skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's evidence that best talent works best when there's slack and when they crash, they crash hard.

For example, I have an optimal load which I can work almost indefinitely and performing very well (in my own scale), when the load shots up, I lock up.

This is why I'm automating as much as I can, so I can keep in that optimal zone which I perform really well.
They'll be wrong until the moment they're right. The USSR looked similarly durable in the 1980s, and the few voices saying it was rotten at the core and on the verge of collapse were waved off.

And then all of a sudden it collapsed.
It's not just about new employees though. The pandemic shifted people's priorities, but many are still clinging to a job that doesn't fit those new priorities.
Consider a scenario where you don't want to be alive, like dementia, or cancer, etc.
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Chinese strategy was/is to become the worlds factory. China successfully manipulated the west's biggest weakness. It created a situation where every individual is incentivized to do the wrong thing (set up factories in china) and the only solution is collective action via regulation. Through it's success, it has cemented itself as a single point of failure in the worlds supply chain. China now has a knob to turn up the pain on anyone who defies it or attempts to hold it accountable.

A government has an obligation to protect national security. Letting another country be a single point of failure in your supply chain is a major failure of national security and ability to self determine. The government failed to regulate IP transfers and failed to restrict businesses from behavior that, while individually harmless, is collectively harmful.

The US governments failure to regulate very much ceded power directly to China.

Add to that the unequal trade agreements of china practicing protectionism while America does not and the result is a stunning American foreign policy failure.

The prevailing idea was that the west thought an economically successful china would liberalize, and therefore this ceding of power was ok and a net benefit. I think the violation of Hong Kong and Xi's wolf warrior diplomacy has been the turning point where the west now understands that China is an ideological enemy with a zero sum ideology.
https://felt.com/team sends me to a 404. :)
The weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager
They may have a commercial line, but that's not what you get on Amazon, or Home Depot, with its 15 candy colors and consumer facing build.

If cafes are buying a toaster at home depot, they're doing it wrong. Most retail equipment even specifies warranty is void for commercial use.
Sorry, but in Latin America, US pressure was to create the dictatorships, not to remove them. US helped to create them, and supported the torture and chasing of dissidents.
While the content of the website appears to be down now, according to the whois[1], the website registration itself with it being registered to Nissan Computer Corp. does not expire until 2024.

[1]: https://who.is/whois/nissan.com
I hope that coach is Muslim
There's a reason why constructive dismissal is illegal in any sane jurisdiction.

The catch is you usually have to prove it to a court or tribunal. The CEO saying he's doing in in public communications is probably pretty solid evidence.
FTX and BlockFi deal: “up to” 240M “based on performance triggers”
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Ah, about 20 years ago I think a relative responded to a, I think it was, an "I'm here at the airport, don't see you anywhere" kind of email. This was before spam filters got good, so that email address was basically kaput.
"When we spoke, he told me how deeply he admires the interface design of musical equipment like guitar pedals."

Keyboardist here, so I cannot say much about guitar pedals, but I very much agree in general. Of course there is a ton of bad UI design also, but I think well designed musical instruments beat the best designs in other areas.

For example: I have a modern digital stage piano. It's a computer with several gigs of RAM an yet the whole manual is like eight pages. This is the complete manual, not some quick start guide.

While it's no DAW it's not simple either, you can do a lot with it and still my child uses it without ever looking in the manual.
Ask HN: Interesting programming language concept to implement
My Programming Languages and Interpreters requires students to find a research paper published in ACM or IEEE that details a programming language concept, and implement it. The task should take 10-20 hours to implement.

I'm having trouble picking a paper to implement. All the papers I found so far seem too difficult for me to understand, or not interesting. Any ideas on an interesting paper to implement? I did look into probabilistic programming, which seems interesting.

The paper is to be implemented in Haskell if that matters. Thanks!
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I was being sarcastic with that, should have written it as: you're "safe" from legal repercussions.
I've had the same problem. I tried the traps that look like a block of wood with a hole and a jar underneath, but I don't know if it's going to be effective enough.
But, by any sane measure of the US, things are worse and are getting worse.
That’s more than bad language. I don’t like govt spooks making house calls but the tweet could be used later as a claim she invited violence.
They say for atheists the worst moment is the Dark Night of the Soul, where, having accepted that nobody is keeping score, now you have to decide if anything means anything or if everything is completely pointless.

Having experienced that first hand, twice, that's definitely true. For the person it happens to. But for the people who have to deal with that person? The worst is when that person sublimates their need for belief into a bunch of 'secular religions' that they cling to like a... I don't know what word to use here, but let's say ninja is to mall ninja as crusader is to <clever word for atheist zealot>.

As for the steak, I often order medium well even though I want well done. Unless you're at a very high end steak house, which most of us aren't, they are always bloodier than you ask for and you rarely get a decent crust below medium well. At one point I had perfected the well done steak at home, but it's been so long that it would probably take me a couple hundred dollars in steaks to dial it back in.
Why do people use JSDocs, RustDoc, or others
Who's using the generated results for JSDocs or equivalent in other languages? What's useful about it?
I tried getting into the Crowdcube investment round, but after they got the allocations, the whole deal fell through and I was refunded.

Needless to say I’m pretty happy they didn’t take my money in the end.
But when we're all vegetarian, where will the bullshit come from?
or the 'dead sea effect'- as in talent evaporates, leaving only the salty underperforming solute
> You've worked hard to make something you're proud of but now how do you let people know about it?

By developing and executing a marketing plan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> This makes sense, right? Guitar pedals are, after all, a technology that you are supposed to step on. And not in some gentle, delicate manner!

I remember getting a guitar pedal for Christmas when I was like 16 or so. My dad did not believe me that you were supposed to step on them, and was angry at me for mistreating his gift, lol. I showed him footage of real bands doing that and he told me "Yeah and Hendrix used to light his guitar on fire on stage, but you're not doing that either." He thought it was a stage trick.

A well made pedal does feel great though. I still have a Boss pedal from 1988 that works with no repairs. Wish all of them were that durable, the DL4 is notable for having connections come apart internally after about a year. Easy fix, but sucks if it happens on stage.

Point #3 is a big deal, especially being easily readable on stage in no light or lights in your face. I have the Lillian Phaser pictured in #5 and had to put tape over the blue LEDs because they are so bright they blind you when you look down. This isn't an issue specific to the Lillian either. From what I understand, blue LEDs are much brighter than the rest, and most designers don't take any steps to dim them.
The problem isn't what they are saying, it is how it is implemented and how it is read. Then there is the issue of how it affects company culture. The tech industry seems to view culture as the type of people they want to work with. That is not the whole picture. If having a job with the company (or receiving promotions) becomes some sort of survivalist game, there will be people who employ survivalist tactics to protect themselves and those close to them. The goal may not involve making people miserable, yet the outcome will be.
No man is an island. I’d rather pay taxes for police and hire a plumber than live in the woods with a rifle and fetch my own water, given that there are only so many hours in a day to try and be an expert on everything.
If I can't query for warning level on journalctl it's useless.
We have ~4000 heads of garlic in the ground at our little farm here, and are in our third year of selling garlic as a business.

But we still usually have a couple jars of store-bought pre-minced stuff in the cupboard. It comes in handy.

Blanket prohibitions and snobbery are just stupid.
my family applies this to much more than food. helps make me less judgmental.
As a soon to be ex-meta employee, I have two thoughts:

1. What Mark says is real, no BS, finally telling people how it really is. He’s focused on the metaverse - if I was a long term investor - I’d buy more all the way down - and I think it will go down.

2. I’m jumping ship, no more metamates, just me. Many offers on the table set to go, was stressful but enough is enough. I love the job, but I like surfing and hanging out with family more. A players can and will leave, they will have many offers - market for A players is strong. Mark will continue to attract talent - and in time - meta will prevail
The tone here is controlled by the mods.

I don't see "hey, your job is super easy" as constructive criticism.
I see this as an inability to judge your own knowledge and the efforts of others.

But, yes, the tone is super polite.
I've had house calls without a business card, at least they're being authentic.
The 30-year-old book (Understanding Comics) that became a Silicon Valley Bible
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Laser printers (color ones) are (were?) required to have some sort of built in imperfection because they were too good and could be used for counterfeiting.

I wouldn't be surprised if this eventually is a requirement for cameras, you know, just because law enforcement wants it.
The Dropbox thread was not super negative, I just looked at it again.

If your product is useful, there will be positive feedback. Haters gonna hate, that’s always been the case.
no, really you can keep it, no one else would want that abomination.

(note jalapeno are a valid topping)
You're confusing disgust with surprise. One can predict abuse and also not enjoy it and decide to close the comments down after you get too much of it.
Uh I think it makes them hesitant to jump on stories with no sources. Publishing something before it’s ready is exactly what a tabloid rag does.
Here's a small example https://gist.github.com/killah-t-cell/d9425435732a155c8f0e72... (feel free to reach out to me at gbbinbum@gmail.com as well)

Would love to hear your thoughts
Klarna and affirm are the next gen of bullshit companies. Like Uber and WeWork before it. Absolutely massive scams fed with easy money and dumping on the next fool.
I mean, the comment I was responding to literally said, and I quote, “End all wars. Bring all troops home. Close all foreign bases.” So it does seem to me that at least some people want this.
There's nothing snobbish about the claim that food cooked with fresh ingredients are more flavourful and nutritious. Nobody can also deny that processed foods save a lot of cooking time. But they are often unhealthier (in the long term) because of all the salt, sugar, artificial flavours and preservatives that are used in it. And they are often always costlier. It's the last 2 things that really irk me - I recently bought some cocoa powder, and was hard-pressed to find any brand selling it without artificial cocoa flavouring. These cheap artificial flavourings allow the processed food industry to reduce or substitute the original ingredient with a cheaper alternative, while ensuring the artificial flavouring doesn't let us know the difference. This is one of the major reasons people who really love cooking avoid processed foods, and often prefer fresh ingredients.

All that said, people like the author should learn to care less about the unimportant / irrelevant opinions of others, especially strangers. And learn to diplomatically handle such opinions. (After all, pride and snobbery does creep in when we learn a skill that we enjoy and become better at. I confess that I am an occasional snob too since I learned cooking! As is the author, even if she doesn't realise it ...).
Why a disservice? It’s the contrary.

Thanks to those kinds of leaks, I had already decided I’d never want to work for that place.

When a good friend started working there, he confirmed pretty much everything.
If it's just reviewing people at a higher standard, I don't see how that'll turn high performers away.
You could pay them to give you their thoughts or own that it is a crowded space and you will likely fail.
Totally agree. It would've been much smarter to allow Russia to slowly transition into Democratic Socialism or something like that (whatever the Russian people voted for), with critical industries retained by the state and a welfare system kept in place.
I asked myself the same question when I watched this interview "CNBC's Jim Cramer interviewed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyoVLipRVPw

It sounds like he really believes his own bull.
> The zoning laws and car centric development of cities is the issue.

Well, the main issue is that most of the cars on the road during the busiest hours have just 1 person in them.

I think when the dust finally settles, the main form of passenger transit in urban-ish areas will basically be something that looks like autonomous vans.

Unlike public transit today, they won't have predefined timetables, nor predefined startpoints and endpoints. They'll pick you up wherever you are, whenever you want, and drop you off wherever you want, but they might take a roundabout way to get there to pick up and drop off other passengers too.

If they usually have 2+ people in them at a time, we'll be able to use our existing infrastructure (roads) at a much higher throughout.
It's not strange. I had deep respect and even some fear of the Russian Army for what it could potentially do to my country.

That fear is now largely gone for me. If they can't blitzkrieg the Ukraine, good luck coming here. It would be hell of course, but we could keep them at bay.

"The west" have supported the Ukraine, but only really with a trickle of arms compared to its resources in reserve. The combined air forces alone of the west would totally mop up the Russian forces at this stage of the war.

The santions have driven up the Ruble, true, but how much is really transacted with that Ruble? It's also problematic to have a strong currency. Russian soldiers are for some strange reason paid a war risk premium calculated in dollar equivalents, which means less rubles when exchanged at the current rate.
This also happened when more paternalistic companies in the 80s would offer buyouts of one kind or another.

The better employees, feeling more certain they could find another job, were often the ones who left.
> It's absolute insanity that they don't see that the best talent can and will walk out the door if this happens

Or maybe the best talent is sick of these overpaid rest-and-vest lackeys and more than happy to see them get the axe.
It’s not “making people suffer”. It is having high expectations for performance that A-players and teams can easily hit. If companies are going to survive during a crisis time when the whole world is facing headwinds, there is no margin for error, at FB or anywhere.

Layoffs are always awful, they take jobs away from people without them having a say. They should always be a last resort.
Slapping a barcode on a sensor is a lot less involved than using it to take some careful measurements and then storing and retaining the results.
And yet, the norm is that employees give notice while companies give nothing.
This is incredibly exciting news, but I'd like to kick the tires real quick.

Main worry: The magic ingredient this time appears to be vanadium instead of lithium, but there's still a magic ingredient (at least, according to my cursory understanding of the tech, entirely due to the OP's link)

- How abundant is vanadium? Wikipedia says it's 'rarely found in nature' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium

- What are the geopolitics of vanadium? Under what conditions is it typically mined? Within which nation-states' territories is it typically found?

- What other industrial uses does vanadium have?

- What quantity is needed?

- Can we ramp up exploitation of deposits, or are there hard reasons (scarcity, remoteness, etc) that prevent this?

- EDIT: most importantly, are there other candidate elements that can, in the case of shortage or war, also provide service?
Since founders hold ~90% voting power combined, no, it's not gonna become an acquisition target.
This makes me wonder if there are any books collecting management mistakes. A lot of leaders have to pick this up on the job by making their own blunders. I understand that some MBA programs may attempt to look at case studies, but the ones I’ve read have seemed about anodyne strategy things rather than human-level, savvy operator, street smarts & empathy stuff. Regardless, the winter holidays are clearly a time of year to be extra compassionate and considerate; it’s definitely no good to have layoffs right before xmas. I wonder if the biz had insurance coverage for getting looted this way. Or maybe that physical stuff didn’t have much remaining value anyway.
This is what I've always called it and seen it called.
Typical middle management bs. The best engineers even delete far more code than they write.
Some open source communities are worse than gamers in some cases.
Just try reading logs from journalctl, where you can filter the levels you don't need and see errors and warnings in a different colour. Then you will perhaps re-evaluate the importance of levels.