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Ask HN: What does culture mean in tech companies?
There has been discussion on how to shape culture within companies, how to redefine it, how to not lose culture etc. My question is what does culture mean in tech companies?
I have a sudden nostalgia for my high school days using Turbo Pascal in the computer lab.
When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs.

Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28
Sounds like you need a better editor :)

But seriously, I would expect most editors to handle large files relatively gracefully, even if they aren’t as fast as vim for example. Browser based code viewers on the other hand, I grant you, aren’t generally up to the task.
Just checked here: The BLM org I donated was not this one you linked, but i'm seeking this one specifically to make a new donation, just because your bad faith argument.
I guess there are more than one type of people. Some people like to watch sports for the individual performance of top athletes. Other people, love to watch the game, and to them it doesn't matter much whether the players are in the top 0.01%. Try watching a high school baseball game, and see whether you enjoy the experience as much, or more, than a major league game. Errors just add to the fun!
> It is not only narcissistic under those circumstances because it is also narcissistic when the victim is berated and scrutinized in order to make them more pliant to manipulation.

Shaming Musk for not doing something he never agreed to do, to the detriment of his company, is itself manipulative and parasitic logic.

All the same, fuck Amazon for offering a limited-use free tier. After a few months of free EC2, we apparently have a common-law obligation under which they have to keep giving me free service forever?

That is not how charity works. You're redefining the terms of an informal arrangement in a way that most benefits you at someone else's expense-- literally Narcissistic behavior.
Equinix Bare Metal. https://metal.equinix.com/

They’re a $6B revenue company that most people haven’t heard of. Their expertise is in building data centers for other data center companies.
We could do the same with physical violence. Stop judging and let individuals make their own choices.

The problem in both cases is obvious.

When people can take actions that benefit themselves despite (and often because of) negative repercussions to others, many people are not going to “filter” themselves
It is amazing how many people in this thread don't realize that is the optimal way to "shop" at Ikea.
Why? you either have a BATNA or you don't.
Good point. We should use it mush much more sparingly then. ;)
Don't forget :make and the tooling around the error-pane for navigating to locations emitted as compiler warnings and errors.
Why is the payment gateway the judge here? File a complaint in consumer court.
> If you open a ticket with a real remote hands you should get a response back in minutes; typically someone will be on-site in your cage in under an hour

Remote hands won't order your servers, configure your networking, install OSes/configure your PXE, and all the other tedious things running your own DC entails.

Yes, most DIY DCs are done terribly, that's to whole point - if so many people struggle with that, doesn't it make sense to just outsource it?
Interesting people tend to move to interesting environments because of the shortness of life
Sounds like https://pymetrics.ai ?
I don't see the point of public cloud. In practice, it still requires a sysadmin (now called "DevOps engineers") so it's not any better than rented bare-metal in terms of maintenance overhead, while still being extremely expensive.

Use a managed PaaS to begin with (you pay more but it does genuinely save you time as there is no management overhead), then when you're ready to do things yourself go straight to hosted bare-metal, and only use public cloud services for their managed services that you can't replicate yourself (think Redshift/Athena/Aurora/etc).
You don’t see that because it just isn’t supported by what people make. No laptops are going to provide PD power outputs at relevant voltages because they would need to have a huge amount of switching circuitry for a situation that is not strongly user demanded. Spotty support means products are never built to expect it to exist, and we continue with all the problems of USBC being borderline unusable for what you would expect to be simple tasks. PD is a bag of hurt at the best of times unfortunately.
Did you use your savings or had a way to generate income on the journey?
There's a number of factors, but I'd say the most important ones are:

1. taxes, although it varies. Imported consumer electronics are taxed more heavily. However, there are regions with fiscal incentives for companies to install their factories here. Products manufactured in such regions are not as nearly expensive;

2. an excess of credit offered by banks. This created an extremely pernicious cultural habit: people don't evaluate the product's price, but the loan's installment size -- regardless of how expensive is the product, the interest paid to the bank, the number of installments etc.

3. there's a fetish for fancy and expensive stuff, they bring social status, and people are idiot enough to accept the prices -- and, with the aforementioned excess of credit, no lack of money can prevent them from shooting their own heads.

These are essentially the same reasons why cars are also so expensive here. Manufacturers say it's because taxes, and ~ 100% of customers buy this bullshit, but this has already been proved wrong a number of times. For any brazilians doubting it, I invite you guys to:

1. look up any article comparing prices of Brazilian-manufactured cars sold locally vs their prices when exported to Mexico. The difference on taxes don't explain the end prices, and the manufacturers and ANFAVEA never provided an explanation for that

2. a statement from Toyota's CEO when visiting Brazil, probably unaware of local idiosyncrasies and the fib told by manufacturers, including themselves: "why should we charge less for our cars if they are paying?"; and then he tried to fix it with a "the prices we charge in Brazil are the fair ones, it's the rest of the world that forces us to charge too little."

3. Nintendo closing its factory due to "an excess of taxes and bureaucracy" while Sony and Microsoft local factories were doing pretty well in the very same market

4. The small credit crisis from 2011 that made car prices to drop extremely sharply within 1 month or so
Sort of true.

Specifically the constitution, they not only put it in the constitution, they also made the constitution hard to change. The other side can't just change it with a 51% majority. (A future government can ignore it or say it doesn't apply, of course. But the Supreme Court may disagree... several years later.)

More generally, here's a door. It's closed. You'd like to open it and walk through it. The other side would, too. But neither side has, so far.

If you leave the door closed, the other side may open it and walk through it the next time they're in power. But if you open it and walk through it, the other side definitely will walk through it when they're in power. So think carefully about whether you want to open that door.
> I have to say this is one area that I actually support the defund the police narrative

"Defund the Police" makes a lot of sense when one actually looks beyond the tagline. It means taking the money from the police state to empower other social services to do their jobs. This helps police, too–most officers are ill equipped to work with the mentally ill, and this sometimes leads to shootings that should've never happened. Nobody wants that.
I stay clear of squatters and move on. There is always a better name out there even if it may be hard to find.

Exception would be squatters sitting on something that is trademarked and is clearly a violation of said trademark. Unleash the lawyers.
Puritanism isn't about being wholesome or having integrity, it's about punishing other people for their "sins". Frequently the sins in question are perfectly moral and private activities.
I clicked on the “soteria houses” link in the article
Use third party FOSS Reddit apps that don't have original Reddit's garbage gimmicks - Boost, Infinity, Dawn, RedReader, Slide, Diode, Stealth, etc.
I agree, and was being hyperbolic. There are times when "very" is... very useful, and not just useful.

I guess I just always say "wicked" instead. It's wicked better.
Wow. Owning the responsibility of wellbeing of 4x num employees personally. After living in the US for almost a decade that kind of empathy sounds alien to the point of absurdity. Especially when a crying ceo justifies firing employees because those built v1 were not capable of building v2. F leadership teams for not building moats or planning properly or showing fiscal responsibility to begin with. It must all be employees fault! I am looking at you Patreon!
Overall I agree with this, but I think there's a genuine need for a general self-destruct mechanism. Having a key confiscated or taken by force should be preventable in some way, and even if I have a backup key, there needs to be a low-friction way to make a key unusable and unrecoverable.

It would also be nice to have a way to quickly de-register a lost key. Having a back-up is great, but it's still a pain to go de-register the thing on each individual provider's platform. And if I miss one provider it could easily be game over. I'm not a huge fan of centralization but a single registry for dead keys would make a lot of sense for the different providers to cooperate on.
> Apple disagrees. They don't run promotions of that sort, or promotions, in fact. The price is the price, it's core to the brand.

That's not entirely true. I got my M1 in a promotion, with a discount. I also got my Watch "bundled" with the bracelet (the packages were literally bundled together), also with a nice discount. That was at a flagship Apple Store.

Also "the price" is not "core to the brand" in Brazil. It changes very frequently and is not a direct conversion of the American price.
If I knew nothing other than whether someone was Jewish or not, and if I felt free to discriminate, I would, of course, hire the Jewish person. On average they do better than typical Americans across the board. In reality, I don't feel free to discriminate. So it's a problem if I know that a candidate is Jewish, because I'm clearly biased and working off a stereotype there. So is the AI. Maybe that helps clarify the domain my thought experiment was operating in.
The media is complicit in making police appear to be passive bystanders when whey kill people. The most egregious example is "OIS". Instead of "A police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man on Friday," news articles will say:

* "22-year-old man dead after an officer-involved shooting on Friday."

* Or even more mangled: "An officer-involved shooting involving a 22-year-old man occurred on Friday."
This matches my experience.

For a uniquely interesting spin on this, you might look at the case of Doug Jensen. After participating in the January 6th events, he willingly went for an interview with the FBI and then gave them his phone and his passwords so they could look.

To me, that seems emblematic of a person who has never in their life been in a outgroup.

The lack of awareness it would take to do that is astounding, but worth paying attention to; there are plenty of folks in the US who have never actually been on the receiving end of state power.

As such they have no way of discerning what that power looks like, much less an appreciation for the real effects of it's use on themselves.
The photographers: Rena Effendi [video]
I'm sure Ben will pop in with an explanation soon, but my understanding is that this is mainly about safety.

The way Litestream was doing replication required programmers to be extremely careful not to accidentally attempt a write to a replicated database copy - doing so would corrupt that copy, potentially in non-obvious ways. There was no practical mechanism for protecting people from making this mistake.

The FUSE approach for LiteFS has more control, so can do a better job of protecting people from this kind of mistake.
Litestream/LiteFS author here. I agree that synchronous replication is important and we have plans to implement it in LiteFS. Because LiteFS supports a loose membership model, quorum-based acknowledgement doesn't really work as well since the quorum can change. We have some other pieces to put into place before synchronous replication can work well.

However, I disagree that it's just a "sequence of experiments". There are a lot of applications that can benefit from asynchronous replication. Synchronous acknowledgement of writes can impose a high cost on throughput so many folks use async replication, even in systems like Postgres.
Thanks! The story about Apache Kafka that I read thanks to HN deeply inspired me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541339
Apple contractor fired after her day-in-the-life TikTok video went viral
probably "gD" is what you want unless you're looking for a local definition.
Maybe touch base with the relevant State Att'y General(s), Dept. of Labor, and similar government offices?
Probably more examples, less theory. Maybe set up labs for them ex. demonstrate unhealthy processes eating up memory and what tools you can look at to see.
My own experience is that in Canada and northern US states cheap and high quality winter goods are easy to find. Usually used.
Just for perspective, that 40% statistic that gets repeated is from a single small study in the early 90's.
Oh is that like how they switched on 5G on the mast down the road from me and s couple of days later the propshaft UJs in my old Range Rover have developed a squeak and vibration? It must be the 5G and not the 130,000 miles on the clock, right? Got to be the 5G!
Article and title well on form for a cesspool like Arstechnica.
Perhaps it's time to reduce our dependence on the Linux kernel then.
Unrelated to this content (I think), tuwien.ac.at is a domain I have not seen nor thought of in decades. I see that there’s new stuff there too, but does anyone recall why this might have been a well-known domain in the 90s? I feel like I used to regularly read some content or download software from there, probably UNIX stuff.
> the Web is now 30 years old, past its peak, so if browsers still need to update bi-weekly for new features and experiments, this in combination with lack of browser diversity proves without any shade of doubt there's something very wrong with the incentives for browser development, the Google/Mozilla browser cartel, and the evolution of "web standards".

Or maybe new features are still coming out in the W3C specs and need to be implemented. Did you know CSS now has a parent selector, or that JS will be getting functional piping soon?
I worked for a company who had sales running the twitter account.

Sales wanted the tech support folks (me included) to answer questions ... but the nature of the setup always included a TON of needed background information. So we just trained the sales drones to teach them how to efficiently shepherd the customers through the process of opening a ticket / open one for them and etc.

It kept the twitter stream to mostly sales type stuff, that worked.
I was just thinking the other day that a non-profit wiki for sysadmins would be invaluable.

That would be awesome. I also know that some non-profits are actually looking for help, mostly due to remoteness and lack of connections. A non-profit wiki with the sysadmins with a section on non-profits that need help would be amazing.
Turn it on and off again.
LLM is a colloquial term for the latest greatest NLP text generation / AI chatbot models.
> Of course this is function of what you're optimizing for, and whether you want to go down the "boring monolithic app" route.

Microservices do add some overhead but it's not extreme - even a microservices-based app can run just fine on a decent bare-metal box if you run all the services on it.

Of course, the talk of microservices brings the question of what problem you're actually trying to solve - are you aiming to build a technical solution to a business problem or are you aiming to create an engineering playground so there's endless busywork and justification for hiring lots of engineers? If it's the latter, then bare-metal is going to be a bad option anyway as it's not the kind of toy a typical startup engineer wants to play with.
Furniture is pretty difficult to make for for rooms with odd wall configurations. You have to custom design every piece and wind up losing a bunch of space in a dresser or closet in most cases.
Well no. You need to THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Take the case of primary school teacher Gladys. She beats children when she's drunk to much at school. If a kid makes trouble on the playground sometimes she even kicks them until they stop asking for her attention. She doesn't have any children of her own and you can actually see her skin crawl when yet another parent makes the suggestion she might want one. What a headache. Well, the headache might be yesterday's booze, but you get the point.

You see, every year there's one or two toddlers in her class that realize that either they can hit back, or take revenge by stealing those plastic cards in her purse she finds so important. And the other gets the idea they might get some support from their parents if they steal her emergency Jack Daniels bottle and take it to their parents.

With privacy HOW WILL THE POLICE FIND REASONS TO THROW THOSE CHILDREN INTO RE-EDUCATION CENTERS? Without constant surveillance of yet more aspects of those children's lives (OUTSIDE of school or anything perfect, I mean government related, of course). I mean unless every hairdresser tells Youth Services that these are bad parents.

With privacy how will youth services find reasons to throw children of parents who've committed heinous crimes into youth services? Heinous crimes such as abortions or same sex marriages or even ... gone to a protest for those unmentionable rights, or legalizing Satan-juice and Belzebub-smoke? Those parents could even be Jesus-killers, sorry, Jews is the PC term isn't it? Or terro...Muslims. We can't use that as a reason, but obviously children can't be trusted to those parents, so we'll trust them to youth services, you know, where half the girls grow up to be prostitutes, and most boys have more drugrunning arrests than points on their final exams. I mean the ones that actually do their final exams at all. Ahhhhh ... God bless good old American government style child upbringing!

Think of the children! Think of Gladys! Think of the heinous crimes some children might be confronted with! DO YOU WANT BABY JESUS TO DIE?

In other words privacy is bad if and only if the government is near-perfect. If the government is no better (and in fact significantly worse) than the society it serves ... then privacy protects you.
You can absolutely get lost if you are super reliant on your phone and it is inaccessible or you go somewhere with limited service and you didn't download offline maps.
Yup this is exactly the problem, which is why I'm surprised with such decent extension support and heavy use no body has created something that builds better analysis and query pipelines specifically for full text search on top of these databases to solve the relevancy issues.
By the standard of entertainment value.

Reddit is a big site with a diverse age distribution and an Eternal September cycle of user churn.

I have no interest in YouTuber drama, or discussing the finer points of communism v fascism because I've already gone through that phase of my life (freshman year). Maybe that's why I don't see all the [removed] comments; I'm just not on those boards.
Zig supports a large number of platforms, although the ones that are widely used are supported the most.

https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.1/release-notes.html

The best part about Zig is that it is a standalone cross-compiler, no cross-toolchain is needed. It can also compile and cross-compile C. You can directly import C header files with Zig, it's actually better at using C libraries than C is.
Modern items have stickers about warranty void if you open it, etc, other warnings like that. My 100% user serviceable coffee machine recommends you send it to them, cars encourage you to go to dealers. I don't see how that sticker is different in the 50s and now. There's a profit motive for them to fix it for you even if they don't charge it's still reputational (they stand behind their work).

Having this sticker on my device doesn't make me think that I need to send it in often, it's more that they're covering their ass.

The rest of your comment I'd agree with but a lot of things were designed around needing tight tolerances and using tight tolerances when you don't need them is not always a good idea. My earbuds won't charge if there's the tiniest bit of dust in the little recesses the charging pins go into or in the bottom of the well. Lower precision there would make them more reliable.
Yeah, Ars Technica has really gotten irritating over the past few years. I read the Rocket Report and that's about it these days.
Have the following file:

int foo ()
{
return 3;
}

int bar()
{
return foo();
}

put your cursor somewhere on the "foo" identifier in the second to last line and type "gD" (without the quotes). It should jump to the definition of foo. It's not perfect but works for much code without crazy preprocessor stuff. By default it's file-local, but you can give vim a list of include files to search as well.
I don't know if this helps:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344163235_Sortition...

MP means Member of Parliament (or equivalent representative of a democratic government). Belgium has been a hot-spot for this kind of initiative.
I doubt I should really continue discussion on these increasingly personal terms, but you're reading my first sentence in a very uncharitable way. (I mean fine, it was combative.) I could maybe accept your formulation "that they might have incomplete or lacking science training, or are defaulting to incorrect common-sense intuitions", except I'd feel that it would sound (even more?) patronizing, as we are no doubt all trained into some opinions in some way. Just by participating in culture. To be honest, I doubt that many people deeply engage with outright propaganda in any direction, I think bigger factors are inertia and not engaging with world affairs that much.

If I tried to be milder and more specific, I could have said: I'd like people to have circa null prior for any technology (i.e. also not blindly enthusiastic), and what I was seeing was, I think, reacting with disaster movie tropes and vaguely mythological worldview. The rest of your post is unclear on whether you accusing me of stuff and/or people you lump me with because of your discourse analysis. I won't be addressing that anyway.