skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While said in an arrogant manner, I'll agree, I think the sentiment of, "Top performers tend to be self starters, no matter where you put them", tends to hold true. All rules have exceptions... sure, but by metrics of task completion which is what work should be about, instead of butts in seats (unless I missed something), That's what I want from my team. I admit my team is small and I can meet with them over Slack and chat more than most other, larger teams but I think maybe that's the answer to remote.

1. Defined goals

2. Available help over Slack and chat (which we have group and private channels)

3. Weekly or bi-weekly standups to get more of a sense of where everyone stands and have a lay of the land and understand your team.

4. The lead needs to do the leg work with the managers to let them know their team is doing the work and get the recognition they deserve.

It is harder in someways, but easier in a lot of ways and WAY more efficient where it counts in many ways. It is a shift and requires effort.
that's pretty good for Debian!
> You can build housing that doesn't get mouldy and is well insulated by having proper insulation and a modern ERV.

During the rainy season, humidity in (mainland and southern) japan gets above 95%, for 6-7 weeks.

And then of course, there's the local building habits, like the cardboard houses of the US.
In multiple locales (Japan and the Caribbean) people have tried to sell me on eating turtle meat because it 'makes you strong'. Like there's this virility transfer that happens or something between you and the meat you consume. I only tried it once in Japan and it tasted like a pond, will never do that again. I definitely appreciate how they're pretty cool animals in general. I hope people get it out of their heads that eating them is like natural viagra or whatever.

Oh wait, I did try a turtle egg at a bar one time in a shot of chili guaro... Don't bite them open, there's sand inside.
When I lived in South America many people took exception to referring to US citizens as 'Americans'.

For most of SA, 'American' can refer to something of the American continents. Even more interesting, the middle school geography that I took taught that there was only one American continent.

So by that standard Canadians are 'American'. But yeah, as someone who now lives in Canada: don't ever think that Canada is the same as the US.
>Bitcoin is at $20K

it's still hilarious to me that Bitcoin at 20K is considered a "crash", I remember a few years ago when Bitcoin at 20K was a sign of a massive bubble. People who are rattled by this are giving away the fact they are new to crypto
I will definitely reach out! Thanks for the suggestion!
Technically it wasn't Tom speaking, so all is good

UPD: never mind, just watched the most recent video, it looks like the real Tom Scott was speaking this time
One big difference between Asian nations such as Korea or Japan and Tunisia is simple: the prevalence of corruption. Corruption is everywhere and has been normalized for centuries in North African cultures (Baksheesh).

> you just end up with like 30% unemployment rate where a large percentage of those unemployed hold higher degrees (masters and PhDs).

The other question is how valuable really are these degrees? I don't recall Tunisian universities being particularly sought after.
> how about another Batman reboot?

Well c'mon man, it's been four whole months since we've had one, we're overdue by now...
> ... "it creates a workplace culture where any misstep can be spotted – and punished – thanks to monitoring technology. “You have to assume that everything you write is being read by management,” he [an interviewee for the article] explains. “It’s fine until the day you get caught off-guard and faced with the sack for saying something that’s deemed inappropriate.”"

Argh. I don't think Snow Crash was intended to be an instruction manual.
It’s pretty interesting how the game can continue to function in a level that isn’t supposed to exist. Metroid has similar areas I believe. It’s hard to imagine a modern game or any modern software handling a scenario like that without crashing.
Yeah we're trying to do the same, document things organically as we learn them on an internal Confluence. It helps, but we're piecing together fragments of knowledge without context, so information density is low outside of specific tasks. It's enough to solve the same problem again, but not enough to gain much holistic knowledge of the software. And same as your situation most of the veterans don't bother with it (they already have the knowledge and are extremely busy).

Doesn't help that some of the engine code dates back to the late 80s, was originally written on a mainframe for a compiler where variable names had character limits, so even if you know the surrounding conceptual terminology it's functionally indecipherable unless you have a lot of experience with it. It's hard to tell what it's doing or why, or even if it's relevant to the problem you're trying to debug.

What we really need is something like a dedicated sprint where we stop the presses outside of critical maintenance and just write documentation, free up the veterans to write down their knowledge. But that would require the company to actually invest in what is otherwise seen (wrongfully IMO) as a cost-center. :P

And honestly if we had that kind of money there's other software redundancies/inefficiencies that need to be resolved first, that would lower the documentation requirements in the first place.
If they banked their future on libertarian magic beans fueled by wasting a mid-sized country worth of power e-waste, and each time you mentioned the obvious flaws in their half-baked schemes they made fun of you, implying that you're 'not going to make it' and telling you to have 'fun staying poor' -- yep, a little. In the abstract of course.
After reviewing my last few code review comments, this is my most frequent phrasing too. I get that questions are a way to soften the bluntness of a code review comment, but I've been hugged to death by this sort of niceness in the past. It was not fun.

"Consider ______" has the directness I, myself, enjoy, and whose response can take the form of a change, a reply, or a jumping off point for discussion. It indicates some action needs to take place without specifying exactly which one and leaves me open to having my mind changed if the response is "I've considered it and actually ..."

Still, if there is ever a flaw so great that the code simply will not work without a fix, I will phrase the fix in the form of a command.
My current role is the first where I've extensively worked with counsel. My biggest misconception going into these discussions was that it'd be a transactional, approval-gated thing: I make a request, they kick it around, then come back and say "yes" or "no" and that would be the end of it.

What I've found is exactly what you describe: if I come to legal asking for a "no" – which I've done more than a handful of times – that's an easy answer that comes out of an email. But when I come wanting their approval, if I can get past the first meeting with counsel the next one is with officers, you are pitching the benefits while the lawyers are talking about risks, and if you can convince everyone to take the risks you get what you want. Just be sure to write down meeting minutes and send them around; no one at that level was taking notes ;)

"We want to distribute a ton of IP with unclear/insufficient releases" has almost no benefit and a mountain of risk for any company. It's no wonder the lawyers said no.
Aren't cells replaced periodically?
That's gotta be bullshit. I live in a 1930s house with little to no insulation. I have curtains on all of the windows to block heat and my ground floor can maintain 72°F all day during 100°F weather. Same with my upstairs office using a window air conditioner. (The rest of the upstairs is a lost cause.)

There might a reason for that though. There are dampers in the basement air ducting I can use to redirect airflow, so I'm running a system designed for 1,300 sqft to cool an area that's half that. My office window unit is overkill for the room I'm in.

I've optimized this using data from home assistant, which continuously monitors the outside weather and temperatures (plus occupancy, light level (lux), light bulbs, etc) for every room.
I'll add them thanks :+1: https://reverb.com/
Haskell has the same means of accessing records as Java has of accessing its fields. Or no?
I'd be concerned that that's illegal in some manner. Is it not?

Which, sure, not all laws are moral, or should be followed, but I still wouldn't want to seek out a job where keeping it is risking a prison sentence.
> public sector compensation has grown so much

> In the US, federal government and private sector compensation were comparable in 1950. Today there is a massive gap between the two.

Are you saying that public sector pays better than private? Not my experience in any arena.
I think the central idea of a distributed non-permissioned database with a zero trust consensus mechanism, particularly one where transaction cannot be blocked or censored is a pretty useful thing. At it's heart, that's what cryptocurrency is all about.

It also happens to be rife with scams, mania, wildly non-useful projects, and all the rest. Just because it has terrible parts doesn't mean the underlying idea isn't useful.
> Short term, it's decidedly not good, but long term? How can we know?

History.

> If the approach is so inherently flawed that this result is an inevitability

Only an inevitability due to attitudes like yours. Please stop contributing/pushing for the end of the open web.
I guess I am a bayesian :)
I'm not sure the experts have to be local. I can't be sure that a random twitter account isn't a bot, but I can be pretty sure that tweets from @nasa are reasonably trustworthy. People will form webs-of-trust: they trust one source, the people viewed as trustworthy by them, etc. Anyone outside of that will be untrustworthy.

That's not too dissimilar from what we do today, after all people have always been able to lie. The problem is just that if you start trusting one wrong person this quickly sucks you into a world of misinformation.

I find your point about regulating AI interesting. We already see some of this, with good recommendation systems being harmful to vulnerable people (and to a lesser degree most of us). This will probably explode once we get chatbots that can provide a strong personal connection, replacing real human relationships for people.
Unfortunately mobile apps complain a ton about 'insecure' https, and make it a real chore to do local certs. So its usually easier to just run over http locally when doing mobile dev.
And you won't be able to control the "why"

It could be that you have the wrong politics, or wrong anything else that is arbitrary and capricious. We've see exactly this occur in the last decade so NO ONE can be trusted to have centralized control like this.

It does make me glad I never jumped onto the Minecraft bandwagon - I have no investment of time or passion to lose from this.
A failed upgrade of a CNI plugin on a production cluster.
Since then I always have a blue / green cluster deployment at hand with a leach cluster containing the whole production environment and flipping via a Loadbalancer in front of the clusters
Covid has deepened inequality – in six stark graphics
That is quite cynical, but I could see it being argued especially if there isn't a scenario to cancel costs out.
Have you considered that crypto is not regulated?

If you see a startup that has taken VC money (especially if it is crypto) it's pretty much a complete scam that you should stay away from.
Another thing that people don't often consider is that while some really appreciate being given a pointer to the rule as a justification (these are in a wiki / code style doc usually), many people will chafe at the "pedantry". In general, those second group need a bit thicker skin, but it is something to be considered.
Depends on the exact AC, but they usually (IIRC) have COF of about 3. So if the AC is moving 3000 W of heat, it will add about 1000 W of heat from the compressor/fan etc.

But compared to the amount of energy needed to heat the atmosphere any appreciable amount, completely trivial.
Prepare for even more shortages then.
Maybe precedent was an unfair word - I apologize - but it shows, how Google can/could use the power of having one of the most used websites in order to influence the choice of the browser.
>Corn allergies are relatively rare, and ones as severe as Robinson’s are rarer still. (Many people unable to eat whole corn can still tolerate more processed corn derivatives.) But to live with a corn allergy is to understand very intimately how corn is everywhere.
People with crypto coins needs other people to be willing to buy them at higher price just slightly later. They keep exploiting fomo for their own gain. I don't think this is moral and a bit of karma is always welcomed.
> Surely there have to be millions of consumer devices out there without OpenGLES2 support, right?

Perhaps, but not many people in your area run the latest version of Firefox while not supporting WebGL and having a display with a high DPI (for example).
It's a common human trait to enjoy when bad things happen to bad people, and crypto bros are the worst.
I really don’t understand the business model of making massive fiat loans to “firms” to buy bitcoin. If crypto goes up, you get a small amount of interest. If crypto goes down, you lose everything. What? Lol. Just spend a fraction of the sum on bitcoin and do something safe with the rest. What was the plan?

Edit: I guess when someone has “20 billion dollars” a 700mm loan doesn’t seem like a big risk.
I don't think anyone should act hateful to anyone else. However, seeing that specific bubble deflate though, and a return to, I don't know, sanity, is a welcome change. It's just a shame that so many people have to suffer though as a part of that process.
Plus, how do you keep it from going stale?
You shouldn't dox yourself by answering this, but I sure wish you could tell us which company is giving double digit raises every year... I'm over here languishing at less than 2% at best, having to leave every year or so just to get the necessary bump.
"Kubernetes in Action" by Marko (Manning publishing) is my recommendation. Took me from someone who knows docker/docker-compose to someone who can handle Azure/AWS Kubernetes, understand the terms and design apps. Very good book.
>They are called magic links... only thing magic about them is their ability to annoy me

I love them and prefer them to creating yet another account with a password.
> That's too broad, you can negotiate things like salary independently.

For example I worked with a school where the area management and the union set salaries and individual teachers could not negotiate on their own. I'd say that's pretty typical in unions. It's also the case in for example the NHS and British railways (topical at the moment.)

> I still didn't hear how it prevents you from switching employers.

Because I never said it did.
The Uptake description is from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptake_(business)
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in this discussion recently is that on every single engineering team I've worked on in-person pre-pandemic, synchronous interruptions were a significant frustration. Remember how we all used to bemoan open concept offices? Every team developed some version of a rule around not coming up and tapping people on the shoulder, like setting an expectation to reach out over chat first or a headphone rule not to interrupt someone if their headphones were on.

It's weird that this experience, which I know was very widespread in tech, is completely missing these days in discussions of remote vs in-office. People urging a return a to office are even explicitly bringing up the ability to come up and tap someone on the shoulder as a selling point of being in-office, ignoring the fact that most people have always hated this.

As far as sitting down and working together collaboratively, I have found in the past 2 years that video calls work perfectly well for this. We've made an explicit effort to reduce the number of recurring, scheduled meetings but also to encourage more ad-hoc, collaborative meetings to work on things together synchronously.

I think being an extrovert and missing the social aspect of working together in an office, is a perfectly legitimate reason to want to go back to an in-office job. In an ideal world I think every remote team should have an in-person off-site event for a couple of days every few months for purely social and team-building reasons. But I'm very skeptical about claims that you can't collaborate to get work done as well remotely because my own experience has been so different.
If it was rotated 90 degrees and could be rotated to the inside of your wrist that could work pretty well.
Note that the longer this lasts, the more people are going to get hurt in scams, the earlier it all collapses the more will be saved. It does make sense to be pleased when a societal danger is reduced, not to mention the environmental impact, money laundering etc.
There is also that alternative called clang, which has builtin WASM support since version __.0

(but you need to write js glue code yourself)
On Twitter they said they would have found it before release with fuzzing if they had access to an AVX-512 system. I'm not sure why they don't have one. In another place they said they got $10k in funding for fuzzing and systems with AVX-512 are 4¢/hour on EC2, and NUCs with the feature are < $500. Certainly if companies are going to fund this research it makes sense to make sure the fuzzing runs on the most common platform, and OpenSSL on server platforms with AVX-512 is an extremely common use case, as the feature has been universal on Intel server CPUs for over 5 years.
This is the opinion I always hear - but, after a decade, never really understood. (no shade - you're definitely in the majority with this opinion!)

Crime is bad, but concentrated in some parts of the city. Sure, I can't leave my bike with a cheap lock, but I've also lived in some questionable areas and never had real issues - nor have 95%+ of people I know, about the same rate as friends in other major cities (Philly, DC, etc.)

Public schools are dysfunctional - yea, I guess I'm young, but isn't that similar in most major cities?

Taxes are bad - yes, but so is NY/SF. Getting worse - fair point. Agree there.

Weather - yea, fair. Sucks hard.

Travel - yes, nothing close - but it's also an airline hub for 2/3 major airlines, and it's easy to get $100 tix to cool places.

I guess I may have just been too young much of the time to "get it." But it has so many great things, too - the summers, the restaurants, the colleges, the neighborhood variety & subcultures.

I kinda just wish I could buy long-term Calls on Chicago.
I love PKD but having read most of the biographical material about him and a large chunk of his exegesis ( a journal that he kept after experiencing a break with reality late in his life) I'd put my money on deeply patanoid, mentally ill individual.

But god bless him, he certainly did leave us with some marvelous tales designed to make us question the world around us and ourselves.
The US is a large powerful country with a lot of people. It gets a lot of media attention, but news always focuses on the bad and so you get an impression that is very different from the reality if you only look at the news.
Here's one more highly relevant citation into which I eventually stumbled, which covers additional details about the W6H:

https://www.academia.edu/29682686/The_Roots_of_News_in_Journ...
Stamenković, Gordana — "The Roots of News in Journalism.", Unpublished Manuscript, 2016.

Plus additional see also, the recent Hacker News thread on How To improve one's Technical Writing, the link to which I'll ninja-edit-insert here in a second:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31859040#31877184

In my opinion, historically, the decisions which led to IBM's Zachman Framework only utilizing W5H(=6 questions) instead of W6H (=7 questions) really screwed us all over by whole freightloads more than almost anyone realizes as it has horribly miscalibrated more societal systems(') environments with ground truth biasing so extensively that it has started to slip into recursive, some sort of eldritch generalization of xkcd's Citogenesis cycle.
If you subscribe to determinism, all art pieces are also inevitable.
It is in line of 'a death is tragedy, a million statistics.' when thousands of people are losing it in a ponzi scheme, it becomes a matter of memes and I told you so.
It almost doesn't matter now that people have fractured on which sources they consider reputable. Trump called a CNN reporter "fake news" and presumably his followers think of them the same way I think of Fox. I absolutely think that Fox would use technology to lie, and I'm sure Fox fans think that "the liberal media" would. So people are going to think that reporting is fake whether or not it is
United States Department of Agriculture? Just based on the name no you really can't assume anything nefarious. It's literally not in the name.
What is it that you don't believe about climate change? The idea that we're emitting more CO2 than a hundred years ago? Or the idea that this is causing us to regress to the climate that we had before our hydrocarbons were sequestered? Or the idea of the greenhouse effect that makes CO2 heat up our planet more?

Is there something on this page that you don't find believable? https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

What is my true nature that shines through in that statement?

Why was Floyd's death opportune for BLM, what do you think the motivation was?
That depends a lot on what you look like. When a pub is empty, people coming in are easier to spot and evaluate by the staff.
The different ways you're expressing the question give different meanings to your review. It's not clear to me what you want: are you blocking the review on extracting the code? Does this have to be done now or could this be on a separate patch? After or before the series? Is there an actual good reason to extract it (like you plan on using it tomorrow) or is this just about making the code easier to read?

- Try to make this not personal (opposite of how I started the paragraph above!). Talk about the code, not about what the author did. The code does this, the code does that, instead of you wrote this, you wrote that. Also, it's our code, so "we should do this" instead of "you should do that" in case you can't use "the code should do that".

- Be clear on what's just nice-to-have and what is really blocking the review process.

- Explain to them why you think this should be extracted to a separate function. Maybe they have a good reason against it or a good counter argument.
There is an element of truth to this but we’ve seen the filibuster selectively weakened to accomplish a specific goal under Mitch McConnell as well as Harry Reid before him. Its been done by both just within the last 2 presidencies, and there’s no good reason to assume your opponent won’t be the one to do it first when it suits them.
Which is borrowed from Italian, not Spanish.
I think this won’t work because Chrome doesn’t have independent business model. Also, if Chrome is removed from Google they could create another alternative based on Chromium since it’s open source.
I don't understand how that relates to my comment or the situation in the original article.