skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone asked me at the end of the year if we'll have a performance review. My reaction was "why would I ever do that?". He said "for feedback and all..". I said "well, we've been doing that for years with our daily conversations" and cited a few instances of remarks and suggestions to refine our machine that he and I made. While making coffee and you tell me "do you think it'd be better if we did X" or "what do you think of Y" and then we try that for some time and then refine it? That's feedback and optimisation and tweaking. When I see your implementation of something and how it eliminated a whole family of problems and say it's cool and let's try that for other things and it works or vice versa? That's feedback and optimisation.

He said that his friends at other companies are going through them and he figured we'd be doing that as well. I explained to him why it doesn't make any sense in our situation.

Yes, for one specific person, I had to wait for about a year to assess because the period of the observed thing was that long and I had to take seasonality into account, but other than that, no thanks. When I talked with the person, the person said they meant to talk to me about it and ask for help but they couldn't muster the courage. But I had to wait and not react because the observed process was slow and I had to have a large time window to get enough data.

Then again, maybe my background in control theory and feedback systems prevents me from doing annual performance reviews because they don't make sense to me, and being human prevents me from engaging in a practice that maximizes passive aggressive resentful behavior.

In my opinion, doing the annual thing may be robbing everyone of a year of growth to the power of the number of entities involved. If you have a system made of subsystems who depend on each other's inputs and outputs, it would be insanity not to correct as early as possible, but not earlier to account for hysteresis and all.
>How do I deal with these people?

You don't. Tell them that you're not going to offer support until they can provide you with / talk to you in a way that respects your time. Sounds harsh but is reasonable because you're time is valuable, they're hopefully going to learn to acknowledge that, and it gives you more time to help people who can be helped effectively.
Because directors have a union...ok actually a guild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America

Movie credits for normal Hollywood productions are all contractually specified in terms of listing order, inclusion, and technical aspects.

Non-Hollywood type productions can tend to follow the norm simply because it is the norm and probably because it is sort of what audiences expect and because the collaborative nature of movies means that bucking the system is likely to make people not want to work with/for you...who wants to argue with someone over whether to include the key-grip or if the screen writer should come before or after the supporting actors?
Not quite. According to the Wikipedia page Tom Clancy's involvement in the game was minimal. His name being up front is more milking the license than contribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Rainbow_Six_(vi...
It doesn't work with Firefox mobile (Android).
My background is in normal, enterprise-saas-style software development projects, and the whole notion of post-quantum crypto kind of baffles me.

Funnily enough, this post coincides with the release of a newsletter issue[0] by a friend of mine - unzip.dev - about lattice-based cryptography.

A bit of a shameless plug, but it really is a great bit of intro for noobs in the area like myself.

[0] https://unzip.dev/0x00a-lattice-based-cryptography/
> It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more

I don't, and never have believed this argument. I would bet that JSON with Gzip or Zstd is just as small, or close enough that it doesn't matter.
The author is the author of ‘motion mountain’ and not exactly 100% in the mainstream. His introductory textbooks once bet heavily on the non-existence of the Higgs boson and his own (non standard model, and now disproven) theories.
The problem is much more about reasonableness than about "waterfall" or "agile". Having everything "planned" beforehand and forcing it through is also terrible for embedded projects if there are holdups - and there are going to be holdups.

My favorite is always "but we defined 3 years ago that it'll do this-and-this fancy 3D thing on this screen, it's a requirement!" "well then maybe you should have selected hardware that can do fancy 3D. Let's talk about what we can change that still is good." "But its a requirement!".

Or on the hardware side, there is a "plan" that can't cope with the fact that suddenly there is a really good reason to do a hardware revision that nobody planned for. (e.g. because its 2021 and suddenly a bunch of parts just isnt available)

Of course totally freewheeling nothing-planned also causes equivalent problems, as does expectations that anything can change within 2 weeks. On the other hand on plenty projects I've worked on the "agile" requirements on the Yocto person are more among the lines of "we'd like this additional software added to the image please".
Years back, finally realized the elevator in our office was doing a Muzak cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman. Hit me as funny once my brain connected the tune to the originating source.
It's not clear what you mean here?

I've taken magic mushrooms quite a few times, and it definitely had an impact on negativity right after and for many weeks.

For me, negativity was down regulated.

This might not be true of everyone's experience though.
Benzene? I really doubt that. Benzene is almost banned even at labs because it’s so insidious.
https://codeberg.org/vula/vula
The Complete Guide to Ethereum Rollups
> If at the end of your Ctrl+C signal handler you exit() as expected

exit() is not signal-safe; signal handlers are expected to call quick_exit() or _Exit() instead.
World’s Only Monkeypox Vaccine Plant Closure Threatens Ability to Meet Demand
Can you imagine a hostile nation paying some relatively low level military personnel to deliberately fuck up at a crucial point in time?
Why is twitter so desperate to sell to Musk? Are they really out of ideas? If they just want to squeeze out an extra $11.50 / share I can think of tons of ways to do it, they don't have to just copy Facebook's monetization model. They could let people buy followers; they could add an onlyfans clone to the service; charge a monthly fee for premium features; charge a premium to be the first to know about trending topics - could be useful for news orgs, hedge funds, governments, etc; do what cameo does, let users pay popular accounts to make customized videos and take a cut of revenue. This is just off the top of my head, if you're just trying to squeeze money out of the rock and don't really care about long term brand impact I feel like they can get a lot more than $11.50 / share.
To be fair, it's mostly a mutually beneficial relationship. There are studies that show CC users tend to spend more at merchants than those that use cash. This logically makes sense, because you may not have enough cash on hand and/or the feel of watching a limited amount of paper money leaving your pocket is different from swiping a chunk of plastic.

For online merchants, CCs are the only thing that allow most of them to stay in business. For something where the transaction was irreversible (mailing cash, bitcoin), as a consumer, I would almost never take a chance on ordering from an online merchant that wasn't large and established.

That's not to say that the CC companies don't abuse their position. However, most/many businesses have 'done the math' and realized the pros outweigh the cons.
If you aren’t ready to say no and risk upsetting people, you’ll ruin both your software and mental health I think.

A workaround to simply saying “no” might be to make extension points or plugin functionality and then lots of requests can be closed with “this is a good idea for an extension but not suitable for the core application, at least not at the current time”.
I'm not actually into gaming much anymore - my tastes trend towards traditional roguelikes, which are not very popular with modern gamers.

The narrative games you mention are all great, but I think gaming at that time was still pretty niche and limited to middle/upper-class and geeks, just like home computers were. In my memory, vastly more people played arcade-style games and multiplayer games than RPGs.
You can probably get there with that if you also postulate homogeneity of the laws of physics since arbitrary boosts would have to agree.

I'm more curious about how maximum force implies Einstein's field equations since, well they apply to spacetime inside of the event horizon of a blackhole as well and I have a hard time seeing how that could be realized at or near the singularity. And the only citations for that claim are other papers of this author.
Facebook intended it to be used with Relay... so a lot of problems can be avoided by using Relay.
https://flomask.com/

Reusable. Seals properly. Incredible breathability. Doesn’t hurt your ears.

Main downside is speech is not the most amazing. You also get a bit of condensation.

Love mine. Also cuts the waste and has no elastic to trap the birds
For nearly eight years now, this coming through earbuds has been the only way I can sleep at night. Grateful customer of the iOS app.
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It should? I went looking for appellate statistics for default judgements in Texas and couldn’t find anything.

Do you have a source for the rate of successful appeals against default judgements in Texas (or even more broadly)

I’m just not able to find anything on the topic one way or another.

Edit to add: Also, are you referring to a Motion to Set Aside made to the original judge, or an appeal made to an appellate court? My understanding is most judges will grant a timely motion to set aside if the default judgement was granted for not showing up because you were unaware of the court proceeding or had extenuating circumstances.

This default judgement was granted for misbehavior and refusing to engage with the process over years, so I’d want to look at statistics on successful appeals of a default judgement, and not statistics on successful motions to set aside.

Though, again, after a bit of searching I could find neither.
It’s a false promise. You’re just moving the complexity elsewhere, into wiring this ridiculous graphql infrastructure together and making it actually do what you want in all but the simplest/tutorial-like scenarios.
Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) [video]
Thanks. I was thinking of mounting a light onder my table, so the skin in the legs can pick up the UV-B, thereby reducing safety risks and also distraction. It would be interesting to see if a day of programming could give me the same benefits in terms of well-being as a day surfing waves :)
What makes you think the features you suggested are worth $11.50 a share? Some of them I think would tank the share price like buying followers so they’d have to be worth even more. There are 765 million twitter shares.
Google Trying to Solve a UUID
A lot of people think Disco Elysium has a great story.
https://imgur.com/a/FLiHwE1
Yes, graphql does indeed suck. Or rather it is not the best solution for all client-server communication that people treat it as, so it ends up being used in a lot of situations where it does suck.

Backend to backend communication is almost never graphql (is that changing in a big way?) which would indicate the main reason for graphql in a client-server situation is data saving but at the cost of complexity and other downsides. Almost certainly the data savings in many cases is not worth it.

Oh and then you have things like Apollo having cache bugs that result in incident level problems.
Show HN: History of China: Interactive Timeline and 3D Map
When John Romero was at Ion Storm, Daikatana's marketing was also centred around him.
The NES changed that. Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy were quite popular.
First of all, they say "here in countryside eastern Europe", so they're speaking of a situation they're intimately familiar with.

Secondly, they're describing a situation from "before the 20th century" and extrapolating societal customs and norms from that.

Nowhere does it say that current eastern europe lacks showers. The most they say about the now is that not all people can afford a sauna in their home.
Binance says it doesn't own Indian exchange WazirX, years after acquisition
What's this got to do with climate change? I thought it was about diet and CVD.
Put that issue in backlog. May be someone will implement it. I don't think it's necessary to be rude in that case. Of course it's up to you, it's your project and you're not owing anyone to do anything.
100% agree. Take care of your health and you can be productive for 37 more years easy!

I'm 54 and just as productive as when I was 37
> Argue based on some extreme strawman

You yourself are arguing based on an extreme straw man here. Does that make you a neo-nazi as well?

Interestingly, I think you illustrate another important factor in anti-transgender resistance: a subsection of proponents are extremely quick on the trigger to accuse any disagreement of being bigoted, hateful, violent, and, as you have, fascist. This does nothing but drive increasingly negative perceptions towards transgenderism as a concept, both among those who were skeptical and among those who were initially neutral towards the concept.

I suggest that if you truly want to further your cause, you should find a way to interact with those who don’t agree with you that doesn’t involve accusing them of being a nazi.
I’m having trouble locating it at the moment, but an article was shared here a few months ago that suggested something similar happened with health and dietary fat, back when it was still considered harmful. The correlation gradually disappeared after enough studies debunked the causality hypothesis.
This UUID comes from my Minecraft account; I was curious to know if I could find something on the web. Not work on every UUID!
Whether it was the intention or not, I find GraphQL solved a fascinating problem: it let front end developers move faster by greatly decoupling their data needs from the backend developers.

Backend developers describe the data model, expose it via graphql. Front end developers, often ones who never met those backend developers, can see the data model and just use it. They can change what they're querying on the fly, get more or less as they see fit.

It lets everyone move faster.

But as a backend developer, I actually fucking hate it, myself.
Yes, the “tag” parameter in an Amazon.com URL means it is an affiliate link.
I don’t get what is meant by clever in this context, how do you “cleverly” introduce yourself by writing to someone?

I do agree with the broader point about cleverness’ failure mode though.
Is that how you like it, Mr. Beeblebrox?!!!!
Thanks for the comment! I think it's not too difficult to build something similar (even with a web server so you can make comparison on fly).

I'm playing with alpha compositing, I'm going to commit some little changes to enchant the experience a little bit.
On the one hand your country is so great they don't force small businesses to run their business according to lawmakers' preferences for return policies.

On the other hand your own citizens scam the businesses over there.

You're in between a rock and a hard place.

As long as people have the attitude to commit fraud, they would. Maybe it's time to take a few steps back and try to understand why people do this?
GNOME to Warn Users If Secure Boot Disabled
I mean, if the source, training data, and query interface are public, it would be insanely difficult to hide a backdoor

There i "designed" your impossible criterion in just a few obvious steps you could have inferred
Finishing beef is what happens in the feedlot at the end to fatten them up. "grass fed" beef has in the past occasionally meant beef that fed on pasture all its life until it got to the feedlot where they stuffed it full of grain until it was well marbled. Grass finished means they only ate grass in the feedlot too. 100% grass fed has similar implications. You can pretty much tell. If the fat from the meat has a chartreuse tinge instead of off white, if after rendering it has a lower melting point, and if it tastes more like a neutral vegetable oil than a rich and creamy bacon grease, then its probably all grass.

Edit: neutral is perhaps a bit harsh, its subtle and pleasant, it only compliments the meat's flavor, not drives it. Grain fed fat is like an ice cream sunday in comparison. Lots of flavor and so rich. Its like something that has so much sugar in it, it almost makes your mouth burn.
Using Midjourney.com: https://imgur.com/a/vXJ59hm
It is a pretty good concept to scare away non-monadic ppl. Cool word too
Are you suggesting the CIA pushed lsd/shrooms to alter society in a way that was beneficial for the ruling class, or they pushed society in a direction to ban those substances to keep people from organizing and becoming a ruling class?
Or something else?

If you think about it, a lot of the Silicon Valley advancement of the chip and subsequent computer revolution was driven by the early lsd/shrooms advocates. In a way they did become the new ruling class.
Microsoft has open sourced it's model Open Source Software (OSS) Secure Supply
It's been done, except with live music instead of a cheap speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgRc0qveIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtC6LaDal0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoa9NCkt90k
And none of the other tools I've tried was significantly better than the old GPL-licensed version of DiffPDF: http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-foss.html
my main issue with mushrooms is how nauseous i get -- also, i lose all my appetite for at least 12h (last time, it took 24h for me to be actually hungry again).
I've been a fan of Scalzi's twitter and blog for a while and this is one of my personal favourites.

It's kind of the general case of Poe's Law.

I now ask myself (usually) "Does correctly interpreting my comment/joke require the reader/listener to know that I am clever, droll, sarcastic and definitely not-a-nazi?"
Longevity is wrong for the economy and for politics. Ask Prince Charles if you don't trust me.

Just let them go, we are all going the same way anyway. Very little of value comes out of one's mind after a certain age.
Disinformation always causes problems. Is the humor value from this well balanced against all the angst?
"No" and then close the issue. Don't give them the idea that they can talk their way out of it.
This anecdote has nothing to do with microdosing and is generally applicable to any short-term substance abuse.
Yes, they are animals in human care.
But the fact is there is a difference between carnivores and herbivores across various species and animal lifestyles, which is strong proof that meat is carcinogenic. What factors mitigate this in the wild are largely irrelevant. You can smoke and exercise and be a bit better off, but that doesn't change the carcinogenic potential of cigarettes.
“Just a matter of...”

Anyone who trivializes the complexity of actually operating such a system should be forced to build and operate it themselves, and be held to account if it fails.
Puberty blockers aren’t known to be safe. The FDA just issued a new series of warnings on blockers in the last month due to the severe side-effects being experienced by children on them, including brain swelling and vision loss: https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/nation-world/fda-warns-puberty...
SQL statements wrapped in function calls.
If you have any data sets with an open text field that you don't care about, or where you really only need to get the ID from a wide table, it will definitely save a ton of bandwidth. How often that really matters on the other hand...
"Very Senior Dev" here (though it amuses me to call myself that). I had managed to avoid GraphQL for a while, but recently had to actually look at it and use it. I was appalled that in this day and age, this hyped silver bullet basically requires me to build queries using strings.

I was honestly surprised by this: when I first heard about the idea behind GraphQL, I was certain that I'd pass in nested data structures.

I use it because I have to (external services jumped on the hype bandwagon), but I don't consider it significant progress. And this "save bandwidth" advantage is totally oversold, I really can't see how the savings can be significant in a practical way.
I also avoided the Lenovo because of the many, especially software, 1st gen rough edges, but the (Surface Neo) form factor is very appealing. Part of that form factor is the included magnetic wireless keyboard. We actually had touch-enabled dual-screen keyboardless clamshells before.
bathing and hygiene were not in direct correlation in ancient history, the correlation between unwashed hands, germs and diseases was long to be discovered.

Bathing was mostly a ritualistic activity or a social activity (see Roman thermal baths)

We know Romans, Egyptians and very possibly other cultures shaved themselves almost completely both as a social gathering activity (barbershops were very popular places for gossips and news) and to prevent lices.

So yeah they bathed, some ancient cultures did that a lot, they might have been clean people, doesn't mean their hygiene was generally good nor better than the civilizations before them.

They still walked around in cities or villages with no sewage systems where people and animals lived together.

It's no mistery and no wonder that medieval times were plagued by all kinds of diseases and epidemics.
Highly recommended book! Robin Williams apparently also played an indirect role, suggesting the OP’s question at some conference of the Software Publisher’s Association (although this is apocryphal even according to the book).

I also find it pretty amusing that the other big name on video game boxes – although not much involved with the games themselves – Tom Clancy, established this custom with a Sid Meier game, Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising.

There is actually only one other name I can think of that prominently appeared on the box, American McGee. Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, John Romero and John Carmack could have pulled it off, but AFAIK never did, although their popularity did boost many a game’s sales. Cliffy B also comes to mind as a game designer I can put a name and face to.
I definitely agree.

I want Nix to "show off" its layering a bit more for many reasons, but one of them is to hopefully allow for a more gradual curriculum.
Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook groups?
With similar features like moderation, anonymous posts, public/private groups, etc.
The article claims the RHS maximum is the minimum for the LHS.

> ... you show that the integral (the LHS) is greater than our equal to zero.

The article adds a function g, and uses (f+g)²≥0. It then picks a random g (g=ax+b), such that it can be simplified after expanding.
You can click to add the bot to your own server and use it privately with ease. It’s quite fun!
Of course, a few beers are much worse for you than a microdose of shrooms, so why choose the former?
Perhaps the ”this is your brain on drugs” propaganda was just that, propaganda?