skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're not talking about leadership, you're talking about "decision-making high-ranking (?) managers in the business world".

I don't think I understanding the difference. Are "high-ranking managers" not classed as "leaders"? Could you give me an example of a leader as you understand it?

> A good leader is someone who you want to follow, because you trust that they will do their best in guiding you (the team) towards your goal.

I guess I don't want to follow anyone? I just want be able to have input where I am able to offer value.

Similarly when I'm in leadership positions, I don't want to dictate, I want to understand how we as a team can make the best decisions. Sometimes I might be the best person to make a decision, but that's rare, and even then I still want to confirm my decisions with my team to ensure everyone approves and understands the decisions being made. I think seeking approval is both an important step to getting the team onboard and receiving any needed feedback. Any "leader" who didn't do this would be a bad leader in my opinion. This is often where I see things go wrong at companies, if I as an expert in some field object to what I or someone else is being told to do and I'm overridden without a very good explanation that gives me red flags.

I'm INTP though and we tend to struggle with hierarchies. I find it hard to believe that people are best utilised as unopinionated "followers" of all-knowing leaders, but I suppose I would think that given my personality.

> Wouldn't you rather follow someone who would feel bad/guilty for letting the team down?

Well yeah, but I'd also feel annoyed that this person let the team down if the decision could have been made better as a team. If a single person is accepting guilt for an entire team then something is probably wrong. Ideally I'd want the team to be feeling guilty, because I'd argue it's the team as a whole that should have been responsible. I know as a team member I always take fall responsibility for mistakes made and would never delegate my guilt to my manager. I could have always have done more. We all can.
Shopify Engineering has blog posts you may find interesting:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+site%3Ashopify.enginee...
> With all that information, I think it's reasonable to say that iPhones are far from private. But, as the alternatives are even worse

Android smartphones are indeed worse, but it's not the only alternative. Consider GNU/Linux phones if you care about privacy and want to support it: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 and https://pine64.org/pinephone.

There are also things like /e/OS (Edit: and GrapheneOS), but they are installed on Android phones and must obey their planned obsolescence due to the proprietary drivers (tied to an old Linux kernel).
Diplomacy is a species of high-stakes asking.

'Mr Herapath, I understand that you wish to visit the whaler, and you have my permission to go. You are no doubt aware that there is a great deal of ill-feeling between the United States and England, and that most unhappily the Leopard was the cause of some of it: that is why I thought best to forbid the usual ship-visiting, to prevent quarrelling of any kind. You also know the Leopard's condition: one day's use of a forge and the proper tools would enable her to put to sea rather than winter here. The whaler certainly possesses a forge, but as a gentleman you will understand that I am extremely reluctant to ask a favour of the American skipper, extremely reluctant to expose the service or myself to
a rebuff. I may add that he is equally reluctant to come a-begging to me, and I honour him for it. However, on reflection he may feel inclined to exchange the use of his forge for our medical services. You may give him a view of the situation, but without committing us to any specific request - harkee, Mr Herapath, don't you expose us to an affront, whatever you do. And if it should turn out that he would like the exchange, why, I should be very much obliged to you. Very much obliged indeed, for I should be even more reluctant to use force.'
Anecdotally, when I started at my current job, it was made clear to me that I should ask questions and not think twice about it. They said to ask in our public engineering slack channel (remote work) so everyone could see and have more eyes on it for answers plus future searching. It was such a great experience, and I put a lot of that on the culture of questions my boss put into place.

When we had more and more engineers join, including interns, I made sure they heard the same thing I did and felt comfortable asking any questions. I really love this philosophy, but I found out that you can't just say it once or else people are still a bit skittish sometimes (young engineers mostly). I will repeat it to the point where it's likely annoying during mentoring and onboarding meetings, but people will be very open with their questions, which I'm very happy with. It takes a bit of extra time out of everyone's day to respond to questions, but you're unblocking someone in 2 chunks of 10 minutes (mentor and mentee) which saves the mentee upwards of hours, and this can compound with future situations if they don't have a complete understanding of the situation.

I really appreciate a question friendly culture and I would never want to work at a place that isn't like that again.
We also see a lot of potential in giving the most precise feedback possible. In that way each individual learner can benefit the most. The development is currently on-going and we are looking forward to the next steps!
Why would you expect advice to graduates of an American University presumably about the American job market to have any relevance in Germany? I wouldn't expect job market advice from TU Berlin to have relevance in Ohio.
In energy markets: Vitol, Gunvor, Trafigura, Mercuria, Glencore.
ProseMirror did the best the last time I tested these libraries. TipTap (a competitor of yours?) provides an API layer on top, which I haven’t spent much time investigating. For my purpose I don’t want intermediary abstractions - but might be useful for your context depending on how much you want to specialize in rich text.
Unless I'm mistaken, socialism has to do with wealth, not talent, intelligence, and good-looks.
I think you’re wildly underestimating the value of centralized discovery with a heavy user base.
Yeah yeah, and the input hypothesis has it’s own critics about what exactly “comprehensible input” even is.

…but let’s face it: either extreme (only input, only output) is clearly stupid.

Predictive models require a feedback loop; if you don’t have any means of correcting the predictions of good output, you’ll never refine your model.

This is true of AI models, and it’s true of humans. It can’t not be true.

The point is that you can only learn meaningfully from annotated inputs, like tv, or like talking to people. The input just has to be at the right level.

...

Should people start with listening instead of talking to people? Probably not. Probably they should do both. Why not do both? It's crazy to suggest you should only one or the other.

Probably, the feedback loop in deep immersion of a language, where you have it around you all the time, in a country where that is the native language is the best possible way to encounter lots of examples at lots of different levels to learn from. Probably, you get better input from speaking, because it means people talk to you at a level similar to what you're already at.

Is it about actually speaking? No.

…but it’s patently ridiculous to suggest you could go to another country and just sit silent and listen for three months.

This is pretty interesting tech, and frankly, amazing that it works at well.

Is it perfect? No. Is it another useful tool? It certainly is.
Link: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8
It destabilizes it to the extant that if a bunch of armchair politicos on HN can reason to the conclusion "The likeliest perpetrator is the United States of America," every nation's espionage organization can certainly find that conclusion too, and possibly act on it, for the purposes of framing the US for their own political reasons.

I'm reminded of the worm that was injected into NASA servers back in the '80s that eventually made its way into DOE servers (creating a possible nuclear crisis because the DOE deals with two things: energy policy and the posture of the American nuclear response system). Direct initial investigation pointed to the worm originating from servers in France, but further investigation revealed that those servers had been compromised, and the likely origin of the worm was hackers in the Australia / New Zealand area. The likeliest catalyst for the attack: France's blatant destruction of the Rainbow Warrior in a New Zealand harbor. The attack ended up serving two purposes: bloody the nose of the Americans, who were (in the eyes of the attackers) playing fast-and-loose with nuclear payloads on NASA missions; and if their antics were discovered, embarrass the French with how easily their servers had been compromised. Essentially, a double-"don't fuck with us" via cyberspace from the Aussies or New Zealand.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4686/4686.txt
My chemistry professor told me 10 Ångström is about how long your fingernails grow in the time it takes to say "10 Ångström"
But doesn't competition... well, compete? That implies winners. There can only be so many winners.

I do not at all understand how anyone is walled off from being on the internet, if anything I feel like it's massively insanely easier to do that today than it was twenty years ago.

It's not like capitalism doesn't have its faults, but using competition to forge winners is literally what it's meant to do. At least in my very basic layman opinion.
Note that the length of the C-C bound is ~1.3Å and the length of the C-H is ~1.0Å, so te corrections is like .5%.
Behind the Curtain
I found this on reddit (of course).
Excellent way to aggregate data.
Free market politics at its best
facts, my home piano is probably half that and it's still my go-to for just sitting and playing.
Weirdly enough, I see this as a version of the "Scan and bag your own groceries" approach. It's a cost savings measure that hurts the customer and helps the vendor/manufacturer.
I believe no company in the world would want to put out a game where an NPC could be coaxed into presenting a sexy story featuring an infant Adolph Hitler and Jesus Christ.

It's just a headache that I wouldn't want, I guess.
Is this comment based on anything in particular?
Chicago has an excellent scene for nostalgia MTG. We play a variety of old school formats and have a 93/94/95 event coming up in October. Most events put entry toward a charity (if there is any entrance fee) and are held at pubs around Chicago. Check out Eternal Central[0] for rules and some past event coverage and our local club page, The Lords of the Pit[1]. One thing slightly different about the Chicago (and Midwestern USA scenes in general) is friendliness toward proxies, esp hand drawn/painted versions. New players always welcome!

[0] https://www.eternalcentral.com/

[1] https://lordsofthepit.com/
Another thread on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993521

And since you're going to speculate, it's worth knowing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/europe-is...
Yes, exactly. Large organizations are full of anti-patterns that middle managers must navigate. The gist of my comment was that middle managers have to wrestle with inefficiencies that founders don't. Said another way, founders define structure and middle managers inherit it.
My hot take is that this story is highly overrated. It’s boring, poorly written, and lacks nuance. The reason people remember it fondly is (1) everyone loves Vonnegut because he’s funny, so they don’t want to criticize it and (2) everyone read this story in middle school and are blinded by nostalgia.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993521
Depends on the nature of the business. Speaking for us specifically, with COVID, supply chain issues, and rapidly rising rates hitting one after the other, it's a simple matter of not being able to afford it. We're granting options and offering "platinum" health plans to compensate, but that's about all we can do right now. We fully understand if people choose to go.

> has exceeded the expectation in quarterly results and gained billions in surplus.

Doesn't sound like your employer is in our boat, however. Perhaps they're just dicks.
I do see the value in this. Especially for folks trying to add some cool react widgets without doing the full dev - specially for some old code-base. Respect!
What else would you expect from a US university helping students in the US job market?
Does this support RTC data channels, too, or just A/V?
Cloudflare has to have access to the decrypted video just like Google Meet does, because browsers by default encrypt to the peer and they are the peer. After all these years there still isn't universal browser support for actual E2EE. What support does exist uses hacky APIs.
Argus – An End-to-End Framework for Accelerating CNNs on FPGAs
More details:

Although neither was in operation, both pipelines [Nordstream 1 and 2] still contained gas under pressure.

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the leaks were caused by sabotage, while his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen said it was “hard to imagine” they were a “coincidence”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/27/sweden-issues-warni...
I read talks of sabotage but I struggle to understand the point, surely russia wouldn’t sabotage their own pipelines (they can just shut them) and I understand they are not in use right now. In fact doesn’t that mean that the pipeline will be flooded? Is that recoverable?
I doubt it. He deals with this theme more subtly in "Breakfast of Champions". I don't see why being a garden variety socialist would mean you couldn't possibly critique the idea of forced equality of outcomes.

People don't always fit in neat boxes. It's OK if your politically aligned literary heroes occasionally challenge you.
There is a logical reason for Russia. Making us suspicious of each other.

German citizens will be suspecting USA. Exactly what Putin would want right now.
Seems reductionist to think that Kurt Vonnegut was writing only/mostly from emotion, and that he didn't intend for it be political commentary/satire.
There always seems to be countless examples of companies using MySQL at extremely large scale.

What are some Postgres examples?

As a Postgres fan, I'm genuinely curious. Please don't take my comments as troll-y.
No phone == privacy
TikTok IPO's Biggest Question Is How, Not When
That would certainly improve the UX on their own product. Tailscale completely nailed that - even the daemon is nicer to use and manage than Cloudflare's.
US House prices fell nationwide in July, down 0.6 percent from previous month
IMHO, the short film 2081 [0], based on this story, is also worth watching.

[0]: http://www.finallyequal.com/
Not sure if it's the same thing here. The US didn't attempt to turn Afghanistan or Irak into a US state, have them fly the "Old Glory" and their kids recite the pledge of allegiance when school starts.
I'd suggest not painting yourself into a corner where your map has to be either key/value or an array.

Lua got this right, most other languages didn't.

It's an anti-feature, especially from a data modeling perspective. Treating indices as implicit is good, pretending integer indices are special, and must be separated from all other sorts of mapping, is not.

Consider that Lua can express XML without making up a fake key for children:

{tag = xml, attr = {...}, child1, child2, child3}
Look at Youtube, or PlanetScale.
@Everyone: We are absoluteley stunned by your response. We have been working on this for a few months now and just posted it here on a whim not expecting much and are absoluteley blow away by your response. The bugs and crashes are somewhat to be expected but even those don't seem to be mission critical (or has some discovered one? => philipp@quazel.com)
Your responses will help us imensley getting into an accelerator program.
We might reach out to some of you for further feedback (feel free to ignore us if you don't feel like giving any).
It would be cool to have a sort of smart home where you can activate an immersive language teaching mode where it will talk to you as you move around the house, naming things you interact with or prompting you for instructions, so that you just naturally before conversant without devoting time to dedicated lessons and practice.
> WebRTC is encrypted generally even if you leak metadata like IP address.

Yes, WebRTC does end-to-end encryption by default. The IP is "leaked" because the peers directly connect to one another, so they will naturally require each others' IP address (which is required to talk to one another).

There are both upsides and downsides to direct P2P connections.

1. Pro: The minimal number of parties can analyze the call.

2. Pro: The call depends on a minimal number of parties.

3. Pro: The call is generally more performant, limited only by the connection between both peers.

4. Pro: No need for third-party services other than a network connection.

5. Con: The peer learns your IP which may be used to help identify you or DoS your internet connection.

6. Con: Intermediates anywhere on the network can see which two peers are talking. (With a SFU only the SFU knows the ends of the connection for sure)

> Is Cloudflare stating they will be the middleman and therefore have access to the decrypted video stream?

I see nothing in this article that suggests that they will have access to the decrypted video. However I wouldn't be surprised if that is added in the future.

The reason is that in order to to big calls you need to support multi-quality streams. This can in theory be done on decrypted connections but not all browsers support this right now (notably Firefox). So if you want the widest support you need to do video transcoding at the SFU.

There are also other features such as recording and live-streaming that (generally) require access to the raw video. (Of course this can be done as adding the recorder/streamer as a "peer" to the E2EE call when needed, but that is still giving the keys to the company at this point).
There are filters on the most common LLMs so you could obviously tune outputs to be within some range of possible outcomes.
How do we send you money? I saw it mentioned on the site, but didn't really see a way to do so, or I either missed it.

Duolingo, Mango, Babbel, blah blah other language learning apps / software runs anywhere from $2.99 to $14.99 a month.

Live tutors / lessons vary greatly, but Babbel Live is $75 to $150 a month depending on what length of time you're willing to pre-pay. For in-person one-on-one lessons, I've seen a price of $10 an hour on iTalki for a Spanish professor in Medellín, Colombia to instruct you. If you figure 1-2 hours per week, that's $40 - $80 per month, and that'd be considered a "light" load.

While writing this, it did occur to me that your app / AI / ML model / whatever label you want to put on it will put a lot of tutors out of business (as how you do compete with a natural language model that's available 24/7?), but I think the overall good to humanity is worth it, and as always, the cream of the crop will rise to the top anyway.

What's your long-term plan with Quazel? There's no wrong answer here, insofar as I'm personally concerned. "I want to make enough money to quit my day job by leveraging this into a SaaS offering.", "I want to sell out for $50 million ASAP and go live on a small yacht in the Caribbean.", "I want to hit a billion dollar valuation in 6 months and totally reinvent language learning.", "I just wanted to improve the way we learn languages online, bro..." They're all good goals to me, I'm just curious what sparked this.
I've only thought about it for a minute- but I might speculate that it is a signal from Russia- "even if we decide we want to turn the gas back on, you might not be able to get it when you want it."
There's no privacy. There's just a price tag to your private data.
Ask HN: Please take our survey about JSON DSLs (e.g. Vega-Lite, Mongo)
FWIW, this is from Harvard Extension School, not Harvard.
https://www.uber.com/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
Who was right?

The shelter-in-place orders were UNQUESTIONABLY damaging to people's mental health and livelihoods. They were what made the difference - the whole "stand six feet apart" thing did very little, and mask mandates were rarely enforced in consistent, useful ways.

Aggressive testing would have allowed various jurisdictions to scale restrictions up and down as necessary to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed while also not wrecking many people's lives.

"Near zero" was probably never possible, but we could have managed the response much better if our government did not say horseshit like "the numbers go up if you measure them!"

If there is another pandemic, or another variant, or whatever - the government will not be able to ask for more shelter-in-place orders. They have burned so much goodwill and energy among the people who spent two years shut-in with deteriorating mental health who had to watch the hamfisted response of the United States to this crisis.
Personally I wouldn't want even more people involved in my medical communications. Imagine if this data was leaked or sold and then used against you, like say for instance, receiving a consultation or help regarding an abortion or drug habit.
If mathematicians believed things can’t change or improve, and we have to stick with the status quo only because it’s common and popular, we’d never have had radians in the first place, we’d be stuck with degrees, no? Why assume that people can’t convert between turns and radians as needed, when we all already convert between degrees and radians all the time? Why not imagine a pedagogy that teaches turns and radians and degrees, giving students more flexibility than the current set rather than less?
Captive to our smartphones, distracted constantly by an endless succession of oh-so-important notifications for trivial things. Who in modern life does not feel a little like Harrison Bergeron with his federally-mandated thought-train-interrupting earpiece?

And who among us cannot sympathize with Albert Brock, The Murderer? https://www.readkong.com/page/the-murderer-by-ray-bradbury-8...
Same as with security.
Knowing very little about chemistry and physics, I always enjoy learning the names of new measurements.

Milliangstroms? Lmao great name.
> When you put your phone in airplane mode, you are simply telling your phone's OS to stop using the mobile network. The baseband system is still on and can be pinged by the mobile network.

I just started reading and there is already a sentence I don't believe very much, even less as a generalization. Does anyone here have a basis that could explain this bold statement ?
I fail to recall the golden era of downward facing laptop speakers that you're waxing nostalgic over. Could you site examples?

My memory, and indeed any current example I posses, is more along the lines of "wow, it actually makes sound" rather than trying to pick instruments from the back rows in a symphony out.
It could also be Putins way of saying; see what I can do. I can do the same to the pipelines from Norway. There has been a lot of unidentified drone sightings in the Norwegian part of the North Sea in the last week.
We only tolerate capitalism since it brings better results for consumers and society. If a “winner” is allowed to take over and have too much control, this condition fails, and it’s time to do some of: 1. break up monopolies, 2. regulate corporate behavior, and/or 3. nationalize industries. And let the cycle start again.
I'm the reverse. Duolingo Spanish is Latin, but I'm far more likely to actually need conversational Spanish in Spain.