skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god, this reminds me of a horrific meeting.

As IT were the only ones using WinNT we’d set the UPS up to broadcast net send messages to all NT clients if it detected power loss. Unfortunately someone had upgraded the main meeting room’s projector PC to NT without us making that connection. So 5 minutes into the “Of course the company’s fine, ignore the rumours of our impending bankruptcy” meeting with all our major clients, the presentation was interrupted with a big message saying that all the servers were going down in five minutes. Not a good day.
System containers as Docker sandboxes (2019)
England, France, Spain, Germany and Italy have f"Bank of {country}" as central bank. I stopped looking after these 5.
I realized when I was rather young that I performed much better when I was around other people. I always chalked it up to being a show-off or needing someone else's validation.

TIL this is a thing.
Old man yells at cloud!
60 days pay counts as giving notice. Some have said they have been let go without notice. That's a different claim.

I'm not trying to imply they are not giving notice, but if they don't give 60 days, they are breaking the law.
I respect your stance (although I disagree strongly) but you might consider something other than Sile, as Chapter 6 of Sile's manual is called 'SILE Macros and Commands'. Also from reading about D, his strongest objection to using macros is that they do not respect the scope. This is probably the main source of macros' strength as code generators. Again, I respect your aversion to macros, I am not sure I understand the reasons, though.
Take another look. We removed the "Open Source" wording in response to your comments.

And it was never intended to be a Free/Copyleft license: this is a permissive MIT- or BSD-style license.

The No-AI 3-Clause License explicitly and unambiguously prohibits TRAINING.

No other license does so. That's the key difference.
> I tend to try a bunch of different methodologies to manage my ADHD but have trouble sticking to them

a therapist is going up help talk you through this but the point is you have ADHD so it's no system is going to stick, so what you need to do is reframe it so that it's not that you tried a system and it failed, but to look at the 3 days/weeks/months and celebrate the time that you had with it, and to see that as positive. from there, launch into being able to pick up systems, new or different, doesn't matter, and use them to improve your life within your means. with practice it gets easier and easier and suddenly things aren't in shambles anymore.
He invested 6.5m of the 7.5m that was raised in funding. Without that investment, Tesla probably dies on the vine. He didn't "create" the Roadster but he did believe in the electric car and backed it up with a significant investment that allowed the people who were hired to create it to stay employed.

He deserves credit for believing in the David and turning it into Goliath (of EVs), even if government subsidies helped.

I support the government subsidizing clean energy, electric cars and cheaper access to space and I think it's hypocritical to turn around and shit on the companies that take advantage of those subsidies and do exactly the thing that they are meant to encourage.
You're arguing in defense of Musk's proposed peace, others are arguing that his suggestion was not peace, but rather appeasement.

We generally know how Chamberlain's whole deal turned out.
I did read it. Being killed by police is a function of police encounters while commiting crimes. Additionaly, there will be more police in higher crime areas in the first place. What is the rate when no crime is being commited, and what is the total amount of cases? My guess is the rate is the same and the sample size is really low. Although who knows what the "estimates" your study has "found" are. Also, why do asians have more white privelage than whites? At least under your definition.
The context is if they are laying people off without giving 60 days, they are breaking the law. IDK what they are doing. But that is what people at Twitter are claiming (in some circumstances).
Musk is not center left. The most radical and literally proviolence people pressuring you don't make you center left
To OP and the rest of the folks in this thread: firstly, thanks for opening this convo. It's quite complicated in that each person who is neurodiverse (ADHD or other condition) is wholly different from the next, in symptoms / personality / severity / how much it impacts your life, the list goes on.

Along that vein, there is a level of acceptance (at least for me) that I will always be different. The decision of what I want to change (just like any neurotypical person decides to embark on a 'personal growth' journey) is also each individuals to take. Of course, the flip side here is that the societal pressure etc., obviously makes it not that simple (holding down jobs, etc.).

Another distinction for those new to ADHD is that by definition, your life needs to be significantly impacted (at home, school/work, etc.) in multiple domains for a diagnosis.

In terms of medication, right now for ADHD it's the most scientifically proven way (70-80% of people with ADHD see benefits) to manage ADHD symptoms but can also have some side effects. Because of this and many other reasons, some folks prefer to engage in behavioral change solutions not necessarily to 'fix' themselves only, but potentially just to reach certain goals they have. This may be used together with medication/therapy or on its own.
Market Basket employees protested to restore the fired CEO. They weren't union so not really a strike.
This seems like it would be good for creating display banners too!
Many central banks are named "Bank of <Country Name>", like Bank of England (for historical reasons not Bank of UK), Bank of Germany, Bank of France (Banque de France) or Bank of Spain (Banco de España). If we had a private "Bank of The United States", then yes, that would be confusing, but no official institutions are named "BlahBlah of America".

Also, the fact that the official central bank is so close at "The Reserve Bank of New Zealand" makes it more confusing for those unfamiliar.
Nope. I thought, let me try out Mastodon. I pull it up and try to create an account. The "official" instance isn't taking any new accounts. What? Okay, now what? Oh, I have to find an instance that is. Let me see. Good grief, look at that list. Okay, pick one at random. Nope not taking new accounts. Again. Again. Okay, found one. But they don't federate. Looks up federate. Wait, so it doesn't talk to the official instance.

Okay, fuck this.
Phab's is pretty good, in my experience. At least for engineers. Jira is of course atrocious.
This reminds me a lot of "I Am Sitting in a Room", a piece of process music that slowly goes from understandable, to vaguely inhuman, to alien, to something else. By the end if feels like, even though you heard every step along the way, you're listening to something that you were never meant to understand.
> It's not 'cruel' for any administration to indicate the obvious facts without some arbitrary historical and legal context.

Yes, it is. A leader's first responsibility is to tell the truth -- and citing misleading statistics is worse than an outright lie.

It is cruel to lie to people in a way that causes them harm.
I don’t literally think of this every night. I was exaggerating and should have been more clear about this statement not being literal.

I’ve never actually ended my day wishing for automating everything. But it is an ideal that I would like.

I wouldn’t be tossed aside from automating my own business as I own it and no one could toss me aside. There’s not a requirement that I have an employer.

So I don’t think automating all my work away means I won’t have a purpose any longer. I think it will lead to more interesting and meaningful work.

I could be wrong but I’ve automated hundreds, maybe thousands of processes over the years for various companies and it’s always led to me working on more interesting stuff.

I don’t think it’s cool or heroic, whatever that means, just part of fun problems that I get to solve.

My lack of worry is based on not having any control over the situation so instead focusing on other things. It’s just a reductive analysis that lets me think I don’t have to worry about it.

In the extremely small chance that it is possible to automate everything so that there’s no more work, I don’t have control over it. In hellscape mode, that sucks and is not fun. In UBI mode that’s great. Either way, it’s not affecting my decisions today. I certainly don’t wish for the negative outcome or relish it’s potential.

I think your revulsion may be due to misunderstanding some of my motivations.
What Don Quixote Teaches Us About Leadership
Quixote is hardly a good model for leadership, but he provides a basis for thinking about what justifies great action. Why do we do what we do? Our standard answer is that we do what we do because we expect it to lead to good consequences. Quixote reminds us that there is another possible answer: We do what we do because it fulfills our identity, our sense of self. Identity-based actions protect us from the discouragement of disappointing feedback. Of course, the cost is that it also slows learning. Both types of actions are essential elements of human sensibility, but our usual conversations — particularly in business settings and schools — tend to forget the second.
My favorite DC sound bite:

"In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." - Hugo Rossi
> how do you know that some are engineering managers at Microsoft, now?

I am connected to those folks on LinkedIn.

> Also, is "caste radar" a word you made up, or is that a generally-used concept?

I made it up. But I have read content online, where Dalits feel a huge pressure when they are asked which temple they attend, or how they celebrate certain festivals. I don't know what these ritual differences are. Many folks pick up caste from last names, I can only pick up a small subset of them. What I meant to say was that - I can't tell the caste of a person as easily as Hindus. The Dalits I know, I surmised their caste from their entrance rank and many of them didn't hide it.
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Some of those videos have comments related to Apple's commitment to respecting privacy and/or something to do with ads being bad ; now they want to "go in a different direction" and are doing a 1984.
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I built something similar recently, linking it here in case people want similar projects for inspiration: https://www.kerrickstaley.com/2022/02/25/transit-panel

I think the biggest difference is that I wrote my version as a web app without any backend (it gets data from a REST API + a hardcoded schedule as a fallback), so that I could host it on GitHub pages and display it on a cheap Android tablet. I still use it every day and am glad that I made it :)
I imagine that, like a lot of big companies, Twitter has a lot of fat that could be trimmed.
> The "context" notes are user submitted/voted by a selection of users.

Oh, so you are saying they can be gamed for political benefit? Whomever has the biggest botnet gets to control the narrative?
I've never seen a CEO with any actual accountability. There's always someone else who failed and caused THEM this inconvenience.

I hear it's a hard job that's deserving all of that money. True, I don't want to talk and lie to customers all day. I just want to build things. Does the CEO want to build things? It's probably a different skill set they're not interested in. I could do it though, just like any job.

With some practice and a guiding team I can do literally anything. Even better if I don't have to worry about production bugs over the weekend. Even better if I know if I get fired tomorrow, I could retire and be set the rest of my life. Or use my golden privileged network + stamp of success to start back up whenever I want.

Not that they "do" even customer relations type of work. That's what their staff is for. They just have to be the face that reads the prompts.

I constantly see a lot of humble bragging, of course, immediately followed by pictures from ultra luxury places or a second vacation home in an extremely expensive place.

From what I see, it's just someone who has a few zoom meetings every day where they're essentially host at a party. Their team does all the actual work going into any of it. They pick the drinks and the scenery, note all the guests' allergies and even call in the catering. Host just shoes up for a little bit.

Then they take a long lunch, and come back an hour before everybody leaves for work. "Taking off already? Ha ha, I miss those days where I could do nothing all day too and then head out early. Have a good one."

Write a blog entry and then it's time to hurry off and talk to meet the interior decorator for lunch and vacation planning committee. Of course this all counts as work because the host NEEDS somewhere to entertain the guests.

When they have a bad day and have to do layoffs, for example, they can't even truly take accountability then. It's just wrapped up as an learning experience, or "the rest of the company needs this to not lose even more jobs."

Maybe they even describe how they failed, but you can just tell it's just words. They don't truly believe that in the heart. Like a child lying about being sorry.

It's probably better than the worst of them who say, "Actually, you deserve this. If only you'd worked harder." Or is that the best of them because they're finally honest? I truly believe that's the real feeling behind any humility-appearing outward-facing apology.

(Wouldn't you cut your salary before layoffs, for example, if you truly felt real sorrow? Even if it you could cut it just enough to save 1 more person. Let alone taking a humble standard salary and saving a few. The opposite of this action would be receiving a large bonus that year. Something we see and hear happening in actuality almost every time.)
Do you think this article describing a better name for ADHD as Variable Attention Stimulus Trait or VAST [1] addresses the concerns you bring up?

[1] https://www.additudemag.com/attention-deficit-disorder-vast/
Yeah, that's how it is here. Part of the thinking is that everyone is in the same boat and the government couldn't possibly let everyone go to ruin.

It's nuts. Talking about Australia though.
Ironically, "free speech" as a broader principle can also be interpreted to mean a private company should not be compelled to carry or broadcast anyone else's speech if they don't want to. Any private company can choose what kind of community norms and tone they want to set, and moderate accordingly. Some platforms may allow hate speech, others not. Some may allow porn, others not. Taking editorial control away robs that forum of its own free speech agency.
The GOP has been against Social Security from the start. Their stated goal has changed variously from privatization, or voluntary enrollment, to simply slashing benefits.

Goldwater, Reagan, Bush all wanted to vastly reduce SS or privatize it completely.

More recently, the GOP congress at the end of Obama's term pushed him hard to compromise on cuts.

In 2016, Trump was unique among GOP presidential candidates in not calling for cuts.

In April of this year, Rick Scott (chair of GOP campaign apparatus) called for adding a "kill switch" on SS, Medicare, and MedicAid. Current minority leader (McCarthy) wants to couple the debt ceiling and social programs.

The only reason the GOP hasn't killed SS yet is because it's a popular program.
It's not a zero sum game. The Ontario government is choosing to not negotiate with CUPE.

Bringing up average Canadian salaries does not reflect the COL differences between the provinces and territories.

If education is so important, and the Ontario provincial government explicitly runs on improving and ensuring the quality of education, then ensuring everyone who works in education has a high standard of living and salary in order to bring the best quality to schools is in their own interest.
The CEOs that belong to the club (network) can draw on the resources available to that network. It is widely believed that this ability is more important than the technical skills. It used to be correct when e-mail, LinkedIn or Google were not a thing. Now this is simply a cargo cult.
You really shoehorned that one in there. An established company wouldn't have to do all that, they could have just made and electric car and/or re-usable rockets.
Case Tracking System assists courts in case registration
haven't used a dedicated installed program in ages - as i browse on different machines at different times of day... Newsblur ticked a ton of boxes for me, moved from inoreader.
If truthful context makes you retract your claim.. you may be a bit less than truthful.
Indeed. But at least there was a forcing function operating: a war.
Does Apple have an official channel or website with these videos? If so this is more justified. If not, it's good the dev still has them.

I don't understand why companies would want to erase their history, and I don't think it actually happens often (more like, people just forget history naturally). A company's history doesn't hurt their reputation unless it's particularly bad (like United Fruit). And Apple's history is great: Steve Jobs may have been a dick, but Apple has produced amazing products and ignited trends like the personal computer and touchscreen phone. And despite what some people here say, I don't think they're getting much worse (see: Apple M1, iOS still way better than Android, my experience with macOS and other products is that they honestly work really well).
I have no idea if that is how Twitter ended up doing it. But building it that way is vastly easier to scale than trying to do some variation over joining the timelines of everyone you follow "live" on retrieval, because in models like this the volume of reads tends to massively dominate.

You also don't need to store every tweet, you need to store the id's of the tweets (a KV store of the tweet id to full tweet is also easy to shard), and since they're reasonably chronological the id's can be compressed fairly efficiently (quite a few leading digits of tweet id's are chronological).

You also have straightforward options for "hybrid" solutions, such as e.g. dealing with extreme outliers. Have someone followed by more than X% of total userbase? Cache the most recent N tweets from those accounts on that small set of timelinesyour frontends, and do joins over those few with users who follow them.

Most importantly, it's an extensively well tested pattern in a multitude of systems with follower/following graphs whenever consumers/reads dominate over a period of decades at this point, so behaviours and failure modes are well understood with straightforward, well tested solutions for most challenges you'll run into, which matters in the context of whether it'd be possible to build with a small team.

Put another way: I know from first hand experience you can scale this to millions of users per server on modern hardware, so the number of shards you'd need to be able to manage to deal with Twitter-level volume is lower than the number of servers I've had ops teams manage (you'd need more servers total, because your read load means you'd want extensive caching, as well as storage systems for e.g. images and the like - there's lots of other complexity, but scaling the core timeline functionality is not a complex problem)
I feel like Futureworld (the second Westworld Movie) had a better concept for what should follow Westworld. The movie is bad and was critically panned, but at least it kept to a working formula, rather than using it as a jumping off point into areas nobody was asking about.

Westworld Season 2+ felt like writers wanting to create a different show and had the Westworld cast as their canvas.
I went through the math on the expected value of a vote in the last election [1], and if you're in a swing state I found that the expected value of your vote is surprisingly high. I estimated that a voter in Pennsylvania in 2020 would have had an expected value of about $3000. Of course, as with the lottery, the probability of a payoff is extremely low.

[1]: https://joe-antognini.github.io/misc/decisive-vote
I'm also working on a tool to do this: https://github.com/ZacharyTalis/rss-digest-flask/

Though I'm running into a stubborn issue where FreshRSS doesn't parse the date correctly... so your mileage may vary.
Building Efficient Dockerfiles – Node.js
Ira Glass said this best over a decade ago.

Couple sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbC4gqZGPSY

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-...
Such things are still part of the overall purchasing experience, though. If I'm about to order a product online and for whatever reason there may be delivery-related challenges involved that others have experienced, I'd certainly like to know beforehand.
Yeah, have you ever noticed that most people only complain about free speech when the voices they agree with our silenced, and never complain when voices they don't agree with our silenced?
Good point, title needs a (2014)
FWIW, housing sentiment according to the same survey is at -52, near the lowest level ever recorded, -60 in November 1981, and the same level as July 1981.
> Q: What do you mean by stack-ranking engineers? What were the criteria?

> A: Raw number of lines of code over a certain period (a year I think)

Wow.
Two Approaches to Product Design
Ukraine comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding
What? Party buses are all over the place.
Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous

> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship

So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.
Been listening to this all day. This style of jazz may be my new go-to listening music.
This reminds me of the hundreds of similar, highly paid positions at Netflix.

Netflix allows 4 (four!) subtitle languages to be selected from by users, essentially saying "fuck you" to anyone who would like subtitles in the other 50-70 languages that are available. It's the opposite of "accessibility".

Someone at Netflix came up with this system. A designer designed the UI for it. A programmer coded this up. Someone budgeted for it, tracked it, and approved it for go-live.

Wait, it goes on: Someone had to write the tech support page for this, train support staff to lie to customers and say that this is for "copyright reasons" (it isn't), and so on. Literally hundreds of people had to be involved to actively reduce accessibility.

Managers like Elon look at organisations like this and see nothing but fat that can be cut to make the organisation leaner and more capable.
BBS Debuts New Wheel System That Revolutionizes Wheels
Fans who care aren't surprised.

I must have watched Season 1 3 or 4 times. Really incredible.

Second season started out interesting and then became just branding by the end.

It's pretty clear seasons 3 and 4 are influenced by real-world events around devleoping AI tech but it didn't lend anything to the story.

I think Aaron Paul is great but he just didn't fit in season 3. His character is more believable in season 4.

Still season 4 just sucked.

Aaron Paul ending up as a host was a predictable Starbuck moment. Westworld went sideways the same way Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica did - the creators got high on their own supply while the stories stagnated.