skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely saw a lot of dead weight and waste in government work, more than I have ever seen in the private sector.

Part of it comes down to fact that it's harder to fire people.

Another part of it is that bureaucracies end up becoming dominated by people who serve the survival of the bureau (and it's budget) at the expense of its actual mission.

Another part is that government agencies are just not as easy to hold to account - with a private business your customer can often take their business elsewhere (and if they can't, well, the government just might be the reason for that). In theory the democratic process should hold these agencies accountable, but the democratic process is more indirect than voting with your feet. And there is generally a tendency to resist democratic influence (otherwise the agency would become political).

There are probably many other reasons as well.
The bidding process had ISPs to declare what speeds they could deliver down to a minimum of 25/3 Mbps. SpaceX didn't need to bid at such a high performance tier if they didn't want to.
Writing a messaging app is a fool's errand. You either build a chat app with someone elses money, invest in all chat apps (1/n) and hope you score a big one - e.g. like textbook publisher, or you wait and M&A the successful ones.

The barrier to entry to write a chat app is zero. Even if you are brilliant you will compete against hundreds other chat apps one of which will beat out with pure luck. Never compete against luck.
iOS has essentially the same: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...
I stopped helping people with basic computer problems the second or third time I was told that I broke something. I realized that the interactions were basically always unpleasant. People seem to be much happier just calling geek squad, or whomever.
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People seem to conflate "intelligence" and like "all good qualities/effective goodness". I suspect that that's partially because that was a goal of a search for general intelligence, and partially because intelligence (or lack thereof) is a primary way people have marginalized people, but maybe intelligence is not correlated with "all the things" maybe it's just sort of a neutral factor that may or may not be as important as things like creativity, or empathy or discipline or having good vision or whatever. Why instead of empathy do we talk about "emotional intelligence" why instead of artistic or musical do we have spacial intelligence or musical intelligence. You're not a dancer, you have Z"Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence"

I prefer the idea that not everyone has to be intelligent, or that intelligence is not in fact correlated with "goodness" or "selfesteem" because it makes understanding people like Elon Musk a lot easier. It also makes understanding the self a lot easier when in fact strengths in one area do not correlate to strengths in another area.
It's also around that point where you start to get low and high performers that, in my opinion, the burden of productivity should shift quite a bit to managers rather than individual employees. Once a company gets to a certain size, certain bureaucratic workflows and systems become far more necessary and entrenched as "the way we do business". Some "low performers" at that point, as a result of this internal dynamic and internal limitations in a business, often just have less work to do or they are limited in sign-offs to work on other projects/coordinate with other teams. At that point, the role of managing teams and individuals becomes much more important and consequential. What you often get though, is management that defers accountability as problems with individual performance with employees below them. This is, essentially, a way of ignoring how the way the company operates has changed.
I see other people's points that these quotes aren't the best reflection of these leaders, but I'd give them some benefit of the doubt in that we're lacking context. We're just getting the sensational headlines and quotes. There is something to be said for managing company morale, so we'll see how FB's employees handle the very blunt message they received...

That being said, even though the message itself is bitter, I would strongly prefer that leadership communicate such difficulties openly rather than surprising the company out of the blue with layoffs, pay cuts, etc. Then, employees have an opportunity to make a decision about how much harder they want to work, or whether they want to leave for different pastures.
What does it mean to be addicted to porn? Daily viewing? Hourly? Constant?
The sad part about excessive meetings is often they are not enough on their own. In between all of the the pointless meetings, smaller, less formal, often unscheduled, real meetings where actual decisions are made still need to happen.
Life is better when they have access to electricity, internet, roads, and other public services that are subsidized by the government.

More importantly these are the people who are more likely to complain about government handouts and socialism.
First time I was in a Tesla was about a month ago. We were driving on the expressway and suddenly the Tesla jerked right and then left and beeped. As if it were dodging something. It was pretty horrifying. The driver was no longer in control.

There was maybe some roadkill on the side of the road? Nothing to actually dodge - definitely a false positive.

My dad (a first-time Tesla driver) promptly turned off the assistance and we all had a better time.
Wow! This is really cool! Congratulations on the launch! I'm sure you're going to be able to help a lot of folks in those areas, and probably all over the world as well!

I know the Internet Archive has collections of African works, folktales, and other stuff. They promote them quite often on their Twitter.[0][1] I'm sure you can find all sorts of media that'd be perfect for Genti.

[0] https://twitter.com/internetarchive

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A%40internetarchive%20afr...
No, but they didn't apply for this either; because, they knew they couldn't meet the expectations set by the FCC.
I think it’s a neat design but the cost is way to much for the average user to adopt this. It’s certainly not geared towards casual riders like me and my kids. They are way to hard on bikes to justify something like this. So it looks cool and I would like to try it out but never would buy one at anything even close to the price they are offering right now.
I keep hearing that, but I know an absolute meathead who is a senior architect over there. Maybe he's just good at playing the "bro" game?
Ask HN: Can I display embedded YouTube videos in my mobile app?
I've got a playlist of helpful videos that I've put together over the past few years.

I'm wondering if I'm allowed to show my users these videos through my mobile app, playing through the embedded HTML.

NOTE: I am NOT downloading these videos, nor attributing them to me. I am simply using YouTube's embed video feature and wondering if I can use that to show videos through my mobile app.
While this is really cool (and a feat of engineering no less), I'm always really concerned when someone suggests to make an HTTP call from their database server.

Many years ago my boss told me to make a scheduled task in Windows to execute a SQL query to make an HTTP call and I asked him why we couldn't just use crontab/cURL? His response: "cURL? Like from the 90s?"

Anyhow I didn't last very long. Got fired shortly thereafter.
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SOX compliance has expanded in recent years to cover a gamut of Cybersecurity process and policy. Go look it up. I recently compiled all the documentation necessary for a client I am serving in order to pass. It includes handling of PII, access controls for code repositories and production environments, and tools for ensuring code quality like performing static analysis and mitigating DDOS attacks such as a decent WAF.
Right, but there tend to be other children who are smaller not far away. It always strikes me as weird how many parents seem to have something against passing on clothes between kids.
Oh definitely agreed. A lot of this is because Julia always loads BLAS and LLVM, so it's like doing `import numpy; import numba; print("Hello World")` and then noticing most of the startup time is loading numpy and numba. But it's a hard question because if BLAS isn't always loaded with Julia, its previously core scientific computing case is impacted. As it has been growing to be more widely used in a general purpose case, these kinds of assumptions are having to be revisited.

One can of course remove this in the compilation stage of PackageCompiler because PackageCompiler builds a new system image, and where BLAS is loaded is in the system image, so you can create a new from-scratch system image that is more lean. However, the tooling isn't quite there yet: right now the main way that's documented is something that extends the default system image, hence the large binaries. There's StaticCompiler.jl which does tree shaking so it makes small binaries, but it doesn't support most of the Julia runtime right now so it's limited in the codes it can handle. So right now the foundation all exists and it's at a usable state but definitely needs to improve.
The FCC used aggregate performance across the network, which arguably isn't accurate at depicting the performance in the most remote cells. Starlink is unusual here in the degree to which their service performs better in more remote areas; for most providers, it's the reverse. So they may well be meeting their performance commitments in the most remote areas, but severe congestion in areas that have other service options is hurting their averages.

I'm not sure what the right call is here. It's very difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison between vastly different technologies; this isn't Starlink exclusive, but will probably apply to the other LEO constellations whenever they come online in strength.
I'm not stating that any of those strategies are the wrong approach to interpreting the world.

I'm saying that when those strategies are applied axiomatically, there's no room to reinterpret what we know about the world because there's a general feeling that doing so will undo all scientific progress.

Take, for instance, the relativity vs. quantum mechanics debate. I'm not a physicist, but it's pretty evident that the biggest struggle of that debate is that most people want to reconcile both theories by unifying them through some other rational interpretation of the world. Whether or not that's possible remains to be proven, but a theory of everything may emerge from a completely different interpretation of the world. One that is rationally contrarian to what relativity and quantum mechanics tell us.

And this brings me back to my original argument, which is that perhaps we have the proper methods to understand the world, but we are just asking the wrong questions.
We have learned from experience that when you put a new set of wires on, a non-trivial risk exists that existing wires get damaged. And then people blame the owner of the other wires for their problems.

This happens enough by accident that cases of intent are hard to prove, but nobody doubts that it happens with intent as well.

The result as we've had more and more wires up is more and more regulatory costs around putting up wires.
>I dunno. It's exhausting though. I feel very trapped by all this crap. I could only imagine being a new-hire or some fresh college grad...

Imagine trying to build a relationship over Slack and Zoom as a new hire. I'd be lost and frustrated.

It's just not the same.
Any kind of utility is expensive; fiber is no worse than electricity, water, or gas. The difference is that all those utilities were installed before we shot ourselves in the foot with 10,000 pages of regulations written by incumbent monopoly lobbyists.
They’re given chrome books in school and can’t complete assignments without them. Now what?
Ok guys, you’ve heard it, there’s an app that uses in-app browser to let you play some browser-based game! I guess we’ll just have to accept the status quo, otherwise the mobile players of this niche browser-based game would be inconvenienced!
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Unfortunately I'm not allowed to walk around naked, so I am forced to purchase clothes at some point. And at some later point, I have to dispose of them.

Your comment doesn't seem to address that, and it's pretty fundamental to the question, I think.
What kind of research did you do to achieve this? Any workshops or did you talk to other ISPs to gain knowledge?
Not sure what you're talking about; the above phrase does not appear in TFA.
I know. But I find it actually quite easy to get rid of lightly worn children clothes, and donate them. Mostly informal networks, but a lot of more formal exchanges as well. e.g. also includes car seats, strollers, ...

> And I’ve heard rumors that adults change size quite a bit as well.

Tell me about it. But I was able to trade my nicer stuff (suits, shirts) no problem. Not the junk.
That’s not the take, that’s just how you read it in a knee jerk reaction. It’s a comment about government employee productivity, not whether the government is bad.

You can both believe that government employees are extremely inefficient and that the government is good to run certain things.

>As a consultant having worked for both large government agencies and large corporations, they are all the same.

Absolutely not. Apart from catastrophic budget crises, a government doesn’t risk bankruptcy and a department has no need to bring in more than it costs. There is no real floor for how slow employees can be because the agency is getting its money either way.
Sure, I'd love to have real friendships where friends stay by my side through the good and bad times. Unfortunately it turned out to be difficult to make good friends like that. So I've decided to never do anything that leads to these expectations and "you owe me" situations.
I've done speed tests on 4 separate dishes within a 25mi radius of my house, and I consistently got around 90 down/10 up. The fastest test to date I've seen in my area is ~130 down / 60 up.
Nno, what are you doing step-phone!?
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properly working browser extensions also act as a measure of phishing prevention, as they will only fill your credentials automatically on the correct domains.
I don't know. I'm a techie assisting w/ audit not finance/legal.
Wouldn't you be doing JSON processing instead of text processing?

I myself never had to do text processing but instead JSON processing and that was convenient to do in Postgres directly, and I assume it's convenient to do in SQLite given the recent advancements in SQLite's JSON capabilities.
But either option is strictly better than the existing mess.

Disagree. We have interoperability, just not with advanced features within the default messaging apps. To me that's not a big deal at all as there are other, popular, options. We should get out of the habit of relying on carriers to provide much more than dumb pipes. To that end SMS (not MMS) works just fine and RCS is just going to continue to get bogged down.

It's easy to say that if Apple bent to the will of the carriers the iPhone would never have been as good as it is. But look at RCS, Google had to stand up their own infrastructure because the carriers weren't cutting it.

It's not that RCS is not the right product it's that RCS is the wrong approach entirely. Even in the United States Android is wildly popular. They've had every opportunity to create a wildly popular messaging platform and have failed. Google killed their own products as a result of their internal culture. This isn't Netscape vs IE again, it's more like Mosaic vs Gopher (or AOL vs Netscape if you like).

I was going to write "as much as I'd like to see non-Apple devices brought into the iMessage fold" but then I realized that's not true. I don't care because I'd just use Signal. In fact I still use Signal with some friends that have iPhones. RCS wouldn't change that, it'd either be one more shitty carrier product to avoid or one more shitty Google product that's going to get killed in a few months.
The 9.99$ Netflix plan's content was subsidized by cable subscriptions. It was never sustainable, that's why Netflix has never decreased prices with decreased content, but has raised prices instead. And once cable subscriptions started dropping cable networks had to look elsewhere for income.

Also current streaming is the closest thing we have to a la carte, which has always been a complaint about cable: I don't want to pay a single subscription for everything, I want to pay a cheaper subscription for what I want to watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_la_carte_pay_television
If they didn't work together people would instead complain about there being more extremist content. None of these companies want the bad PR from "news" articles saying that they aren't stopping extremist content from their platform.

>it is also a clear anti-trust violation as they are abusing their monopoly position for illegal anti-competitive tactics.

It doesn't look anticompetitive to me considering you can ask to join the group.
As a leftover artifact from growing up not allowed to call long-distance, I frequently think of things like "Is long-distance texting charges a thing? Will I get charged for texting my friend with a Mexico number? Does it matter if she's currently in Mexico or the US? Does sending a picture incur a fee even if an sms doesn't?"
Are they saying their adjustable gear mechanism accounts for $2000 of the price?

Look again: the "single speed" includes the gearing:

"The gear shifter was removed however gears can be changed manually pulling or pushing the pulley up or down when the bike is stationary."

You're paying $2000 to not have to stop and change gears manually, or saving $2K by doing without the gear shifter, which ever way you wish to look at it. I almost think the price is a typo.
Agreed, and a great alternative is chicken. Delicious, very versatile to cook with and an ecological foot print that is 4 times smaller compared to beef.
> I will use it regardless of the name.I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE NAME

Your preferences are not consequential. We are concerned with how the public behaves. And names matter a lot for discoverability.

If you really cared about more people using /e/, you should be concerned that the name is needlessly reducing its reach. I plan on trying /e/, but you are not doing the project any favors with your attitude.
I think this is a thing where "how did people used to dispose of clothes" is one of many tips of a much bigger "the rise of the atomic family reduced our interconnectedness and our ability to share resources" iceberg.

People talk about using hand-me-downs but it's become a lot less common to have enough people in your life to get or give things to, outside more formal channels like thrift stores that will only accept certain kinds and qualities of goods (for good reasons).

If I had a kid right now I wouldn't really have anyone in my life who could give me outgrown clothes, nor would I have anyone to give them to. My life just isn't built that way and I don't think that's uncommon.
Wear them?
Its use is offering a level of privacy that is at least as good as the one a credit card offers. On the Ethereum blockchain anybody you transact with can see your transaction history.
Actually, I used "cloc" to calculate the number and I believe it'll split at semicolons to prevent this.

But great hack anyway :)
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Same here. Nice clothes get worn until they get visibly tattered or stained, then they become pajamas or clothes for doing dirty work, then finally they turn into rags.
I think a lot of this comes from organizational bureaucracy. I love to program. I write code on personal projects every single night. It is so difficult to get tickets at work though.

Want to build something new? Well, we will have to maintain it forever, so we need to make sure it is worth it.

Want to build on another team's infra? You need open a ticket to get someone assigned to review your code, that ticket will take 3 weeks to be triaged. This is for a 2 line change.

Ok, you're building something. Design doc, stories, epics, meetings most days of the week, code reviews, tests.

On calls, you're going to do the builds. You're going to watch the nodes deploy 1 by 1. You're going to keep an eye on query latency.

I'm not saying these things are all bad, but in total, they absolutely kill productivity. The more of this bureaucracy, the less you're getting out of me in regards to what I am really good at (designing and building systems). When I can build complex web apps in my spare time and end up making a 50 line change at work every 2 weeks there is a horrible disconnect. I write code every day, just not for my employer, and not because I am lazy or don't want to.

Yes, I should be fired. Yes, you should hire someone at 50% my rate to watch the code deploy. Hire me back when you have work for me to do that matches my skillset.
Let's say I've got a website called Jay's Cool Community for Elementary School Kids and their Parents. Steve comes in and starts posting nazi symbology, and as soon as I delete his content he just posts more. Nazi symbols aren't illegal in the country where Steve and I reside, so under your regime I can't boot him from my website. Do I, as Jay, have no recourse now?
These Dutch rowingbikes have also had various forms of string drive for over a decade:

https://rowingbike.com/en/modellen/

with cables either in steel or in dyneema (polymer-based).
I'm not confusing anything, I merely stated my observations on people expanding (if your distinction applies,to both the right and the concept).

That statement should be amended to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it to those who choose to listen"

Just as real-life town squares allow people to walk away, boo or shout back at speakers, the same rights should be preserved for audiences on Facebook and Twitter.
We are in the biggest global/sovereign debt crisis of the last 100 year, maybe more.

The things that will cause an explosive collapse in this scenario is shrinking population and a global shrinking economy. Debt needs growth.

It's like a mortgage on a house. It's a good deal if the house is increasing in value. It can quickly turn bad if the house is losing value.

Personally, I'd prefer to see that collapse happen but understand it would be incredibly nasty. I think most people drastically underestimate how fucked up the world would be if GDP and population fell by 1% annually for the next 10 years.
Children's clothing can get worn pretty hard too. Our stuff is definitely not in donation suitable condition by the time it's too small, although I suppose it might be different if we bought more or more expensive items.