skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what it is. I feel "management" is just another word for "psycho lunatic sadists". Just do stuff to make people more miserable and blame it on the economy.

Firing people and making the others work twice as much? It's the economy. Take free soda from the kitchen that costs cents? It's the economy. Remove 4 days of holidays that would otherwise improve morale and productivity? It's the economy. Make employees waste hours in commute everyday? We obviously need to do it because it's the economy.
Pretty sure this sort of thing was proposed a few times. On the simpler scale People would even make pieces of killfiles you could copy.

But like I said the problem was the new people. They'd open up the group see 90% junk and not bother going any further.
none of these things you mentioned are specific to Android. this happens on iOS too.
What would “turning down the volume on ‘everyone has to work’” entail? Are you talking about changing laws or changing habits?

Also, how can you accuse everyone else of being a benevolent dictator when your suggestion is just as impossible to implement?
Is Sliding Doors a remake of that? Hmm, Wikipedia doesn’t say for certain.
> It's very nature is without-meaning and without-originality.

That's a pretty bold claim. What are humans but statistical models that generate based on pre-existing training -- and yet, are humans not with-meaning and with-originality?

Of course, human brains are some large order of magnitude more complex than the neural nets that underlie most AIs, but we can already see areas where these "simplistic" AIs outperform humans on specific tasks. So what prevents the arts from being one of those areas? If not now, in some not-too-distant future?
OnePlus confirms that the 10T will arrive August 3rd with a top-shelf chipset
Personally, I think most of the "western world" has a more healthy idea of PTO than the US. Some companies here are better than the norm, but a lot are not really great.
I tried it the other day and screensharing didn’t work on the linux client. However, turns out there is a Teams website that seems to have all the same functionality as the client (at least the same stuff I use) and screensharing worked through that.
The benefit of being a nurse is that it is a monopoly, and the hospital is also a monopoly, and neither the hospital nor the nurse pay the cost of that mishandling, but you the taxpayer do.
i have to restart my pc
I wonder how much of iPhone assemblage hasn't been automated because workers in east asia doing the work earn so little it's not worth the effort to eliminate them?
No, they don't, sure in a given period of time they know how many unique IPv6 addresses are in use. But they can't tell how many devices that is.

I'd much rather have 2^68 IPs that I can sprinkle over as many devices as I want than a single IPv4 that makes p2p hard, makes services hard, and requires the use of either NAT or tons of port forwarding.
Coursera has some good courses.
I think defined vacation plans:
1) give me a monetary benefit if my manager doesn't allow me to use my vacation
2) allow me to evaluate a job offer more concretely
3) allow me to negotiate confident that a change in manager won't wipe out my gains

Are there other benefits or forms of comp where it's preferable not to agree on amounts beforehand?
I feel Maxwell's equations are to EE what Boolean logic is to CS. Yes it's what it's all based on, but it's a tremendous oversimplification.
https://archive.ph/FfON5
Because your handheld is not working? It was stolen perhaps? You forgot your login? You forgot that you can query Google? You live in a prison and aren't allowed access to a PC?

Please tell us: inquiring minds want to know!
Salesforce is one of the worst pieces of software thrust upon humanity. A company that has no values for sure treats employees that way.
It's Microsoft...
I wonder how anyone will be able to tell the difference.
I don't know that I go so far as that take, but it certainly feels in some cases like companies had to "bite their tongues" as demand for employees and comp skyrocketed, and now that things are starting to stall, they are picking l pouncing on it to regain the power dynamic they once had through the threat of "be lucky you still have a job."

And then they wonder why people leave once conditions permit.

In some ways it's almost like the economic change is _welcomed_ because it puts downward pressure on comp (for companies that can weather the storm at least).
Stockfish lost a handful of games against Leela from starting positions that were a couple of moves into mainstream openings. I don't think it's at at all unlikely that there's a route that beats it.
Could it be more computationally tractable compared to Baysian inference?
> applying a thinner layer of paint on the bodywork

Paint? These things are anodized aluminum, right?

Blue is probably the worst color for anodized aluminum. If you want an exact shade with perfect consistency between parts on an industrial scale - thousands per week - it is an extreme challenge. I know some folks that run a few factories and supply aluminum parts to widget makers. They'll anodize in any color you want, but charge a ton more for blue in the hopes that nobody will actually ask for it. Yet they have a really large industrial customer that is really demanding and never happy, yet continues to pay and submit new orders - an indication perhaps that they can't find anyone better.

If I was going to guess, I'd say that some supplier has made a breakthrough and Apple thought they would show off with this color, but it turns out that the new process isn't quite as durable as they thought it would be.
The MacBook Air Seems to Be Missing a Crucial Component?
Lucky. Teams always freezes random people for me, has constant audio issues, sharing screens has terrible UX and unbearable frame rate... it's just so laughably bad compared to any other major option out there.
Dollars per LoC? Real engineers measure their work in dollars per byte.
China Chipmaker SMIC Reportedly Copied TSMC's 7nm Process Node
Ha - I remember realising that years ago and obviously forgot since. Thanks for the correction.
In one company, I had strictly no problems with Teams, was working correctly, quality was great, with another, it was plagued with bugs. I suspect that it's highly configurable and highly dependent of windows policies that are set +network.

At client, windows itself was unusable and people were blaming Microsoft... No it's the package team who did a shit job.
Design by committee.

Teams looks like a product that's stuck 5 years behind the market because everything is done with 15 program managers with briefcases full of wireframe diagrams.

Everything is make work by 15 managers of managers, pulling 600k, justifying their paycheques.
I found the news where the state gave GM money for the new battery plant in Lansing:
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-legisl...

But they also gave them close to that for an additional plant down by Detroit.

Also we just learned that when GM went bankrupt in 2009 and the federal government bailed them out that the state of Michigan gave them $3.8 billion although the news was never made public. It took 13 years for this to be made public so you have to wonder what other deals are still private.

https://www.michiganradio.org/economy/2022-07-06/michigan-ga...
> The world is awful. The world is much better.

A better way to look at this is that we've made significant progress when it comes to solving some of the problems, but we've also created new ones that make it much worse than before. We can now grow enough food to feed the world (although we're doing a terrible job of distributing it to the world). However the food is much less nutritional and much more toxic than before. We can now travel distances in a time that was unimaginable before, but we breathe the poison as a direct result of it.
Yes they are heavily cherry picked. The web site itself has a disclaimer about it.
quadcopters are pretty quiet if they are flying at a good distance, it's only the ones zooming in that are loud.

Just be as far away as you'd like an actual highway, but in this case vertical space works too.
https://archive.ph/JXyaP
Governments are not orders of magnitude larger than the largest corporations. Walmart employs 2.3 million people. The US federal government employs 2.85 million.
Seems like we're on a slow burn to a crappy Slack product.

What should we be switching to instead...Teams?
I agree, it's probably a bad move.

I remember one company I was at. We all worked hard, when it came to bonus time, everyone in dev got bonus as we hit all the deadlines. Nobody in professional services did as the sales team hadn't got new customers, although they had worked hard on existing accounts.

So professional services complained it was unfair. The company decided being "unfair" was terrible, so tried to take the bonus away from dev as well. At which point pretty much all of us started looking for another job. They eventually relented and paid everyone in dev and ps the bonus.
> (as Salesforce employees could not access this benefit)

Why not give this benefit as well to Salesforce employees?
Sci-fi/fantasy are overrepresented, but "narrowly-focused"? I'm interested in what you think that focus is?

Anyway, The Jungle is a classic by any measure, Dau is a classic, Downbelow Station and most of the rest of Cherryh's catalog, Horatio Hornblower, The Book of the New Sun, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Hyperion, Riddley Walker, Blindsight... I could keep going all night. Listing these off, I realize that I forgot Dostoevsky in my list. Paulo Coelho should probably be there too.
Comparable. If the front page of Google is correct, Blackrock had 10T and Vanguard 8T assets under management at the start of the year
Not sure if it's in the same league but in South Africa we have considered towing icebergs to Cape Town as a possible water supply as recently as 2019.

From the article I see that in the past that's something they considered for San Diego as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-06/towing-an...
I don't know if it's "gold standard" but I have the same feeling about the GNU CPP (c preprocessor) and GNU Make manuals. There are very few good sources about either using make or CPP macros.

These manuals are more than just how to use gmake or the CPP stage of gcc. They actually are great references into how make works and how to write macros in C. I find myself referring to both frequently, so at some level, they must be considered far above the average.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.1.0/cpp/

In the 1980s, maybe earlier, many computer software packages included manuals of this ilk. I remember a couple of examples, "DBASE-IV" and "Mark Williams Let's C" compiler, "Commodore BASIC".

They not only documented the specific tool, but also the entire theory of databases, "C" programming, or BASIC and the coding useful things on the PET/C64.

It's amazing how good the quality of the technical writing was as well as how broad the subject matter was. It was literally everything you needed to know to solve your problems - not just how to use their tool. I think it had to be when computers and these applications were so new to so many.
The post was about a benefit being taken away. The acquisition is multiple years into being done. It’s what happens in acquisitions.
Strongly, strongly doubt the problem is due to lazy coders.

Organizations like this are always, always dysfunctional at the leadership level.

ICs don't design the UX or choose the technology for Microsoft teams, senior principal architects and deputy vice president corporate usabilities do.

The Vice President in charge of this is allowing their directors to engage in ridiculous design by committee.
Wanting to retain a benefit you had for years is whiny? What are the execs giving up in exchange for asking their employees to work harder? Way to punch down, dude.
I have never seen controlling desktop on teams ever work. It’s alway 10 minutes of messing around followed by the person giving up.
Some context:

FogBugz was acquired in 2018 by DevFactory, a different ESW-funded company.[0]

The new owners promised that FogBugz would be rewritten in under 5000 lines of code.[1] (For comparison, the Flash ActionScript code for the “evidence-based scheduling” feature’s UI alone was over 5000 LOC.)

Nathan Vardi, then at Forbes, called ESW a “global software sweat shop”. Not really relevant to FogBugz, but maybe it explains some of what’s behind this IP transfer [2]

DevFactory announced the alpha of Cloud Native FogBugz in 2021 [3]

Now, in this article, IgniteTech is promising:

> 1) to save and stabilize the software and business[… and] 2) to continuously innovate and transition products to the AWS cloud

implying, to me, that the DevFactory “cloud native” version was a total failure, and that the old creaky legacy .NET version they acquired is too expensive for DevFactory to be able to run, and also somehow not yet fully transitioned to AWS?! (I had heard that they decommissioned the physical colo datacenter by 2019, so I’m not sure where FogBugz is actually running now.)

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/devfactory-acquires...

[1] https://twitter.com/FogBugzTeam/status/1098287969700433920

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/11/19/how-a-my...

[3] https://blog.fogbugz.com/fogbugz-the-road-ahead
You don’t have to solve it. There’s not really any problem to solve to begin with. People who are happy with the changed working conditions will continue to work there. People who do not want to tolerate the change will not continue to work there. Every person can precisely choose the outcome they want, without cooperation from anybody.
The picture of the VT100 brings back memories. I had one at home and would connect to our Vax 11/780 to program in FORTRAN using the EDT editor... using a 1200 baud modem.

(about 1981 or so)
> If you wanted to create evidence for the argument that investment capitalism is essentially parasitic, the whole 'higher education' program we've got in the USA could well be Exhibit A

Copyright law itself is a prime example of how allowing greed to go unchecked is hurting us all. It started out as a great idea, but it's been perverted into something that does the literal opposite of what it was put in place to accomplish. Copyright law today hurts creators, and impedes innovation and the creation of new creative works while heavily and increasingly restricting the public's access to existing works.

Sadly our politicians are even less willing to reform copyright law than they are to place limits on the greed that's allowed to hurt us collectively in the higher education system. At least students today are getting ineffectual lip service about student loan forgiveness.
I've coded up Microsoft's collection of login systems. They are actually not that extraordinarily difficult to use.

Whatever is happening in Teams it's its own special sauce of terrible, combined with a complete reluctance to shoot Teams in the head and start again.
> but accidentally this didn't surpass the number of available books

I suspect that the "accidentally" should be heavily qualified. Just because Internet Archive said they were going to let anyone freely borrow books (And it never was "as much as they wanted"; there were borrowing limits on each user, enforced by strong DRM) doesn't make that true in a literal sense. The whole thing was always under their control, and they would've had the stats telling them how much each book was being borrowed.
> Does it though,

Yes. See France, for example.

> or does it just distract from real solutions and prop up coal and gas for another decade?

Nuclear is the real solution. The past 40 years of people alleging nuclear is too late and there are magical other solutions that should be employed instead is what has been propping up fossil fuels for decades.
Im in Hong Kong, thousands of us impacted just at my company !
You're right, it's confusing. I think I probably shouldn't have used either word, as it's sort of besides the point. I think we can both agree that killing people because of their politics is a bad thing.
The world went through an ice-age while humans were alive and struggling. The world may be warming because of humans, but we have the ability with technology to adapt.
Interesting take. I have a rewriting feature, one specifically is "Zinsser" mode. It uses the principles of William Zinsser based on his book "On Writing Well". It is supposed to do exactly that. To remove clutters from the statement. I will continue to fine tune it.
This outage hit me in the middle of the day.
Debt is the wrong word, it's more like asset depreciation. The software had a cost to create, and it created some value immediately. Over the lifetime of the software the maintenance costs will eventually overtake the value that it originally provided.

So the question is not how much interest is there on tech debt, but rather what point does the cumulative maintenance of the system overtake the value it created. That's the point that it needs to be replaced.

But good luck, replacing a truck that barely works but gets you to the job site is just as tricky as replacing software that doesn't serve any good.
I was poor in college, and couldn't afford the (up to) $250 per textbook. So, I cheated.

I found the previous edition for cheap on Amazon, and looked up answers to the work sections on some cheating sites. I didn't do it for the answers, though; I did it to reverse-engineer the new question numbers. As in, the only difference between a $40 book and a $250 book was that the publisher had randomized the question order in the work sections.

The worst one by far was one I could only find in Mandarin. Google Translate helped a ton, but it was missing about half of the questions, so I ended up photocopying part of a classmate's textbook to get them. This actually landed me in the Dean's office; apparently our library had a strict policy prohibiting the photocopying of textbooks. Luckily the dean was understanding, but I'll never forget the lesson: capitalism is a fucking bitch sometimes, and to play clean you have to be willing to get dirty.
What is the secret sauce for such a horrible company to stay incredibly profitable so long?
Aren't sites like HN and Reddit forums-like platforms?
So many cases in the legal profession are settled out of court almost immediately, I wouldn't take many statistics like this at face value.

Once you filter out the majority of legal cases that accrue, say, less than a thousand total billable hours, I imagine filing summary judgements in these "serious" cases is quite common.
How do you do that if Discord is locking your account?
No one does any work between the Xmas eve and NYE anyway. Watch the Slack people stay online on Slack as they enjoy their holidays “working” from home.
"Due to the bad economy we can exploit you even more than normal!"
>it happened that no book was likely borrowed more times than the number of physical copies held by archive.org + the libraries they had partenere with.

This is not their argument. They previously had libraries offer copies of books, but during the time of crisis they decided to act quickly to repace the 650 million books now out-of-circulation. Only around a hundred libraries signed on on support.

I can understand the argument as for why the IA shouldn't have done this, but agree with the IA that in these unique circumstances it should be fair use. Either way, the lawsuit is about ending the entire CDL policy, not the short term change.
Wait, you're right, I remember now, it didn't work for me either. I had to send the user commands to type in a console. "....No no, that's actually one run-on line, not two lines."
> I'm lately thinking I want to see a text-mode browser that just glues together libcurl, curses, simple HTML rendering, and maybe an existing HTML parsing library.

I had a similar idea a while ago, except mine was to glue together components from the nim stdlib.

So I wrote something like that, then I thought "hey, why not implement some CSS too?" and that sent me down the rabbit hole of writing an actual CSS-based layout engine... I eventually also realized that the stdlib html parser is woefully inadequate for my purposes.

In the end, I wrote my own mini browser engine with an HTML5 parser and whatnot. Right now I'm trying to bring it to a presentable state (i.e. integrate libcurl instead of using the curl binary, etc.) so I can publish it.

Anyways, if there's a moral to this story it's that writing a browser engine is surprisingly fun, so go for it :)
I mean the tenth amendment would imply the decision to secede is up to the states. There's no prohibition on secession in the constitution and I think it was evidence to the states when they formed a union that their union was voluntary, not coerced. IMO the decision to block secession was a treasonous and seditious act by Lincoln, and he has a lot of blood on his hands.
This was my first thought, there goes the product (eventually ofc)
Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
I'm fairly certain that reduced noise is just a beneficial side effect and that the original motivation for continuous welded rails was less wear and tear, less required maintenance and better ride quality. It's also a necessary prerequisite for running at higher speeds, because a rail joint can only be subjected to so much forces before it starts failing at an accelerated rate, and dynamic impact forces while transitioning a rail joint naturally increase with speed.
Managers can simply ignore this policy for their reports. If, at the Director level, most of the managers are still of original Slack ilk, this is very feasible. SFDC has unlimited PTO so this won't even be noticed.
Salesforce is where good companies go to stagnate and die. Slack selling to them was just giving up for an easy exit. Can’t blame the founders for cashing in I guess (though I wouldn’t want to work for them), but why bother staying as an employee in that environment? Go to a company with its own destiny.
Really depends on the state. My hospital in Arizona sat me through a presentation urging me to not sign a union petition, like a lot of other companies.
I regularly lose the ability to unmute or turn off my camera during Teams calls. In that case I have to hang up and rejoin to speak. It also regularly doesn't deliver notifications. At this point I just can't rely on it's primary functions.
"Thousands of users" is a under estimation by a factor of thousands.
On the West Coast Main Line, one of two major routes that goes from north to south, trains run at up to 125mph.
very slick... needs a dark mode though please :-D
Don't overlook 1.3 million servicemen. Don't overlook state & local government.
How so? They've been offshoring and automizing everything they can and this will only increase. Yes there's still a high demand for workers but it doesn't mean they're not trying to eliminate us slowly but surely.
Us techies still have a few good years left but we're in no way immune to what's coming.
If it's onsite and they're paying relocation costs I could see that being a problem if they have some kind of situation worked out with movers and relo companies
I had the same thought when I saw this one
http://dailywrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DALL%C2%B7E...
And this, kids, is why it was possible to do fun things to computers of other people when their os did not tell the modem to stop accepting incoming bytes when the line was dropped and then picked up again. It just accepted bytes from wherever they might come…
Nice work gathering all HTTP codes, but wouldn't this be simpler?

lynx -dump https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status > HTTP-status-codes.txt
grep 204 HTTP-status-codes.txt
grep 307 HTTP-status-codes.txt