skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll run into the same problem you run into with stack ranking where you up firing x% of ICs every quarter - the good ones leave, the bad ones stay.

Say you fire half the managers. Let's say you live in a fantasy world where you can accurately measure who is the bottom half vs. the top half by whatever metric matters to you. So you fire the worst half. You've just done a couple things:

1. Probably triggered some sort of "layoff" legislation/notice/severance/whatever and sent a ton of people looking for work before the next round, whether you expect there to be a next round or not (but you've already said there would be).

2. The good managers, who could probably walk into another management role without much trouble, do so. Why risk being in the second round?

3. You're left with something approaching the middle quartile, but now they're doing more than 2x the work after the top 5-10% of your management leaves after your purge. How many people do you know suddenly get better at their job after you double their workload?

4. I don't know how true it is but there is an old saying "people don't leave jobs they leave managers," and so now for half the company you've fired their manager and given them someone very overworked. For some non-trivial percentage of the company their new manager is worse than their old manager.

5. Due to #1 and #4, your best ICs start to leave, so engineering and product quality (and velocity) drop precipitously.

6. You've lost your best managers, who would fight to keep the hiring bar high, so the weak ones compromise on shaky candidates. Engineering and product quality drop even more, and morale tanks.

Congratulations, you've just filed for bankruptcy with extra steps.
Why do you think this particular segment
has fallen short of employer's expectations
?
Sure -- you can restrict the search to websites that seem to be relevant to the query. Maybe you do it by hand at first, then you switch over to an ML model. You optimize the ML model for a few years, adding in more signals, and allowing it to guide other parts of the query to keep costs in check and raise quality (as measured by your preferred metrics)... and now you have reinvented fuzzy search that behaves in unintuitive ways, and people on HN complain that your service was better when it did raw string matching.
2009 Brawn/Honda - average (at best) drivers, average (at best) budget. True chassis design genius.

Same engine as the Mclaren, 1/3 the budget, a driver whos other offer of a seat was to pay for one at Toro Rosso; yet over a second faster in the first race of the year.
>What are the equivalents for Jira ?

One equivalent that does everything and is as flexible as jira, I don't know.

There are however a multitude of software that provide some of the functionnalites or can do many things jira does but in a more opinionated way.

It depends if one's company want a tool flexible enough to suit gazillons of different workflows with integration with many other tools or not. If the goal is only to have issues and kanban boards I think there are many alternatives.

Funny thing is jira is such a mess Atlassian introduced jira service desk more focused on tickets while the former can also do that.
There's way too much theory and not nearly enough experiment in this writeup.

I still don't know what happens if I put two glasses of water, one at room temperature and the other at 100 C, into a freezer and determine which one freezes first. If I don't see the hot water freezing first all (most?) of the time, there's nothing else to consider.

Maybe the controversy has to do with the lack of solid experimental data.
I think the take here is different, accept other culture is different to discriminate against some person, i'm again anti Islamic comments, also i'm not in favor of discrimination of LGBT+ people, jews,black, rusian etc.
the question is here is we are in favor of corporation who value more market penetration than ethics standards, i'm against the neoliberal idea that corporation aren't ideological organization, i feel this premise in itself is ideological,and is use to push out criticism of their actions.
Can anyone offer a concrete summary of what Wolfram Language and Mathematica are, from a technical perspective? The marketing material alone makes it difficult for me to situate them in the landscape of languages.

- Is "Wolfram Language" the language used in Mathematica notebooks? Or is Mathematica a separate language, implemented using Wolfram Language? What does Mathematica add to Wolfram Language?

- I assume the Mathematica language is interpreted (not compiled) so it can be used in interactive notebooks. Any info about what its interpreter is like? I'm guessing it is compiled to byte code prior to being interpreted?

- How are symbolic expressions represented? Are symbolic expressions a distinct data type? Can you write a function that takes a symbolic expression and computes the derivative (I'm sure such a function is built in, but does the language let you implement a thing like this yourself?)

- Is there any kind of static typing, or is everything dynamically typed?
That's what a conscious emulating automaton _would_ say.
He was a child, of course it was cryptic
It's free for personal use on Raspberry Pis btw, and also there's some kind of free tier for Wolfram Cloud.
From my limited experience with the Unity engine, I would guess that it has been built with a colossal technical debt that is almost intractable.

The foundations were technically weak and they started the reengineering process (DOTS) a bit late.

I've seen that before, with PalmOS and other tech stacks that were hacked together and kind of worked for a while until the competition caught up.

The zombie state can last a few years, but I am pretty sure there are cases where the whole thing can be saved with herculean effort.
I felt crushed for the owner, reading this. What sounds like a lifetime of work collecting these rare, perfect condition games, just to have it destroyed in service of making the games harder to track when being pawned for short money.

Personally I don’t think I’d collect and not play these games, I like using my things for what they are for and I think the regular use enhances the value, but still I empathize with the store owner.
Let me google that for you. Wait, some search results were removed due to DMCA claims. All the stones I had to throw at this are apparently censored here in the good ole USA.
Personally, I think corporations have to respect the laws in all the markets they are operating in, no exceptions. If those laws are contradictory, well international corps are pretty good in using any loop holes, so they gonna figure it out. And if laws in some markets contradict basic values of a company, well, you can always not operate in said market. I'd love if companies would do that. That companies don't is a major way non-sanctioned totalitarian regimes can circumvent western democratic values.

In a way the world was easier during the cold war, good and bad was clearly distinguished, human rights didn't matter in the public opinion as log it was "our" guys doing the violations and things like LGBTQ, minority and women rights were a mere fringe phenomenon in West anyway. I like today's environment better.
As for me, I put together some spaghetti bash functions for taking note while using the terminal (eg run tnote function will let me select one of the last 10 commands, type a description of what it does and move on with my day...i can come back later and sort it out into my notes)...

I then write another small bash script that use consolemd and surge(probably will move to github page at some point) to generate a simple webpage with simple markdown JavaScript library to serve it up along with all the files generated by consolemd so i can use curl in terminal and have it colorfully displayed.

The cheatsheet site is here https://ch.ebfe.pw/.

And you can try it in terminal: curl https://ch.ebfe.pw/intel/splunk

And my code can be found here if you are interested:

https://github.com/santrancisco/cheat
> Those same companies don't advocate for the right of this community in places where it matters most, since it won't give them money, but it will mean risk.

It's worse than that. Many of these companies donate to political parties actively undermining those rights.
> Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?

They may do that, but then playing a champion of the opposing values when it's convenient (pride month in the western world) is hypocrisy and it should be pointed out. If they didn't have an LGBTQ-based PR campaign in the West, then this move wouldn't merit a mention. Alas, it does.
Really? You haven't seen the countless people decrying how confusing and hard GDPR is to implement?
They are patently unable to
We only need about 1 million of these air capture plants.
> Some things are simply wrong. This is one of those things. If one’s worldview disagrees, then theirs is simply incorrect on this matter.

The GP said, "in a way that doesn't assume your worldview is the universal position ... everyone must adhere to". Your response still assumes that universality.
> However, since the financial markets are close to efficient, it is difficult to use such information to make money. If you can, you should consider getting a job on Wall Street.

This is not correct in all cases

People who sold their crypto first when they just saw the publicly available news about inflation, stopped more loss than many other people, because they just reacted faster, not because they are actually capable for Wall Street jobs.

Same for people who bought gold when they heard about Russian military build up on Ukrainan border.

Same for the normal guys who decided it's the time to buy another car and to wait before selling the current, when they heard a chip shortage is approaching

Same for people who bought Pfizer stocks in January 2020
Live-patching Linux kernel security vulnerabilities with eBPF
I’d just like them to pick a lane:

- sociopathic corporation, profits above people… and stop pushing rainbow symbols all month domestically

- actually find your backbone and push rainbows globally

I think customers should refuse to tolerate the abuser mentality of corporations screaming at people who already agree about “gay rights” while refusing to actually stand up for them globally.
The Turing test is a thought experiment, not a standard. As it turns out, people are really bad at judging others, certainly under the conditions set by the Loebner prize. That's not totally surprising. One of the problems is that really critical examination would also render a negative judgement on quite a few of our fellow humans.
You rebase onto the parent of that commit. The parent doesn't change. Or am I misunderstanding what you're describing here?
I also can't understand why we need parades that share what other people do in their bedrooms. This cuts both ways.
Can someone explain the “stamp” method for printing the code on the cards? The stamp images shown on the website seems to be stretched and I can’t figure out whats going on.
> We can't know if Mathematica could have taken the place of Python if it was open sourced,

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have, not with it's current lispy syntax. There is ton of empirical evidence that overt functional style is unnatural for the human mind, especially beginners. Which is why there is no large scale use of any such language.
The infrastructure is nowhere near ready. Even in the CA Bay Area, chargers at popular destinations are already overwhelmed (and really expensive) and take forever. That can't easily be scaled up to entire replace gas stations.

Rural areas don't even have that kind of power readily available. And if you have to wait hours instead of minutes to continue your journey, that means charging stations can't just be convenience stores, but entire destinations unto themselves. It takes time and a whole lot of money and willpower to build all that.

That's not even talking about the pollution. A sudden ramp-up in EV usage without a commiserate increase in renewables storage means, in reality, we're just offsetting gas combustion at the point of use with coal and natural gas combustion at the point of generation. It's barely an improvement and nowhere actually near carbon neutral.

You can mandate and legislate MPG improvements and % EV requirements and such to spur development, but you can't just leapfrog over the infrastructure requirements. We need something like the New Deal with a new Interstate-like boost to get the grid up to par. Otherwise too many EVs on the road would mean terrible effects upstream and cascading infrastructure failures.
Good decision.

After the big "fortune favors the bold!" ad blitz of last year the pot of greater fools willing to pour money into cryptocurrency (without understanding it) is probably pretty tapped out. At this point the only way to keep the music going is to find a way to tap and drain pension funds, endowments, IRAs, and other sources of more conservative money that reside in public markets.

Keep that from happening and the Ponzi collapses unless they can find some other source. The only other one I can think of is flight capital from China and Russia. That's always been a factor in propping up crypto but the thing is they're not HODLers. They don't care about propping up crypto, just using it to get money out of places with capital controls. Once the money is out they're likely to liquidate on the other side. Wire transfer is one of the few areas of actual utility in cryptocurrency but it doesn't really prop up the Ponzi.

The same applies to money laundering. They're using crypto as a vehicle to launder money but once laundered they want the money back in generally usable form. They're not HODLing.
> If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.

“impose their ideology” is a disingenuous frame for this situation. They are censoring search results. As in, the customer, who Amazon makes money off by showing them what they want, is not being shown items that relate to what they searched for.

That’s not a pop-up that says “Muhammad was bisexual.”

In any case, cultural relativism is a liberal cop-out. American companies should use their capital to promote American values.
I got two things:

(1) School didn't work for me. Typical dumb smart kid that was bored and had mediocre grades because I was too stubborn to do homework. What sort of alternatives are there and how well they work.

(2) Struggling as a Dad with the new societal expectations. Basically I've got all the responsibilities dad's of my parents generation had (make money, fix the house/car/lawn, investments, etc.) plus the addition of half the parenting, cooking, etc that used to be 100% the woman's responsibility. To add insult to injury I'm still largely treated as a second class parent. Drs and teachers tend to talk to my wife and not me and so on.

Don't know that I exactly have a story idea with #2. But it'd be nice to see people talk about it outside of toxic men's rights subtrddits.
We used TFS in 2010 to create issues and stories and development workflows and i remember it worked fine with no major complaints. Especially as a full VS shop ,it even had very good integration for everything which can be done inside the Visual Studio itself. We eventually moved to JIRA though couple of years later.

I believe that TFS product evolved to Azure DevOps now.
I appreciated their synthesis but I think some general recommendations would have also been useful for the public (imperfect but helpful):

1. Ask primary care physician for a lab referral or purchase a nutrient deficiency test from a straight to consumer lab (cost was lower than I expected at ~$100-$200).

2. Google whether nutrient is actually bioavailable when taken as a supplement.

3. Use independent tests to ascertain brand quality for specific supplement or overall trustworthiness (labdoor is the one I'm familiar with).
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It's quite a stretch to go from banning LGBT searches to death penalties for those same people. The west bans information all the time that it deems dangerous, our value system is just different.

I would argue our value system is vastly superior, but I would never demand someone take my values as their own.
Well, "point and tap" was mostly a joke :-) i'd expect the game to have slightly different approach - most likely something similar to the Sierra's SCI games where you'd choose the action to do from a bar. Point-and-click adventure games is even something that people started using in recent years, for more than 3 decades these were just "adventure games" and over their history used a lot of types of interfaces.

In any case those were games whose UX (at least those using 2D graphics anyway) is basically about moving and activating objects in space, something that works very well on a touch screen (if anything it can be even more intuitive), which is why i expect them to flourish there.

Also note that what i refer to is them being popular types of games to see on such devices, not just them existing.
After buying a few Switches and using Nintendo's online service they seem very stodgy to me. It just feels like they are struggling to get it. The user experience is horrible.

You go from the ease of slapping in a cartridge to navigating thier downloadable content--it feels like getting hit by a brick wall.

Older people and the disabled, good luck using their system. I got tired of mucking with it and simply stopped playing games on the Switch. Remarkably clunky--reminds me of Jira.

This bit of news is no surprise at all--they are basically refusing to deal with a problem they created. Sad.
Heh if I read that comment first I wouldn't have bothered replying to the idiot.

It's amazing how a small phrase used in that way is so revealing.
Maybe they meant hot from the tap and not boiling, which will certainly crack the windshield.
Companies will do whatever they can to increase profits in the market they find themselves in? The choice to paint a logo rainbow, or not paint a logo rainbow, is purely a monetary decision and doesn't actually reflect whether the company cares about social justice or not? Companies exist to make money? What a hot take.
You're not paying for the support you're expecting. This was an oversight on your part to vent on HN instead of upgrading to the Business tier the past however many hours your systems have been down. You can face the same suspension issue with any cloud provider. A painful, but necessary lesson it seems.
> Atlassian’s prospectus noted that in 2015 the business grew by 48%, around double this year’s growth.

If Atlassian is 20 years old now, that means it was over 10 years old (~13) then. Atlassian was an enterprise service company at that point already. What kind of enterprise service company can be expected to maintain a 50% year-over-year growth for nearly a decade? If that's "around double this year's growth" that means they're still growing by 20-25%. That's impressive.

I'm not saying the valuation correction is wrong or that the claims they're unprofitable are unfair, I'm wondering what made anyone think they'd perform better than they have in terms of growth if that growth is already impressive. They sell enterprise services ffs and they're the gold standard outside e.g. Sharepoint.

Maybe the problem isn't their growth rate itself, but attempting to build the business model on an unrealistic growth rate.
Well, we can call it the West, or we can call it those with power.

I live in the West, by my country's actions are nothing to do with me. My leaders do not represent me. I want nothing to do with it.

What we are really talking about when we use phrases like 'the West', 'the US', etc is those elites that have manipulated the levers of power for whatever it is that they want to do. The individual people we meet in those countries are nothing to do with it.
> customers should refuse to tolerate the abuser mentality of corporations

Boycotts work when they’re deep, acute and with agreement on the solution that will lift it. Boycotts won’t do anything here. This requires legislation.
Sometimes I think AI ethicist is the ultimate bullshit job.

OpenAI for instance withholds GPT-3 from the public presumably to protect us from something dangerous but really they are protecting their bank account from the costs of running an inefficient model and preventing people from playing with it and discovering it really isn’t that good.

There is that rationalist cult that claims to be atheistic but really worships the eschaton from Iron Sunrise, they talk about A.I. ethics as an issue to boost their own self-importance, they think they are saving the world the same way Scientologists do.
Yeah I’ve tried that method but with the camera resolution I had it was practically impossible to decode.
> I cannot fathom being the person at Amazon who makes that call. Do they sleep well at night? Do they feel good about themselves?

I'm sure they sleep fine. It's not the role of a retailer to promote a particular political agenda. If we all only transacted with people we agreed with, we wouldn't have a society.
The RHEL and SuSE family is definitely bigger than arch and arch adjacent distros but I agree with your point
You can't just do a chargeback for no reason. You have to show to the credit card company you have not received something, or got damaged goods etc. and you have tried to resolve it with the company.
That's what people want the machine to do. Ask Google right now for information about the movie "Pirates of the Pacific" starring "Joni Dep". It does not, in fact, tell you that there's no such movie. Instead it tells you stuff about the Pirates of the Carribean movies, and Johnny Depp.

It's even one of the things programmers really like about Rust. If you write a program that can't possibly be correct Rust but it is obvious what it should do, the diagnostics often tell you how to write that as Rust or point you in the right direction. e.g. I just tried to write a printf-style format in Rust's println! macro and while rejecting this as incorrect the compiler said:

help: format specifiers use curly braces

and

note: printf formatting not supported; see the documentation for `std::fmt`
I like the stage way more than not having it. I think Mercurial has it now as some extension, but my fingers know Git and git-hg is the only way I interact with the tool these days.

Explicit rename tracking is a mistake though. I think Linus got that one right.
We may roll with it to the point of discussing why do schoolchildren in the UAE have to submit to laws restricting guns, and how their freedom to bring guns to schools is oppressed.

"There is no monopoly of common sense, on either side of the political fence."
That's an interesting question. I'd expect there to not be too much when running as it's powered by a geothermal energy source. However there's bound to be CO2 produced when building the plant. Hopefully the plant will offset that pretty quickly.
I've been using Site24x7 for at least 6 years now, probably closer to 10. They have a "free forever" plan that's good enough for small projects: https://www.site24x7.com

It's been rock solid, haven't had a single issue.

I'm at the point where I now want a bit more, such as a status page, more frequent polling, monitoring from different continents and a record of historical outages. So I'm either going to pony up for a paid Site24x7 plan (£7/m), or self-host something myself - Kuma looks awesome BTW, I hadn't come across it before!
https://github.com/charlax/dotfiles/tree/master/cheatsheets using cheat
Wasn’t there that guy who tried to hire a civil rights lawyer for an A.I.?
If that were true, Disney’s shareholders would be a lot happier.
That AWK REPL in JS is amazing! Just what I need for a playground to refine my understanding of its language. Thank you!

I will consider buying the books and spread the word :) Thanks again!