skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is one thing if they don't talk. It is even worse if they have no experience but thousands of suggestions that don't work. And you have to debunk every of these suggestions to management while keeping the progress going.

Often, if the work horse leaves, no one is able to keep the project going or rewrite the project from scratch. They should be able to do the latter if their suggestions are so great and they have been kept back. But they cannot.
Yep, I call it "plants are better than people" thinking.
Why is this here?

It's not exactly news for nerds nor is it news for investors - there are plenty of other sources.

This article is an advert (try scrolling down) and wankery and very boring. "Why it matters" is pure comedy.
> Why do you presuppose I'm not pushing for the most fair arrangement?

Because, by their (and my) definition of "fair", "Political power should be equal to the number of people represented," and you're pushing for something that is not that. It doesn't take any "presupposing".
Sampled at 5-10s intervals? No you can't, that's just ridiculous. That's the same kind of wild supposition and hyperbole that motivated the article. You want this to be true, so you imagine ways in which it must be true that don't match any known system.

Is it really so unimaginably hard to believe that a company would... just honor its privacy policy in good faith? Really?
RE: your example, what exactly does that example have to do with the federal government? The guy threatened to sue, those laws apply the same in the private sector.
> Honestly, why do you think house prices in Sydney will double again?

In Canada, up until a couple years ago, house prices appreciated 7% per annum on average. That is a doubling every ten years.

In the US, prices have appreciated by 3-4%. That’s a double every twenty years.

Sydney prices will be on the same trend.
So the issue here is that anybody can contribute without oversight. Sounds a lot like the issue with that Tay bot, whose contributions led to it being anti-Semitic and all that. I'd argue that its lack of oversight to prevent that sort of abuse is a fundamental problem with the system and not a partial point of fault.
You don't have kids.

Your child would be the only one at school with no phone and probably be pretty embarrassed about it.
I think this might be the first modern event described as a "terrorist attack" conducted almost entirely without meaningful weapons or explosives or incendiary devices.

Either that or calling a rioting mob a "terrorist attack" is hyperbole.
Interesting. That email is exactly the sort of email that annoys me to no end as a user.

It has a large graphic and extremely low information density, and doesn't actually provide much value. It's just an ad. And an ad that obviously comes with tracking.

I'm certainly not the target demo for that email, but if the marketing emails I get that are intended for my demo were like that, I'd consider them to be spam.
Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn't the harm of surveillance outweigh the harm of viewing "inappropriate content"?

Think of the addict is a new one, but I am automatically suspicious any time someone cites child protection.
The only way they can do that is with ads.
> Asking clarifying questions is engaging with them as best as I know. To me, it's the gracious, honest, polite, and professional thing to do.

You are wrong about that though. In the way you are asking, anyway.

> I can't just make up an answer (say, that performance is what they are thinking about) and then riff on that.

It wasn't making up an answer or presupposing his intention. He asked whether you should switch, giving an answer that's essentially "no" but colored with a possible reason for switching is not making anything up.
> causing the slow demise of all the entertainment content that they love

No. Piracy is not a cause, it is an effect. If people can’t get what they want easily, they resort to piracy. Piracy went way down with the advent of Netflix. Now it’s going back up, not just because movies and TV are no longer available at a single place, but also because of the insane restrictions placed on that media. Want to watch offline? Can’t do that with a lot of shows. Paying but there are still ads? Common. It’s bordering on ridiculous, the hoops people have to jump through just to watch content “legally.”
I'd call this Lead Data Engineer, but it matters less what you call it and more what you put in the job description. For the requirements you've given, I'd suggest looking for someone who's set up tracking and the modern data stack from scratch, regardless of whether their title at the time was software/data/analytics engineer. Searching for "modern data stack" will get you a (growing) set of relevant tools.

You might also want to read The Informed Company by Fowler & David, which does a good job starting with a very simple setup and walking through how and when and what to add on - the folks you're looking for are in high demand, and if you don't find someone quickly, the book might give you enough to help your junior devs make reasonable choices for where you are now.
In the same sense any rights are “entirely up for discussion”.

Is that your point? — that because we had slavery, slavery is “entirely up for discussion”?
As a non mobile developer, no, this was completely surprising to me.
Disney owns ESPN
I'm not sure why you needed to come around.

Leadership signs off on hiring. Leadership signs off on installing far reaching processes that inhibit devs from making contributions.

I'm sure some people try to find ways to cheat the system. But I find it hard to believe that it's a wide spread problem. Even people doing the minimum work possible probably have a ton of other interests or ideas and would rather be engaged with their work somewhat and learning things than idling.
Disney owns ESPN, has for a long time
We tried this, and even tried the whole cloth diapers thing, too. My daughter outgrew her cloth diapers in less than a year. We moved to a new place when she was one and we still don't know enough people to be able to do this sort of swap. Our neighbors have girls near her age, but they just moved here, too, and did a big purge back where they came from.

It's easy to talk about swapping clothes when you have a large community, but if you're new to a place and don't have those connections, you're stuck with goodwill (which has very few toddler clothes where we are) or the big box stores.
You know that there's a US terrorist watch list with a million names on it, no due process necessary to be added to it, and no discernible process to be removed from it? That's aside from local gang membership lists, which have the same complete lack of safeguards.

We're not heading back into anything. We love blacklists.
Compared to 1.5/0.5 DSL its great, it's getting 60/11 about 40mi away from SpaceX (Starlink) HQ. But compared to municipal bidirectional gigabit fiber it's...not as great.

Heres ping info from starlink:

--- google.com ping statistics ---
38 packets transmitted, 38 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 26.879/45.073/95.627/11.582 ms
Netflixland is actually a great idea. I would go.
This doesn't work in a company of large size. There is a reason it's called 120% rule at Google.
It’s not complicated, it’s a DIY automated system for people who don’t want to spend the money at the store for similar components. It teaches you how to build every component needed to run hydro with very little maintenance and is completely self-contained. It’s perfect.
> stop-and-go traffic

Regardless of transmission... If someone finds themselves in this kind of traffic on daily basis - they should reconsider the mode of transport.
They've launched the lasers. You think alignment is so hard they won't manage it in the next year? I'm not that pessimistic.
Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything
To the extent they had or still have technology advantages, they are irrelevant. They do not own the majority of the best, most desirable content. Content producers have engaged in (anticompetitive) vertical integration wherein they also have become distributors. As happens in such situations, Netflix finds themselves squeezed out and taxed to death by monopolist studios like Disney, Paramount and Warner.

Solution: Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing. Disney must set a price for a piece of content and then allow any distributor to pay that price to carry it. They must not advantage their own distribution service in any way (which they shouldn't be allowed to have in any case).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard (2020)
> Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight

I read loads of blogs and posts where people are loving WFH, doing very little and openly recommending tech career to others because its so great. They might not think they're a dead weight, they just think thats what modern working is like.
This is in the medical and recreational marijuana space which may have additional Reqs, but I am telling you exactly what the auditors themselves are asking for. I'm not talking out of my ass here.
No, but I was specifically asking the OP who believes that a person surrounded by "hateful" speech for long periods of time can easily start breaking the law and attacking people.
Indeed. The ex-Yahoos I worked with were some of the best most talented engineers I've worked with, and the managers were all fantastic too. In its prime Yahoo was a real powerhouse.

I'm not exactly sure where it went wrong.
People who do things they know are wrong will always conjure up an explanation that absolves them of any culpability. They'll even believe it themselves.

For example, people who steal office supplies from work always have a good reason they tell themselves.

For another, all the people who post on Hackernews justifying cheating in college. My favorite bullshit excuse was cheating was justified because the professor didn't expend much effort with countermeasures.
Walt Disney made a famous sketch of his business strategy with exactly this point: https://i.insider.com/55a6bb002acae74c2f8b48b8. He'd be pleased to see that, modulo a few updates for changing times (comic strips aren't much of a thing these days), it's still working pretty much exactly as intended.
So Google doesn't provide/require PPE for electrical cabinets? Arc-flash gear has been around for decades, its terrible to hear about preventable injuries, especially at a company that can afford safety.

I hope the workers can fully recover, and google is heavily fined (not that OSHA fines are remotely heavy)
Right, Disney sells a bundle of Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+. If you buy that bundle, it sounds like you'd be triplecounted
Indeed, and ESPN has always been far and away the largest source of revenue. In fact, the earnings call where Disney beat expectations but cable subs to ESPN dipped by half a percent saw a total run on the stock. ESPN+ is what they're hoping to wean cable users onto.

I suppose I should disclaim that I used to work there :)
* on centralized censorship-based social media

It is important to self-publish and not be a sharecropper for billionaires by donating your content for free to their walled gardens.
https://electionscience.org/

A variant: just check off the candidates you prefer, leave the others blank. No need to rank, just approve or disapprove.

By far the easiest way to do the task, and far better than what we do now. It is, at the very least, a significant step forward.
Attempting to expand NATO to Russia's doorstep has proven pretty damaging it seems.

According to the February predictions the Russian economy should also have imploded by now. It now looks equally likely that the European economy will crater first.
We are in a supply recession, thus far, not a demand recession. There's plenty of demand (including for labor), but economic activity has shrunk (two quarters in a row, even) because of supply problems (including people no longer in the labor force, some of whom retired early in 2020 and aren't coming back).

That doesn't mean it won't become a demand recession; it might. But the only thing I see that looks at all like 2008 is that house sales in at least some areas seem to have "frozen up", because everyone knows the prices from 3 months ago aren't good any more but nobody is sure how much cheaper they should be. So, the market isn't functioning all that well. But every other part of the economy seems to be functioning just fine, in terms of there is a market price. The price keeps going up, for everything except housing and gasoline, but that's not a recession.

Now there are a lot of things about a supply recession that are not as bad as a demand recession, but there is one problem: we don't have them very often, so we're not prepared. There are many well-understood ways in which government can step in and be the demand that is missing (e.g. infrastructure spending) or ameliorate the affects of low demand (e.g. unemployment benefits). We don't have very many ways for government to step in and be the supply that is missing; we have the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (already being used) and the government has some food supply, but for just about everything else the government cannot provide the supply.

As to your second question, right now the economy is in a very fragile state, so it is much more vulnerable to any shocks, for example if China invaded Taiwan or something. So many things are not working well, from a supply point of view, that there's not much slack to deal with fresh problems. Whether or not we get another big shock probably determines the answer to your second question.
Through a weird sequence of events, a group of us ended up working through a consulting company re-billing arrangement for a large financial services company that was closing our office. The “suits” needed us on payroll to feel secure that our code would keep working, so we got promised our annual bonus (substantial) if we worked until X date. The tech leaders at HQ hated that we existed at all and so gave us no work. We might have worked 40 hours in 4.5 months (total, not per week).

Bonuses eventually hit our account and we all resigned serially; literally a line outside the manager’s door waiting to resign.

It sucked; was so bad that one colleague didn’t want to Google something one evening “because he needed something to do tomorrow at work”.
> lock the doors of a busy nightclub and set it on fire

Has it ever? Is there a terrorist watchlist at the doors of nightclubs now? It would also be great if it cured cancer or replaced crumbling infrastructure, but why talk about nonsense?
Just correcting the units of order here for Norway:
The Norwegian government pays 80% of the price above 70 øre (€0.0704) per kWh.
From October they will increase this to 90%. The coverage is capped at 5000 kWh consumption per month.
Or did a huge amount of work on a project, didn't get properly credited or worse, had their credit stolen by some other employee.

When there's little correlation between amount of effort and advancement as is very often the case, it's justified to just cruise.

I don't see it as "morally wrong but they didn't really want to be dead weight" when it is a justified response.
That is the whole point of God as an explanation. God is where the buck stops on contingency. God is necessary.
They also said that in the previous 10 years.

... and the 10 years before that...
...explicitly claiming to do this.

I don't know that subreddit; in general this sort of thing could become the thing being bragged about in a community, irrespective of reality.
Good call out on Electron apps, I try to avoid Electron as much as possible. I use Slack's web interface for example.

I never made the connection until you brought it up, but yes, Electron apps are just like using Webkit on iOS. Abstracting UI/UX to a browser engine which has identical security pitfalls to a browser but with far less control and inspection capability.
I don't understand this either. He has to trust entire layers of useless middle management to get accurate performance numbers. All he'll get are invented numbers on a piece of paper (metaphorically speaking).

The ones who leave may be dissatisfied with the artificial goals.
If you RtFA, you would see that she considers resellers, and points out that most clothes that are fashionable- especially for women, who are always judged more harshly in this sort of situation- don't hold up to wear and washing very well. One of the categories is specifically described as "ultra-cheap items that obviously wouldn’t survive machine washing but that would cost more to dry-clean than they did to buy." She also considers the larger point that "the resale economy, too, has boomed, and you can find new buyers for your old clothes on a slew of resale websites and apps, including eBay, Poshmark, Depop, and Facebook Marketplace." Reselling, however, well, falls into exactly the same consumerist trap that you started out proclaiming was the problem: "But the bigger issue, Le Zotte and Bédat both cautioned, is that resale apps and services aren’t really a bulwark against overconsumption, even though they feel that way (and even though they’re often marketed as such). Buying secondhand is definitely preferable to buying and discarding brand-new stuff, but if you’re constantly cycling through clothes and chasing trends, then you’re still just as much caught in the teeth of the fashion system as the rest of us."

The lesson that I took from this article is that being a male computer engineer[1], and thus having social approval to look however the hell I want, is a great perk that I do not explicitly value enough. In fact, it is because I don't have to think about what I wear- I literally have a rotation of shirts and pants/shorts and just pick whatever is next in each category- that the perk is so large and I undervalue it so much.

[1]: It helps that I fit into essentially every dominant caste category for my local region, I suspect, but my sample sizes are small enough here that I won't comment about that. My sample sizes on female computer engineers is large enough that I feel comfortable saying that they are held to higher standards of dress than I am.
Do you think that it does justice to the victims of Jan 6th and the victims of the siege of the Colombian Palace of Justice to say that both of those events are the same crime? They're both deserving of the same punishment?
100Mbps fiber, or 100Mbps non-fiber? Because that sounds like an upload limitation caused by a limit much smaller than 100 or even 20.
My 4-yr old kid calls them "broken-down t-shirts" - very useful to have a bag of them in the kitchen and bathroom for spills and messes. Before I was always torn between wasting a dishcloth or using a load of paper kitchen towel which might disintegrate.
The only way to stop having society-wide censorship lists is to stop using centralized media and centralized social networks.

So long as there is only one chokepoint for widespread automated censorship, the state will illegally censor things it doesn't like.
No, so the fact that we see those over and over again is evidence that they have nothing to brag about.
Or you can hack it with Sugru: <https://sugru.com/what-is-sugru>. Not necessarily the best for aesthetics, unless you're a clay sculptor hobbyist or something, but it sticks tight to almost everything. Though as per the website: "Sugru does not bond to oily plastics like polypropylene, polyethylene or Teflon."

I've used it for all kinds of things. I tend to reinforce it if it's load-bearing (eg I made a bracket for my router under my desk, but molded the Sugru around a screw that I put in the desk). Each pack is very small, so it'll only be enough for corners or wrapping around wires very close to the end or whatever.
People who say "no one" or "everyone" do not mean 100%. That isn't how English works. It's why English provides qualifiers like "absolutely no one", or "100% of people".

Just like if I say "everybody likes ice cream", you and I both know that there's somebody, somewhere who loathes ice cream.
Smear campaign https://electrek.co/2022/08/10/tesla-self-driving-smear-camp...
Mankind is to Nature as a cancer cell is to the rest of the organism. Very much part of it,
also very much going to kill it because it can't stop growing and consuming resources. But there is no intent, it's just buggy code.

Mankind is not malicious, just malignant.
Imagine a stranger things themed section of a Netflix park. $$$$
And doesn’t need to be built to the same standard of strength as a roadway that must carry trucks etc. In fact a dirt path is enough for a bike.
Independently of the name collision, your Show HN looks good! and didn't get any attention. If you email me at hn@ycombinator.com, I'll send you a repost invite for it.
Skia can tessellate curved paths.
Intel tried that in its own way. Galileo/Edison Quark based products, lasted 2 years and was pure shit. They entered Arduino hobby embedded world with microcontroller like x86 without dedicated fast IO (it could do something like 1KHz max) and no support/documentation. Intel version of giving it away was pricing slightly below? competition with similar spec (400MHz) while targeting 8bit 16MHz market :-)

Nowadays only Chinese seem to be able to give it away to grow market share. $1 Espressif is a good example, Govin $7 GW1N-1 fpga devboards. Raspberry <$1 RP2040 is one western exception I could come up with.
Feels mild. Feels like it's something other than a typical recession.
What would Netflixland have? I feel like they don't own enough rights to most of their content to pull that off.
I want free speech. And I want social norms. They're not incompatible. Recognizing your innate right to voice your ideas, no matter how offensive (or cough blithely disingenuous), doesn't mean that private organizations can't sanction you or refuse to publish what say. That's moderation.

And "hypothetical"? Really?
C-suite needs to blame something other than themselves for not hitting quarters.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/10/23300460/disney-plus-pric...
Already have.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2021/01/facebooks-complicity-in-v...
Strides have been made in web security, check out the permissions policy[0] along with COOP and COEP[1].

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/
[1] https://scotthelme.co.uk/enabling-coop-and-coep-reports-on-r...
Does that have the intended effect? People can still waste with abandon and there is a risk of blackouts...
maybe the US govt. got smarter and something like 2008 == never again.
> I was told by our HR department that we could get rid of him, or at least demote him, if he failed two annual reviews in a row. Eventually he did, but we were then told by HR that he had to fail two annual reviews in a row in the same way; if he failed twice, but differently in the second year, that didn't count

Government HR processes make it _very_ difficult to be fired.
I'd love to one day read a case study about Netflix's choice to compete with Disney and HBO instead of competing with Akamai, Cloudflare, and Fastly.

They really had every possible advantage, and then instead re-built trash TV.
No, mostly it is not practical to offload the edge cases.

The reason for this is that the single 2D application that people most want to speed up is font rendering. And font rendering is also the place where the edge cases are really common.

Rendering everything else (geometric shapes) is trivial by comparison.