skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hire managers that cannot build software

> Make the process of defining software painful.

> Make engineers estimate their work.

IMNSHO, these all have the same "fix":

Technically-proficient managers (that are also good managers). The combination of those two is rare.

Management is often considered an "ego position," so unqualified* people fight to be managers. It's not always about the money. It may be about the office, the car, the administrative assistant, the invitations to trade shows, etc.

Also, upper management types frequently consider "workers" to be "lower class people," and only want people they can relate to, personally, and that don't make them uncomfortable, in management roles, so they end up mining the Yes Man and Politician veins for managerial talent.

In my case, my company actively discouraged me from being technically proficient. They would routinely deny me training (so I went to training seminars on my own dime, and took vacation time), and would ignore my technical work (which was often extremely relevant and useful). I ended up doing a ton of open-source work, just to keep my tech chops up. Because it was my own work, I did stuff that had very little connection with my "day job," and also brought my own equipment.

I hated being a manager. It was always a burden, but I feel (and everyone else seemed to agree), that I was pretty good at it. Since leaving my last job, I ran screaming for my tech work.

*"Unqualified" is not just "technically unqualified," but also "emotionally unqualified." I think managers need to remember that they are managing people, not just "human capital," and that, if things are done right, their employees may be more technically qualified than they are. That was certainly the case for me, and I was proud that my team knew more about the work than I did.
Lichess, Adobe XD, several Google products. Probably more I’m forgetting.
I think OP was talking about still enjoying a soda after a sustained ketosis period.
Do you have a business plan to eat 10-15% more year-over-year on an ongoing basis?
Beyond the political issues already noted...

- "We must travel to the most-distant place in the world, and the only source of $Thing, which we cannot survive without!" That sounds great, if you're writing epic fantasy quest stories. If you're talking supply chain management...maybe there is something profoundly wrong with your company?

- Even if the CCP would never dream of squeezing Ford's battery life-line...the battery factory there could be shut down for yet another COVID outbreak, or the US could squeeze it (due to domestic politics or "Taiwan Troubles"), or etc.

- The giant mess (huge delays, staggering price spikes, etc.) that global shipping has been in the past few years. Shipping car batteries from China to the US via air freight does not sound like a money-making plan. My old World Atlas suggests that shipping by rail is probably not an option.
It's a simple statement of fact, disproving by example the parent's claim that France's growing diversity is caused by having had colonies.

But that didn't need unpacking - it is simply a summary of the conversation. So I don't understand what you want "unpacked". Does citing counter-evidence require "unpacking" now?
>I’d love a car with a tiny battery for 99% of the time when I’m just driving locally

That's basically what an electric cargo bike is, functionally.

>I’d also be happy to drive into somewhere local that rents me that long range battery and slots it in with machinery designed for the purpose.

Rent the whole car...

>my car’s weight is low and efficiency high.

...and you don't have the weight the rest of the time.
What about if you have two internet connections at your home?
The Chatter Podcast: Spies and Art Forgers with Daniel Silva [audio]
Well the 2900 people who died in the Johnstown dam failure immediatly come to mind.

But its much, much worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

If had the same risk management mindset for dams as we do for nuclear, we would also be banning hydroelectic.
"I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued."

The author blames the state of public health in NYC, but the simplest way to avoid such suffering in the gay male community is to discourage promiscuity.
WebAssembly.sh
America is not the world and is not the entire market.
Bringing outside money into somewhat impoverished area is massively beneficial for it area. It might have some negative externalities. But on average it is likely to improve everyone's living conditions. Economic activity is what drives development. Give it a few decades and the once expensive will be affordable for average people.

On other hand overheating a existing developed market might not be so great for anyone but early investors moving out from the market.
Razer HyperPolling dongle has 4000Hz polling rate for its wireless mice
> looks like you getting you data from conservative media

Not OP. But this seems unfair. Not only does the language surround trans persons vary from decade to decade, city to city, it’s also—understandably—guarded.

Someone far from knowing “nothing about the issue,” and moreover, wishes to learn more, could innocuously use language that is offensive in some circles but tolerated—even encouraged—in others.
I commented on the last post about Google hiring slowdowns, hoping that it wouldn't hit technical workers as hard, but it looks like that's not the case. I've got an L3 interview literally tomorrow. Can anyone with more insight into hiring practices comment on whether that's just a complete wash? (Outside of getting more interview experience, that is).

I know getting an offer "two weeks" (yeah, right) from now isn't gonna happen, but is there anything measurable I actually gain from doing well on the interview, e.g. skipping the phone screen or giving more positive data to the hiring committee if I end up applying again?
I saw this comment coming a mile away...
None of this is antithetical to simple ideas of creating better public transport, public spaces, and more affordable housing.
You should get together with the doctor I fired. He doesn't know internal medicine, either.
If for example, I say 3-7 days and he wants a single number because customer wants a date, he'll ask me "ok, so if I say to the customer they'll get the change in 10 days, we should be able to deliver?"

Then I say yes, under the assumption of X, Y and Z that sounds realistic to me.

Of course, sometimes the numbers are to high. That's where narrowing the scope or even finding a different solution comes in.
censorship and "moderation"
False equivalence, companies want to increase profits sometimes at any cost, ethical or monetary. Workers want fair compensation.
Instead of overhauling the electrical grid, gas stations just have to maintain cryogenic pressure tanks?
Only because you know the platform specific nuances...
>They're incredibly late to the EV game; considering that they're doing remarkably well.

When you're not the trailblazer, it's easy to make catch-up progress to those that went before you in much much less time. Why this is constantly a source of amazement is funny to me. By the time Ford got involved, the path was no longer a beaten down path, it was fully paved 8-lane highway. Instead trying to figure out how to make an electrified car, they just took all of the learning before them and then turned it into something fancy. While Tesla is "working" on self-driving and not doing well with it, Ford said, nah, we'll just turn our batteries into a generator for the home. They built an actual truck that looks like the same truck everyone is used to and say here it is as an electric. That's easy to do when you are riding coat tails
It is a throwaway account made just to comment that. So I doubt he/she will say as they might be uncomfortable doing that even with a throwaway account.
We should introduce a maximum number of papers per researcher per period, like one per year or one per quarter.

That way the only possible competition will be number of citations. The pressure will be for quality, not quantity.
Deadspin and Gawker were staffed by a bunch of scumbags. I wonder if they’re still pathologically obsessed with bringing down the sexists at Barstool.
The scale is different. Quantity is a quality of its own, etc.
Well, I don't see mass protests against Google and Facebook yet, so perhaps they are not.

(I do see mass protests against Uber though).
What the hell, this is like saying a car is no better than walking.

Yeah, you can theoretically do the same thing, it's just that some things suddenly become feasible if you choose one over the other.
The article itself says that management was responsible and also replaced.
> Karl Marx said socialism would start in the most economically advanced country.

Indeed. And as we come up on two centuries later, I hope Marxists have realized why Marx was wrong. Economically advanced countries became democracies and channeled popular discontent into incremental reforms, which mitigated the bottomless proletarian desperation that Marx calculated would explode into revolution. And all of these countries have continued on the incremental path, because a supermajority feel they have a great deal to lose from a revolution that leaves a psychopath like Stalin or Mao in power... only to collapse into yet another communist-in-name-only klepto-totalitarian one-party state.

So, in these countries, I suspect we've indeed reached the end of history. All that remains to be determined is technical issues: how progressive the tax structure ought to be, how ambitious the public amenities, whether the workers wish to have collective representation, etc.

I must say, though, it's amusing to read certain bits and pieces of the Communist Manifesto in the 2022 USA...

> Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other

...well, yes, but not quite as he expected.
A Tesla model 3 hypermiled like this Mirai got 606 miles [1]. The Mira's normal range is about 400 miles.

> you don't have the battery problem (at all).

The Mirai still has a small lithium battery like a hybrid since fuel cells cannot put enough instantaneous power (only 128kw and has start up time) for normal driving they need a buffer battery that is recharged by the fuel cell. Since this battery is so small it can't benefit as much from regen like a normal BEV and has pretty poor performance as well (182hp). All this in a car that weighs more than an equivalent BEV due to heavy 10,000 psi hydrogen tanks and complexity with the fuel cell and buffer battery.

I personally believe hydrogen is a dead end for automobiles, the end to end efficiency is much worse (creating and compressing hydrogen) vs just charging a battery not to mention the issues of storing a transporting hydrogen safely [2].

1. https://electrek.co/2018/05/27/tesla-model-3-range-new-hyper...

2. https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/08/hydroge...
I agree with everything on your list. Most of these problems are quite difficult to solve, but I think (2) is doable if we can convince politicians to unfreeze science spending that has been stagnant for decades. We need a new set of early career awards that require 50% of time/effort to be spent on reproduction studies.
... because there are never fraudulent Kickstarters?
They manage and run the bot network.

/s
I think the proposal process works very well to modernize the distro and drive forward the improvements of the default installation, while in Debian the teams seem to do their own thing and innovation is very slow and even controversial (e.g., the systemd or merged /usr/ migration are sad examples but even small things like a good zram setup, systemd-oomd, and btrfs by default make a large difference).
> Is there a story behind all this bitterness?

Does it even need saying? Of course there is. Many stories. Over many
decades. It's sad watching great people quit and wonderful projects
die because of a poor working environment and the selfishness of
others who inflict their narrow values in others. If you're one of the
people who see these as good things then naturally you'd frame
criticism as "bitterness". But as another commenter said, these are
personal stories. Your own subjective peeves might strike me as
strange. Do please open your mind to a world that contains different
people with different values.
Yeah, but does it have pew-pew lights on it?
This is happening across every single industry though.

My opinion: capitalism has corrupted literally every single thing it has touched.
Because 90% of it was not reasonable doubt, it was manipulative BS

(If you can discuss the fine points between "lab leak theory" and "result of genetic manipulation" without mentioning any politician or anything that came out of a fb page or entertainment channel with "news" in its name that's a good discussion to have
Hardening SSH
I'm not trying to make an argument, I'm trying to examine the argument made by someone else.

Personally, I believe that neither driverless cars nor "industrial robots" are "inherently unsafe". In fact I think the whole notion of "inherently unsafe" is flawed. An "industrial robot" playing chess with children can be fine if it's engineered well, which this particular robot evidently wasn't. Driverless cars can be fine if they're engineered well, which I would argue has not always been the case.
Sure, but this violates the purpose of UOR, which is ostensibly to expose structure in a systematic way to make them understandable to automated systems. Encoding a cyclic graph makes the cycles opaque without adding this semantic information somehow. That's why I said maybe the embedded code that UOR permits might be the way to do it.
Your country joined the Axis, massacred Jews, fought alongside Nazi Germany in Ukraine, and annexed Transnistria.

Really weird hill you've chosen to take offense and die on. But sure, a subset of European nations try to dominate others through violence.

And your country is in that set.
Give three estimates. One if everything goes well, the most optimistically you can imagine. One representing the most likely path. And one representing the worst-case scenario. Let your manager digest from there.

If you have a bad manager (e.g. they would just use the best-case scenario estimate and ignore the others), average the estimates, 1 part best case, 1 part worst case and 4 parts normal case. Then try to make sure you are giving a set of estimates, not just one, and usually it will average out.

Step two of having a bad manager is finding a different situation, whether via internal transfer or a new job.
> Surely all serious investors understand this.

Not necessarily when the investor is an academic institution or a government.
So… I have 8 weeks of vacation a year… does this mean I won’t be able to use my account for 6 of these weeks? What about going to my vacation home during weekends? I do it multiple times a month… why should I pay more for accessing Netflix from a different address? If they start this bullshit in my country they will loose a 10 years loyal customer playing for premium 4K streaming. I have as well prime, Disney+ And Apple TV+… I can survive without them!
Not the file format itself but sqlite: Airbus is using it for its A350 line, so it is guaranteed they will do what it takes to keep it working as long as the plane exists.
>My old World Atlas suggests that shipping by rail is probably not an option.

Is that the same atlas that says there's not an option for rail from UK to France as well?
That one, yes, generalized to any organization.

https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
What percentage of Google’s ad revenue come from (unprofitable) startups?
What's "sustainable" is probably subjective. To my mind, it's these characteristics: 1) being able to write or dictate from any device 2) accessible in future 3) assists with recall 4) uses formats that can be read decades later even as technology around it is constantly changing

2) and 4) make any kind of third-party service/SaaS a no go. Otherwise, you'll have to set up periodic export to a preservable format, which acts as a speed bump. If the service becomes popular, it may attempt lock-in by throttling export features.

For now, I'm using Obsidian. It's accessible from all my devices. Because it uses markdown, the notes will remain accessible even if the software dies. It supports searching but I can also search using any search tool.

Additionally, I use Anki flash cards and its spaced repetition features to recall key info. I link them to my notes in case I feel like delving deeper into a topic. Unfortunately, because Anki uses SQLite locally and its own closed-source server for syncing, it doesn't satisfy many of my criteria. For now, I've set up periodic exports until I can find a sustainable alternative to Anki.
Yeah, the Spanish were renowned for their moderation in Central and South America... they never killed anyone on purpose...

Seriously?
> the threat of violent uprising has always been such a weird thing to put as a "benefit" having rifles around.

How are things in Ukraine? 20 years ago do you think anyone in Ukraine would have imagined Russia would be bombing their cities?

You never know when a situation changes and you need an armed population.
Physical (as in, clinical?!) anxiety can be the cause of what you know as anxiety.

Having had a doctor write me off as a hypochondriac because of physical anxiety I was experiencing due to a toxicity issue...I can safely say your medical beliefs are potentially dangerous to others.
Does that figure include interns and other temporary workers? If so, it’s easy to see how Google could hire 10,000 of those without growing the full time staff.
Yup and how much better is about 1%.
"zstd and xz trade blows in their compression ratio. Recompressing all packages to zstd with our options yields a total ~0.8% increase in package size on all of our packages combined, but the decompression time for all packages saw a ~1300% speedup."
I wrote a blog post about this very topic, including how I balance user needs with my own aspirations

https://pketh.org/how-i-build.html
> If the damned things are encountered by naive hosts

How many of those exist anymore? At this point the vast majority of us have gotten Covid at least once, and research increasingly supports the notion of robust protection from other variants by past exposure.
If you invest, you own the gains. You also own the losses. If you think there can only be gains, you need to look more deeply.
I think the main problem is the scale of these services. I'm guessing Amazon and Google receive thousands of reports every day.
Glacier is pretty well integrated into S3 now.

I would probably suggest S3 infrequent access tier. It’s a little more expensive than glacier but quicker restore times. I figure if I need access to these photos I can wait an hour or whatever.

If you can’t decide, AWS has Intelligent tier now which will decide which storage type is appropriate based on your usage.

I store about 200gb of photos up in S3 and it’s roughly $.49/month
The Sweet 'N Low pink packets in my "sugar" bowl contain saccharin. You can still buy saccharin in tablet form, too (Amazon, of course).
In case anyone is wondering about the name, it's a Slavic fermented bread drink that's much less alcoholic than beer (and commercially canned versions are near zero alcohol). It's one of my favorite chilled summer drinks, and you should be able to find it in Slavic stores in the US as well.
I think the difference is that a forecast is developed by a team (or formula/ML) separate from the engineers doing the work.
I just unfollow anyone who does that. There are quite a lot of people who just stay “on topic”, more than enough to fill a feed. So while I might miss some interesting content from people I otherwise unfollow, it turns out a lot of the time someone else retweets it anyway.

Unfollowing itself when you see something off topic takes very little time.

I do agree with the other reply that being able to subscribe to topics from people would be awesome, but in the meantime it’s pretty good if you maintain a zero tolerance policy for off topic stuff.
Why would it look like a bot? Does your normal search traffic look botlike? It's just a search multiplexer.
This is an interesting question, one I've pondered for a while.

This is speculation, but here's what I believe:
Let's assume wealth follows a Pareto distribution, with the single parameter alpha determining the shape of that curve, and thus the resulting income inequality.

I think that growth of real economic output / GDP probably has a maximum for some alpha, above which, increased inequality slows down growth. I suspect it also declines BELOW a certain alpha since it offers fewer people with extreme capital to the market capable of making moonshots.

However, that doesn't mean growth stops, and I suspect the people high on the curve have little incentive to change. I'm not sure though. Is it better to have ownership of X percent of wealth, and greater relative wealth, or X-e percent of wealth, less relative wealth but more growth?

Now... ostensibly, I don't think there's likely to be a 'peak'. It would defy the assumptions of a market. If housing prices rise so high there aren't enough buyers, prices would fall. However... famously, certain billionaires have been known to buy up all the houses around theirs at exorbitant prices to enhance privacy. So I suppose you could still see vacant housing, but no fall in prices.

That said, in general, quality of life would decline for lots of people. We'd see a lot more roommates and extended family groups living together to make it affordable. People in US cities used to do that a lot actually, and we might see a return to that.

There has historically been a floor though, where below that, things are so bad that people don't have much to lose by taking up arms, dragging rich people into the street and cutting their heads off.

Another angle in modern times is that we are seeing such a precipitous drop in birth rates in the West, that I suspect we'll start to see countries compete for people interested in having children by creating financial incentives and friendlier conditions to do so.
Past and future is a trick our mind plays on us. We collect past and future "moments" and believe them to have reality. As we collect these moments the illusion of a timeline emerges. Notice when your body tenses and or emotions and feelings trigger when you are just having thoughts about the past or the future. Why react to thoughts? The mind uses uncomfortable feelings to keep our attention. To break free you just have to sit with all the feelings and accept. Now is all there is.
Since when was "wannabes" a medical/academic term?
I wasn't trying to make it personal, and your situation does sound unusual; sometimes the stay-at-home partner ends up working more hours than the breadwinner spouse, who might work 40 hours at the workplace and do nothing at home. That doesn't sound like it was the case for you when your wife wasn't working.

I would be quite displeased indeed if my generosity in marriage is taken to mean I would be so generous after being ditched.

I would say to anyone on the default marriage contract, there may well be spousal maintenance in the event of divorce, so if anyone thinks that's unfair, draw up your own agreement.
i’d say Bali (Indonesia) is a good example of “a hellish nightmare for all but the 1%”
This is what I keep coming back to. These people are directly responsible for what is increasingly looking like an event that would put Holocaust to shame. Our current trajectory is one of widespread famine and something that is approaching an extinction level event.

What is justice for something like that? What would the fair punishment be for excellent employees? The people in TFA? And how can justice be done when the system responsible for it is entirely compromised?