skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL; DR: the perception of “ghost work” can also appear when employees work in functions where failure doesn’t immediately break the company. The work may have value, but the contributions support longer tails, look not needed.
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I used to ask direct reports “how does what you are doing map to company strategies?” And if they could not do so we’d talk about what they were working on, how ‘mapping’ might work, and then decide if the work was worth it/ how to learn more about the company so their tactical was also strategic.

This was significantly easier in roles the company publicly supported. For roles where our team failure would destabilize things in a longer timeline, it was extremely easy to not be able to directly map to success, or feel fungible within the company.
Ok maybe Oracle has a point here looking past their reputation.

Did you know Sun had a Mac mini like product back in the day based on dual UltraSPARC T2+ Coolthreads SoCs? I almost bought it off eBay

https://twitter.com/R_I_C_M/status/1646236005471485968

https://twitter.com/alanc/status/1585752213565018114

Wouldn’t it be nice if Oracle brought that back and made the ultimate open source dev box? Their latest SPARC processors are wild
so the high level problem here is "how can I infer a locale's working hours without asking every individual?"

the current solution is to set an explicit expectation that people work 9-5ish in their local offset.

is your proposal to do the same thing, but the expectation is that people work noon-4 to noon+4, or something like that? I don't see any major advantages to that, but I do see one major disadvantage: solar noon occurs at a different time every day. of all the arbitrary markers to align schedules with, this seems like a pretty bad one.
Ah thanks. I felt like I had lost my mind there for a bit.
CLAs are a great reason not to contribute to corporate source. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't really know all the implications of what I'm signing, and I'm not gonna hire a lawyer just to send you a bug fix for your own product. Either take my code without a contract or live with the bugs.
ah. gotcha. Shame about chrome, but yeah, not too shocking that google does not have a ton of incentive to encourage people using anything but google. heck, they've done their best to turn the address bar into a google search.

Still, you don't need to buy a whole domain right? you could just toss the toy somewhere under an existing domain. Use it to highlight google's opposition to certain tech or something...

(oh, also to simplify things even more, your load page could make the input the opensearch was tied to take up the entire page so that people could right click anywhere :) - or style it as an "install" button - "right click to install")
i am stunned that folks didn't know about this since i've been using this shortcut hundreds of times a day for at least 20 years. i guess the moral of the story is that browser vendors really need to make it easier to discover the useful features that are buried in documentation
These folks were predicting Ukraine would cease to exist within a few days of the start of this phase of the war, as I recall (nor were they lonely).

I will bet they will still be saying "accept the loss" a year from now.
Wow, that's hilarious.

I guess they have a surplus of people... because that process looks more intense and picky than e.g. Google's, and Google is only able to do what it does because they pay very high and had great perks and a reputation.

All this stuff about high school performance, and choice of university -- really?

Actually what I get from this is that they're aiming to hire cheapish new grads and have no interest in senior industry-seasoned talent.

Because there's some serious arrogance there if they expect to put applicants through the ringer like this without a commensurate effort upfront. Any senior engineer is going to look at that and wonder why they should bother.
Firefox's QuantumBar is amazing stuff! One of the main features why I'm sticking with the browser. Makes it super comfy.

Some time back I wrote on it as well, along with some extra goodies: https://timvisee.com/blog/firefox-tricks-quantumbar/
Maybe the implementation uses copy-on-write to minimise the amount of work required? ;-)
Lets apply some frameworks to it. Pick some "low hanging fruit". Apply a "cloud native approach" and engage in Agile ceremonies.

Just kidding, couldn't agree more with your observation. Not a Phone in sight.
Damn, outdone by ChatGPT
As mentioned, ChatGPT will just fill in. Want me to write 1,000 words? Fine, but let me chose the topic. I’ll keep it technical.
Among other problems. It's just bollocks on the level of "but you didn't say it couldn't be this, nanananana."
Exactly - public institutions are now the top institutions for many STEM fields. It's simply where they've put their focus over the past 30-40 years and it's paying off.
Sorry to be pedantic here, but that LCM computer is not a DEC-2020, and by looks of it, not the one in the photo either. The 2020 is a small machine with the KS10 processor. The ones in the photos look like some larger KL10 based DEC-20 models: 2040, 2050, 2060, or 2065.
12. about:performance to view how much each tab consumes power and memory, in real time, jump to it and do something. It works on Android too.

Useful for normal navigation and in development when under some circumstances one of our apps enter some CPU busy loop. I got a very busy websocket recently, when the user session expires.
I'm currently on the telephone to Virgin Media (a UK domestic fibre-optic broadband provider) and they are certainly making it difficult.

This is the annual price renegotiation dance, which requires a call to the helpline, at least three menu options to get to the 'thinking of leaving us' option. This goes to a first-line call centre operative, who speaks with a 'manager' whilst the caller is on hold and then returns with a not particularly great 'agent discount'. The next step is to politely refuse the initial offer and ask to be 'put through to cancellations'. After a half-hour wait, I will then make it to the second line call centre who can give the actual discount. I have been cut off once during the hold queue music for stage two, and this is my second attempt.

The Web-based cancellation form didn't work on my browser, although this may be due to cookie or script blockers.

I'm all in favour of a streamlined workflow for cancellation processes, and if users do that by mistake, fine - that's life. Just give clear and unambiguous notices describing the consequences of the user's decision and keep the dark patterns well away from the entire process.
Sardines are so good. Inexpensive, low on the food chain, extremely nutritious, and delicious on saltines with some hot sauce.

I think they are also quite sustainable, but it's been a while since I looked into it.
I ultimately ended up getting an nvidia shield, but at that point it solved my biggest gripe with plex so I just switched back to plex and have been happy with it.
There obvious historical issues with this book that make it hard to apply to today, but I was still surprised at how well written this was for it’s time.

This also shows the importance of birth control in women’s lives. In 1946, sex was a roll of the dice to being pregnant. The odds are now massively improved to avoid pregnancy by using modern birth control methods.
> What I and others are saying is that if you changed the obligations of buyers such that mortgages became more expensive to service, that those servicing cost increases would ultimately be borne by the mortgage borrowers rather than eaten by mortgage lenders out of the goodness of their hearts.

I got what you and others are saying but I've been trying - and failing, apparently - to point out that the costs for a mortgage in case of a sale are born by the buyers who are not even the same kind of institutions as the parties that sell them, and so they are in no position to charge the subjects, nor are the sellers going to price the mortgages any higher in the future because the costs aren't born by them.

There is no such thing as 'projected profits' that go into this because mortgages can be sold (and are sold) more than once, the number of times is not known when they are issued first. And it is going to be only a small fraction of the audience that is going to be hard to reach for whatever reason. The presumption that there is some kind of free market mechanism that will ultimately pass those costs back to the original mortgage underwriters is not in any way evidenced by present day mortgage prices. On the sum total of mortgages out there and the - exorbitant - profits they create for the lenders we're talking about such small amounts that it will make zero difference.

A 'significant increase in communications costs' would translate into that being something that is some noticeable percentage of the total yield over the remaining time and it just simply isn't. Typical mortgage rates and amounts utterly dwarf the costs of a one time notification, especially if you don't have to notify everybody like that, and you can try cheaper channels first until you have a hit. Besides, the original mortgage 'service charge' is already a large multiple of the various costs and tends to be mostly pure profit for the initial lender.

It seems odd that you [seem to] think that mortgages are priced such that the mere cost of communications is going to show up in the prices, they are amongst the most profitable financial products.
Custom bookmark / search engine functionality is easy to replicate on Linux with a few shell scripts, though.

I use Brave and yet use some complex search engines such as making POST requests to APIs based on the search input and telling the browser to open a URL provided in the API's HTTP response.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-smart-placeme...
Immaculate Grid
Echoes of Eco in His Library
Building a tiny 6-drive M.2 NAS with the Rock 5 model B
Someone posted this and then immediately deleted their comment: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/i386/microvm.ht...

I didn't know it existed until they posted, but QEMU has a Firecracker-inspired target:

> microvm is a machine type inspired by Firecracker and constructed after its machine model.

> It’s a minimalist machine type without PCI nor ACPI support, designed for short-lived guests. microvm also establishes a baseline for benchmarking and optimizing both QEMU and guest operating systems, since it is optimized for both boot time and footprint.
That is a little thin on details. Its intriguing at least, but I want to know more before signing up for something.

Also interesting that it says it served my request from a location that is pretty far from me. I figured with 180+ CDN locations, I'd get something closer. Why is that? Maybe it'd be super obvious if there was a little more info on how it works.
You don't think this is true?
This is pretty much corporate suicide. I really don't understand what they are trying to achieve with this and their attitude in this thread is baffling.
It's shocking reading stuff like this.
A second is one 86400th of a rotation of our home-planet
IIRC, there's work on a JS/TS capable macro API that can be used in the future. I will say, the effort MS has made to feature parity for Office's web interfaces is pretty impressive. I also say this as I've been planning to move my personal usage completely to self-host options (NextCloud, OnlyOffice, etc).
Their motives are very clear. RHEL did a lot of work for them and maintaining compatability will be a lot harder without source code.

I guess the promise to keep their distro open is something...
Thank you I didn't know about this. Your version is a bit more compact.
yep, just hit up 'manage search engines' and add a shortcut. I use this to navigate to servicenow documents when someone IMs me their number, one of my most used workflow helpers.

https://<your servicenow base url>/text_search_exact_match.do?sysparm_search=%s
No, it's gone. For it to be a scream test they'd have to be able to retrieve the data somehow and they can not.
The signal model for Laplace is x(t)*exp(alpha t) where as the signal model for HT is x(t) only. Another way to say it is that Laplace models the signal envelope as an exponential explicitly while decomposing the remaining signal into frequency components. In Fourier space, the exponential is "rolled into" the frequency components.
That is out of date. The link you put is literally in OP's link but 2nd edition.
Yeah I work on the team that builds Amazon Elastic Container Service so I can't help but compare this implementation with how we solved this same problem in ECS.

Inside of an ECS task you can add multiple containers and on each container you can specify two fields: `dependsOn` and `essential`. ECS automatically manages container startup order to respect the dependencies you have specified, and on shutdown it tears things down in reverse order. Instead of having multiple container types with different hardcoded behaviors there is one container type with flexible, configurable behavior. If you want to chain together 4 or 5 containers to start up one by one in a series you can do that. If you want to run two things in parallel and then once both of them have become healthy start a third you can do that. If you want a container to run to completion and then start a second container only if the first container had a zero exit code you can do that. The dependency tree can be as complex or as simple as you want it to be: "init containers" and "sidecar containers" are just nodes on the tree like any other container.

In some places I love the Kubernetes design philosophy of more resource types, but in other aspects I prefer having fewer resource types that are just more configurable on a resource by resource basis.
You can't attack other users here and we've warned you many times. If you keep it up we're going to have to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seems like a bit of a trolly-problem: keep doing what you've always been doing, by tradition and contracts, and statically cause more deaths; or make a choice to change and save more lives overall, but some new deaths will be blamed on your choice.

It will be hard to get people to see that the policy shift that caused one unfortunate heart-attack victim to die because the ambulance came slower (perhaps because the person calling 911 didn't realize it was a heart attack, so made it seem like it was non-emergency) potentially saved the lives of some other invisible, unknowable people.
Both: Topcoder, circa 2002 or so, when they would give you hundreds of dollars for a less-than-one-hour coding challenge. Never understood that business model, but it paid for some decent beer.
Today, AI is where a similar experience can be found
It’s not just tech. It’s everywhere. If pay X dollars to got to college/warehousing and there isn’t a job at the other end then the Ponzi scheme falls over.
I didn’t know you could go to college and get a job planning pizza parties but at my last job there was someone who that was their only job.
There’s a lot of edge compute services, but I’m still waiting for the Postgres equivalent of fauna or upstash.
Hah I stopped there too. Who thought that was a good idea. Why do they have a job while I don't lol
Sorry, but imo Office/Microsoft 365 passed Google's options a while ago and have only gotten farther ahead. Either work for my needs, and I'm shifting to self-hosted OnlyOffice, but MS is definitely ahead on this one.
Ask HN: Are there better alternatives to disagree and commit?
and how do you deal with it? what problem have you found with it? for example, how do you agree with something you don't agree with? how do you handle when someone asks you what do you think about something that the company decided and you don't agree with? avoiding the risk of seeming misaligned

conflict resolution topic is fascinating and I'd like to learn from your experiences, thanks!
> If you believe in the Everett Interpretation, then he is wrong.

If.

> And it is what quantum mechanics predicts.

It is an interpretation of what the equations predict. It is very much not the only possible interpretation, so it is not "what quantum mechanics predicts".

> But believers in other interpretations of quantum mechanics will disagree that this experiment tests anything at all.

Within other interpretations of quantum mechanics, this does test nothing at all.
This article is about a dispute between these companies and New York City.
This is almost entirely wrong especially as far as QEMU, Libvirt and virt-manager are concerned.

QEMU is a low level process that represents the virtual machine. It has no equivalent in Xen. Using QEMU directly is not a good idea unless your needs for VM configurations change all the time and you hardly reuse VMs.

Libvirt is at a higher level than QEMU. It manages the QEMU processes and gives them access to system resources (image files, network interfaces, pass-through PCI devices). It also makes it easy to manage the configuration of your virtual machines and the resources they use.

Higher still is virt-manager, which is a GUI interface for libvirt. Proxmox sits at roughly the same level as virt-manager.
Alas, yes. And you have to reflip it with another g/scale. But such is life!
Sometimes the can just needs to be kicked indefinitely. Every time you perform some kind of maintenance on something that degrades over time, like a house or a car, you're can kicking, because unless the thing being maintained ceases to exist, you or your successors will eventually face the same issue again and again. Frankly it's a pretty lousy metaphor.
Nine Dangerous Characters is unironically good advice. But people of course love to look for “sexist” snippets instead, so they can laugh at people of past, as if they would have been any better.
I'm still using Evernote. It's become painful. Does anyone have a recommendation for a comparable service? Perhaps one that'll allow me to port everything over easily? ;)
Yeah but like.. who gives a fuck about private jets? It's a good way to burn money and be more wasteful at the same time, great.

First class, meh. I could afford it if it was something I wanted to spend money on, but it feels pointless.
I've used Firefox for over two decades at this point. I didn't know about these modifiers and I find that pretty awesome. For years I've had a few of my own quick searches set up, for example "wp thing" will take me to the Wikipedia page for "thing".

I realised recently I've taken the Firefox address bar for granted. I wasn't a big fan when it moved from a "simple" address bar. I still use a separate search bar and disable searching from the address bar in case I accidentally submit a search I didn't intend to.

But recently I was using Safari on an iPad and couldn't believe how terrible it was. It couldn't even remember pages I'd visited from a couple of days ago. I do bookmark things in Firefox but I've taken for granted being able to recall pages I've browsed months, maybe even years, ago from the address bar. How do people live without this?!
My current place is like this but with Salesforce leadership. I call it big company syndrome. They are so far removed from the actual work and just like to reminisce about the old days.

Their first inclination is always to try to implement whatever they were doing there. But this is a very different industry and marke. Every few months we end up rolling back their "great" Salesforce ideas.
Even red hat doesn't call it Gnu/Linux.
No, we didn't change that.
Yeah, agree with this. The design was miles ahead of what has actually been shipped. It's a shame, I feel like it could've done with more time spent on development to translate the designer's vision into code. They haven't even tried to port over the shadows on the messages (and have instead gone with an ugly thick border), the left sidebar has a different background colour to what was in the design, they're not using the shorter date/time formats, it generally feels much more cramped and less polished than the design. Even the selected folders are styled in an inferior way (using a de-saturated grey background instead of the blue-tinted light background and left border).

I don't want to take away from the work that has been done here, but like .. just copy the design? You can take screenshots and compare to the design until it matches. It looked amazing, I feel bad for the designer because their vision has really been lost in what's been implemented.
I was in quantum space at the time so results are hard to translate. The best approximation to our current reality is a black hole.
I think they're all heading in a direction to use the web-app as the core.
Why would anyone believe such a thing?
> Can you use KVM/do KVM stuff without QEMU?

Yes there's a few things out there like Firecracker that use KVM without using QEMU. I'm not completely aware of all of them but they do exist

> Can you do libvirt stuff without QEMU?

Yes it can also manager LXC containers and a few other types like Xen and Bhyve and Virtuozzo, like QEMU without KVM. The without KVM part is important to letting you run VMs that are emulating other architectures than the native one.

For a good bit of this, it is "why would you want to" but there are definitely real cases where you'd want to be able to do this. Like the LXC or Virtuozzo support means that you can run lighter weight containers (same underlying tech as Docker essentially) through the same orchestration/management that you use for virtual machines. And the Bhyve support lets you do the same thing for running things on top of FreeBSD (though I've never used it this way) so that a heterogeneous mix of hosts is managed through the same interfaces.
For anyone looking for the videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOzrYsAxzQy...
Remotion – Make Videos Programmatically
Wish this kind of hw were available for x86. Just give us the m2 slots and let software take care of the rest.
> One approach I take is to make the user type something before taking the destructive action. Make them type IRREVERSIBLY DELETE MY ACCOUNT!, in all caps, with punctuation.

The more websites start doing this, the more users will be trained to typing whatever you ask them to type. A dangerous trend is in formation!
The other day I was looking for a Windows desktop app for managing home assets (Where is this tool? What is inside my box A1 located in room B?)

There is very little software like that. Everything is a website or a smartphone app. I want a Windows desktop program.
Yea, that's good feedback - we've gotten requests for open source model support from a lot from people we've talked about. It's one of our highest priorities, and should be available soon!
This assumes that the law is applied equally to both rich and poor.
Oracle does care about open source, to the extent that they have been the top Linux kernel contributor several times.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-is-the-1-contribu...

Oracle actually does not undercut the least expensive Red Hat support offerings. Oracle Linux support is $499/year for basic, and $1,399/year for premier. Both tiers allow 24x7 access to file service requests (SRs).

https://www.oracle.com/linux/support/

Red Hat has a more complicated support structure, starting with workstation-self support: $179, workstation-8x5 support: $299, server-self support: $349, server-8x5 support: $799, server-24x7 support: $1,299.

https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms

It would be interesting if IBM did exactly what this Oracle blog suggests:

"Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden."
> Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

It's nice to see big companies trolling each other.