skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience kicks in quite a bit north of where you are, but for what it’s worth, I joined a company as employee ~150 that practiced near total transparency on everything.

We went public, are now north of 8,000 employees, and it’s still nearly as transparent as when I joined - financials, product metrics, anonymized employee trends/HR data, major decisions… the list goes on but pretty much everything is done in the open with only a handful of exceptions.

I can’t think of a situation where that level of transparency was a hindrance to the company or regretted by our founders as far as I know… in fact the opposite, I think it creates a culture of ownership and makes people feel valued and respected.

As an employee, now that I’ve experienced having that level of access, I’ll never join a place that doesn’t offer a similar level of transparency.

Edit: Adding a couple thoughts based on some comments I’m seeing. I really believe that restricting information to specific people or keeping it from people who “might not understand it” is wrongheaded.

If people are interested and curious, help them learn. If they aren’t, who cares? When there was feedback about wanting to better understand financials, our CFO did an hour long walkthrough of SaaS economics. When new legislation forced operational changes, our general counsel walked us through not only what we needed to do differently but how he approached his job and situations like this. People come to work (especially at startups) to stretch and to learn, regardless of their role or level.
You forgot storage or massive long distance transportation that nuclear future does not require, but solar/wind future does. That changes the "cheaper and better" to "there is no cheap solution, we need both solar/wind and nuclear".
Yeah, you can't always drop articles -- like I said, it usually happens at the very start of a clause, and not at all interior to one. And whether it's advisable to do this is up for debate; you make a good point about accessibility, and it's not always even natural. But it does happen, so it's worth cataloguing the existence of this phenomenon at least :)
Scale.

Looking at color on a tiny little card is not like being in a room surrounded by it.
Couldn’t disagree with you more.
I wonder if there’s any resources that validate monitor DDC capabilities. It sounds like a lot of the issues are caused by bad monitor firmware
That won't solve the problem of people wanting him dead.
EasyDNS CEO Mark Jeftovic had previously struck a deal to renew the domain address for another year before the domain provider allegedly decided to stop honoring the deal “suddenly” and “without notice.”

Another one in the great pile of reasons to avoid GoDaddy and other US American domain name services -- you don't own your domain name, you're just an authorized user as long as the US government allows it.
Peter Reinhardt (Segment’s CEO) goes in depth about this journey (and more) in the “Learning How To Sell” episode of Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s “Invest Like the Best” podcast. Likely the original source for this post:
- https://open.spotify.com/episode/61c5XhkcxEave8Cd6j55w1?si=F...
- https://american-podcasts.com/podcast/invest-like-the-best/p...
Shoulders are definitely something you should fit for at the store if possible but a good tailor can make a world of difference in the way the legs fit or the drape of the jacket - the difference between a super baggy, super tight or “just right” fit that looks flattering. My guy usually takes about $200 to do a full suit but it is a high COL area.

I’ll also note that sometimes you are forced by a wedding party to buy a suit that doesn’t fit ideally. A good tailor can make the special day a lot more comfortable.
Not sure how people don’t get this or why my post was downvoted. Maybe it’s just not a comfortable truth for some people.
Isn't the main problem with Venus mainly an excess of carbon ? Is there any way to use (say) solar power to extract it and mass drivers to fling it off-planet ? It would have to scale. Megamegamega-ly.
Set goals for what you actually want out of the project.

Done is when those goals are finished, not when the project has all the pieces it could have

If the point is to learn, stop once you've learned. If the point is to play, stop when you get bored of it.

If the goal is to launch something, then, you have to launch it
Agree, "Fall" is not one of the more accessible of his works IMO. Neither Anathem, even though it's my favorite of his books. I feel like if Neal Stephenson wanted to write a DND campaign, he'd revolutionize that niche with his incredible world building and excellently pervasive themes.
Ask HN: Are most software engineering decisions subjective?
Occasionally I'll hear someone refer to some particular aspect of writing code and assembling software as "more art than science". That view is expressed in seemingly arbitrary situations.

Is it possible the vast majority of decisions, preferences, best practices and so on are subjective?
> Why such a long queue?”...“Well,” sighs Marx, “Sometimes we’re out of oil, sometimes we don’t have

I've been immersed in shortages for the past two years (try to go buy a car for MSRP), why some UK paper is writing about some far away, long ago shortage I don't know (well actually I do know).
Regarding Odin and Hare, I'd argue most people would easily be able to tell them apart from the syntax alone because the declaration syntaxes are quite different. And most people judge a syntax pretty much solely by the declaration syntax itself.

Regarding RAII, I explain in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32629951) the issues with RAII and what it requires to be useful. Odin has the similar rule of "no allocation without an allocator" but has the implicit `context` system which passes the current context's allocators around. Odin also has core library support for valgrind, callgrind, memcheck, and soon helgrind.

Odin has features (which this article does showcase) which are akin to RAII but are not attached to the type system. And as I explained in the previous comment, RAII wouldn't even make much sense in Odin (or Zig for that matter) and would probably never a good idea to add it later. There are better alternatives to RAII for languages such as Odin and Zig.
Maybe the warning should be on the medicine?
Why I quit using SwiftUI
Are you sure, specially in easily copied technology domains?

In my experience, software, business processes, and hardware are best kept close to the vest until sufficient momentum and maybe market saturation is reached.

It does not matter if the item holds a copyright/patent/trade mark; they are post even re-active solutions. It's like an ambulance after a car crash. Excellent if there are good doctors in the ambulance, but better the avoid the car crash all together.
You could do that, but doesn't it seem easier to: 1) initialize a CSPRNG to a known seed; 2) generate random numbers and write them sequentially; 3) initialize a new RNG to the same seed and compare numbers you generate to numbers you read from the storage? That way, you even get to point at the exact byte where the first divergence happens, which might let you say, "this drive which claims to be 30TB seems to be 1GB".
This is really cool. And it has such a great readme with screenshots and everything.

One thing I can't figure out from a cursory reading is what type of RF hardware would be needed to use this?

I was just thinking about finding some software like this is because I have lost one of the keyless entry key fobs for our car and I was thinking if I could record and replay the signal from the car, I might be able to narrow down the fob location.

I suspect it is in the house somewhere. But we have a 1 year old who loves to pick things up and insert them into any slot or box he can find.
My only problem so far is that I can't figure out how to correctly define a custom profile for my Tascam Model 12. I created one for ALSA/PulseAudio that used to work perfectly, but it appears that PipeWire has a new config format and mechanism for this kind of thing, and I've been unable to wrangle it into a working result.

My current workaround is to use one of the PipeWire patchbay GUIs to do ad hoc what I'd normally have as baseline configured system setup.
Yes. But you need to have such a filesystem installed at the first place.

Mojo can run on any filesystem which does not support snapshots/versions. This makes it portable not only across different fs but also across OS.
> you don't own your domain name

You never do, authority over a DNS zone is a service that is provided to you.
I know. But they are very short. I think an usb 3 cable can be up to 2 meters. Thunderbolt just 0.8 or something.
I wonder if that is specific to a country? Because in the U.S. I have never seen a marketplace seller on the best buy website.
But they don't say what it contained...
Makes me think of the "common knowledge" that Macs don't work properly with external monitors. Fuzzy fonts etc
https://archive.ph/5hs3q
Well.. most designers think that everything is a magazine, when sometimes they should be just a screen of dense data

And developers think that everything sounds be an app, when sometimes they should be “documents“
Stephenson is by far my favorite fiction author. His style of sci-fi is what draws me to the genre: It's filled with on-the-edge-of-plausibility concepts that makes me wonder "What if we could do that", or gets me hacking on a project. The only other sci-fi I've found on his level have been the Children of Time books.

I've read them all except Reamde, and found Termination Shock to be the tamest, so perhaps if you're new to Stephenson, don't start there.
People with cushy lives, working for some mid-level corp writing CRUD apps used by 20 people, also have never faced the challenges of moderation at million people scale. So, it kind of cuts both ways
One thing I have never understood is why parents do not inspect, open, etc the products before wrapping them?

I am mean this is a decades old problem from not having the correct batteries, to missing parts, etc etc. Alot of Christmas day disappointments could be avoided by just inspecting the toys before wrapping them.....
I feel that his novels are becoming more and more mainstream friendly, and Termination Shock is my suggestion. The world is very similar to our own, set in the near future (versus The Diamond Age) of our planet (versus Anathem) and is very relatable.

My other suggestions would be REAMDE for people who are into action movies or spy novels, or the first half of Seveneves for space nerds.
How John Backus's Fortran beat the machine code 'priesthood'
Much as I love Neal Stephenson's novels, I really wish he'd stayed around at the writer's class he surely took until they had learned how to wrap up books and write endings; more often than not, I turn the page on a Stephenson novel only to find it was the last...

(While I exaggerate a little, his stories do not end as much as END - I would be thrilled if he could spend a few pages wrapping it up in the end before leaving us waiting for the next title...)

The yarns he constructs are definitely entertaining enough for me to cope with this very minor annoyance, though.
When the AI is cringe.
Earth as vacant, rotting strip mall.
Yo ho yo ho…

Keep those backups of your Nintendo games archived somewhere.
How new is this project? It was really surprising to see something published in 2022 that still attempts to offer Python2 support, and all the baggage that will carry.
Why Google Amp is bad for your site?
Isn't "...and to my knowledge it is very restrictive. This will change." enough of an explanation?
The focus on Twitter seems a bit strange. Per the author's post, the government of Pakistan is arresting journalists and activists, manufacturing a pretext after the fact:

> In Pakistan, activists and journalists are routinely picked up (abducted) and tortured by the country's police and secret services. Same happened this time, some of the top journalists and anchors were picked up - some without warrants with fake cases filed post-arrest.

Twitter removing the fake claims won't stop the ISI or whoever from kicking his door in, if/when he returns to Pakistan.
The psyche mission missed its launch window: https://blogs.nasa.gov/psyche/2022/07/14/nasa-begins-psyche-...
I was referring to rail lines, but I imagine the mess is multimodal.
> Please bring a single proof of god here in your own words. I have already wasted one hour on that video which didn't lead anywhere.

That video was a good start, the fine tuning argument, the fact that something cannot come out of nothing, etc.

The next step is that when someone claims to have been sent by God, we look at the evidence he brings forth. Prophet Muhammad Prayers of God be upon brought with him signs and performed miracles. The Quran itself is a living miracle, no one had been able to bring anything like it, and the Arabs at the time tried. Some even admitted but would not believe due to pride, this is quite well documented. Furthermore, the Quran and Hadiths talk about events that happen tens or even thousands of years later. The website I linked mentions over 100 of them. Some like the desolate bedouins competing to build tall towers or the fact that the deserts of Arabia were not only green, but would return to be rivers and meadows have only been discovered very recently.

> You might want to try apply that to your original claim that the western civilizations are declining because they are so secular.

The behavior of secular people is quite obvious as to what is causing these issues. Many of them get rich, have everything at their disposal and think, this is it? This has happened time and time again. I'd be interested to hear your explanation. The Quran already alluded to this over 1400 years ago, even when atheism was not common (another miracle):

> But whoever turns away from My Reminder will certainly have a miserable life

-- https://quran.com/20/124

> Any many go back to christians, jews or even predate our mainstream religions

The difference is that with Islam, those scholars admit that it was Islam is what played a role in pushing them to pursue knowledge. It's in our religion.

> Pretty sure it also persecuted people who seeked knowledge that Islam didn't like.

Bold and false claim. Show me your proof. Islam is not Europe in the dark ages that you are talking about.

> Or maybe that happened already before all the western influence?

The Islamic world had the Caliphate established until WWI. Not saying that we did not make mistakes (one of the biggest was getting involved in WWI to begin with), but since then, it's been quite clear what's going on.

> I'd argue rape being just a phenomenon is wrong

But it's not wrong according to those atheist figures, who are heavily pushing atheism. You cannot force your view on him. Once such practices get adopted and popular, you have no retort.

> Rape leaves the victim traumatized and less productive in society

Maybe, maybe not. Rape used to be common back in the day, and people were not as traumatized. Secondly, who cares about society, we're all "chemical scum" anyway. Why does it matter?

> anyone with a bit of knowledge how reproduction and genetics work can see that inbreeding increases the chance of genetic defects.

So? Also, there's birth control and abortion to solve that problem.
That is an awful lot of effort just to be able to prove a point, which may or may not actually come up. Choose wisely!
I agree, I don't think diamond age gets enough interest. It's one of my favorite books and the ending is unsatisfying but at least upbeat. Seveneves is also tons of fun. And if you know anyone who likes history, his older Baroque Cycle is pretty great

I haven't heard this in an interview or anything but I think now Stephenson is older and successful enough, he just writes the books exactly how he likes. Diamond age feels like he was agonizing over every word to keep everything so short. But Fall, and his newest book Termination Shock (which I also didn't like most of) ,just feels like an author who likes writing. Both have these amazing moments, which reminds me like a jazz musician, where it's almost effortlessly insightful and funny. But with no editing or second thoughts
is NewEgg / TigerDirect still the place to buy from if you want to get some level of authenticity in your shopping for electronics?

I find I only trust things from the Apple store anymore myself. Markup and all.
I remember this also being a thing with eBay as well. Not sure why someone would go to eBay first and not check Amazon, but then again some people still pay for AOL.
> This is how current DNS works

I know that, nobody pretend it's otherwise.

> Thankfully most web3 users and services are not dependent on eth.link and recognize it is a centralized service.

If that were the case we wouldn't have a story here.
My number one challenge is increasing my consistency as a leader. When I was writing software, it was OK/anticipated to "crunch" sometimes. In these scenarios, I'd overwork myself, but, in exchange, a lot of code would get written and the project would come in on-time. My personality/emotional state would suffer a bit from it, but then I'd take some time to recoup/prevent burn-out and all is good.

Now, I feel like the game is played differently. Good leaders are healthy and consistent because that provides a psychological safe space for others to work within. A good leader keeps themselves available enough to act as a shield for their reports. That takes energy. If one fails to budget energy effectively, or generally lacks energy, the veil will become pierced and reports become disenchanted with their leader. Rebuilding that trust costs more energy than it did to lose it - which sparks a vicious cycle.

This has been a pretty tough mental shift for me. My default response whenever a problem gets tough is to "gear down," settle in for a long-haul, and push myself to carry us to the finish line. That's no longer the way to succeed.
> Twitter, despite millions of Pakistani users, it seems has no moderation system that understands local dynamics.

Many would argue they don't even understand the local dynamics of the U.S. It's impossible for twitter to be an arbiter of the truth around the world, and you shouldn't expect them to be. However, I understand that's cold comfort for someone facing the threat of torture, death, or exile from their home, and I think your decision to call out twitter using your own platform to act with respect to your specific circumstances is the right thing to do and really the only way to handle this kind of thing.

Good luck, I hope you stay safe and that the government doesn't succeed in silencing you.
We create mobile website builder that hits 1M signups already
Great quote, where is this from? Certainly true for me, it seems so far.
Ok but... why?
Also for anyone who likes weird scifi, read Cory Doctorow's Rapture of the nerds, it has an amazing audiobook and is just fun and clever
I'vd been a happy gimp user for many years, the lack if CMYK color support never bothered me. Calling gimp a joke because of it is doing it injustice.
Indeed, I am feeling that my lifetime may not be enough to learn all the things I am required to. The general feeling I have is that if I do not do this effort of gaining expertise, I am not fit for life.

As a bit of context, I have been applying for work for about a year now as a software developer in the DACH (german-speaking EU), to be able to eke out a proper living and so far, every job inquiry, every human contact I have made boils down to "me not being good enough" in some respect. Even though I am sure to perform well, given standard compensation and a reasonable work environment.

Everything starting from my education, my life, to my work experience has come under scrutiny and has become more fragmented and harder to coagulate as a coherent story as a result of this constant requirement for me needing "higher expertise to qualify".

Over the course of my life, I have encountered hundreds of situations where as a result of my own lack of expertise in some domain, I was oblivious and even sometimes happy to accept completely unacceptable results, bad products/workmanship or horrible relationships. As a result of bad experiences thereafter, I found myself studying how to manage things on my own, as consistently endangering my very own life didn't appeal to me.

So I feel myself pressured into studying more JS frameworks, more foreign languages, more programming languages, more engineering, more medicine, more chemistry, more psychology, more design science, more product science, more construction science, more everything until I achieve a level of reliable expertise.

At the same time, I am painfully aware of the fact that on my deathbed I will heavily resent the fact I had to spend all this time on personal expertise when probably "we could have had nice things" instead. To be honest, I feel resentment over the fact right now.
I read some time ago Odin's documentation, I was quite impressed.
But I wonder if it shouldn't copy some Zig features: for example unsigned not wrapping by default are a good idea IMHO: this may detect errors in debug mode and may create more efficient code in release mode.

I've been programming in C or C++ since 1993 and I can count on one of my hand the number of time I've used unsigned wrapping voluntary (for clock management)..
It's not the case with GoDaddy. I just had a hosting client run into this a few weeks ago -- someone they know had registered their domain for them long ago, and they didn't have the GoDaddy login. I tried to help out when their domain expired and spoke to GoDaddy support. They do not provide any way to renew domain without logging into the account that owns the domain. They were fortunately able to get in touch with the person who originally registered it, so that person could renew it and work on transferring it to an account controlled by the true "domain owner".

I personally don't see a security issue with allowing anyone to renew any domain. It's not like you can change WHOIS information or the authoritative name servers -- you're just paying to continue with the existing ownership/configuration.
Some stores will allow anything purchased during the holiday season to be returned up to a certain point in January
>>I stopped ordering from Walmart altogether after the second time (out of two, consecutive) that happened.

or stop ordering from the marketplace sellers. I like ordering directly from websites for vendors i do business with. This is why I do not shop on ebay.

From Amazon I rarely order anything that is not "shipped and sold by amazon", on walmart I only order Walmart Stock, on newegg I only order newegg stock, etc etc

Personally I am not sure what the appeal is of all these bigger sites adding "marketplace" sellers.
>However, when the resource is no longer plentiful

My previous comment mentioned acquisition methods up to and including desalination, which would make the resource virtually unlimited. If the rich want to water their huge mansion grounds and are willing to pay for a desalination plant to do it, why stop them? If they're willing to do that, and we can take a portion of that money to subsidize water supply for the poor, all the better.
I doubt this is true. I can believe that it's a good idea to give people equity at the margin. But in my experience loyal people are loyal. People who put themselves first put themselves first. I think there's very little correlation between how good people are and how good they think they are.

Take a good, valuable or loyal employee and treat them badly and you can probably lose them. Take a bad, incompetent or disloyal employee and no matter how much you compensate them I suspect you can not change them.