skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why do we have management?

Management's purpose is to ensure that an organization, remains and functions as an organization. So basically 1, but not exactly...

Basically, when you have a herd of sheep that you need to move, and you need to ensure all the sheep move someplace and none wander off. What do you do? You get a sheep dog, to ensure all the sheep move in unison and towards the same place. That's what a manager is, a sheep dog.

As another example, if person A is rowing the boat backwards, and person B is rowing the boat forwards, and person C decides to stop rowing because he doesn't know what direction to row in, you're not really working as an organization and are not going to get anywhere. Management is there to ensure everyone is rowing the boat together in unison and towards the goals of the organization. If something is preventing someone from rowing, he's suppose to investigate and remedy the situation, as well as find a way to prevent the obstacle from occurring again.

The irony is that they themselves become obstacles in a way.
Like big picture does it actually make sense for power generation? It seems like even if you could get costs below fusion for the reactor it’s still not a good deal due to all the infrastructure costs of converting such high heat to electricity.
Interesting. Actually I think there are shops and cafeterias that are student run at some US universities. It just doesn’t seem as widespread as what you describe. Health insurance seems like a high stakes thing to be student-run! Is it run entirely by current students or do alums help out?

In any case, I’m certainly not going to pretend that US students aren’t coddled a bit. School here has a been a little bit infected with the customer-service mentality… like pretty much everything else. It is what it is I guess.
Biological effects of kaolin geophagia, or should Amazon be selling edible clay?
It's come to my attention that there are several vendors on Amazon who are selling clay and chalk products 'for eating'. These products are targeting people who have pica/geophagy, the urge to eat earth.
Amazon is marketing a number of 'edible' clay and chalk products to folks who engage in geophagia, or eating earth. These products are not cleared for human consumption and are usually high in lead, cadmium, arsenic, barium and other heavy metals.

This report from the PAWJ has some interesting statistics on the consumption and health effects of kaolin consumption.

Example:
https://a.co/d/80JbEuV
Counter point: yes it will
> You don't know the requirements yet? Then go get them before we start development!

Couldn't really disagree with this more.

Sure, don't start development before you know any requirements. But also don't wait to start development until you (think you) know all of the requirements.
Lion's is available to buy new now. It was unavailable for a while, but it's been back on the market for years now
Unless Harvard was to sell its facilities for someone else to operate, local businesses never could... Not without serious change in local governance. Not close to enough commercial space. You'd have to demolish a bunch of buildings to make larger facilities to handle the load.
If you build on top of an existing dam, the whole thing needs to be stronger top to bottom, the water pressure at the bottom increases when you add water on top. Sure there are places where this is possible but not everywhere.

Plus the existing reservoirs aren’t full ever, what’s needed is new watersheds to capture new water (or to use less, etc)

Making existing dams taller just adds empty space.
Pygame's cool. I had some pygame things in my portfolio in the very beginning, but I've never seen it used by people who have signed my checks.

I like the development workflow in Unity more than Unreal. C# > blueprints/C++ for me as a matter of preference.

Unreal has some graphics tech on the high-end that I'm envious of. Real time lighting from emissive materials/volumetric emission/nanite. Metahuman. Unreal also has a lot more/better free 3d assets.

I'm going to make a wild claim that Unity is better for making weird games and hybrid things. Partially because the .net standard library is bananas. (Shameless example ;D https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1552977798452609024 )
Housing manufactured overseas is difficult to import, sure. Manufactured housing has an image problem, but transporting it is expensive, so even building it in Mexico isn't very economical. And construction cost isn't the root of the problem. You could maybe export people to less expensive housing, but that's not popular either.

You can import healthcare though. Of course, pharmaceuticals and medical devices are already imported. Medical professionals could also be invited to work here (temporarily or as immigrants), and medical admistration could be outsourced. Lots of rule changes involved though and influential groups not desiring such changes. There's not a lot of places with excess medical professionals either, so recruiting from abroad would cause issues elsewhere.

Education is similar; you can invite educated immigrants in, or you can study in other countries, or you can invite instructors from other countries. Or distance learn from other countries.
Really, I don't mind it being posted on HN (even though I think the article is clickbaity). If anything, changing the title obsures the issue because readers won't see it as the clickbait it is.

There are fashions in headlines like anything else. Two very popular fads at present are 'X is a given fact, so why doesn't obvious corollary Y obtain?' and 'No, X isn't actually Y'. If I run across an article like this, I'm reluctant to submit it to HN because it's usually a low-quality piece of writing, and there's usually a better-quality that will appeal more to a technical audience.
This, and other recommendations in this thread, are marvelous. I'm hopefully going to start volunteering at my kids' school teaching coding to ~10-12 year olds, and this will be a great tool for anyone who needs something more challenging.
Hahahhha

What!? The revisionist history begins

https://eppc.org/publication/bidens-covid-vaccine-mandates-a...
Once they started taking VC money, this is kind of what I expected.
We 5x'ed Our SQL Query Performance with ClickHouse
Getting everything onto one machine works great until... it no longer fits on one machine.

You add another feature and it requires a little bit more RAM, and another feature that needs a little bit more, and.. eventually it doesn't all fit.

Now you have to go distributed.

And your entire system architecture and all your development approaches are built around the assumptions of locality and cache line optimization and all of a sudden none of that matters any more.

Or you accept that there's a hard ceiling on what your system will ever be able to do.

This is like building a video game that pushes a specific generation of console hardware to its limit - fantastic! You got it to do realtime shadows and 100 simultaneous NPCs on screen! But when the level designer asks if they can have water in one level you have to say 'no', there's no room to add screenspace reflections, the console can't handle that as well. And that's just a compromise you have to make, and ship the game with the best set of features you can cram into that specific hardware.

You certainly could build server applications that way. But it feels like there's something fundamental to how service businesses operate that pushes away from that kind of hyperoptimized model.
+1 boredom isn't quite right. I'll check out that book.
The problem with the X server code is most of the protocol code is very complex and it's hand rolled code predating C89. It (still!) does all the parsing and byte swaps manually. In a modern project you would have the compiler generate the parsers and the dispatch table based on an IDL but X is way too old to have done this. There are just two implementations in the code for everything. No one wants to touch it due to fear of breaking everything even worse. So instead they just slowly try to stop the bleeding by disabling things that cause the worst security issues. It's a bad situation overall, and the time has already passed for a full rewrite of the X server to be viable.

The SSH protocol is relatively simple by comparison, and most importantly, there actually are multiple independent modernized implementations of it.
Employers (mostly in Blue strongholds) were EXTREMELY EAGER to fire people - even remote employees - who did not want to submit paperwork showing they took the vaccine. If you refused, they marked you 'refusenik' and you were let go anyway.
I suspect similar intangibles exist for Harvard.
Executive orders issued by the Biden administration

https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/90658/supreme-court-rules-...
Watch this video to learn more about the background, it's awful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJeobqc4mFk

TL;DW - Egypt used to export cotton to Russia, Egypt realigns with the west, stops exporting. Russia starts growing in Uzbekistan, needs water. Shoddily builds pipes from the source rivers to Uzbekistan. Pipes are incredibly leaky, requiring pulling more water. Aral Sea shrinkage causes the salt to blow onto the cotton fields requiring the farmers to desalinate their fields with, you guessed it, more water. Using all that water causes minerals to run off as well, resulting in over usage of fertilizers which destroy the soil life.
Definitely check out Regolith Linux. It’s a DE built on top of i3 and solves all the complaints I had. It’s been my daily driver for about a year now.

Settings panel? Check. Keyboard media keys? Check. Automatic display when plugging in monitors? Check.

https://regolith-desktop.com/
This is the second time you've posted a link to wikipedia that you don't seem to really understand. Yes, it is true that there are narrow spectrum antibiotics. However, it is normative to assume that broad spectrum antibiotics are the things we refer to when we refer to antibiotics in the context of overuse fostering antibiotic resistance. You can't blindly give narrow spectrum antibiotics and expect it to do anything. It's the broad spectrum stuff that you see everywhere. Things like cattle especially.

The fact that there are other more niche types of antibiotics doesn't materially change anything about the argument being made here.
True. You'd also save a ton of less operations and engineering staff.

Running anything on a single server, however, is really a non starter for anything remotely serious. What do you do if you need to do an OS update? I suppose you could just never do those, like a former employer (1000+ day uptimes...)
Honestly, the best thing about my company is that the managers mostly don't get in the way of this organic process if the people involved have demonstrated they know what they're doing.
This law / legal situation is mind boggling.

“At issue, as many American expat critics of FATCA are quick to point out, is the fact that the U.S.'s citizenship-based tax regime – famously unique in the world, apart from Eritrea – obliges anyone born in the U.S. to file tax returns every year, and potentially to pay U.S. taxes and even penalties for failing to file such documents as Foreign Bank Account Reports, even if they have never lived in the U.S., or earned money there.”
Question for those running kubernetes/nomad for dev/alpha/beta/prod:

- are changes promoted and pushed automatically dev to beta to prod

- or is there a internal ticketing/admin system that collects requests to promote and install new container versions that when approved are only then run through k8s etc

This is one aspect of deployment I don't see much of in the context of containers/orchestration and the rest
The Air India passenger who urinated on a woman has been fired by Wells Fargo
I think this argument makes sense when talking about individuals and their culture (like your Obama example) but not necessary the culture itself. The danger with the former is it assumes any time norms change the culture goes away so the only way the culture can exist is if everyone stays a "True Scotsman" and does everything like the average Scotsman. Clearly that's not the case, a regional culture can still exist even when an aspect of it changes and may be very different than it was in the far past. Instead it's defined by what the people are like now which allows for the culture to be both identified/defined and still change. That doesn't really apply to the culture as a whole becoming like other culture(s) though - if everyone in two groups start sharing the same norms, institutions, beliefs, arts, etc it no longer makes sense to define them as separate cultures just because there used to be more than one set of these values. Not because the culture isn't like it was before but because what made them one culture vs another is no longer present - being from a certain square area of land isn't what makes a regional culture. Just as it makes sense new cultures can form by being different in some way it makes sense old cultures can go away by becoming homogenous with others.

I don't necessarily agree with the article as a whole, I think Ireland is still plenty unique even if different than it was in the past because of outside influence. At the same time I don't think "When that starts to change, it just changes, it doesn't go away." is always true in the context of the whole culture becoming like others. Obviously not every regional culture still exists today even though most have living decedents.
It's hard to know without more details, but based on what you've said, there may be a case of constructive discharge (even given the caveat that all but one US state have at-will employment). That would be worth speaking to a labor lawyer about, or your state's labor board. Many lawyers will offer a free first consultation.
It sounds like something awful happened to you. Independent of whether you confront the person publicly or not, it might not be a bad idea to do talk to someone about what happened to you and how to heal from it. Revenge is not going to heal you.

Good luck and all the best.
Since they are a former employee, what if you were to propose your revenge plan to them and see what they thought of it. They can't fire you at this point.

What would the ramifications of your plan be if you were you to execute it without warning them in advanced vs. if they had advanced warning.

It's easy to feel spite and anger. I get the urge for revenge. But before you do anything, think about how it will affect you.
This doesn't seem like an issue. You can store images / other assets on the CDN, and serve the real time stuff from the origin without caching.
Why is this mind boggling?
Serious Question: Why are managers needed? What is the steelman argument for managers and for not having managers?
teenage pregnancies, time outside, sex, and general freedom are all down
Without knowing more about the specifics, it's difficult for me to form an opinion.

In a general sense, if you have the emotional wherewithal to fight it out, you probably should. I know I would.

I like to think I'm a nice guy, but I refuse to be treated like a doormat.
Email access only? This makes more sense though.
Am I missing something? A 300 word piece by a think tanker?
I recall Quake would timedemo at <1fps on a 486/80. DN3D was a much simpler, faster engine.
You should chat with a lawyer!
Will it make you feel better? Will it heal your emotional pain and let you move past this? After those, the important questions are:

* would it be justice?

* would doing it prevent them from hurting others that they are in the position to hurt or are actively hurting?

* could this negatively impact you and your loved ones?
Maybe you could check journalists on the tech beat and see if there are any that you feel like you could trust with your story.

It's not like 10 years ago where there was zero criticism of the tech industry in the press and it was wall-to-wall fawning, adulation, and gadget reviews. Nowadays there are several journalists who cover us with a critical eye...
An interesting point is then that we don't need specifically Google search engine. Any search engine will do.
Fair enough. To be honest, of the abstraction tools out there, Kubernetes is the one I'd hold off on as long as possible. Load balancing proxies, docker compose, auto-scaling, cloud databases, etc. are things I'd do relatively early, but not Kubernetes.
Fundamentally there are only two business models available for search.

Since searching the vastness of the web in under 500ms is not free, it is either the user paying for that, or a 3rd party (usually advertisers) paying on the behalf of the user. We (Kagi) thought that for something as intimate as search the latter made no sense, hence the birth of paid search business model where incentives between the user and search engine are aligned.

Price not being right for you currently is another matter, and hopefully one day it will be (you could help by sharing feedback how to improve the product, and there is new Kagi pricing coming up soon).

I personally pay for YouTube Premium ($15/month I believe?) just to not have to see ads on any device I watch YouTube on. Many people would never consider that, but many (~25 million subscribers [1]) still do, despite being able to watch videos for free, availability of adblockers and what not. So YouTube Premium makes half a billion dollars every month and that is essentially using the same business model as Kagi's.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1261865/youtube-premium-...
this is true, these p2p apps do assume internet access lol
I worked in a 1,000 person org doing a product launch and leadership did a great job aligning everyone.

Launch goals? There were 3 short ones and not fluff like “drive sales”. Everyone on the team knew what the goals are and why. What should you be working on? Just look at the 3 launch goals. And leadership constantly reinforced them and empowered people to stop doing things that didn’t work towards them.

And I’ve worked in smaller teams where everyone had their own idea of what needed to be done. Leadership would keep changing goals (or they were so vague that anything fit them) or making exceptions. None of the pieces fit together and it was a total disaster. People got frustrated when they did great work but other critical parts weren’t done because something shiny or “cool” distracted other teams.

Effective leadership makes a huge difference.
You’d end up synchronizing feature releases to Moores law. Which while it sounds untenable there are large corporations that continue to use monolithic approach and vertical scaling.
Or the schools could make and enforce rules without relying on tech companies to make decisions for them? This is so ridiculous.
> I don't know of any algae, anywhere, that are more concentrated sources of carbon than existing trees. Even if we had to grow both sides, algae are still problematic, since separating them from water is apparently quite a difficult problem.

Again, we're talking about land use for the energy you get, not the carbon it stores. Algae have a distinct advantage when it comes to metrics with land use in the denominator, since they don't use any land.

...and pulling algae from water is significantly easier than pulling biomass out of forests. I'm not sure what you're getting at there.

> Yield of rapeseed in the US in 2020 was 2.16 tonnes/hectare/year. Yields of lignocellosic biomass (dry mass) in the US (miscanthus, eucalypt) is almost an order of magnitude higher.

Yup, the other stuff is much heavier per hectare for sure. That doesn't make it a better source of fuel. Having more mass just means it takes more energy to move it. Step 2 is you extract fuel from it.
I hate pandas with a burning passion, but one thing it does have going for it is (some) interoperability with numpy, which opens up the rest of the scipy ecosystem. How easy is it to get numpy arrays into and out of polars?
Do they not teach log scale graphs in math classes any more? The scale visually reading as 10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1 immediately clues readers in to its log-scale nature. I found the graph incredibly clear to read, and it told me what I needed to know about many of the alternative types of electricity generation: which ones are comparable in efficiency, which have larger variances, where those variances overlap and do not overlap, as well as where the differences are large or not.

I could see this as a critique of a log-scale graph appearing in a newspaper article or something where the reader is likely to be skimming, but in an persuasive essay readers would probably be more engaged and able to spend time synthesizing the arguments vs just storing information.
Agreed for small companies in certain business contexts, but just “reading through the PRs” doesn’t scale or may not be that valuable to decision makers at different levels of the hierarchy, and not all ICs want to be involved in the decision making. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all option besides having smart people who know what they’re talking about and not going too heavy on process and hierarchy too fast.
Does a sticky help when there are vulns like heartbleed?

Point being, most hacks are not related to credential compromises.
Tell me more about this Netflix “freedom and responsibility”. The natural trend towards inefficient “process for all the things” hits hard as a really deep insight.

Security for example. Every new things needs security review. How does this fit into the Netflix “freedom and responsibility” concept?
I welcome Promethean geniuses of leadership to come and transform our company's direction. In the meantime, my work is self-managed.
I'd note that nothing in this statement is particularly compelling one way or the other. Sure, things are inevitable given enough space and enough time. But we had a finite amount of space and a finite amount of time. Both were pretty big numbers. But do we have evidence to say that the timelines of life on Earth were inevitable? Probably not. Maybe, but I would guess no.
I believe they're talking about intracompany competition, actually.
I don’t think it is! I think the language overshot what they meant to say, and I don’t think it was egregious. My whole point was to add historical context, partly because that was lacking but mostly because the mistake was totally understandable without it. I don’t think the article meant to cast aspersions on anyone, or if it did it meant it in a very lighthearted manner with not much commitment to those aspersions. Correcting that with also a light heart is okay too.
This is close to what they did to me. Something close to it. They cut me out of everything related to my job. Then abused people I recruited to the company and cut them off also because they knew we were connected.

It’s really hard to prove. If they remove all your responsibilities they can then say “oh he just wasn’t doing any work.”

The management at this company was all fighting with each other: it started when they brought in an outside VP. They began fighting with my manager. And it trickles down to me.

I have some very embarrassing emails to the ceo.
MIPS, yes, but not big endian. Last time I started building binaries for my (utter junk) EdgeRouter-X I ran into issues with mipsel stuff not being well supported. If Marvell and MediaTek aren't putting out big endian MIPS stuff I'd be surprised if anyone was.
Taxes are for social services and benefit of the public. If you never experience those benefits and never use any social services, why should you be forced to pay those taxes?
Sounds reasonable. Back in the 90's, at an early ISP, we had about 6,000 POP3/SMTP accounts on a FreeBSD box with 128 megs of RAM and a decent (for 1996) SCSI disk. I recall we did some kernel tuning (max processes and file handles, maybe?)
I solved the right problem, instead. Your "sum type" is a workaround for lack of a fundamental language feature. We don't need that workaround.