skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a corollary of these people problems, I would add:

1. Not correcting problem hires fast enough.

First time founders are often too hesitant to give negative feedback, demote a too-technical manager who should have stayed an IC, or remove a problem employee who isn’t working out.

The anecdote that comes to mind is a local startup that hired a C-level executive’s UI designer friend into their VP of Product role. He was wholly incapable of doing the job but they kept him in the job for 2 years to “give him a chance to grow into it.” Everyone below VP level openly talked about how the VP of Product was incompetent and how to work around him.

The company’s product initiatives ultimately failed to even get started and they had to pivot to entirely services based work. Do not stay at a startup that insists on keeping unqualified people in leadership positions long after everyone in the company has given up on them.

2. Firing the wrong people

The same startup was forced to downsize, largely because their product plans failed to even become defined enough to start under the incompetent VP of Product.

It was the perfect opportunity to fire the VP of Product and his sprawling empire of people who did very little, but they avoided that due to his connections to a C-level executive. Instead, they started cutting engineers. They focused on cutting engineers with the highest compensation out of a misguided effort to cut as few people as possible.

In the process, they lost their key engineers who were holding things together. They sent a message to everyone that incompetence is tolerated if you know the right people. And they lost even more core engineers who quit in the months after those layoffs.

Everyone makes hiring mistakes. It’s how you respond to those hiring mistakes that will seal the fate of the company.
So an article from a Topeka paper, 1.5 hours away from Marion, is given more benefit of the doubt than locals on the ground?

I have no motivation to provide evidence to the internet so they can test my sibling's claims - I just wanted to share that the one sided outrage may potentially be unfounded.

Much of HN values hearing from those personally involved in our stories. In this instance, I'm somewhat involved, so I shared some context. I don't know anything beyond what I've shared.
My confidence in the US military already increased a lot in the past few months, with a lot of US equipment seemingly performing quite well in conventional warfare, even some of the systems people previously had less faith in.
I wonder how perspective corrected texture mapping works on emulators.

Maybe the coordinate values passed from GTE to GPU are "shadowed" with extra data about the transformation, that is then retrieved further down the pipeline

I suppose there could be multiple approaches
Seems more like you projecting some racist stuff no one else was thinking of.
Hey dude! We met in the prisma conf in Berlin a couple of years ago and had some beers after with an Aussie dude, since then I’ve used nothing but tRPC in all of my projects and couldn’t be happier, thanks for the hard work!
Good luck finding an airbnb that hasn't been recently used by someone else.
You might want to check out their columnar compression & their continuous aggregate blog posts:

https://www.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-2-3-improving-col...

https://www.timescale.com/blog/massive-scale-for-time-series...
How could one firstly measure science and superstition in such a way that this question would be answerable?
Slightly related, but found it interesting that the main image on what is at least semi-purported to be a news article is a midjourney AI image (though kudos to the article for clearly identifying this).

Stock photo businesses are deaaaaad.

Edit: though if you look at it the actual configuration of this "back seat of the taxi" in this image is completely bizarre.
> Why is it disgusting? Do you think Harvard should tell them NOT to apply for food stamps?

This feels deliberately obtuse. The second half of the submitted article headline is "Even Though It's the Richest School In The World With A $53 Billion Endowment". Obviously people think Harvard should pay its graduate students more so that they wouldn't need food stamps.
I think both Nix and Guix are great and ready for prime time. Everyone should test one at least

The initial installation is a standard 'next,next,next', and the result is apparently similar to a Debian installation

All distros have strengths and shortcomings

Nix support more packages natively, but guix also supports nix packages

It gives me a lot of peace having all my system defined in one file. Very easy to rollback, or re-generate in another drive. Not really worrying if the root gets corrupted or misconfigured
Euro-person her: the ones by me have a videocamera pointing at us...they just get the finger during my transaction.
You're right. I should use the GA announcement for Aurora MySQL as well.

…which was November 2015.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora...
> The arguments articulated are entirely false: ex. N^2 communications. This is reductionist and absurd

I think you’re being unnecessarily harsh and reductionist of the article’s arguments. I’ve experienced exactly this failure mode in startups.

The counter-example you described is an example of properly managing the N^2 complexity, not an example of it not existing.
To get from point A to point B I would assume. Id be way more concerned about someone getting in to shoot up and OD'ing in there. Instead of getting a taxi you end up with a dead body delivery.
I had to search as well

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/about-face
The researchers didn’t even transmit sound — they developed a model suggesting that sound could be transmitted.

The paper is here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-023-01293-y.pdf

And is not nearly as egregious as the press release.
There is a guy at work that brings up Musk all the time. It’s summer so he’s always between vacations. I’ve started to notice when he’s gone, no one mentions Musk at all. In real life people I never hear anyone bring these two up. Only the Twitterratti and the tech bubble care.

Someone recently said that MMA is the new golf for the wealthy.
The probability of success is largely is based on the available supply of developers vs the demand for them. Canada’s market is ok, but not great which is probably why so many Canadian programmers immigrated south.
I cannot deny your enthusiasm for the matter which I can only applaud.

Yet fun as it was, I will now cease my demented rage, but not before profusely apologizing for my irrational and unforgivable lashing out.

Also, sorry HN. I have indulged forces here that shouldn’t be. I thought it would be interesting, but that is.. doubtful in hindsight.
A debugging story: How I joined the bug 323 community
In the US, serving sizes are generally standardized per type of food, so two quart containers of yogurt will always have the same serving size in the nutrition facts.
It’s been a thing outside the context of iOS and android for maybe less than 2 years? It’s hardly in the “it had its chance but failed” category.
You more or less described IPFS. Of course, IPFS grinds my gears because despite oodles of money and time, they still don't have a cohesive ecosystem SDK, haven't rebased on a Rust base, just squandering attention in the space, imo.
I am not arguing about any greater good. Killing is killing.

My favorite joke here (SMBC?) is that the robbers that killed Batman's 2 parents did not save N-2 people because Batman saved N people.
>> ... descended below minimum safe sector altitude.

> Note that “minimum safe altitude” here is being in the glidepath where you can make the runway with total engine loss

It's not just the glidepath altitude that goes into calculating landing approach minimums. It's also terrain clearance and separation from other aircraft that would be needed for a go around if landing is to be aborted.

> Still a quite bad bug that shouldn’t exist, but it sounds worse than it is.

Descending below minimums has been a contributing factor in quite a few accidents resulting in loss of life. Had there been other contributing factors, this could have ended up in sth really nasty.

Misbehaving aircraft increases workload on the flight crew. In an already increased workload situation (like landing approach, in this instance), such unexpected and untrained-for increases in workload can and have caused crashes into terrain.

Both the MAX 8 crashes fall under this category, BTW, given that both situations were recoverable (as had already happened once before the fatal Lion Air crash, on the same aircraft) had the flight crew had enough time to think clearly.

In an industry where rules and regulations are written in blood, there's plenty of ink that warrants investigation into this incident and prevention of repeats.
In an editor-of-theseus way? At least that's how I took it.
At this point why bother? He was in Russia 7 years when he finally applied and got a passport, his (now) wife was pregnant, it was the height of COVID.

Russia has also shown that they're not interfering with him as long as he doesn't speak about anything Russia is doing.

Contrast that with his destination countries that he originally wanted to go to, all of which are also of course "enemies of the US" (which is the only reason he's safe there), one of which has been strongarmed by the US directly (Bolivian prime minister forced to land and be searched, breaking international law[0]) and one of which has already permitted one of it's refugees to be captured on sovereign soil.

I should also add that a lot of countries would not grant asylum to a person who is in what they would consider a safe country. I know for instance it's a point of much contention in the UK that an asylum seeker must stop in the first safe country.

Additionally, since Putin's "special military action" (invasion of another sovereign country) there actually are a lot of restrictions for Russian citizens travelling, both outbound and inbound. -- and even if you manage to wave away all of that: he isn't in a better position anywhere else and he still has to travel over US Allied countries to get there.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
The first startup I worked for was a slow-growth company that had slowly expanded over 7 years to only about 50 people. A dinosaur in startup terms.

It still had the same problems as above. Expanding slowly doesn’t automatically protect you from these things.
This is a very hyperbolic statement, and makes the common mistake of framing science as built around a central corpus of knowledge, defended by personalities. Whilst science is a human endeavour, and individual scientists suffer all the same shortcomings that human beings exhibit, this is not how it is practised. Scientific consensus is a thing - you can literally gather N scientists in a room, and have them agree on principles and results. There will always be differences of opinion; for example, there are a huge number of interpretations of what a measurement means in quantum mechanics. But, good science is practised with an eye towards the limits of our understanding. For example, the standard model of physics explains nearly everything that we can observe, whilst we also know that there are some things that it can't. We also know that physical theories often seem to be simple, whereas the SM is complex - it likely is an effective theory. Knowing both of these things does not break the concept of consensus. Much of physics research is currently dedicated to figuring out how to break the standard model theories, despite the fact that it works so well.

When you hear "consensus", no one is saying that each scientist would write down an identical essay on the subject. Rather it means broad-scale agreement, and a common understanding.
It's gross for two reasons I think (not saying I necessarily relate to them): 1) communicable diseases, e.g. crabs., and 2) if someone has to maintain cleanliness for any religious purpose.
Thank YOU Alex!

This project has done incredible things for TypeScript
It’s shitty to advise them to take advantage of government benefits available to them? What’s special about TANF in this regard? As others here have pointed out, for some families in Cambridge the eligibility ceiling for some benefits is quite high.
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Date of birth: January 2, 1984

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Filip Hrgovic vs. Demsey McKean; Heavyweight

Johnny Fisher vs. Harry Armstrong; Heavyweight

Derek Chisora vs. Gerald Washington; Heavyweight

Campbell Hatton vs. Tom Ansell; Super-lightweight

George Liddard vs. Bas Oosterweghel; Middleweight

Brandon Scott vs. Louis Norman; Featherweight

Maiseyrose Courtney vs. Gemma Ruegg; Super-flyweight

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I worked in telecom for a number of years. After years of outsourcing and cost cutting, I left and took a job at a company that might be considered fintech now. This coincided with the early days of electronic trading. This led to a software career in finance, which was an unanticipated but lucrative career turn.
Please no. Phones go into tunnels, run out of battery, and go indoors where there's a poor signal or none at all. They make terribly unreliable servers. Not to mention how much faster this would chew up battery life.

If you want to keep a spare phone plugged in all the time in your closet, connected to Wifi/Ethernet, and hack it to be a webserver, then go ahead. But webservers on mobile devices, being used in a mobile way, are a terrible idea.
I agree completely. Even if I did learn React. I still wouldn’t know the tricks to make a modern, usable, website. I would be no good as lead responsible for giving input on best practices and strategy.
> The Standard was unable to find a source who said they’d had sex in a Waymo.

> “The vast majority of our riders are respectful and follow our rider rules,” a Waymo spokesman said.

Yes, I'm sure the reason is because Waymo riders are just superior and not because they have less market (or otherwise) penetration.
most useless article.
Yeah, I think for particular models it can be easy to find them. But for others no luck at all. My guess is that maybe after few years they can be found. In particular for the z650rs I wasn't able to get any good results.
Why stop at Taxis? You could be required to watch a short ad before pumping some gas or entering a restroom.
My pet peeve is people interpreting "that's a stupid argument, here's why" as a conspiracy theory.
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I wish it hadn't come to this, but SportSurge and its mirrors have nearly every game from many different sources. I grew up watching games free over the air on CBC; I just can't stomach paying hundreds a year for what used to be free.
> "Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers"

It is not like $200-an-hour engineers do not write crap code.

If your SW department lives in a bubble and testing is optional...
Kinda seems like the dreamiest build target.
> hire less

The value of this recommendation cannot be overstated. Put another way: only hire when there is no other way to solve a problem, and even then do so carefully. Be willing to elongate timelines substantially as a result of this practice; the medium- and long-term costs of over hiring are much worse than the cost of later launches.

Unfortunately, the funding environment and growth expectations for startups often incentivize the opposite behavior.
Reporting the punch line first only works if your interlocutor knows what you are talking about. In this case there is no antecedent for "the bull" and so there is no way the person hearing this story could know what "the bull is dead" actually means, or even whether this is a literal bull who has actually died, or some metaphorical reference to something else.

The Right Way to report this is something like, "I'm fine, but I got into an accident. I hit a bull and killed it." But that doesn't make nearly as captivating a headline.
As a teaching assistant before and a research assistant now, I say technically it's a job.

You're expected to perform atleast 40 hours of research, often if not 1.5x more. Experimental research involves setting up and conducting them, while theoretical research involves standardizing the set of rules that one should seek in an experiment: modeling. All kinds of work involve literature review, writing, designing plots, coming up with scientifically sound creative ideas. All that with tight deadlines too.

I don't see why this should be any less than a job.
Probably simplest is to not overthink and just write elisp, which is a fairly normal language.

(defun my-sort-list ()
(interactive)
(when (not (looking-at (rx "[")))
(search-backward "[" nil t))
(when-let* ((line (thing-at-point 'sexp t))
(items (split-string (substring line 1 -1) (rx ",") t (rx blank)))
(sorted (string-join (sort items #'string-lessp) ", ")))
(kill-sexp)
(insert "[" sorted "]")))

I don't think I am using any non-builtin function here, though I think a few exceptions like s.el, f.el and dash.el can make things much easier.
League of Militant Atheists
It's obvious to you that graduate student positions should pay enough to support a sole income provider for a family of three? Because according to the parent, that's what we're discussing here.
Publishing scammers are using AI to scale their grifts
Since is never conclusive that is true, but some conclusions are closer to the truth than the other. Just because the earth is not exactly a sphere, doesn’t mean the scientific consensus that the earth is round is wrong. Same way just because we don’t understand everything about climate change, doesn’t mean we can disregard the consensus
Why the alignas 16 for an 8-byte type? In the wasted 8 bytes you could easily fit a type discriminant and a version counter/consistency check for to avoid teared read/writes (assuming you can't rely on atomic 128 bit access).
I would also like to see "Right-to-repair" hyphenated, else it's the right to "repair about face".

At first I was thinking Face-ID or Windows-Hello.
In straight dollars, perhaps yes. But the new servers don't show up and spend 3 to 6 months before accomplishing anything meaningful, don't require sick time which can cause the optimizations to slip, and don't take 3 months to find the right fit for hire.

Part of the cost consideration is deterministic results. I will pay a premium for near-guaranteed good but probably sub-optimal results and will actively avoid betting on people I haven't met and don't know exist.

In my hiring, I hire now to solve problems we expect to hit after 4 quarters. It almost never makes sense to hire anyone into a full-time role for any project in a shorter timeframe. If you were wrong about the specific problems you expect to have in a year, you have a person who is trained in your development environment, tooling, and projects, and you already budgeted to use them in-depth in a year. There's no emergency. There is time to pivot. But if you're wrong about the need to hire someone now full time, you front load all of the risk and if it doesn't work out, you are stuck with an employee you do not need (and stuck is the right word. Have you ever terminated someone? It is harder than you think it is, and I don't mean just for emotional reasons).

Buy hardware over people. Treat the people you have as if the business depends on them. Let them know that it does. Everyone is happier this way.
Clearly, people are talking about it.
If you're not fluent in Chinese, how could you tell if someone speaks Chinese like a native?

I'm only a native speaker of English, but I know vast swathes of native Chinese speakers who have been in the US for decades and sound nothing like native English speakers. I know ones that do sound like native speakers too, but it's rare in my experience.

I don't think immersion is anywhere close to sufficient to guarantee native-like proficiency, there's something else.

I don't know what the something else is.
GP didn't suggest to reject reality out of concern for others.
He said we should make sure to be 100% certain of what the facts are before asserting what reality is to the public, especially when it comes to sensitive subjects.

The alternative is to say that reality is A, have a lot of people face (just or unjust) repercussions, then say "Oopsie! Turns out we were dead wrong". The damage is already done by that point.
> what is meant by analytics

Disk I/O. Most analytical workloads only need a subset of columns for the tables under query, but Postgres has to read in every column due to how data is organized. Columnar and hybrid columnar can significantly reduce disk I/O by orders of magnitude, which makes a big difference beyond a few dozen gigabytes.

Even if all your data can fit into memory, Postgres will still be slower because it needs to loop over values for aggregations. Columnar databases can use SIMD instructions and better utilize the CPU cache across multiple aggregations in the same query.

Postgres is also built for lookup queries and point updates, so every row needs a separate entry in b-tree indexes. Analytical databases can generally use sparse indexes that resolve to groups of rows, which means indexes take up both less space in memory and on disk that make range queries more efficient.