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Ask HN: What can I do about power struggles?
I'm an industry veteran. I happily work, enjoy getting being, because I get to work on interesting things, usually with interesting people, and take them to production.

But I'm sick to death of power struggles. It doesn't matter if it's a tiny startup, a FAAAAANG, open source companies or frankly anything in between - eventually some form of a power struggle leads to a massive change. My current example - has my CTO leaving, meaning pretty much everyone reporting to him sees the possibility of becoming him - meaning different groups are fighting, and aligning to own my team. This is dysfunctional to say the least.

I would just like to work, and keep enjoying my work. I remember ages ago (~1998) a company had written into their contract that anyone could reject a promotion, or a move to another team. Until our company was purchased by BigCorp and issued new contracts - that utopia lead to years of successful products that grew massively financially, and people wise. It led to BigCorp buying us - for the obvious reasons.

So how can I excise these from my life? I just want to work. I just want to enjoy my work, and the people I work with. I frankly have ZERO desire to spend a second of my private life attending another mandatory dinner, or office event. I want to spend time with the people from the office I like - and I want to avoid all of these power struggles, that are basically the reason behind the formentiond mandatory events.
Beyond obvious criticisms that others have pointed out, I'm not signing up for any platform that's not federated, idc if I'm on a site with 3 other users. I am done with rugpulls.
You can split inference between CPU and GPU using whatever available GPU vRAM with llama.cpp. And you can run many small models with 4GB of vRAM. Anything with 3B parameters quantized to 4bit should be fine.
It does. Not sure what that has to do with anything though.
Well, we could do a much much better job of it but in fact Qualcomm does compete with NVIDIA for use cases like this (inference). Both in mobile devices and the data center.

Disclaimer: I work at Qualcomm.
It's better than an energy drink line I suppose.
I gave up on awk and always do perl one-liners. For basic stuff, they are about the same (perl _does_ have autosplit etc..) but every once in a while there is a slightly more complex task, like detect first unique field, work with json, shell quote, etc.. This is still trivial in perl, but turns out super ugly (or impossible) in awk.

And if I have to fallback to perl periodically, why bother with awk at all? It probably made sense in the past, when machines were slow and awk was way more popular; but that does not matter now. Might as well go with more powerful option.
i really liked 2013 deschutes. i actually still think their older beers are good. mirror pond is still, imo, the quintessential pale ale. i miss chainbreaker. and the red chair was always a nice seasonal treat.

i can't blame them for trying to chase trends, but my impression is their distribution was too large to be able to capitalize on anything groundbreaking.
I've always thought this anecdote about Henry Ford is misleading, if not utterly false. In most cases giving people what you think is best for them and not what they ask for, results in a completely failure. Only a small percentage of cases actually leads to a groundbreaking new technology. But our memory is biased: we only tell success stories and forget the failures...
I don't know, the more time passes the more I convince myself that the net benefits of antivirus software do not (an maybe never) exceed their downsides. In decades I've heard so many stories about AV software behaving suspiciously, using borderline shady tricks to monitor user activity, causing severe performance degradation, etc
Heh. I just looked up an exchange I had with Bare Bones support from 2001 (!) about the hard-wrap-as-you-type feature. This was an early BBE feature that was removed when they added soft wrapping.

I tried to argue for this feature but was politely refused. The argument was: "It is not so much that the code can not co-exist as that the combination of user experiences causes confusion. The two states (hard wrap while typing) and soft wrapping have the same visual result and would tend to cause considerable confusion. Because of this we removed the first when we added the second."

It's 22 years later and the feature has not been restored. I wonder how many times its been refused.
There's a lot of well known issues with carbon credits (many are not actually additional, there's double counting, accountability issues, etc). But is there an alternative solution for companies to do? Let's say Meta builds a new data center. Inherently there is a climate cost for this (even in some crazy hypothetical world where it's mass timber, etc) and so there needs to be some sort of offset to be carbon neutral. Is the recommendation that every company has their own individual technology efforts doing their own carbon offset? That feels less effective than contracting out to other companies, which can pool resources and efforts. What is an actionable step that a company can take?
On a micro scale it's a nice gesture, macro wise it could be seen as inauthentic and meaningless.

There's a comparison to be made to choosing to stay in the matrix or unplug yourself from the illusion.
As someone targetted by the GOP's bullshit, I still don't care.

Half-assed personal boycotts don't present the kind of numbers needed to effect change.

Trump and his cohorts getting their asses locked up does. Burning everything to the ground that belongs to neonazis does. The BLM protests did far more damage and effected far more change than the combined power of everyone who boycotts Chik-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, or Yuengling.
Are you joking? I can't really tell. Chocolate?

Do you think girl scouts are scumbags too?
I guess thats what I mean. Of course he wouldn't continue because he wouldn't have the money to continue.

I give you 30 grand or cure your blindness or buy you a house and you participate in my video. It seems like a win win.

If the argument is that he is making more than they are making off that one video, again, that goes back to me having benefit less than you.

Maybe the problem is the framing people have of it being a charity? Even in that light, he creates content for people to consume for free, the content is driven by him giving things away, the people who pay him are businesses who also get a service provided by all of those people finding out about their product/service. It seems a lot less extractive than most business models.
Honest question: roughly how much would running a link-aggregator website like (early) reddit actually cost, assuming text only user-submissions (links/comments), 50 million daily users, and an uptime similar to reddit? If one magically had the users and wasn't interested in personal profit, how cheaply could it be done effectively?
My gut tells me that sentiment analysis of all sentences containing keywords for certain regions/nations/commodities/technologies would pay off more than doing it for companies/derivatives.
True, but he meant there are lawyers who'll cheerfully admit that a lot of patents are crap, but they'll defend plenty of other ones.

I'm agreeing with you: Congress can end the legal hairsplitting, and just establish that software's not patentable.
I think criticizing Apple for not supporting Nvidia is a classic missing-the-forest-for-the-trees. Unifying memory is a next logical step in general purpose computing. The flexibility that comes from it has unseen potential.
The reason why many like crypto is that it's the purest form of speculation. Stocks, pork halves, the $, all are more or less tied to reality and influenced by reality - even gold. Crypto isn't which makes it so beautiful in the eyes of some.
It's not about what's wrong, it's about the selection bias of what's included in such an article. You can write a technically "factually correct" article by only including statements that heavily favor one side of the argument, which is what's done here.

Also, "facts" in topics that touch politics and law are complicated. This is not like science where measurement can be unambiguous. Most facts in topics such as these like these are not scientific facts, but highly politicized opinions that are ambiguous and open to interpretation. Much of the legal code is (on purpose) open to interpretation, including what's a security and what's not.

When trying to understand a topic like this the IMO best thing you can do is seek our content from people who have a somewhat neutral stance. Don't listen to a16z who want to pump all their crypto tokens. Don't listen to Molly White whose whole career depends on bashing anything crypto-related.
She's comparing cryptocurrency to heroin. The parent's point stands.
I know, right? The internet never fails to disappoint.
I think it's a reflection of the complete monopoly Youtube has on E, pg, pg-13, and R (basically nonexistent on Youtube) content. Video on the internet is basically Youtube with all its restrictions or porn. Mr. Beast is basically the channel a bunch of marketing managers won't get fired for giving a bunch of money to. It's all the pretty fucked up result of our complete failure to innovate anything in-between ad based media and cable subscriptions.
Please don't post comments that don't contribute anything to the discussion.
Then replace “heroin” with “mouldy, maggot-ridden meat” and you get the point.
Generally, no-one hosts public content on the S3. It is simply really expensive when it comes to outbound traffic. The content is usually cached and served by CDN, where you have full control over authentication and cross-origin rules.
Brewing high ABV beers is actually quite the challenge, especially once it gets above about 10%.

The grain to strike water ratio changes so much that lautering often gets “stuck” due to the thick consistency of the grain bed.
Before we stopped funding things properly, medical research was undertaken in publicly funded bodies. Thats where Insulin, and Penicillin emerged from. Prior to this of course drugs like sulpha and their precursors lay in the fully commercial dyestuff industry of "Mauve" fame (the Bayer-Hoechst thing)

A shitload of science is done on the public purse.

I don't want to objectify you, and you aren't wrong because stuff is now being done speculatively for profit day 1, but the "moral" aspect of this is really dubious to me: If we want to fund public health drug research, we can. And if we did, there would be no reason to vest patents over the discovery, we sunk the public purse into the drug design for public good outcomes.

I back India every time on this: Fuck the patents, they just make the drugs.
No, because they also argue the weapons are not illegal. Your analogy implies they said "yes they are securities", and they definitely didn't do that.
One of the problems with carbon credits that's hard to work around is the fact that if I avoid wasting a tonne of CO2, I get credited for saving our environment. If I sell a carbon credit to fund the activity, someone else also gets credited for saving our environment.

So every tonne of CO2 avoided counts twice. It's a way to inflate the progress that actually happens.
That's a rare example where it can work (I don't know anything about Australia but will take your word for it). Most carbon schemes are not about subsidizing solar panels. The majority of it is very questionable as other users have pointed out with examples.

Most people care about the environment and are worried about climate change. Most also understand very little about geoscience. There is a lot of pressure on governments and corporations to just do "something" about it, but few concrete demands. That's why deceptive practices and outright scams are so common, especially in so-called carbon offsetting and carbon removal schemes.

Having a bit of relevant scientific background, I've sadly seen more than once how questionable carbon offset companies infiltrate communities and corporations to get them to buy in. Some of them spend a lot of time lobbying and advertising on a grassroots level to get cooperation deals. Warning folks has not worked in the cases I've tried because as soon as you question it you're viewed as a climate skeptic who does not care about global warming and getting into hours long discussions with non-experts trying to explain to them why a certain promise can not work in reality the way it's described on the carbon credit website is pointless. Their promises and beautiful pictures of green forests and blue skies are a lot more persuasive sadly since it's professional marketing.
The scale of possibilities with this hack are enormous. You could easily redirect entire domains, generate valid SSL certs for those domains, then capture all the data including all login credentials for all users on those domains.

With exploitation of the right domains you would probably be able to extend this hack using stolen authentication information to take over basically the entire Internet.

Funny hack of my own once: a major web hosting company had a forum which failed to check uploaded profile pics were images, so I used it to upload a script so I could browse their entire filesystem. I eventually came across their root password stored in plaintext in a configuration file. The password? "internet" - all lowercase, just like that.
This. Medium scale is what Python excels at - the sweet spot is IMHO between 3K-10K lines. Above that and you start running into sore points (performance, no parallelism, too much dynamic typing, ...) and you maybe start looking into writing some parts of your code in C/C++/Rust (or yet another custom runtime, like Dropbox or Google attempted to do once). Under that it's still very effective but probably not the sharpest tool around - IMHO Python excels at being a jack of all trades, but there are often more specialised languages that tend to be more effective in a specific niche (like, for instance, Perl when writing scripts that glue tools together).
Exactly. What's stopping them? Nothing, right? They've got all the money they'll ever need, and powerful friends if they need something money can't buy. Yet like you said, what's being done to fix structural issues within society?

The only structural changes I see are wealth disparities getting increasingly wider in society, with laws and tax cuts being favored for the ultra rich after each new presidential leadership. Who's putting the work into this? Not me, and probably not you. So who?

They for sure donate to make-a-wish foundations or whatever, which is great. But think of it this way: how does that help you or your kids when cost-prohibitive life-saving surgery is needed? Are you gonna quit your job and camp out near a rich youtuber's house to get that lucky chance encounter in the hopes you'll get picked for the next individual success?
Uh, dude, the first iPod was amazing. Lots of storage and firewire made transfers ridiculously fast, but yeah the target market was probably people who already had a modern Mac.

Also the physical wheel was amazingly good UX, and very responsive.
It isn't so much that it is hard, it is a case of how much you are put off by the potential hard work. How much drive you have regardless of the challenge.

It is some religious monasteries or teachers they use this to weed out those that they figure might not be up to it. They come to the student and say "You know if you are to get this, it will take over a decade or more before you will even begin to get the ideas we are working with!". If the student is not worried about this and see it as merely what needs to be done to get to their goal - then they will be a good student. The barriers are not seen as a problem but a process.
Blowing up your life with your own hands may leave you unprepared or resorceless to react to your life being blown up by external factors. If that doesn't ever happen, congratulations, you're in a lucky minority.

This is a wrong advice that will always sound like a profound wisdom if it works for you, or emerge as a protective rationalisation if it doesn't quite.
Really? Where can I learn about which cryptocurrencies constitute securities and which don't? Is there a list?
does the battery last for 24h ?
> It's the cesspool that all other cesspools are measured by.

The biggest difference to other cesspools is that it has less manners and moderation. But in terms of pure toxicity Twitter etc aren't any better, all the scheming, backstabbing and insults are just more polite and use a lot more emoji, and when someone loses the argument they block everyone.
Heap sort can sort n elements with O(1) auxiliary data while quick sort (which is what libcxx usually relies on) in its worst-case performance would require storing O(n) stack frames. Since stack sizes are usually small, an adversary making you sort a million elements would likely cause a stack overflow.
Coinbase has clarity. The SEC is saying "What part of 'no" did you not understand?"
embrace the darwinian struggle of survival in a heartless meaningless universe
Ask HN: All payments for subscriptions on Google Play shown as “Payment Pending”
We have an app that offers subscriptions after a free trial period on Android & iOS. On our app installed via Play Store, we can only accept Google IAP.

We have several users who have successfully converted after the free trial period and their payment shows up on Google Play Console as "Payment Pending". Its been over 7 days since the first transaction but its still in that status.

I have tried contacting Google via chat support and am always told that it needs to be shifted to email and then never get a response and when contacting via email get generic emails about canceled transactions.

Looks like many other app developers are facing the same issue and no official response from Google yet:
* https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/200805638/payment-pending-for-a-paid-app-in-order-management
* https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/220648130

Has anyone else faced this issue?

Its just surprising how Google mandates usage of only their own payment system, cuts a huge % as processing fee and then cant even get it to work for everyone.
> relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

Everyone gets equal right and opportunity to demean each other equally!
Nicely put.

At its best and its worst, reddit reminds me of a more impersonal version &TOTSE's forums from the web of the 90s and early 00s: a community of communities, where you might see familiar faces from one spot to the next, but they were largely their own little worlds with their own norms, regulars, moderation, etc.

It was infamous at the time for the Bad Ideas forum where things like explosives and shoplifting techniques were discussed, but it also hosted flourishing communities dedicated to books, literary criticism, movies, politics, etc. Many people were quite content never sticking their heads out of the nicer places into the more 'interesting' areas, and it remained markedly welcoming and collegial throughout most of its existence.

It and reddit also had the benefit of easier discoverability: it's trivial to move around and discover new, related communities, which IMHO was also the charm of IRC and something rather missing from Discord and the like.
qryn, signoz and highlight are all built on top of clickhouse. I think they all have done a good job of leveraging clickhouse instead of building something from the ground up. That is a super smart thing.

We think that managing clickhouse is extra effort.
Direct access to object storage is vital for cost reduction which is somewhat difficult in clickhouse.
Small resource footprint is extremely valuable to many too.
Simplicity of deployment is key to get started and many will use a product simply because they can. I know, I have used products that simply ran, and for no other reason.

Our best wishes to all the 3 teams.
I don't think I agree with the principle of, if you can ignore the hate speech it's actually a pretty egalitarian place.

Like you say, it's not egalitarian towards those who don't have an easy time ignoring the hate speech. And, okay, in principle if the strength of one's stomach for hate speech was randomly distributed to humans with no correlation to anything else, maybe that would not disqualify it as egalitarian.

But it's not. People who face discrimination and hate speech IRL will, on average, surely have less tolerance for it online than people who don't. I have to believe that women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and so on, feel much less welcome on a place like 4chan. They've already spent their "ignoring hate speech points" ignoring someone harassing them on the subway.

So whatever it's virtues -- and I'm willing to believe you there are some -- I don't think that a place with this much toxicity can rightly be called egalitarian.
I have researched this now.

According to https://tools.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-history-search the domains were registered June 11, 2023, shortly after my article came out.

They are therefore likely just made by wakatime's founder Alan Hamlett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhamlett/ as a bit of Guerrilla Marketing. Fair play.

When I saw on LinkedIn that he worked for a web security contractor until September 2013, I almost flipped. But appears unrelated however unfortunately except for his general interst in WEBSEC, so another dead end.
Your spamming of HN on a single topic and submission/comment history strongly suggest your interest is pushing an ideological agenda.

Also from the guidelines:
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
Okay, somebody explain these downvotes, because afaik none of these statements in this comment or the other downvoted comments about the mass of water are incorrect. Somebody make it make sense.
It's not "alarmist nonsense", it's just an example of something illegal. And it's not "cryptocurrency" being compared to illegal things, but unregistered security cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, the biggest name in cryptocurrency, is fine.
Top H.P. Lovecraft expert weighs in on a monstrous viral meme in the A.I. world
IMHO, companies should work directly to limit their scope-1 and most of their scope-2 emissions. they should buy carbon credits to offset their scope-3 (and maybe some of their scope-2) emissions.

the scope-3 emissions of one company are the scope-1 emissions of another company, so the hope is that, as everyone tackles their own scope-1, we reduce emissions to 0 (which is the goal).

more on emission scopes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gauravsharma/2023/06/11/underst...

quick summary:

* scope 1 -- direct emissions, for meta this might be nothing

* scope 2 -- carbon emissions made indirectly by a company to facilitate its daily operations via energy and utility purchases, the most obvious examples of which being power, heating and cooling. for meta this is probably most of their emissions. meta should be involved in PPA (power purchasing agreements) to directly fund renewable energy to run their operations. buying credits to offset powering their datacenters by burning coal would probably qualify as "pointless greenwashing"

* scope 3 -- indirect emissions, excluding those included in scope 2, both up and down the value chain. for meta, this would be stuff like flights they buy for their employees to travel to meetings. this is the kind of thing that should be covered with carbon credits, meta should not be, like, building electric airplanes.
The logic is really hard to follow in this one. Lotsa mental gymnastics required.
I'm genuinely curious here. I'm not a Reddit user. I rarely need to click on a Reddit link. As in, probably only once or twice this year so far.

What does Reddit have that I'm evidently missing?

I guess I mainly search for documentation stuff...
Same. It's weird because the article link opens the same article in both the browser and in the App Store app, which seems redundant.