.

> after reporting too many of those ads, I've lost the function to report any ad at all. I'm not kidding, the menu item is just gone.

Makes sense if you are spamming the system and they considered them false flag.

> recommendations are showing me lots of videos I've watched before

Maybe you want to rewatch them or add a comment. That's not that unusual.

> OR are totally unrelated to what I'm interested in

Not YET.

> recommendations are often filled with videos from 6 to 10 years ago

Nothing wrong with old videos. There is many cool old stuff on Youtube. 6 or 10 Years is not that much. Unless you are only in gossip and news?

> All in all YouTube seems to be a total shitshow and it feels like they don't care anything at all about the user experience.

It might not be your perfect experience, but considering their size and broad audience, it's pretty hard to serve everyone equal good. And recommendations are generally a hard problem. Getting even a low number of successes is quite good.

> What's your experience on YT these days? Is it similar to mine or totally different?

I'm curious whether the ads are related to the content you watch. Maybe you are mostly watching hard to monetize videos, where only the wild ads which are not that picky with their customers are shown.
I think the implication is that multiculturalism is very hard to get right, and that one solution to it is to be very careful all the time. This leads to a sort of vague blandness that has become more prominent in the Bay area over the past few years. If you don't want to be cancelled, just don't say potentially controversial things.

The thing with unique, interesting group identities (like in Stanford social groups) is that they will, invariably, offend and push some people's boundaries. This over the years has been viewed more and more negatively (as a solution to multiculturalism imho). When cancellations abound and price of offense is high, just make everything as neutral as possible. 580, 610, 113, whatever.

But people's souls get slowly sucked out of them.
From what I know, this wasn't about multiculturalism and SJW-style "equity" and more about destroying any and all student groups that showed a modicum of independence from the administration line. Though I wouldn't be surprised if someone at some point mouthed some SJW platitudes, since that's a cover for everything nowadays.
That looks fascinating. I've never heard of this.
Angellist Syndicators Not Responding
Has anyone invested with the DVC Syndicate on Angellist that is led by Sundeep Ahuja? I've had several deals with this syndicate that has been stuck in closing for over 6 months.

Sundeep is just refusing to respond despite requests from myself and his own syndicate partners. He's still sending out deal invites, so it is apparent that he is just ignoring us.

I have a small amount invested ($7,000), but I have to imagine that there are others out there with funds committed to deals that have yet to close. My next course of action is to file an SEC complaint, so wanted to see who else might be affected.
Shake Build System
My thought too. When I saw it was just a home made camera trap I was a little deflated. Their claim that it is the same as human selfie because the chicken is "using" the motion sensor as an input device is a bit of a stretch. The pictures are fun though.
Asset price inflation is separate from goods inflation and is primarily driven by low interest rates.

You can blame the Fed on that one
In a country that approves fracking sites without a second thought, they hold up a project that could advance science and give a huge advantage in the space race for 5 months? For what? Turtles and civil war reenactment sites?

ULA has too many politicians in their pockets. Even though these environmental issues seem plausible, this was 100% political. I assure you they do not think of the turtles when contaminating the ground water with fracking.
You're arguing against an extreme position I have not advocated for.

But when bad regulations cause bad outcomes, it's pretty weird to focus the blame on the people warning that bad regulations can cause bad outcomes instead of how the regulations are flawed and whether they can be fixed.
This was amazing, thanks for sharing.

Edit: his whole channel is awesome, what a great find. He also sorted all of StarWars dialog, manually, as one does:

“This is the Special Edition to troll Han-shot-first purists. Everyone knows the orig is the most legit.”

Someone who really invests in his trollage.
Looks like you missed the joke! Ha ha.
The market has changed. There are now applications for filling every ALU port and those usually run on GPUs, which have awful DX. This chip can run x64, ARM or RISCV whenever performance does not matter, but also run native binaries compiled with GCC.

I agree that the VLIW approach will likely fail to deliver in most other applications, but I do not see the product marketed to them either.
> even housing, that I feel are not well served by a purely-market driven perspective

I hate to be the YIMBY broken record, but we don't have anything like a purely market-driven approach to housing. An important aspect of a functioning market is that supply is allowed to increase in order to meet demand. This isn't the case in the United States because of zoning laws. The housing market is more like the market for rare coins or something than it is any kind of actual market.
They can take it back.

Heard of Betterbird? Yeah, a Thunderbird port.
The report is withheld, and the statute of limitations ignored, so it's likely to be something mundane that couldn't really get them into trouble if shown in broad daylight
Fans of J.S.G. Boggs used to try to collect both hand-drawn bills he made AND the item he bought with the bill. I see an opportunity here to collect both the NFT and the egg of the chicken in the picture.
Regression to the mean in a multi-modal world.
Why is that? Also what do you mean “seem to?” They do or they don’t, right? Have they not actually told you what they think?
There aren’t jackasses in your state?
The intrinsic value of one domain over the other is the signal it sends to your customers.

If .com is culturally considered higher quality and thus will drive more business to you, then it carries a higher value than .net

But perceptions of value can change over time. This is not my belief system by the way, this is how the intrinsic value of something is determined.
Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California
I spent 3 years living in one of the co-ops briefly mentioned in the article ("In 2013, the administration took over the student-run anarchist house and painted over the old murals."). I wouldn't call it an "anarchist house" but it sure as hell was a lot of fun to live there. I painted some of those murals that are now apparently gone. We built a giant illegal loft in our room to make it two stories (which we would disassemble for a day every year when the fire inspection happened). We did some stupid and illegal shit, sure. But the sense of community was unparalleled. The alumni association owned the house, so we had to deal with all the maintenance. We came back to campus a week before everyone else every year to work on the house. We cooked and cleaned for ourselves. I've never since experienced anything close to that same feeling of communal pride. It was a mess, but it was our beautiful mess.
This kind of posturing is getting old. If you use electricity (and aren't running your own solar/wind farm), you're contributing to orders of magnitude more ecological destruction than a couple of crypto bros peddling NFTs.
A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that mimics official cryptocurrency wallet websites intending to distribute backdoored apps that drain victims' funds.
“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison
If one cannot take valid criticism when posting publicly their pet projects, then don't post publicly.
Most of the houses affected weren't Greek. Many were themed houses oriented around a particular experience: an Italian dorm, a Slavic dorm, a... druggie co-op, for lack of a better phrasing.
Unless you are reviewing the source of everything and compiling it all yourself, then you're executing someone else's binary.
The point being made is not that the Greek system is being pushed out and that worsens the social atmosphere. It's that Stanford is losing its atypical social community (which includes not only the Greek system but also co-ops), and that will hurt the uniqueness and advantage of Stanford as a breeding ground for interesting thinkers.

Not to mention these are just symptoms, there are more problematic things that are not ostensible.
Wind the clock back to a time when you made a decision. Is it possible for you to make a different decision if you had the exact same mood/context/environment/knowledge and all the sub-atomic particles were exactly identical with the same spin, etc? Current dominant philosophical thought points towards a big NO.
Code: https://github.com/willymaps/spoke
"Other parents were pinned to the ground, pepper sprayed, or tasered, said Gomez, who said she managed to run into the school and save her child after convincing the officers to uncuff her."

Seriously... WTF! If only they showed the same balls when dealing with the gunman.
Pretty much the only time one should need to charge away from home is when driving a long distance, in which case a 20 min nap, a stroll to get the blood flowing, or a coffee every three to four hours of driving is probably a good thing. It’s like the “eating your vegetables thing” some people won’t pay to order them but they’ll eat them if they come as a side.