skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apologize to the employees leaving as a company. Explain why. Tell them what happens next. Apologize again.

100% bang on. I've been through a layoff, it sucked but the company were straight-forward, didn't mince their words and didn't fuck around. If I had to sit through some spiel about how the manager or CEO felt, I would've been upset.

It reminded me of the scene when Jonah Hill's character in Moneyball learned how to tell a player they were cut/traded from their baseball team, and then had to actually do it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjhHrcyiQI)
It's burps, not farts.

We will almost certainly soon be able to track cattle based emissions via satellite and use that to enforce usage of the various solutions we have (seaweed based food supplements apparently work) and/or price in the externality.

Here's some work on that from the same info source used for the above:

https://www.ghgsat.com/en/newsroom/cow-burps-seen-from-space...
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There isn’t much to discuss about it. It’s already in execution phase and the biggest issues are logistics. There are people who are interested in that, but discussions on things that are still conceptual is usually a lot more interesting and challenging.
Which would be about the same amount of spreadsheets plus a few extra battle scenes
Defining God to be whatever is assumed to be necessary is the opposite of a falsifiable hypothesis.

You say we are stuck with logical deductions, but the thing about them is that they are no more true than are their premises, so analytical metaphysics grounds out in a personal and subjective choice of axioms (subjective in the sense that no-one else is logically compelled to accept them.)
Unless I'm mistaken, correlated means there is a relation. We don't know what the cause is, but we can see there is a relation. Meaning they at least appear to have something to do with each other. If we could show they have nothing to do with each other, they would no longer be correlated.

The cause of that correlation may not be what we think. Your link of "spurious" correlations has many examples. I would suggest there actually is a link between those things, but it's a 3rd factor of some sort. For example, the correlation between suicides and spending on scientific research may be correlated via a connection to prosperous societies. A society with more money will spend more on science. And there's lots of research to show that wealth leads to higher instances of mental health issues. So the correlation is real, but it doesn't mean one caused the other.

All of which is my long-winded way of saying I think there's tremendous value in these kinds of studies.
> Since Taylor, management gurus, led by the Toyota Corporation, devised “lean production,” with its systematic hiring, work teams, cross-training, just-in-time inventories, and kaizen. This last, Japanese for “constant improvement,” is an insidious form of continuous speed-up. Management stresses the production system—by, for example, taking away a team member or speeding up an assembly line—and work teams are pressured to keep production running smoothly. Autoworker Ben Hamper, author of Rivethead, described modern auto factories as gulags. And no wonder. Workers must labor 57 seconds of every minute.
Different though because you never really end up with a mega base.
Oh yeah, you're right we haven't seen it like this yet. Although the point about SSO Tax is that you need to have the highest Enterprise plan to get SSO functionality at every SaaS tool. We just sell more features (not SSO) in another plan.
But I see your point. We should split and reorganise our plans a little bit. What's the feature you're interested in Enterprise?
Maybe it stems from Linux Torvald's hate of debuggers ?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/9/6/65
The commitment is to running the company well. If you overhire and fail to lower costs / positions over time to match the revenue, that's a problem. If you haven't significantly slowed down hiring in the previous year to make the natural attrition help with the issue, that's a problem. If you suddenly need to let lots of people go, that feels very much like a last resort thing and problems with planning.
At the same time I visit Japan semi-regularly, as I have friends (almost family) there, I know and hate Japanese crimes of war, during and before WWII, and I'm conscious of the far right imperialist hands in their government (LDP, Nippon Kaigi and friends), but, please, I would avoid the 'jap' term.
In college, I was frequently invited to movie nights in one of the lounges because the TV there was ancient and I was one of the few people who could reliably turn it on. It involved hitting the reset button at a specific point of the warm up for a specific duration. Apparently no one thought to just ask for a new TV until years later.
That does not seem to match up with current reality. At least not if the US is to be the example for free market health care. Looking at the stats it is by far the most expensive compared with pretty much any socialized health care in the world (and with worse outcomes): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
> "I don't know, but I can get that answer" is a much better answer than winging it and making something up.

I totally agree. I think this is a major thing that experience teaches you. When you're young or inexperienced, you are naturally afraid of saying "I don't know".

The more experience you gain, the more comfortable you tend to be saying that you "don't know" - in fact some of the smartest and well respected people I've worked with have been the ones most comfortable with saying "I don't know, but I'll find out"
You know that 8 hrs is entirely arbitrary right? It’s not some directive from god. I really don’t see why you’re so jammed up by some people playing basketball during (gasp) work hours
I love creeperworld and factorio, definitely going to throw some time into this one :)
Yeah I'm using a Macbook Pro power adaptor and an Apple Cinema display. Both have earth pins (UK plug). Somehow their 'grounds' disagree enough to ionize air!?
> I'm not sure it's reasonable to separate the two.

One is a concern about freedom, the other is being a cheapskate. They're very different positions.

Plenty of people donate to FOSS projects or to associated organisations like the FSF and OSI, but it's a shame the numbers aren't higher by a few orders of magnitude.

Monetising Free and Open Source software is unfortunately not always easy, but it's not as if it never happens. Most Linux kernel contributions are from paid kernel developers, for instance. Some projects make money from paid support services (LibreOffice, RedHat), or offering a hosted deployment of the software (SourceHut).

> If I'm hoping that Amazon and Oracle and Facebook and Wal-Mart are going to pay $$$$$$$ to me and hundreds of my peers out of a sense of charity and generosity - doesn't that seem rather naive?

You're right that there's nothing to stop a major cloud provider from making easy money offering a managed service powered by FOSS, then giving little to nothing back to the project itself.

This is the reason mongoDB is unfortunately no longer using a FOSS licence.
I’d be quite happy seeing the state host a signed, public append only log for records like this. Basically blockchain without the mining. Anyone can subscribe, but only the state (or anyone paying a nominal fee per byte) can write.

It could be used for notarising contracts, recording crop yields, declaring bankruptcies, listing property sales - you name it. Pay $1/kb and your data will be stored forever.

Anyone can replicate the changes to their own computer to validate the hashes and prove the government isn’t changing anything.

I think that would capture 90% of the value of a blockchain with almost none of blockchain’s downsides and it would be trivially easy to implement.
How often are you recycling books on these devices?
you mean N^2?
Thanks. We already have extensions for most popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Links at the URL above. As well as an Android and iOS app.

Chrome extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/push-to-kindle/pna...
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
I had a similar thought: BJW seems like a pretty strong defense mechanism. Somewhat simplistically you could say that one purpose of defense mechanisms is to be able to bend the rules a bit without feeling too bad about ourselves. It’s perhaps not very surprising that people with strong defense mechanisms behave more antisocially.
Regarding putting it on Steam at a price tag. I've been thinking about doing the same for my game but on the other hand it feels bad that I take profit on something people contribute to for free without getting any share of it (even though I am the biggest contributor).

What's your view on it?
Funny, I quit this game after a couple of tries because I found it too hard. So even 6 year olds are better than me.
> He turned layoffs into a marketing post for his company or at least it appeared so since his company does LinkedIn content consulting.

Good. This is what a CEO should be doing. Maybe if it is successful the company will generate more revenue and prevent further layoffs.
FWIW I don't have any systematized metaphysical beliefs. This is how I perceive the psyche of people who believe in fate.
Awesome! I think Excel is the low code version of database.
Bird behavior influenced by human activity during Covid-19 lockdowns
I’m sitting here pondering what you wrote and trying to understand what you mean. “Life isn’t fair”, or just for that matter, are absolutely true in my opinion. However, justice is still a goal worth striving for. Do you still agree with that, or did that go out the door because of your experiences? And, I am sorry for the harsh experiences you’ve had. I can relate to loved ones being sick, but thankfully not to war.
"Jap" is not simply short for "Japanese", but a racial slur. Edit your comment while you can. (Or maybe remove it entirely.)
Technically true, but not every weak correlation is worth talking about. I would have thought HN had more rigor than that. If you guys want to talk correlations, there are much more interesting ones like 'Internet Explorer marketshare is positively associated with murder rate'.
I am quite bullish on long-term battery production as well. But I recognize that we are heading for some pain in the near-term where supply will not keep up with demand.

I like that solar analysis, but I also think it is possible that the high demand for solar and high commodity (energy, etc) costs could continue to stop solar prices from dropping for much of this decade just as we have seen recently.

The temporary whiplash concept for inflation hasn't panned out yet. I follow Lyn Alden's economic analysis closely and she has been predicting this decade to be inflationary. These predictions started over a year ago when the Fed kept saying that inflation was temporary.
it also has a (experimental) browser
Attack of Japan’s Killer WWII Balloons, 70 Years Ago (2015)
> You trade walkability for privacy and comfort.

Yep, precisely. "Comfort" including being relatively noise-free, whereas in apartments, people are in worst cases forced to sell and move out because of inconsiderate neighbors. On the con side, suburban house will require regular maintenance , whereas in apartments there are people who automagically take care of that for you.
I like the idea itself. However I would not use such kind of service since I'm always assuming that when I'm dead those services aren't there anymore.
The main feature missing is automatic user provisioning (your version of SCIM?). Access review is nice and also not just for enterprises, as many businesses today need to be SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliant, but since its a quarterly process it's less critical.
No, why? I'm talking of automatic classification with multiple tags per post on top of a random mix of topics as we have it here.
Related to the quirks of in-app browsers mentioned in the article, the Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat apps manage to break file uploading every few months, and take several weeks to fix it each time. I'm not sure why this in particular is such an achilles heel, but it's a surprisingly big problem for e.g. online stores advertizing on Instagram and offering personalized products.
Everyone else seems to have covered how cringe this was, how inauthentic it was, how this guy just made it about himself, etc. All true. I would add that I don’t see how a person this weak could ever be a successful leader/CEO. Sorry man, it’s a tough gig, suck it up and stop (pretending?) being so weak that you can’t handle it. Is this what people want in a boss/CEO??? I find it pathetic. Guy has zero business running anything or anyone.
I assume you're talking about social Darwinism when referring to Darwinian philosophies? You might want to specify that to distinguish it from the application of Darwinian thinking to the social sciences, which I think is the right way forward scientifically and has nothing to do with moral judgements.
In Factorio you put down a big wall with turrets behind it. In Mindustry you build a maze with towers and bottlenecks. You can't build it off completely and always need to leave a path for the enemies. The production line is all about feeding your towers.
I fail to grasp what "acknowledge when they're wrong" is supposed to mean. From what I can tell the author insists on deductive reasoning to determine whether something is right or wrong and any wrong conclusions are quickly discarded. Hence, there are only two options, right, not disproven (opinion).
The description of why people who believed in a just world might be more dishonest seemed to be a highly complicated chain of rationalization that I don't think most people would make.

How do you tell anyway that people believe in a just world? I didn't follow that in the document. Do you assign believe in a just world to people's statements on the matter, if so I offer a counter theory - Noticeable statements of belief in a just world is positively associated with dishonest behavior, and under this theory people who are dishonest say they believe in a just world a lot to make other people think they can't be dishonest, they're talking about honesty all the time!
"is our checkout page not performing well?" to the React rewrite manager comes off as a rather dismissive "why would you want to do that?"

Could you explain why? I don't see it that way and would like to learn your perspective.
The same argument basically applies to DoH (DNS over HTTPS).
No such thing as a free lunch.

Grow up
> the gateway is in full control and can inspect and tamper with the data as much as it likes

Inspect, yes, but tamper? IPFS content IDs are hashes, so it seems like it should be possible to verify what you have been sent if you really cared enough to do so.
I figured as much, curious if you know what he used?
That was kinda my point :)
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Some PDFs have Javascript that not only validates the forms, but also produces a list of errors.
Even if you were a CEO of a company whose service is marketing on LinkedIn?
I live in post-Soviet apartment block. It's either that or a (more expensive) house far away in the suburbs, where life probably would be worse - often no sidewalks and narrow streets, so walking isn't safe, far from anything interesting so lots of driving etc. Plus, all the maintenance work. I prefer the noise and occasional dog shit over that.
> If you choose to live out in the middle of nowhere you’re going to have to pay for all kinds of expensive infrastructure or do without.

Naturally, people realize that the farther out they get the worse their infrastructure will be. That doesn't mean the US can't or shouldn't set some minimum standards for what's acceptable. Most people think it's pretty reasonable for every American to have access to broadband. Its in everyone's best interest to make sure all Americans can get online. One nice benefit is that people will be able to spread out a little more and still work from home. That means fewer cars on the road, and fewer harmful emissions hurting the environment. Eliminating the need for commutes will be especially helpful in remote areas because their commutes are often longer than average.

I suspect that at a certain point the US will need to start policing where people are allowed to live more aggressively, but rather than trying to get people to move into dense cities to save a little money in the short term I hope it's used to try to limit the number of people living in a given area according to its biocapacity. Encouraging people to leave areas we expect will be hit hardest by frequent flooding, or fires, or droughts would be helpful too. We waste a lot money rebuilding over and over after predictable events. I can't blame the US government for treading lightly though. People aren't used to the idea of being told that they have to leave their homes and move, let alone being told exactly what parts of the country they have to move to. Probably best to start with people legally immigrating. I'm sure a lot of people would jump at the chance to move to the US even if they weren't assigned their preferred location within in.
No one’s talking about forcing a basketball game, but people here are acting like taking the time out of the blessed 8 hrs to play one of you want is sacrilegious.
In the end, you can always buy a new macbook and that's a plus ;-)
Thank you for reminding me hucksters exist in myriad ways.
I can recommend Architecture Patterns with Python [0] to learn how to refactor code in this way. I don't know Python but I found the examples to be relevant to many other languages as well!

[0]: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/architecture-patte...
The world isn't just but justice is worth striving for.
I believe the world is neither just nor unjust - it only doesn't give by default a rat's ass on me. And on top of that it's uncontrollable and mostly incomprehensible (at least the forward looking part). So yeah that puts me in a selfish position. But. Cooperation always did and still does bring advantages to me, so I'm all in for cooperation. I also believe that win-win is the best basis for a future cooperation as well, so that's what I strive for. Thus what I perceive as "injustice" is a crime against cooperation, thus indirectly against me and gets no support.
A couple of days ago HN led me to an article about Napoleon Hill, New Thought and motivational speekers and trainers. The 2020s really have more in common with the 1920s then I feel comfartable with. All those motivational and pseudo spiritual grap, together with stock and crypto scams, is just pathetic. I rigorously unfollow people on LinkeIn whenever such content shows up.
Yep. And that's what they aim to help their customers achieve.
Top Gun won't exist, just people's memories of Top Gun.

And memory is fallible. It changes over time. People will all remember the movie differently.

The memory of Top Gun != Top Gun.
Waste of time. The article is long and doesn't answer the question.
While the pricing is interesting, I think the fact it is driven by the input costs of electricity is even more telling.

The fact that electricity costs is the dominating (edit, correction: marginal) cost of cloud computing basically means that:

1) We're up against physical barriers to lowering the cost (and ecological impact) of our clouds.

2) Optimizing for less compute will pay multi-fold dividends over the next few years where we can expect energy prices to continue rising.

3) Building more power-efficient chips is a big deal, and I'm glad to see more general ARM deployment, given their efficiency gains.
As I have said already in another reply to that post, what I mean is not all correlations are worth discussing. Obviously it has value from a scientific perspective but that doesn't mean it'll lead to any useful conversation. In fact it generally just seems to lead to insinuations and generalizations about large groups with little to no real evidence.

>I would suggest there actually is a link between those things, but it's a 3rd factor of some sort. For example, the correlation between suicides and spending on scientific research may be correlated via a connection to prosperous societies.

Edit: Not quite. What the graph is saying is there's a direct correlation between the how much the United States budget allocates to science, space and technology from year to year and suicide specifically by strangulation and hanging. There may be some vague link between suicide and science spending, but this is saying something much more specific than that.
“However, as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory found during the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, fluoride salts are incredibly corrosive and required hardened materials to safely contain them.”

Is it a given that fluoride salts would be very corrosive, I assume this is down to its electro-negativity?

But what makes fluoride salts so useful in this context over other halides?
Fine tuning usually means some kind of teleological goal, not merely uniqueness of present state.
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I’m not going to win any upvotes for saying this but I think it’s worth mentioning that this study is dishonest, blatantly politically-themed, and likely intended to score points within the authors’ circle. In other words, it’s meant to be printed off and used as toilet paper. Seeing papers like this is a frightening reminder, at least for me, about how inefficient and wasteful our society has become, in that we continue to funnel large amounts of resources to professions or groups like this.
Honestly, if this were a woman I sincerely doubt it would be met with any criticism. I imagine the word "brave" would be used exhaustively.
> If you try to give a structured, academic presentation to that executive, they will be bored, and you will waste most of your time presenting information they won’t consume. Other executives will disregard anything you say that you don’t connect to a specific piece of data or dataset.

And here I thought people become managers because they're actually great with people. So why does that imply that they should stop listening to their staff unless the staff can intuit their idiosyncratic communication preferences?

IOW, the advice is probably right given current realities, and I agree in general that giving an outline before going into excessive detail is a good practice, but I also feel that if an executive wants something from their staff, they should tell them exactly what they need and be prepared to listen to the experts. It should be in their interest after all.
This seems similar to one of the kids playground toys where you free spin (think record player with handlebars kind of thing) and I am pretty sure you can get somewhere you want (angle wise) by jigging side to side with technique, but I have never though about the physics of it.
Another fiber cut..? EU - APAC
Phone vibrated like crazy since 11:12am UTC.

Noticed that HE, NTT, Arelion, GTT started going crazy on latency and packet loss between EU and APAC.

Anyone from the big clouds/providers, or from the Cloudflare team, notice this too?
Yeah, I'm not sure we're doing a great job of getting humans to voluntarily stop raping and bullying either.
Numbers don't exist in the first place. It's like saying unicorns exist. They're a shared fiction. (A highly useful fiction, to be sure)

I've noticed people in this thread are getting actual, physical things confused with concepts and mental representations of things.

Confusing the map for the territory.