skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest letting go of your ego here and focusing on what you want out of the situation, and which action will help you get that. If all you want is "credit", let it go entirely. Ultimately the company is paying to own your work, so no one will really care if you get "credit" or not.

Do you want a promotion? Pay bump? In that case you have to look at how happy your manager is with you. At the end of the day your manager has a major say in these two things, and if they're looking good because of your hard work, that's good for you.

The issue is if the manager takes credit and then turns around and tells you that your performance is not doing great. This does happen and the only, slim, chance you have of rectifying it is reaching out to a skip level. But again this also means you have to "want" to stay at the company and grow there.

I can't tell just from your comment so this could fall into either category of "that's just office politics" or "that's really a toxic org". It is quite possible that you actually don't want to deal with either of these and will likely be happier as a freelancer.

To answer your other question: I've been remote for many years, before the pandemic, and have not had trouble getting credit for my work when it matters. Generally good managers do like to show off the success of their team members because that also can make them look good.
>most hard core trolling forums for repeated child pornography offenses was given a position of power in the organization

He was a reddit mod?!?
I have them in my Firefox > Other Bookmarks. I just star them and forget.
Guards! Guards! is excellent. I'd vote for Wyrd Sisters too.

Incidentally, I think the Wyrd Sisters cartoon is the most successful Discworld adaptation (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd_Sisters_(TV_series)). I must admit, I've not tried the recent series based (very loosely it seems) on Guards! Guards! I don't what to be That Fan who says they got everything wrong but...
This is such a shallow response. You can do better.
That's why I shit on company time
These are really obnoxious examples as they violate the rules of the language that exist for a reason. If you use an exclamation mark, you want to attract the attention of the reader to something for a reason. Similarly, there are rules for creating initialisms and acronyms and random capitalization changes are not part of them.
Thumb drive or flash drive for me, mostly.

My aunt, who was an Army Colonel, gave me the first one I ever had, which had a whopping 128 megabytes of storage capacity. This would have probably been in 2003ish.

She called it a "geek stick", which is a term I've never heard anyone else use.
adjusting indentation may be "far from" the only thing your formatters do, but it's the only thing i ever want mine to do
sfeed + sfeed_curses. Major news, a science podcast, slashdot and something else.
> > Having a trainer has a better set of incentives. Firstly there's the loss-aversion of having already paid for the session. Humans are irrationally motivated by loss-aversion and regualrly succumb to the sunk-cost fallacy.

> I disagree. "Having paid for it" is a bad motivation and sparingly works. I know several folks who bought expensive cameras, bicycles, and guitars which only gather dust.

Yup, I’ve seen the same behavior in myself and others for years. Paying a sum of money, however large it is, doesn’t motivate people to get some value out of it. And gyms thrive on this. What I’ve seen happen is people swearing off gyms after losing money once and probably going back to almost no exercise.
Equal Rites was my first Terry Pratchett book after not reading any since middle school. It was great and I laughed a lot while reading it
Binaries over Priorities
You took your kids to the zoo and were struck by how cute the kids were. So other peoples’ kids are cute too?
Thanks for finding those.

Not sure how I fk it up when updating/editing.

But I did...
Your phone is also a "USB mass storage device" when you plug it into your computer.
I'd love a chance to talk to this guy (maybe at a rock-star after party at NeurIPS this year) because my view is:

1. "Either everything is magic or nothing is", and magical statistical tools are currently some of the coolest magic we have harnessed.

2. Making realistic pictures of "Corgi's with sushi" is cool.

3. Papers describing architectures which can make ever more realistic or interesting pictures of corgis and sushi are deserving of academic recognition, even if they can't precisely describe how, just as renderers which can do so would be.

I've found a lot of papers which primarily study the theory of ML coming out of the UK, A yet very few of them end up being of much value to the advancement of the field in terms of applications.

Conversely, the people focused on making real applications ("tools") seem to also be innovating on the science.

Tesla and Edison contributed massively to the progress of the study and application of electricity and both spent nearly no time in academia and instead focused on practical applications in industry. Edison's methods of investigation were said by Tesla (somewhat admiringly) to be entirely empirical. I wonder if the UK's strict academic approach to ML may be holding them back from making bigger contributions to the field. I'm glad some are trying to be strictly scientific about it, but I'm also glad it's not everyone, because it doesn't seem to be what's delivering the "magic" we all want.
Yea, it has. Ever since Jenner and Pasteur did it.
As someone who makes something solely for developers, I can attest to the fact that it’s not easy.

I’ve tried a lot of things, but for my money, podcast sponsorships have worked the best and it’s not even really close.
With the assumption that there are smart people involved who thought this was a good idea --

The article really doesn't go into detail what's new here. Looks like it's trying to be graffiti-proof, perhaps other ways to be easy to maintain. Lots of things like this aren't always obvious. If you said it's $10-20k for a trash can (well, they did), that sounds silly, but there should be a reason these are being considered.
Yeah, not my proudest moment -> fixed
"SuperHost" is such a joke because most of them are professional airbnb managers who don't actually own the properties. If they're good at their jobs maybe they would only accept properties that meet some standard, but from what I've seen they will work with anyone who will pay them.
I think there is a distinction between "what I can't measure" and "what I am too lazy to measure." If something has a meaningful effect, that effect and thus the underlying factor must be measurable. Yeah there isn't some simple equation to turn "Bob tells lots of funny jokes" into a "team morale boost quotient" but it is still observable that on days when Bob's in the office everyone is more productive and there are fewer issues associated with low morale. But rather than starting with the things that are important - sales, productivity, complaints, etc - and determining what actually affects them, instead bad managers start with the measurements and see what affects they have on things that are important and assume that's all there is.
I mean no skip-level I know of would reasonably think that a manager they oversee has actually personally built something. Of course it's understood that there were ICs involved, and yes often the director-levels and up don't know who they are, and that is not that unusual. We're not talking about open source software here, you are recognized for your work with dollars.
If you search for “play sink” there are a lot of affordable toy options that have battery powered pumps and recirculate the water.
Goats as a service does exist. Caltrans deloys them to maintain vegetation.
Hyundai subsidiary used child labor at Alabama factory
Uh... no. Try: Build configuration and dependency management tools.
Also: salty/"consistent" food. Think burger/ramen. Prevents hangover 100% of the time.
This is just an anecdote, but one of my favorite parts about reading Devil In The White City was the social aspect the World's Fair had on Chicago. The people of Chicago were very personally invested in winning the bid and making it a success because it was part of their city's identity, which in turn was a part of their identity. They wanted to show other cities that Chicago was able to do great things just like New York or Paris. It became a big part of general life for people in Chicago during that time.
You think Sony didn't know the Airforce was doing this? It's not like they walked into Walmart and purchased 1,760 PS3s. It had to have been a direct purchase from Sony.
Unlikely to ever recover due to habitat loss. I remember seeing many many more monarchs in the early 80s, and it's insane to think I may have already seen the last one I'll ever see.

Similar story with a much larger animal; the American bison. The low end estimates say their used to be 30 million roaming the plains. There are half a million now, most livestock. We'll never get them back.
Here are some older HN discussions on the declining butterfly population.

I only selected those that are at least 5 years old.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1500508800&dateRange=custom&...
UGH! All this infrastructure and all this work into a software platform and it's something that will be obsoleted in a few years by off the shelf GPUs built on an standard development environment backed by industry

That's the problem of building something super-cutting-edge on a grand scale - you run the risk of making a super evolved version of an evolutionary dead end.

Sure it sounds like a cool idea at the time, the Cell optimized SETI At Home demo around the PS3 launch ripped through work units far more quickly than any Intel system.

I wonder what became of the cluster once it was decommissioned? Military surplus PS3s anyone?
Sounds like you’re the ‘interchangeable cog’ in this story. Not much to do but put your name in the about box and look for meaningful work.
I've been under the impression that there are significant capability differences between any of the plugins and the corresponding product

I mainly use goland & clion, and clion definitely doens't have an equivalent plugin. It's been a long time since I've tried to use intellij though, so perhaps my impressions are antiquated.
Time spent performing digital presenteeism tasks = time saved not commuting to office
I used to get so angry about all this credit-taking, but after 20 years, it kind of just washes over me now. Look at every company's "About Us" page and you'll see beautiful headshots of top executives with captions claiming to have "Built product X" or "Developed application Y" when they probably never wrote a line of code in their lives. It's so pervasive in every company that, as an IC, you just have to accept it or you're going to give yourself increasing anxiety until you explode.
I think the extent of your contribution will become clear if you stick around.

Something else to consider - maybe the board is ecstatic because it's not actually solving the right problem but looks very streamlined? You say the boss was only giving you one sentence saying what to build.

I don't know how well requirements were communicated in those sentences, but if they told you exactly what you needed to know, I'd say your boss has done a very good job, along with you.

EDIT: I want to say that it sounds like you and your boss are a great team. Don't screw that up over your apprehensions right now. See how it goes.
This is a common fraud method that I've read a few articles about over the years. I initially had sympathy for Airbnb in that it's much harder for them to deal when a host is a "bad actor", but that sympathy evaporated when I saw that they have no recourse for making any type of resolution swift or even possible.

I've worked on fraud, at scale, before and it is a hard problem. But when you're giving fraudsters $$$ by letting scams happen and hurting people's lives in the process... for years... it escapes understanding.

When you turn a blind eye, you're effective "creating" a world for fraudsters to thrive. As a founder, myself, I'm always thinking about what the world would look like if I am successful. At some point it's your duty as a founder to put your foot down and "be the change you want to see in the world" even if it hurts your profit margin.

But maybe this is also the difference that lets people rise to the top. It's just sobering. At least people like Bill Gates have been able to distance themselves from their ruthless business tactics and steer that influence towards promoting positive change.
Due to the ever increasing amount of Cybersecurity news, about 5 or so years ago my workmates started called it "the security hazard" - for example, "Hey Dave, can you pass me the security hazard? I need to transfer some big files to the Waterloo Exchange server and don't want to hit the network."
Forbidden stick. They are illegal in my company.
My biggest peeve with Airbnb is that they should mandate that hosts include cleaning fees in the daily rate (by just removing the option for a separate cleaning fee). Not doing so makes it almost impossible to compare costs. The could even allow for a different rate for shorter stays but again that would make the shopping experience so much better.
This isn’t so much a data structure than an implementation of one, but map-represented trees are great.

For context, they were used by Figma to represent its scene-graph (https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...).

Essentially, it’s a way to represent a normal tree as a map; keys of the map represent individual nodes on the trees, and one key “ROOT” points to the rootmost node.

Each node is connected via the following relationship: parents have an unordered set of their children’s keys (not the actual node reference) and children know their parent’s key. Children also maintain a property to track their index using a technique called fractional indexing.

What’s great about this data structure is that you have O(1) transformations for most parts. If you need to change a node’s property, height for instance, (assuming this is a design tool or something), all you need is that nodes key. If you need to reposition a node under a new parent, simply remove the key from the parent’s set, change the node’s parent key, and update the index. This structure plays well with collaborative apps too as most edits to the tree are O(1)— edits are swift and can be communicated to other collaborative instances quite simply with small payloads.

Last thing I’ll touch on is fractional indexing. Very crudely put, it forces children nodes to track their position in a list via an “index” that can be a normal float. To reposition a child node, you first find its neighbors and average their indices to find a new index. Ordering the list is a sort from smallest indexes to largest.

In an example, say we had 3 nodes A, B, and C. A’s index is 0.1, B’s is 0.3, and C’s is 0.5. To insert an element D between A and B, I average A and B’s index (0.2), set that as the index of D and insert it into the parent node’s children set. At render, the set is ordered and we find A, D, B, C.

Shameless plug, but I’m using these techniques to build a multi-framework mobile app builder at phazia.com :). I love nerding out about these things so thanks for the chance to do so @op.
> Analytic philosophy should be able to enter into phenomenology, existentialism, literature, and politics with the same enthusiasm as continental philosophy

It is able and very good at that, and way better then what continental philosophers have produced.

A few examples:
Colin McGinn for Literature: Ethics, Evil, and Fiction, David Benatar for "Existentialism": The Human Predicament, Peter Singer for Politics: The Darwinian Left.
Just do direct inspections. (Virtual equivalent.) Airbnb is a jobs program for useless designer types, just get a handful them to spend a couple hours per day on Zoom. Plenty of other options too ie escrow deposits etc.
Fun times ahead for the canary being indicted for helping a criminal play around with law enforcement.
I honestly think that these kind of situations are the best ones of our careers.

I barely can’t rembeber the perfectly written API, but I still laugh over some of the wild shit I saw over the years on companies that started with a single php file and a mysql db, and when you go to have beers with your teammates its a 100% safe topic to just have laughs all the way long.
Usually it presents as an MTP device (and possibly also other types of device) these days. Phones haven't been USB mass storage devices for years, data corruption due to improper unmounting caused too many issues.
How about retitling this “Musk hires clueless managers. Unable to tell whether projects are progressing.” If you can’t see that work is being done (or not done) remotely or f2f, the problem isn’t the worker, it’s the evaluator. If you’ve hired a lot of people who don’t actually do work (or only work when supervised like an 8 year old), whose fault is that?
ibuprofen is ignored by the liver which says a lot about its safety.
Growing up in mainland China, everybody used "USB" and sometimes "U盘" which meant "U-drive" more or less
Can someone attempt to explain what the implications of this would be on a more macro level?
If you go on their website they say that the Intel 12 model, the new one, has better Linux support.

I'd love to love these guys, but it's not yet baked enough for me.
The saddest anti-science movement in the 2000s is the mass anti-vaccine movement. So much progress lost by Wakefield's nutjob paper that spawned the mass movement we see today.

I hope we'll look back at this period 100 years from now and just shake our heads, and hope that it's not an ongoing concern then.
Small Gods is the one I managed to get signed. A bookshop in Dorchester, and Pratchett gave an excellent talk before. I say "managed to get signed", though the joke at one point was Pratchett signed so many books, unsigned copies were the rare ones.
Flash disc is my personal anachronism. Although if anyone out there is calling these things a floppy anything I see I've been outdone. I applaud you.
FYI some slavs call it 'flashka' with an a as in 'flash'.
A week ago I logged out of snapchat and I started getting actual text messages within hours saying my friends have uploaded a new story and to log back in.

I instantly knew they weren't hitting their numbers
Doing Airbnb over hotels also contributes greatly to city housing shortages and gentrification. Major US cities have large swaths of apartment units sitting empty, held by some management company to rent out as a pseudo-hotel room.
I just read Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, which has a plot with a backdrop of Monarch butterflies, their migration and the threats climate changes can pose to them. It's a great book, I recommend it.
We’ve used AirBnB a number of times and never had a host cancel on us. I assume we’re lucky here. My wife is always really proactive about chatting with the host quite a bit, I wonder if that is an indicator?
I love Terry Pratchett. I have read (and reread and reread) nearly everything he has written. His early works were more monty-pythonesque than his later ones (less plot, more random hillarity). I advise against a "let's start from the beginning and read to the end" strategy where Color of Magic or the Light Fantistic were your starters.

Pratchett is a superb satirist (Vonnegut is the only equal I have discovered). His dialog is great. There are so many chuckle worthy moments. And then there are just really deep profound moments as well. You can read them in any order. There are reappearing characters, but each book stands on its own. They focus more on immediate content than overall plot arcs. The more you soak yourself in discworld in general, in any order, the funnier and more rewarding it all gets.

The book that has the most cross over with the reasons we all post to HN is probably Going Postal, because it satirizes the world of information dispersal. Who owns the content? Who gets to be the gatekeepers, etc.

If you like Monty Python style humor, you'll probably enjoy those that have Rincewind and/or the Unseen University the most.

I love any of the books with Death in it (Hogfather, Reaper Man, Mort, Soul Music, Thief of Time).

My son loved all of the Sam Vimes books. If you love police/detective stuff, this is for you.

If you want a little more plot, the Tiffany Aching series has that. Read all of these aloud (multiple times) to all of 3 of my girls.

I don't even know how best to introduce/characterize/promote The Witches (Weatherwax, Ogg, et al). If you value common sense and wish there were more of it in the world?

If you couldn't be bothered to read, then watch the BBC mini series "Good Omens", it's on Prime. It's derived from a book of the same name written by Pratchett and Gaiman (though I think Terry did most of it, since it feels much more Pratchett than Gaiman to me). And they did a superb job of adapting and staying true to the book.
By the way, I think it's quite funny that the "save file" icon in many applications is still a floppy disk.
Platform.sh raises $140M, focusing on reducing the carbon footprint of servers
Yea zero metrics is death. Big sign of low IQ orgs.
I've never been comfortable with the concept of Airbnb, so I'm curious if anyone could chime in with why they think it grew to be as big as it did.

To me the idea that I have to do a kind of song-and-dance negotiation with a host by first introducing myself over texting chat, to see if we meet each-other's minimum standards, and then have them personally arrange for how to do the key pickup and dropoff is an enormous turn off to me. Thinking back on the marketing, Airbnb in my mind occupied the same space as a hotel, but actually it's intensely more social than that. I was shocked when I first tried it and found it was so built on a one-on-one experience.

Granted, I only ever did this once, and maybe 6 or 7 years ago at that, but I vastly prefer the idea of an impersonal hotel check-in desk that confirms my stay and then retreats into the background.
I kinda took that more as a slight embellishment than a hard truth. Surely there was at least a few people on rotation doing that. Having that done by a single person 24/7 would be almost literally impossible. It still sucks for the person in rotation, especially whoever was doing it at night.

But in startup land, where you have limited resources, somehow the ticket to make that somewhat automated by queuing up a bunch of these things at once wasn’t high enough of a priority.

Honestly the best way to have gotten that fixed was to put the developers into rotation. I bet somebody would have cooked something up after the first shift!