skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is far from blameless about our actions in the world, but that doesn't excuse the attack on their own citizens in Russia or China. To see the ultimate difference between the US and China and Russia, make a public comment criticizing the government in public, on TV, in the newspaper. In the US, I don't lose my job, the police don't come to my house, I am not ostracized by my neighbor. Maybe I'm encouraged to write editorials to expand on my ideas or even run for office. Whether I'm supporting the current leader or government or the opposition candidate from a previous election, I'm still free. In China or Russia you are not. No one monitored my high school teachers via camera to see if they reported anything that was against the party rule.
Presumably, but it seems most of the work in to improving the productivity of certain web browsing workflows.

It may help improve some tasks, but not exactly core product stuff.

If my capital were on the line, I’d be pretty annoyed seeing it spent that way.
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Back in ~2001 I saw cute little devices you put in your car and they would light up / blink / dance when it detected the same thing.
To further your comment, all 3 times LA got the Olympics it was because nobody else wanted them...because they were getting too expensive.

And the first two times, LA showed that an Olympics could be done profitably, by reusing existing facilities.

For the 2028 Olympics, LA is following in the footsteps of the 1984 Olympics and reusing undergraduate housing and sports venues. LA has 5 soccer/track and field stadiums (Rose Bowl, Coliseum, Sofi, Dignity Health, and Banc of California), 5 Arenas (Forum, Staples, Galen Center, Pauley Pavilion, and the forthcoming Intuit Dome), 4 baseball stadiums (Dodgers, Angels, USC, and UCLA), 4 Olympic-size pools (Expo Park, USC, UCLA, and Loyola Marymount)...and these are just the major venues with Olympics-level seating. Also, the LA, Anaheim, and Long Beach convention centers are available for indoor early-round events that somehow can't fit into the aforementioned venues. The only venue being purpose-built just for the Games is the media center, which will be constructed by NBC at its own expense.
Unless the baseline is where the high performers are performing at right now.

It's a win-win for companies to hold employees to high standards. Either they sacrifice health, family, relationships, hobbies, etc. to meet unsustainable demands or they "self-select" and the company no longer has to pay their salary, healthcare, benefits, etc. In the economic climate we're living in, it just makes economic sense to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of your workers. This includes pushing already high performing workers to do more than they already are.
Yes, the West did control the world after WW2

Do something about China? Like shipping factory machines wholesale?

The idiots in charge built up the Chinese into a manufacturing superpower!
I second this, very useful. I kind of expected the article to mention it, but it didn’t!
You aren't mandated to have mail or phone.

Edit: Noting a lot of downvotes on this comment, which is odd. I can only conclude one thing- don't be Amish on HN.

Perhaps this could be an opportunity to explore a different way of life, and a different community structure. It is not all horse buggies and barns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6SlJZk5guI&list=PLEyPgwIPkH...
It's an explanation for why the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Not the reason. If it said "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed only for the purpose of forming a militia." then I'd agree. But it does not.
Thatcher was dealt a bad hand. When the British wanted Hong Kong they in their Western mindset considered that "99 years" was the same as "forever".

Consider that the UK only barely managed to defend the Falklands.
Thatcher saved her and her country's face in the negotiations which is the main job of any politician.
Bad actors are incentivized without needing direct payments by using fake reviews. They actually put money in because they can get more out. If you start paying for reviews, I would expect this to get worse. While fraud is partially a financial problem, it's really more of a moderation problem, which Amazon does not seem to have the incentive to fix properly. It's also a cat & mouse game.

Bringing cryptos and tokens to the problem is not going to fix this. The best and most helpful reviews are by truly happy customers who need no financial incentive.

You might also look into the sponsored "product reviews" by "content creators" and how they are, more often than not, fluff and praise for money. If you give an honest review for a bad product, you hurt you ability to get future sponsorships.
That's simply how layoffs work. If we want a different way, we should support stronger labor laws.
Or, in my specific situation, my manager (and the manger above them) were terrible at handling intrapersonal conflicts. They would just ignore it until it went away and hating confronting anyone about anything. At least one of them also "liked" the "dead wood" in question or had at least worked with them for a long time. I understand all of that. But at the end of the day, it was bad managers. Even if you somehow manage to clear the "dead wood" (good luck, they hold on longer that performing members in my experience) you are still stuck with bad managers and you'll be right back in the same place in little time.
This assumes that you have solved the decades-old problem of measuring knowledge worker productivity in some sort of concise and accurate way.

What's your solution here for engineers? Counting the lines of code they write?
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This in regards to their warehouse workforce, but relevant to devs as well:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-wo...
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What's the next step?
The UI is fantastic once you figure out that the pedals are to be wired exactly backwards, with input on the right side, output on the left.
If the technology was the only thing that mattered you would expect India to be on par with the PRC in terms of GDP and growth.

We invested specifically and heavily into the PRC, and there’s a case to be made that that was a mistake as long as the CCP was the exclusive dominant political party within the PRC because right now, it’s still that. Not that a democratic China is necessarily a friendly China, but it’s at least one we wouldn’t have to trade against our liberal values to trade with.
I'm surprised you actually believe that a company that has incompetently hired thousands of excess people will suddenly have an amazing process for setting performance expectations and holding people accountable.

Some people might just think those are weasel words to cover an impending large-scale RIF.
It resolves and loads a page for me, it has just been... updated. Wonder if his next of kin will be selling it.
The contextual support is lacking but it can be done. See this comment from a previous discussion where I briefly described how I’ve used the record factory to help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31484527
unless you've worked in telecom, this part

> Sprawling networks can be upgraded with gateways and bridges where wholesale replacement isn't viable. Rural services (telephony, electricity, water, gas, sewerage, postal, ...) are often noneconomical and in the US there's a long tradition of either cooperatives or government-run (often municipally-organised) services, and/or steep subsidies.

this is really overly optimistic, you underestimate how moribund the traditional telco/copper POTS line/dialtone service is. the various ILECs around the USA and their patchwork of territories are putting the bare minimum into keeping some of this stuff running. nobody is going to retrofit custom gateways into their network.

they'll spend money on lobbyists and lawyers to fight back against doing anything other than maintaining the status quo instead.
> Did we really think he was actually GOOD at anything?

Lol, absolutely not. He got lucky, stole someone else's idea, and had a massive safety net to fall back on. I'm not saying he has zero skills but managing to hold onto 51% of the company does not make you a good CEO (as you stated).
I don’t know how effective it is, but I report all SMS spam to my carrier (for T-Mobile, send content to 7726).

Does anyone here have inside knowledge about whether this does any good?
Isn't that worse for employee wages though? More employees to pick from = more competition among workers = lower wages?
Talking about "turning up the heat" at FB and using this kind of language is fairly odd to me while at the same time Google is actively reforming their perf and promo process in a way that seems (at least to me, newly on the outside) to be kind of the opposite of this and a response to internal frustration, and lots of attrition.

I don't know, maybe we'll see a similar thing happen at Google over the next few months. But not right now, at least not what I'm hearing.
I don't mind. For me the product has just begun existing.

Maybe companies considering quitting should try open-sourcing before they shut down and see what good will and free marketing it yields.
The symbols we've come to associate with plastics being recyclable actually just indicate the material composition. And it isn't by accident that we assume that symbol means it's recyclable either.

Plastics like PET and HDPE are recyclable but sorting recyclable materials from non-recyclable ones is costly which meant a lot of recycling does end up as waste.

We need to start penalizing manufacturers and retailers for single-use plastics. Laws like those passed in Maine banned most single-use plastic bags and mandates that anyone offering them must also provide recycling a drop off bin.

Consumers mostly do not have a choice about how their products are packaged so the onus must be shifted onto retailers and manufacturers who make those decisions.
They might.. for a little while, but eventually most people will just say 'meh' and head for greener pastures. A lot depends on the relationships and once the first link breaks, odds are, more people will follow the first 'defector'.

It is really not that complicated. Few will put up with 'heat' if it gets to an annoying level; especially if they have other options.
That’s de facto my situation.

After copy-and-pasting the same answers year after year in the self evaluation form, my manager got the message. That was, what, 10 years ago?

Now, once per year, we have a 20min meeting, he tells me “good job”, gives my new salary and RSUs, and we’re good.

It’s great.
Trustworthy Computing means that you have the choice to trust Microsoft, as they vend the entire OS - and assuming you actually pay the big bucks[0], you can also be certain the data on the OS isn't being used for advertising purposes.

Windows provides trustworthy computing, but by no means is it required. iOS is the opposite of this where you're forced to trust Apple, which comes with UX inconveniences.

0: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-micros...
Replacing tiny broken plastic parts is the main reason I now own a 3D printer. Granted, a toaster is one of those places where the relatively low melting point of PLA or PETG might be an issue, but it is still very useful to be able to fabricate replacement parts that are otherwise impossible to find.

Even better is how I can redesign the replacement part so it doesn't fail in the same way next time.
As a meta employee, here's my read: Zuck just wants folks to get back in gear after being somewhat (justifiably) distracted over the past 2 years.

To be honest I see where he's coming from. I heard about and read a lot about the company culture before I joined, both good and bad. I thought at minimum I was signing up for a certain level of intensity that definitely seems to be lacking.
> Imagine a bar where every time you walked in the door a half dozen dudes invariably turned around on their barstools and told you your clothes look like shit, your face is disgusting, you hair style is stupid, you smell like trash and, you should just fucking kill yourself now. How often would you want to go there?

Replace the word 'bar' with 'school' and this sounds like a write-up of my much of my pre-university experience.
screens are just cost saving devices, knobs and buttons are always much better to use
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A DNS name compression algorithm
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Japanese companies are more likely to try and get you to resign peacefully or keep you around in a place where you won't cause any damage than to create layoff / firing scenarios. Japanese employees are lifetime employees, far stickier than Europeans.

Layoffs can still occur for economic reasons, but that's the same as in Europe.

>not just American Exceptionalism

There is very little "exceptional" about America in and of itself. What America has, is a lot of cash to throw at getting exceptional people and mess around forever. When your markets are huge, you can throw huge money and gain it back. When your markets are small, you can't.

Which then comes back to the question "so why don't European countries target the English market like the US does? Why care for your local market if you can make much bigger money targeting the global one?". And unfortunately, I don't know why beyond risk-aversity, culture and "that's just how it went". At least in Japan, the Japanese-only market is still far bigger than most [insert non-English European language]-only markets.

Point being, if dvt is arguing "it is the bureaucracy!", that doesn't explain why Japan works, China works, and why Europe tech scene continues to import bureaucracy-heavy approaches from the US tech scene, like you know, big Agile.
Once in a while it happens and people sometimes even have the fortitude to kill the puma with their bare hands. Here's a recent account [1]

I've always lived in areas with big cats that end up wandering into the city or town once in a while. Usually it just ends in a ketamine dart and a bunch of videos on social media. I think I actually hear about a lot more attacks in North America than in Central America for whatever reason. I get the sense that they're actually more of a risk to small children, pets, and livestock.

If you're out hiking what I've heard a few times is that if you smell something that's a lot like a "wet dog" smell in the middle of nowhere then you better get the bear spray in your hand in case you end up on some cat's menu choices.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBbQvnShaA
I normally just import syslog or journald. The latter allows for arbitrary fields to be defined and then searched, but it's not in the stdlib.
> Basically, do you have any guesses to why V seems to have more "enemies" out there, compared to lets say Rust or Go?

You have to keep in mind that V is an up and coming language, that is an alternative to Go, and somewhat to Rust. V is in the categories of C and Go alternatives. There are many other competing languages in V's categories, such as Zig, Odin, Nim, etc...

Not too hard to see how "enemies" and rivals can "pop out of the woodwork" to take shots, the more popular that V becomes or the more they might feel that V is a threat to their interests.

As for Go and Rust, they are backed by major companies, where "enemies" of their language will simply not get any or little media "airtime" nor enough traction to establish a negative public narrative that can stick. You can attempt to say something negative about them, but will be ignored or drowned out in various ways.
In this case, the victim deposited the money into a fake crypto platform that told him his investments were performing well, presumably to entice him to deposit even more. Of course, once he tried to withdraw the money, he found he was unable to.

That sounds just like the "binary option" business which used to be run out of Israel. The Times of Israel blew that apart with "The Wolves of Tel Aviv" investigation series.[1]
The binary option companies would hire new immigrants to Israel and put them in a call center to cold call and sell binary options sold by fake brokerages. The companies wanted people who spoke a foreign language so they could sell in that language. Scamming people outside Israel was legal in Israel at the time.

When, after years of scams, the State of Israel finally made that illegal, some of the binary options scammers moved into crypto. (Others moved to Bulgaria, where binary options were legal until a crackdown in 2021.) But the pattern is the same. Cold-contact, make friends, get people to invest in a fake brokerage, provide fake statements showing a win, refuse withdrawals.

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wolves-of-tel-aviv-israels...
Do you have any good resources for lawn-free land management? I'm moving to Appalachia and will have an acre of creekside lawn I'd love to replace with something more sustainable/productive. And I'm a big gardener already.
You'll lose the best people that way, not the dead wood.
Well, they were hired as "community engineer". Thinly veiled marketing story if you ask me.

Though the premise is actually fun and would be a nice show & tell if it was in a different format.
Other ux points he didn’t include:

One knob per option, not deep menu diving.

One pedal per function, not one pedal to rule them all.
because of this comment I actually read the reuters piece lol
Seems already moved? Thanks kisero and dang!
> What amazes me is that it took you 165 attempts for you to put it away.

If I don't try, he'll never learn. He's already fighting uphill. I'm not going to disable him further by raising him in an environment which presents no challenges of its own.
There's a dual to that in life insurance, where it incentivizes procedures (or inaction) to shorten life.
You mean the comment where your first two contentions (about Ukraine donations and PornHub only accepting crypto) are shown to be wrong in the first two comments that appear for me? Sorry to be snotty here, I guess. But the days when I can drive ten minutes and pay for groceries or a pizza or cat food or socks in crypto are not here. What besides porn, drugs, and I suppose donations should I be spending on with crypto as a US citizen today?
There is one other reason people will stay, and that's vesting schedules. But if the share price is tanking then that reason goes away.
Where should the order come from?

I'm agnostic about whether or not Facebook will implement this well. Certainly it's possible to implement these kinds of initiatives badly. But the whole HN attitude of "how dare you?!?" doesn't strike me as people who are taking an appropriately realistic view of the real problems in trying to make a large organization be high performing, it strikes me as entitlement.

I also feel like Zuckerberg has had a fairly large amount of success building a highly performant organization in the past, and while that doesn't mean he hasn't lost touch or that FB hasn't gotten too big to do the same things with or whatever, this certainty that you see in these comment threads that he's just like tripping on his shoelaces and doing self-evidently idiotic things seems extremely overconfident.
Lots of really good insights in this article, highly recommended as a counterpoint to the usual mindfulness hype (although it's not as bad as it used to be). One of the quotes that stuck with me is "I just changed my graphics settings to be stupid high and now the game runs slow."
> Whole garlic bulbs (as well as onions, potatoes etc. etc.) will last for months if stored properly,

Mine have a lot of green material growing in them by like 3 weeks, max. Fridge, not fridge, doesn't matter. What am I doing wrong?

My potatoes and onions also sure as shit don't last "months". Again, maybe 3 weeks before they're getting iffy, often sooner. Yes, kept in the dark, not like open on the counter in sunlight.
This is very long (but thorough!) article about implementing structured logging.

Shorter version: Use structured logging!

If using Python, use `structlog`: https://www.structlog.org/en/stable/
First, I think goals and expectations are different. That said, it’s possible to have intended to always be setting ambitious goals but look back and see that maybe you were unintentionally coasting. Fixing that problem isn’t nefarious.

I think reading into this any deeper is just succumbing to a leakers goal of finding sound bites which sound bad to get people all excited and angry.
But deep pockets would suggest that you have more.momey to spend on negotiations. A one billion investment justifies spending a million on the negotiations.
If they do that, they'll just lose the pro and developer market. If that's what they want, fine.
Anyone who isn't directly contributing to a product can't be high performing. Maybe they can be supportive of high performing individuals, but usually that just entails keeping upper management out of the way.

As a field we have yet to find good metrics for coding performance, anyone who tells you otherwise just wants to have an excuse to fire you when they suddenly decide that you no longer serve their purposes, even if those purposes is just to have a cool social club that validates their fragile ego.
Lastly, I would encourage you to consider tasers, which deliberately deploy (nonlethally) upwards of 20K volts for multiple seconds.
As opposed to killing customers because their treatments cost too much? (Which happens everyday by denying coverage, unlike the fictional plot device of Tontine as a motive for murder.)