skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every other piece seems either good for communication or at worst neutral.

Most of the other pieces increase time spent on communication. That is not necessarily the same thing.

Having worked remote-first for a long time and at several different places I would say the #1 thing you need to be effective is a different style of communication. You don't want to rely on large group meetings much. In fact ideally you don't want to force much real-time interaction at all. Save that for either genuinely urgent issues - which shouldn't happen often - or casual collaboration that your people set up whenever it suits everyone involved.

One big win from having people WFH - assuming they have a sensible working environment at home of course - is that they can actually do deep work for long periods of time. You don't have the constant "background noise" and casual interruptions that come with working in a crowded, open plan office. But if you want to take advantage of that then you need two things.

Firstly you need some other way of getting the useful incidental information sharing around the team. You'll be missing the casual aside when someone at the office overhears two other people on the team discussing something they used to work on that ends up saving those two people an entire day of investigation. You need ways for people to keep aware of what's generally happening that might relate to them and to make open requests for help or advice without it becoming a hassle for anyone.

Secondly you need to not keep interrupting the person trying to do deep work in new and different ways just because they're at home now. Tools like Slack and Teams might be great for giving the appearance of everyone keeping busy but they can be terrible for everyone actually being productive. Usually that happens if there is a culture of expecting everyone to be permanently online, replying instantly to messages, and updating their status whenever their response time might be more than ten seconds. Same goes for having multiple group video calls per day and insisting that tasks in a project management tool only take a few hours to do yet still require real-time status updates throughout the day so Monty Manager can "report on the team's progress" or whatever else he does to feel useful.
> "how long ago" and "how far away" aren't really things that cosmologists talk about.

In actual textbooks and technical papers, like this one, yes, that's correct; they don't talk about them because they're not directly observable, and deriving them from the things that are directly observable is model dependent. So they prefer to talk about the things that are directly observable, of which the key ones are redshift, apparent luminosity, and (for objects that are large enough, like galaxies) angular size.

The relativistic effects you mention are additional reasons why those things are not usually talked about in technical writings.

Pop science writings are another matter: many cosmologists do talk about how long ago and how far away in those contexts without taking the time to add the caveats about how we don't directly observe those things.
> How are these regents “hard left”?

All Dem donors, all enacting policies at the schools that are widely considered "left" policies.

> How did the regents somehow attract “ a huge influx of Californians/Coloradans”?

By catering strongly to out-of-state students (presumably because the schools make more of them). Both U of M and MSU are at all time high out-of-state enrollment.

> Aren’t cost of living issues a local issue around these campuses, at least as far as housing goes? Montana can’t be short on space…

Yes. What you aren't considering is that Montana is big enough that if you don't live in the local valleys, you can't go to the school. The commutes are too long and too treacherous from outside the valleys. By taking both record freshman classes for the last few years, and record out of state students, plus the pandemic meaning Californians fleeing California anyways, cost of living in Bozeman and Missoula has skyrocketed, and campus housing is impossible to get.

Also, due too Montana's low population, tax revenue is low, money is especiay scarce, and now the local, taxpayer colleges are completely out of reach for most Montanans. I cannot describe with words how different the college towns like Bozeman and Missoula are from most of the state, which are places like Harlowtown or Havre. They are so unbelievably different, they might as well be on different planets.

> And what does any of that have to do with the bill in question? The bill is about k-12 education.

It's aimed specifically at the Montana Federation of Public Employees, and the Board, as described in the article:

>A legal note from legislative staff says the bill could overstep the Board of Public Education’s constitutional authority to oversee schools in the state.

It is another front to fight this war that is attempting to erode the Board's power.
Volar.js: The Embedded Language Tooling Framework
Unit tests are only potentially of value if the code is changing. And 90% of code never changes. And 99% of unit tests never fail.
Almost all of the value of unit tests come at the time of writing (a tiny percentage of) them.

After that, they become a liability that slows down builds, makes changes brittle and code based schlerotic.

A few good unit tests are a lot better than a bunch of bad ones. And even from your statement we can tell a much more pernicious risk — the false beliefs that code coverage measures whether code is tested and that a code coverage percentage is a mark of quality or safety in its own right.
I'm getting good value from newsletters these days.
I can tell you, the users on the whole know about as much about tech as a luddite from 1867.

I mean, that's a huge draw in the consumer space for mac/ios. Remember the scale were at here. Something like 250,000,000 ios devices a YEAR.
To me all these are busy works. I'm an adult. Not a child that need to constantly be checked-in or monitored to see if I'm actually working.

* Regular check-ins.

* Lots and lots of writing.

* The expectation of frequent video calls.
I’ve been looking more at the Nreals since I replied and they are potentially an out of the box solution to the text information while doing dishes.

I’m thinking a custom textual python terminal app on transparent terminal emulator on black background with tiling window manager. I have a GPD microPC so it seems if I add the Nreal adapter to connect hdmi. Then all it’s really missing is some type of input mechanism maybe via bluetooth.

The Nreals looks potentially good enough to be literally walking around safely if the textual TUI is designed in a way to not be too distracting.

Edit: found this for input mechanism.

https://www.tapwithus.com/product/tap-strap-2/

This idea looks fairly realistic to me.
I just got this back and it’s hilarious:

Spatula and a Spoon: The second way is by using a spatula and a spoon. The doctor would use the spatula to gently lift the appendix out of the belly, and then use the spoon to scoop it out.

Excellent prompt work Sir
At an academic symposium somewhere someone said something silly, now we must bifurcate our universities; perhaps our queer theorist is right, objectivity has truly been deconstructed.
That's only officially available for macOS, I believe: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...

I've seen some reports of it also becoming available for iOS, but it seems to come and go between minor version upgrades and I'm not sure what the current status is.
Maybe this should give you a hint that said work is completely pointless and merely exists to waste student's time.
> appearing to be busy is more important than being productive

It's like a bad code review, or bike shedding. It's so easy to look at who's at their desk with their heads down. It's hard to look into what they're doing and how it fits into larger objectives.
They say "The speed of PocketPy is approximately 50% of CPython" so apparently the focus is a small implementation rather than performance.

https://pocketpy.dev/performance/
> Edge since the Chromium switch is cross-platform now. You can use Edge on Mac or Linux, too. It's not just for Windows.

Are they exactly the same, or do you have to be on Windows for the full feature set?
Yeah. It won't change your logic but they made around $12B I think.

Even if they don't make a cent from AI Chat, it's still worth burning money on if nothing but to dethrone google as the default choice from the public's mind.
the difference is if the camera is obvious then you at least know you're being recorded. playing a guessing game 24/7 is exhausting. being recorded once in awhile not such a big deal. having to watch every word and every action you do all the time? not nice.
Mocks are the personification of bad data. The only meaningful measurement derived from tests with mocks is how bad the architecture is.
> Which is why countries that tried to run themselves according to Marxist theory

There aren't any, despite Leninist theory often being presented with a misleading (in the context of “running a government”) prefix of “Marxist-”. (There are a number that tried Leninist theory, or theory descended from it such as Maoist theory.)
I'm not sure you read the whole question.
>They traded with the Portuguese and, later, the Dutch at Dejima

They also traded with China and Korea.
The demo released today cites its sources.
Goal directed-execution programming languages, such as 5th generation languages icon[0] & unicorn[1], would get the 100k (typed) / 10k(untyped) loc's down another factor of ten.

~1-2k loc around the range of being easy to get up to speed on what's going on than equivalent 100k/10k LOC program with less 'typing' issues. (compiler/interpeter & keyboard too!)

Haven't run across a uni-py language yet (python & unicorn mash up)

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicon_(programming_language)
france is like the hub of content anarchism dude. culture matters, its not all about laws.
maybe open source will help with that. maybe some nobody will make those features and you can sideload and it'll be quiet enough that no one will know for awhile.
I know that people posting here aren’t upset about the essays, because 99% of them haven’t read a single one. This is not exactly a community of educators, but technology industry insiders. The level of unfounded self-assuredness on display here about what goes on at e.g. a UC Berkeley faculty hiring committee rivals ChatGPT.

Which brings us back to: if no one here has read any of these essays, what‘a with all the angry comments?
Who’s down to make an open source RuneScape with me?

Outdated polygon graphics, simple 2D grid, simplistic combat system, lots of craft/skills. A framework for promoting emergent phenomenon.
Theorem of the Day – Complete Theorem Listing
So i think the ability of the search engine to say "I don't know" is very important, and most of current chatgpt like models in the market don't have this feature.
I don't think any nfts actually did that though? Only promised it as a potential feature without building anything past what the nft creator gets paid for
How far along on that career path are you? You may find that teaching newer developers is not all that different from formally managing them.

As for a technical track, read the stories on staffeng.com. And read between the lines when you’re viewing them. There are plenty of folks with technical track titles who spend most of their working hours in meetings of questionable value. And you will definitely find folks with management track titles that spend more time doing hands on work than their peers with technical track titles.

The ugly option you can try is good old-fashioned sandbagging. Knock out every technical assignment in record time, or quality, or whatever seems to be your leads KPI. Then tank any assignment which seems remotely conducive to management. Bonus points for explicitly indicating a desire to move into management. Your own leadership will think you are so miscalibrated as to believe they are doing everyone a favor by keeping you off the management track.

Edit: I realize you did not explicitly ask how to stay off the management track. Consider the last paragraph as just some idle, slightly sociopathic musing.
I wrote my first Java program as a means of automating in game tasks.

At the time, I didn’t know about background processes or VMs. I used the Mouse cursor api in the JCL, so my computer was preoccupied. There were 5 second intervals between actions where I can quickly change the song on YouTube.
It me. I’m a good Dev but was never going to be one of the greats. Making the jump to manager seemed like the next logical step… and in sone ways it has been, but it’s a very different job. (Now that I evaluate other people’s dev work, I was actually a lot better than I thought I was)
Many of those are viable "enterprise" use cases.. which usually means expensive hardware, but we're already seeing several of those deployed. Microsoft seems to have made a very good decision with HoloLens to ignore the consumer market and aim entirely at enabling high-end stuff. Overlays for workers isn't common yet, but it is in use. And the Army isn't giving up on IVAS despite continued teething problems.
I guess I’ve been mainly working at successful companies? The biggest company I worked at was Google 7+ years ago and managers that couldn’t deliver and blamed employees would get exited or demoted quite quickly.

It’s been even more aggressive in the startups I’ve been at since.
Economics is the go-to for conservative, status-quo maintaining arguments because there's a wealth of statistics and information available for "how things have always been", and precious little-to-none for "how things could be if..."

It's easier to poke holes in predictions of the future than in interpretations of the past, especially when the people making those decisions have likely reached their decision-making status through "how things have always been".
Thank you so much for your feedback! Really thought-provoking. The first few clients I'm working with right now includes some training and consulting service (glad you mentioned that which reassure what I'm doing). Originally, I was trying to steer away from consultancy because I think it is not scalable plus many people are doing this type of work right now. On the other hand, I will try creating list of training (e.g youtube video) that enables people to better use my platform then.
> Middle management should be like jury duty -- something assigned randomly to a team member, then served for a set period.

Please, no. A good middle manager is a shit umbrella, a bad one is a shit funnel.

Most of the ICs I've worked with would not make good managers. Not because they are bad people, but because they don't currently have the skillset to manage.

I'd rather not have them spend 6 months developing their skills by managing me, only to be replaced by the next person in line.
The methods they used then couldn't, each next step required a new way of approaching the problem.
Yes, in my 5min review it came up very quickly that “distance” and “light years” have limited uses in astrophysics.

In the abstract, they reference the “z” variable of redshift in light (that has traveled for billions of years during which cosmic expansion continued and expanded the original distance) and kiloparsecs (referring to the much closer span of Milky Way through which the emissions traveled, from which they are drawing inferences about dust density therein).

Wild, cool stuff!
You get what you pay for at least with the first party titles. The game is in a playable state from day one, they don't nickel and dime players and their games are actually fun.
> But what you fail to see

I don't fail to see the point of the article, I just think it's wrong.

> your employer has no incentive for maintaining your status in a different socio-economic class, and lots of incentives for changes that drive you, the exalted, mutually loved, always cooperative SWE into the same life+work situation as a supermarket shelf stocker.

Worker protections are good. So is being good at your job.

We can, and should, strive to have it both ways.

What's not good is disparaging people who don't have as prestigious a job as you. (And you are doing exactly that)

Even shelf stockers have basic human dignity; Don't be a dick.
I never claim it's due to the Regents, although school policies have probably contributed. But if you go back and read my comment, you will see I don't credit the regents with increasing the population of the college towns, but rather paint the picture that the college towns are growing less accessible to Montanans, and that there's some resentment over that which is being expressed by the legislature.
This is akin to saying that licensing your code under the GPL will prevent GitHub's copilot from recreating it in a proprietary project. I wish it were true, but it's not.
There's a table in the README saying "Star Unpacking" isn't supported.
Easy. You said it yourself. “Some”.
Learn your times tables and then learn to use a calculator.

If you don’t do it that way, you’ll always be fooled by whatever the screen tells you.
Hard agree, it's incredible that there's no systematic way to train such managers.

When I was younger I thought maybe that's what business schools did, but they produce a completely different kind of manager who's probably worse at managing people than they would've been had they not gone to business school in the first place.
I've wondered as a kid how those scripts work. Do you know of a good explanation? Would they move your mouse based on the GUI, or directly send packets?

Also, while we're on hacker news, is it known how the party hat duplication bug happened? I like reading hacking white papers, but I assume nothing was published regarding that.
If you're okay with voxels, check out veloren.net

ECS based game engine in Rust, wgpu rendering, and I've been really impressed with the code quality. I've been trying to find something to inspire me to really go all in with Rust, and I think I found it with Veloren
The question was not about bottom vs top, iiuc. It was about having the tabs always visible vs behind a tab button. As far as I can see, there is no way of doing that.

Not that I would want it, myself, since my current counter is 48 tabs and I don't want a bunch more hit regions when I'm thumb-browsing.
First search terms brought me to this:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/16856.16888
The less than a terabyte datasets being common had me awestruck. I, singular post-doctoral scientist noobermin[0], have processed terabytes of data at a time on HPC systems. Sure, a lot of it was garbage and I had to wade through it, but no one paid me millions to do it, I just did it to publish the papers. Sure, I needed the system which cost someone a lot of money, I suppose. But, I considered myself a small fry compared to some of the things others did on the system, particularly, hyrdrodynamics modellers. Moreover, I know I can probably process 100GB datasets on my own home PC, which isn't too impressive, it would just take longer (say a day or so instead of a hour or a few minutes). And this is with idk, python scripts using MPI. Yes, MPI because I'm a computational scientist and that's what HPC systems use, nothing fancy and likely the "legacy systems" he railed against in his pitches, but it worked.

I'm just awestruck, I could tell anyone that "large data" isn't really a bottleneck, but making sense of it is the very difficult part. My mentors kept pushing me to mention the sheer size of the datasets I process in talks because it sounds impressive, and I do do so, but I always knew it didn't matter because the interpretation and analysis is the hard part, not just the "sheer size."

[0] not going to use my real name
Or is it possible they are future humans. Perhaps time travel is only possible backwards with no return trip forwards.
> It's been a few months since I last used it, but the issues of Firefox on iPadOS were not because of the engine.

You don't actually know that, though, it's entirely possible that these issues are caused by having purposely limited ways to hook into the engine and system as 3rd party browser.
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I don't want to clean toilets or man a register either, but people who do those things don't get paid more than me. There's something else going on with how managers get paid.
Honestly, I have a slightly different answer than most; because there shouldn't be.

Docker already goes through great pains to achieve much of what it can do, and it would be bizarre to go through the effort to use it and then not take advantage of some of the core things it can enable. Even without Docker, service managers like systemd can be used to implement zero downtime deployments too.

At this point it'd feel weird and broken if a service management tool just had no support for a "gapless" deployment. I'd feel uneasy using it.

The way I see it, what Kubernetes does with health and liveness checks is actually just good hygiene irrespective of how many requests you can tolerate dropping, or if your container even serves requests to begin with. Tools that manage services should strive to provide similar functionality where possible.
All I'm saying is that this is the current climate. I'm not saying either side is right, just that when the Regents started exercising unilateral authority and ignoring the legislature, that this outcome was predictable.
You Shouldn't Exercise to Lose Weight
All of public education in Montana falls under the same clause in the state constitution. This is an attack on that clause.
My tiny village of 800 people in Central Europe has a train to the capital of the country - about one hour away - every thirty minutes. It also has one to the capital of a neighboring country every thirty minutes.
It isn’t about preservatives. The EU is more tolerant of potential bacterial contamination and lack of mitigations than the US if the food process is deemed “traditional”.

The specific FDA bans reference relatively high incidences of food poisoning in Europe which can be directly connected to inadequate bacterial contamination controls that would be required in the US. One can say many things about food in the US but their bacterial mitigation standards are among the strictest in the world.
The board likely signed off on the hiring plan. Layoffs are hard but as other commenters have pointed out are not inherently a sign the company is doing poorly. In many cases a board may choose to reward a ceo for identifying cuts and charting and executing a path forward.
> Customer data sizes followed a power-law distribution. The largest customer had double the storage of the next largest customer, the next largest customer had half of that, etc

I’m no statistician, but I’m like 99% sure that’s an exponential, not a power law

There’s a world of difference. The point of an exponential is that you can ignore big things. The point of a power law is that you can’t.
> Because the investors want you to [1]

Investors don't actually have any market power unless the company in question is doing a stock issue. For example, AMZN doesn't get any extra operating capital no matter how much of their stock any investor buys or sells on the open market. The only way "investors" can control a publicly traded company that isn't dependent on issuing new stock is by depressing the executive comp package's value. From that follows an obvious lesson on corporate governance. The fact that that obvious lesson isn't followed is proof enough that the system doesn't work exactly as advertised.
From reading The Bell Curve, it seems that the idea was if it’s just environmental, we can some how “fix” it. The authors even said back then that it’s worse if it’s environmental, and probably easier to “fix” if it’s purely genetic.
Since when does this have to do with people “being better”?