skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're a poor manager of your organization's current style of work, is that still poor management, even if you're a good manager in a different setting?

can we stop making excuses for people?

management is about people, unless you're literally moving to a different culture (and I don't mean company culture), your failures as a manager are yours.

I can tell you that my current manager is ruthless in that he has no issues getting rid of someone if they're not pulling their weight. I appreciate that about him. He also always has our back.

Put him in an organization in which it's more challenging for him to influence our work and I'm confident I would still enjoy him as a manager. The work might not be as successful but I'm smart enough to recognize the walls my manager runs into as well.
If you don't pick the new terms nothing at all changes for you.
This sort of thing has been an "issue" forever. I remember reading a similar thing last century about WYSIWYG systems vs. layout systems a la TeX/LaTeX.

I tend to agree with "stick with norms" vs the "I like it how I like it" crowd, but I'm old and lived through this change; most in this industry only know the latter.
lol I wonder if the fact I basically stopped all social media activity last year except some reddit and HN checking in set off alarms lol. It was more about personal life improvement rather than anything nefarious
It means that urllib3 (python code) isn't actually making the http request (it's not making the tcp connection, tls auth, writing the request, or serializing the request headers ...)

It may be better to describe this as a "shim". Any python code that depended on urllib3 is now transparently shimmed in browser context to use the fetch-api instead. Which is useful.
You'd need both: law enforcement that looks the other way when it comes to the crimes you commit and good infrastructure. Countries with one or the other are easy to find, but both?
Leftover sand from mineral mining might be better for concrete. As “fresh” sand it’s probably nice and jagged-y, but maybe so fresh without weathering that its weak points haven’t broken off yet.
I really like the usage here. I would love to generalize the app to find people hunting and setting off fireworks at impolite times.

Why did you use pixels on a map image for location, instead of GPS? Phones have GPS these days. You could have a simple app where you push the button when you hear the noise, it reports to a cloud function, and instantly triangulates and throws a point on your favorite map program.
It is really true. There are various causes being debated but we’re the only rich country where the fatality rate is moving in the wrong direction:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/12/10/briefing/oakImage...

The source article covers why some of the theories can’t explain the difference on their own:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/briefing/us-traffic-death...
ZX Fusion: A ZX Spectrum Implementation on an FPGA with Modern Peripherals
Apple Vision Pro Wants to Be Two Products
There are sound reasons why this can't be the case, but it sure would be nice if anti-SLAPP laws[1] were also able to cover these kinds of petty intimidation maneuvers by huge corporations.

(It would probably be impossible to weave a statute that prevents this kind of bullying while also enabling legitimate uses of C&D letters. So this is entirely fantasy.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
I already posted, I'm discarding Facebook as unable to filter crap out. Not to say unwilling, I put up enough with them feeding me the lowest of scum in racket money for not paying $10 or so to get different content.

What content, bitches? Race's on!

Do you understand the opportunity, bitches? It's not about posting brain-dead ad-ridden crap to destitute retards. It's about collecting the very much $$$ of the educated world who doesn't want and can afford to not want the AI-ridden, AD-infested crap destined for destitute people who can't and won't choose better.

A trillion dollar opportunity for fuck AI!
The interesting thing about this argument is that if taken all the way, Apple shouldn't see the problem with the new EU rules, i.e. "if you don't like it, sell it in your own country".

For the most part, I have defended Apple's approach because I personally prefer a locked down environment for my phone. I've put up with some of the things I dislike about this walled garden because of the benefits and simplicity it affords me.

But their stance here is impossible for me to defend. It makes me wish it was possible for competition to exist in this space beyond the duopoly. The reality is that "make your own phone" is not viable, and because it is not viable, these kinds of policy decisions are extremely impactful.

I've never been under any illusions about Apple's benevolence, i.e. I know they're a company out to make money like the rest and not some force for good. But I've respected what they've accomplished. This latest move has made me lose quite a bit of respect. They're barely attempting to hide the maliciousness of their "compliance".

I hope the EU takes it to them at this point.
This is a big problem in India. The sand mafia not only destroys ecosystems, but is also linked directly to violence and deaths of people.
Zig is great no doubt, but the irony in this comment increased my RBC count.
Most smaller firms will require a retainer. $5k is fairly common. I've been able to work with several large firms for work, and several smaller firms for personal stuff.

Personally, I much prefer the larger firms. In general their work product, responsiveness, and timeliness is well ahead of small firms. They aren't even that much more expensive for some things. Unfortunately I don't know what the retainer $$ would be, if any, for a larger firm.
Very true, the guy who hacked into Valve and leaked HL2 got 2 years probation in Germany.

https://www.svg.com/899802/the-real-reason-valve-wanted-to-o...
There is another project with several thousands of stars called Wren. It is a scripting language. Maybe a name change should be considered.
$100 a pop is pretty big even if it doesn't increase sales. Airlines save millions by slightly reducing the weight of the pamphlets they put in the seats.
> I don’t think the environment would benefit from a destabilizing population collapse.

Hard to predict. The resulting chaos could cause outsized environmental damage. On the other hand, the environmental damage caused by wars tends to be short-term (in contrast to the damage caused by, say, fossil-fuel-based energy production and agriculture, which is perpetually-increasing damage to feed the needs of a society with a stable population and status quo).

But you're making an excellent point. I'm certainly not advocating for societal collapse. I, for one, think the risk of such is a bit overblown (societies tend to adapt, not implode, even in the face of demographic turbulence).

Besides, automation's supposed to make up for much of the labor shortfalls anyway.
Did Takata produce any Airbags, that don't need replacement?
You’re right. It just reflected a momentary misunderstanding of mine. WASM still requires JS.
I mean does it have to?

Looks like slapping a bunch of hardware to circumvent poor interoperability.

And F35 cockpit has large single MFD, MFD setup of any 4+ generation fighter is 2-3 screens for what I imagine to be more complicated missions.
It's 0,5 USD for every install after the first 1 000 000, per year. Updates don't make any difference. Worth noting is that a user who never opens the app after the first time will still count as an install.
The first and third of those are Apple trying to get a government to do something on their behalf. The second of those is attempting to technologically restrict activities you can do with an Apple device, not legally restrict your activities in general. Apple still doesn't have the legal authority of a government, nor should it.
Do we know for a fact that the operators didn't run file hosters as well with links to those hosters being preferred?

Because that was the business model of their predecessor.
FTA:

That's of particular interest right now to laid-off Twitter employees — some of whom want to speak publicly about what happened when Elon Musk took over, but are muzzled by gag orders signed to get their severance.
Wanted to note that the pattern of starting and never finishing projects maybe fits the CDC symptoms around difficulty directing one's attention. Potentially then a lack of motivation to start new projects could be a common experience of people with undiagnosed ADHD later in life, but it is perhaps less common for those without the accumulated guilt of past experiences (speaking hypothetically and without expertise).

I empathize with how the complexity of these experiences and their knock-on effects make understanding what is happening with ourselves difficult.
Nile raises $11.6M seed funding to build a Postgres-powered data layer for SaaS
It's worth noting there's a difference also between hype and genuine enjoyment/satisfaction with a product.

Look at sqlite threads - they happen here all the time, and there's cyclic periods where you'll see 2-3 a day for a week or two. This has been going on since forever, and there always seems to be someone in the comments wanting to jump on the "anti-hype train", even though after over a decade of popularity and satisfied users it might not actually be hype.
If their primary goal was to get you to stop, I'd assume they'd send a C&D first too because it's a lot less headache for them if that makes the problem go away.

So I wouldn't see a C&D as a guaranteed sign that they aren't willing to sue, but the threshold for "want you to stop and are willing to sue for it" is much, much, MUCH higher than the threshold for "eh, I'll send a C&D and see if this makes it go away, if not, not worth it".
I didn't say you couldn't make it work by writing it differently. The point was obscure errors can pop up, which is a drawback to the way they chose to do things. That holds.
Leveraging a Streaming Database for Threat Detection and Prevention
That's fine, but the rest of us shouldn't have to pay for what a few people who don't care think. Every time you give up a freedom you move closer to an authoritarian system.
Seven Indicators of Shell Company Risk
Many things about Apple phones annoy me:

* App store restrictions.

* I want a phone I can use one-handed. 4 inches is the largest screen I could tolerate.

* No removable battery?

Why is it that no manufacturer will come along and make something better? Every year I look at other options. There are none that meet even one of my requirements.

I get that normal people want the app store Apple made. One where draconian requirements on developers make it hard to sneak in malware. But why can't I have a phone that fits in a normal sized human hand?
didn't see any mention of caching in the docs. This tends to be pretty important for fast build/CI at many different key points of a given workflow (dependency cache, build cache, docker layer cache, image cache, etc). Wondering if I missed something.
> I'm left wondering what the catch is / why it's cheaper and faster.

I don't think it's very expensive to run a build server.
All businesses are used to certain range of interest-rate for the last 20 years.
Regardless of the rest of your comment, you brought up a great point about how bait can work really effectively. Instead of stealing real jewelry, they stole obvious fakes. I understand that that might sentimentally be worse to you, but it demonstrates how effectively you can counter burglary through baiting, which of course is the very point you claim isn't true.

I'll consider bait jewelry as well, and try to increase the size and weight of the bait to make it difficult to carry more. That's good advice.
That logic applies to the powershift you are complaining about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism
> I don't want to do it on my phone

Then you could get a Librem 5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39193422
You're right: I should have included COLORTERM in this history, and a couple of the other fits and starts, like the `RGB` terminfo capability.

The issue I had with COLORTERM is that not every program respects it. In fact, I've had this in my .bashrc for a while:

case $TERM in
linux | screen*)
unset COLORTERM
;;
*)
export COLORTERM=truecolor
;;
esac

(Screen does support 24-bit color now, so that case probably came from Ubuntu 18.)
Google is slowly getting out of the search engine business is my guess. That’s the only way I can make sense of it. That they’re purposefully doing a terrible job.
While this is a neat demo, I would in general be cautious about translating GPT-4's logits to probabilities. We know from the technical report that its confidences are not well calibrated. See Figure 8: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf
Is this anything new? seems like it was an obvious use case right from the start and just an ad for your product.
A Few Thoughts on Intensity
I work on the Firefox GC, so I guess I'm biased, but this doesn't seem like the greatest idea if you use it exactly as proposed. By setting a really high threshold for automatic GC scheduling, you're guaranteeing that memory usage is going to grow quite a bit as long as you're even slightly active (15 seconds is a long time to be idle!), which means (1) whatever application you're switching to will have had its pages pushed out and will start responding more slowly as it faults them back in, and (2) 15 seconds into using that application, you'll get a system-wide stutter as the emacs GC faults all of its massive pile of pages back into physical memory in order to scan through the reference graph.

Of course, you'll probably blame both of those on whatever application you're using, so in a way from emacs's point of view this is all free!

I'm not saying the underlying idea is bad. Using idle time for GC is good. 1GB just seems like an awfully high threshold for non-idle time. It's giving up on the idea of "small enough to be unnoticeable" pauses. (Though the right way to do that would be to have an incremental GC, but that has costs of its own.)

Personally, I guess I'd want to try a lower non-idle heap threshold, plus a shorter idle time threshold (15 seconds seems quite long, and a shorter time increases the probability of the GC'd pages still being in RAM), plus using focus as an idle signal.

And maybe play with using variable heap size thresholds, eg base the trigger off of both how long emacs has been idle plus the size of the heap just after the previous collection. So you might say that the heap threshold is 100% of the previous heap size at 15 seconds, 400% at 5 seconds, 1000% when non-idle. Or min(10x previous, 20MB) when non-idle, perhaps, where 20MB is adjusted to take an amount of time that is barely noticeable? But that's adding complexity. I guess I should enable GC logging to see how long these collections typically take; I haven't noticed a lot of pauses in the first place.
As it is now, you cannot publish an app on an alternative app store without Apple's permission.

The financial part doesn't even matter, they're still reserving the right to censor.
Russia has a pretty interesting one. [1] It's been rising every year since 1998, but it comes with a huge asterisk. They had a good fertility rate (by Western standards at least) up until the 1990s. But the collapse of the Soviet Union and the migration to a market economy in the 90s sent everything into chaos, and the country ended up in defacto anarchy for about a decade.

But I still think it's relevant, because it shows it is possible to get those rates back up again. They went from a rate of 1.247 to 1.826 in 20 years. Still nowhere near where it should be, but that's relatively rapid progress in a good direction. Perhaps more importantly, it also challenges many of the arguments people make about why fertility rates are collapsing in the West at large.

[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/fertility-r...
Why privacy becoming a norm requires venture funding
Does quibbling about the definition of fascism make me a fascist too?
The only thing with you do not f*k around in Germany is taxes. For the rest, the fines and sentences are a joke.
Is there anywhere I can anonymously upload an image to show off my own "spaceship tractor cab?" It's been awhile since I've tried, and it seems imgur no longer allows non-users to do this.
> it doesnt work. It reduce the problem

That's the goal.
> most publications would write that value would be $1,000,000, or just $1MM

Commas, dots and spaces are also used. Underscores are unusual, a bit of a vestige of maritime communications.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
Good idea fine tuning the timeouts. I took your suggestion and dropped the SSH ConnectTimeout to 5, I was still using the default. I also peeked at the Tramp timeouts, and I realized that I had the variable as tramp-connect-timeout and not tramp-connection-timeout. Thanks!
I've always drifted back to the terminal based emacs for two reasons.

While I've been using X11 off and on since the 90s, I still do not understand how to deal with fonts beyond helplessly googling for a constructive command I eventually stumble on something that works and then I have to leave it alone.

The display performance of most terminal programs is still noticeably faster than the X11 setup I end up with in a corporate environment.
I'm curious what you need macOS for if you're doing a JS project. Is it Electron?
They talk about GPS guided tractors for planting vs. using a marker wheel. I'm surprised GPS is accurate enough for that; are they using something like DGPS to get the needed accuracy?
Cool study, I've got this question before from my 7yo and had no idea :P

If I'm reading it correctly, insects don't fly toward the light, they turn the front of their body toward it. Under natural light, this helps them fly correctly ("maintain proper flight attitude and control"), but with artificial light they end up just constantly flying around the light source?
Not sure why you are being downvoted, this is the best kind of pedanticism.
Nb: CLI+web note/todo/bookmark/kb app in a single portable script
Yeah, that styling reads like something out of an exceptionally unconvincing scammer email.
GM Went All in on EVs. Dealers Say Buyers Want Hybrids
thanks. That's pretty consistent with what I've heard. And yet, parts of USSR seemed to have very effective electronics so I assume there had to be some culture promoting EE.
Why is everyone so angry?
why would you want to run python in the browser? Anyone can ELI5?
It is worth pointing out that FB has a long history of litigating this issue, from Power Ventures, to BrandTotal, to Octoparse, to Voyager Labs and more. And they have about 80-90% track record of success. Obviously, they send C&Ds more often than they file litigation. But to act as if this is a completely idle threat is naive.
I see your point. Data collection is required to some degree to, e.g., prosecute criminals. Any agency tasked with law enforcement would use all means at their disposal to do that, and legally purchasing data on the open market does seem reasonable. I agree with you that the Constitution and laws as they are today are unlikely to find any issue with the practices in place. However, my interpretation of the spirit of the fourth amendment is that Americans should not have to tolerate their government (or its agencies) infringing on their privacy unless they are suspected of having done something wrong, which is why the purchase of data from data brokers seems wrong to me.

Personally, I would deem such means permissible to investigate someone suspected of having committed a crime. Where I find issue is the widespread use of such techniques to monitor for crimes, since they come at such a large cost to personal privacy, and are searching for a needle in a haystack. Millions will have their privacy compromised so that maybe a single criminal can be caught, and personally, that cost is too high. I understand some folks might disagree that, but I hope Sen. Wyden, and others who join forces with him or follow him, will continue to represent that idea, and pursue legislation to codify it in law.
You can rent infrastructure from a provider from a country you don't reside in.
Can't wait for Microsoft to start saying this about PCs/Windows. Gonna be a "great" future. We'll look back at the "open" PC era like some kind of fabled golden age.

Edit: Actually the more relevant point is that it already is my phone. I paid Apple for it. Why can't I install anything I want on it?
"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...
what do you mean used to?

Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear fame has a 2-season show about his farm. In the first episode, he buys a Lambo tractor because "of course he does" type of logic.
I remember wikipedia in the mid 00s, I though it was the wild west and pretty funny especially when you searched for NSFW stuff like "teabagging" and it showed the activity. Was also cool seeing write ups on "Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta, Goku". Apparently Wikipedia is good as long as you don't search for political articles.

offtopic: I remember watching a BBC news documentary after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The BBC was saying how smart the youth were by using the internet to get their news information.
In other articles the BBC is talking about how people in the west who use the internet for their news sources are under influence of conspiracy and fake news.

Really don't know how luck we are to have freedom of speech.
As I said, most publications would use commas, and they'd put the dollar sign in front of the value.
> it seems like you are introducing a lot more uncertainty and risk

Of course. What matters though isn't the absolute risk, it's whether such treatments provide enough benefits to outweigh those risks. Not dying outweighs pretty much everything.
Americans face risk of a toxic 'bomb train'
Wealth is mostly held by people who are outside the age range of having babies.

Wage growth compared to cost of living has been flat to negative for decades. Outlook for the future is low. Of course people aren't having kids.
Landlords are landlords, farmers are farmers.

If you're renting a zillion acres to someone that grows corn or wheat on it, you're not a farmer, your a landlord; the renter is the farmer.
Sure, but most businesses at least try to be profitable, whereas many in tech were fundamentally untenable without a constant injection of external capital to prop up a venture aiming only to grow rather than to actually be sustainable.
No argument. I don't own a smartwatch.
http://archive.today/sW8te
Young People Are Doing Better (Financially) Than You Think
I don't think this is true at all. I think that in an alternate reality where Section 230 never happened then standards would have been created by the industry to tackle the problem.

I'm not sure they should be fully liable but being fully immune is ridiculous. I don't know what the answer is but the current incentives are not working.
As far as I'm aware there isn't a lot of anthropological evidence to support your view that primitive societies were any more violent than we are today. You seem to have a pretty dim view of human nature that may not be reflective of any kind of scientific reality. The article itself doesn't mention any episodes of "violence and abuse" in the communes so I'm not sure why you're pointing to that as a reason for their failure.

As for the hippies, I think it's admirable that they actually made the effort to practice a different way of living, even if it was short lived. Very few people or movements are brave enough to even attempt such a radical experiment. The unfortunately common idea that the way we live now is the only way or the best way demonstrates a poverty of imagination.