skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it would be an incredibly dysfunctional org to just hire a bunch of people with no deliverables for them

They create bullshit jobs that sound important so that they can get to hire more, you are right nobody hires without such descriptions but that doesn't mean that such descriptions means they aren't bullshit jobs. Haven't you heard about the concept of "use your budget or lose it", that goes for headcount as well, managers are greatly encouraged to invent bullshit jobs to not get their budget shrunk.

And no, managers don't get paid for delivering results, they get paid per headcount first and foremost. As long as they can convince their superiors that they are doing a good job it doesn't matter what the results are.

And yeah, as you say this is dysfunctional, but most giant orgs are dysfunctional, that is the norm, otherwise small companies would have no chance in hell competing against the giant well oiled machines.
Dig in -> "An update on Amazon's plans for Just Walk Out and checkout-free technology"
They were doing this from argentina, not russia.

I think the OP's comment is meant that the view everyone aligns to a "Nationstate" is simplistic.

The fact that the press release specifically mentions their russian is some kind of political doublespeak.

The true lesson here is that hackers can come from every nationality and that individuals who are trying to enlighten and enrich society will be persecuted by the powers that be. It's a story as old as history itself.
For example:

> every website has a bunch of regulatory-required pop-ups asking for permission to simply operate as normal websites, which means collecting the data necessary to provide whatever experience you are trying to access

is completely false.
stgit...
It's neither of those things.
I consider that zone to be a new "sweet spot". A new generation of "web devs" can circle around a tool like this. Our current in-house tool is a drag and drop editor that allows slices of content to be stacked. Each of these slices has preprogrammed selectable options for things like colors, sizes, body copy, headlines, etc. We consider this far too limiting. Now I will agree that my use of Webflow had me beating my fist against my desk. I could do the same thing in straight HTML in 15 minutes, that took me an hour or so in Webflow. Much of that was the learning curve; figuring out "the Webflow way". I see a future where we have tons of people who are good at these low-code/no-code tools. Sure I can run circles around them by being able to write all the code by hand. But for most things they'll be "good enough".
Isn’t their argument that much of this code already exists in Linux?
And the desktop environment is gone.
Making Python Less Random
OP here!
Pls feel free to raise any bugs you encounter! I'll be doing the following immmediate fixes:

1. Use fsync for durable writes in case of system crashes

2. Fix log-rotation-purging logic

3. Fix `file already closed` bug on consecutive writes

4. Add CRC checksum
Apple Maps navigation instructions is definitely superior to Google's. I've gotten "lost" a couple times using Google Maps recently because sometimes it'll be like bear left even though I'm suppose to go straight. I think the biggest con of Apple Maps is the UX. Searching for a store or place that's in a specific area not where you are currently geographically is way harder than it should be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903750
Is it because the West has been heading full-tilt into a mish-mash of every dystopia we were ever warned about for decades?

Whatever reason Russians have to preserve humanities culture, it is entirely the West's fault that we are not looking after it ourselves. That wasn't Russia, or China; it was the yacht class and their hirelings in law, politics and media.
Might be worth considering that in a specific example or context this may make sense, but zoom out further you will find that goals are solutions and solutions are goals.

It's a hierarchy, as Paul referred to as a "tree".

Each node in the acyclic graph is connected to a "why" node above it (goal) and a "how" node below it (solution).

OKRs reflect this in an organization.

People make decisions based on their values hierarchy, implicit or explicit.

If this isn't easy to follow maybe an example will help...

Let's say I have a goal of "provide reliable shelter for my family", the solution may be to "buy a house". Buying a house is also a goal, which maybe is slightly out of reach. So my solution is to "save a large portion of my income" and "secure a high paying job", these are also goals. The solution to saving may be a fintech app, discipline, good communication with my spouse, etc.. every solution is a goal with its own solutions and you can follow this tree down until you get into really specific motor tasks like taking a credit card out of a wallet or opening a door or turning the key to start a car.
Kazoo Lessons
At this point Google has basically taken over that function... "How do I _ on the command line?" more often than not gives one some starting point to develop from.
New parents in Baltimore could get a $1k 'baby bonus' to fight child poverty
Probably info wars dot com
Tesla. Traffic is "paid" but map updates are free.
I'm tempted to create a version of this that launches a crypto miner while users are waiting.
CLI tool and Python library for manipulating SQLite databases
If anyone is in the situation that they need to put an untrustworthy app on their android device, the "work profile" feature can segment it off further.

Insular is an app that lets you create and manage one of these profiles on the device itself: https://gitlab.com/secure-system/Insular
more "inclusive" roads = idiotic 'woke' culture gone batshit crazy
It feels like you've determined there's nothing wrong with pyenv, pip, and virtualenv so any issues brought up, you will reject.

If that's not the case, here's the issue - someone used pyenv and did not exactly specify the python type - I believe we were on 3.9 and prod was 3.9.11 and the current python version was 3.9.12. There was a downstream package that had an OS dependency - I believe it was pandas - that conflicted and needed to be updated locally to work with 3.9.12. This broke and raised an error in production that was not reproducible locally - and when you deploy on AWS, reproducing can be a pain in the butt. I'm sure if the data scientist had used perfect pyenv, virtualenv, and pip commands; we would have caught this. However, they're very complicated - especially for people who focus on math - so requiring full knowledge of these tools is unrealistic for most data scientists.
The EFI system partition is, by definition, either not encrypted or is unlocked by the firmware - your bootloader wouldn't work otherwise. In this setup, you just stick the UKI on the EFI system partition, and unlocking the rest of the drive is performed in the initramfs.
no kidding, so this isn't something G just came up with but another one of the features of Waze they're porting over.
> Dying in plane crashes and having their license revoked are pretty severe punishments

Neither are punishments. If you stab yourself that's your own doing, not punishment. Removing someone from a position where they cannot be trusted is not a punishment.

Airbus has had problems with their automation systems, too, that the pilots were able to save. And crashes where the pilots forgot how to recover from a stall.

Nobody is saying safety cannot still be improved. Every accident gets thoroughly investigated, and all contributing causes to the accident get dealt with.

Whipping people is not going to improve matters.
The denialism about how many Palestinians are being killed is pretty disturbing, it doesn't take a whole lot to put 2 and 2 together with the population density and level of destruction. Hopefully some people will read this and sober up.
PhDs are more about perseverance than anything else, as highlighted in this story.
> never have to deal with popups or consent forms.

What? Google won't pop up a form, but the airline site it directs you to in order to purchase your tickets absolutely will. Most sites do. Americans complain about cookie consent forms all the time, this isn't an EU-specific problem, though it does stem from EU and California regulations.
There are certain areas where the popular opinion is irrelevant. Warren Buffet said this in a more folksy way,

“It’s very important to live your life by an internal yardstick,” he told us, noting that one way to gauge whether or not you do so is to ask the following question: “Would you rather be considered the best lover in the world and know privately that you’re the worst — or would you prefer to know privately that you’re the best lover in the world, but be considered the worst?”

source: https://time.com/archive/6904425/my-650100-lunch-with-warren...
Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597534
People are less and less considering themselves as part of the problem.
I've been using Affinity's suite exclusively for about 4 years now and I haven't looked back once. Briefly tried Photoshop again for the generative AI stuff and it was slow, unreliable and crashed multiple times.

HIGHLY recommend giving Affinity a shot, I've edited thousands of images with Photo and I can't imagine using anything else now.
It's a different type of sync than that. Syncing multicameras would ensure the scanning of each camera is aligned so that the start of a frame is at the same time on each camera. Traditionally, you needed cameras that had the ability to accept a sync reference signal provided from a sync generator by running a dedicated cable to each camera as well as all of the other video equipment like switchers, Chyron, VTRs, etc. In the bad old days, if you tried to switch between two cameras that were not in sync, you'd get a very unclean cut as the H/V sync between sources were not aligned.

Today, switching equipment just "re-stripes" the timing from each input. The need for a house reference is not necessary with modern prosumer gear. For broadcast still supporting interlaced HD, they still run that reference cable.
Those are street view photos, they don't have anything about Google Maps steering, stories about people being shot on a Google Maps route, or someone getting killed, or someone getting shot with an AK-47.

I'm not sure what you're referring to with Google Maps deciding to direct people through low-income areas.

There was a recent thread, maybe a month ago, about how they don't do that, only do the most straightforward route, because redirecting traffic would cause as much bad as good. Unintended consequences and all that.

For what it's worth, a few more straightforward things:

- Google HQ is in Mountain View, not Palo Alto

- Google uses Google Slides, not PowerPoint

- ESG stands for "environmental, social, and governance" and refers to investors allocating money based on longer-term criteria beyond next quarter's results.
La Geode was an institutional place sold to the Pathé Gaumont cinema group in 2018. I got news in 2022 that the issue was that it's full of asbestos. I heard there is an ongoing legal procedural because it was not noticed in the contract..
I would really like to know more about what they are doing inside. I followed some architectural projects, and they might have removed the imax dome to operate a simpler wide screen + divided the place for others screens. So sad, it was one of the last omnispherical screen in France, there is only one left in Le Futuroscope.
Thanks a lot! I'm also planning to add support for MySQL in the near future.
If you like the project you can also contribute freely :)
> if you want to do more you need to donate via crypto which increases your download cap depending how much you donate

That doesn't really sound like a donation. That sounds like paying for a service. Unless that donation is going to some third party charity?
I actually don’t think this is special at all. An ad is an ad. Interrupting driving is no different than interrupting a video or interrupting a search action (except for the danger due to driving). It’s pretty brazen, but gMaps has had ads for a while, when searching for a destination.
Any signature on a UKI is only relevant if you have secure boot enabled, and if you have secure boot enabled using the generally trusted keys then you're already not able to boot unsigned kernels. If you want to run arbitrary kernels then either use keys under your control (which UKIs support) or turn off secure boot - UKIs change absolutely nothing here.
I mean, that horse has already bolted..

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/business/ticketmaster-hac...
The larger issue is the times that the Linux UX goes off the rails and the solution turns out to be "You're going to have to bleat this esoteric incantation at the command line." I plugged my laptop into a second monitor the other day and, oops, for whatever Godforsaken reason it didn't auto-detect. Suddenly I'm munging around in `xrandr` to get my screens to work.

To its credit, all the major desktop distributions today are making real inroads to narrowing the scope of situations where that happens. This was a much larger concern in the past, where key aspects of the user experience were still in the category "There was a command-line tool written to control it and that's all you'll ever need, dammit."
For a relatively brief period, I worked as a software quality engineer related to aerospace research and development. Practically every test that used software required a “go/nogo” decision before they were allowed to run any safety critical test. The safety chief would give the overall “go-nogo” decision but the subsystems (like software safety) would require “go-nogo” decisions to be fed through the chief.

As I’ve said elsewhere, good organizations implement a distinct chain of command for those decisions so they can be made more impartially. Even then, it’s not without career risk, but IMO that’s part of the gig and why it takes a certain amount of professional integrity. As someone else said, if someone isn’t up to that task, maybe developing safety critical software isn’t the right gig for them.
A large scale study of the police retention crisis
One difference between the standard cells in the article and the current ones is that the routing channels have been eliminated thanks to the many metal layers we now have. Back then we couldn't really afford to have metal cross the Vdd and ground lines at the top and bottom of the cells so we just stretched the polysilicon lines to the top and bottom edges. Routing was done by continuing the poly into the channel and then connecting cells with metal. This meant that though the decapped poly lines are just one thing in the photos, in terms of design the parts inside the cells are standard and the parts in the channel are custom.

This scheme works even with just poly and one level of metal, but if you have enough metal layers than you can run them through the cells themselves. You just have to avoid the vias that take the inputs and outputs down to the transistors. You have an additional gain if you flip every other row of cells so that the PMOS of two rows have the Vdd rail overlap and the NMOS of two rows have the ground rail overlap.
I agree, although a group of 34 people if sampled correctly can yield a statistical significant signal. My main problem with the methodology here is that it is completely qualitative with no reason. It would have been very simple to do a quantitative analysis and reach numbers that have statistical significance.
You seem like someone that people love having around.
> You think it's fairly typical basic upon no real knowledge or facts.

You don't know what knowledge or facts I have. So it's you who are making assertions based upon no real knowledge or facts.

> Better paid or better compensated overall?

Both.

> Often the benefits of being in a union are access to healthcare, retirement, vacation time, and other benefits that aren't reflected in hourly pay.

The union I was referring to did not offer any of these things. The company employing the union workers did. The union did not do anything that I saw to increase the level of those benefits that the company was providing.

Also, one of the primary rationales for unions in the first place was that they could do a better job of managing the skills of the work force than faceless corporations. The union I was referring to did not even have an apprenticeship program--much to the chagrin of many workers who had children they wanted to bring into their trade but got no support from their union for doing so. Many workers in fact protested, and it ended up being one of the issues that caused a change in the union leadership--but even that didn't make things any better.
They are making it up

There was a viral thread a month or two ago from an ex-Google Maps employee talking about how that'd never be considered, because tl;dr, doing that would be a great example of steering at scale leading to unintended consequences.

Not sure if they misunderstood that thread, or they're just wholesale riffing.
Vendor support for the command line coming from the EFI boot entry is of variable quality. If it works for you that's great, but unfortunately there's a bunch of boards in the wild where it doesn't. It's not a great solution for general purpose distributions as a result.
You don't even need the scare quotes -- that's exactly the conversation. The people making these decisions genuinely don't see ad-free as a feature, just a nice-to-have convenience that some weirdos will pay a premium for. And broadly speaking, they're right. When you offer a cheaper option with ads people choose it -- a lot of people choose it.

The biggest barrier to services adding ads isn't anything like enshittification or market lock-in or whatever, it's that ad-delivery is hard and it takes large, mature company with lots of users to both sport the manpower to get it done and enough eyeballs to make the ROI positive. All those little stupidly named ad-supported streaming platforms that are popping up are almost always backed by a larger company's ad network. Tubi is Fox, Xumo is Comcast, Freevee is Amazon.
Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
And improving OSM _feels_ great in my experience. It's actually and primarily helping the open-source community.

Google really incentivizes users to fix map data (like business info) and, after doing so, shows you popups like "Your change was seen by 10,000 people!". Really good UX. Yet, I was only doing free work for a mega corp which doesn't feel as satisfying (and I stopped doing so).
Tesla works offline but doesn’t store points of interest or have search functionality. You can type in a specific address and it will navigate there though
NTP time skew can be on the order of 100ms. If the audio/video is desynced by 30ms, it can definitely be noticeable. Some people are more sensitive than others, and it also depends on the particulars of the content.

Edit: Another commenter points out that in some situations, it's even necessary to align the time that the frames start, which necessarily requires sub-frame precision.
At least for inkscape, I do see it in the RHEL appstream repo.

A RHEL workstation license will provide basic OS support for it; if you crash it, they might wrangle with the project for you.
Honestly you might even have a better time vs paying for seats where you can't even see the act.

https://help.ticketmaster.com/hc/en-us/articles/978498452737....

I go to a lot of concerts. Ticketmaster covers half of the shows I go to. They're not that much worse than others who also tack on fees amounting to 20% of the purchase price.

I'm not opposed to basic regulation, but let's not act like Ticketmaster is some uniquely evil company.
> Claiming that tourism is just a negative is just plainly wrong

Would be a logical step if your real goal is to attack the economy of the country. Foreign agents are getting short of ideas in the book it seems

Or surely I'm paranoid and some morning lots of people waked up as a single organism with the genius idea of stopping tourism harassing people and squirting water on them and their cameras and phones, just because

We have seen before variants of the "is just water haha" stunt used on politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrXpW33RNk

A seemingly innocuous zero legal consequences method to spread paranoia if needed, or Legionella if convenient. Specially if you can convince a bunch of useful idiots to provide lots of cover for you.

Also used by idiots to torment a political opponent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muzsNEEQOjU
They were vacationing in Argentina, not living there.
UKIs provide mechanisms for adding additional sidecar modules which can extend the initramfs, provide additional command line modifications, and so on.
https://archive.ph/SIMOB
What is your point? (1) That others should have gone to jail too, or that (2) Kareem was only doing what everyone else was doing?

For (1), were other people prosecuted? Maybe there was insufficient evidence or process issues that got in the way of additional convictions.

For (2), how does that excuse a crime?

Kareem's story is fascinating for many reasons and I don't find lying about bond prices to be a crime to hate someone over. But, a crime it is, nonetheless.
Thats a CIA playbook you are referring to: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
How is it even a violation if it's outside the US? Argentina is an independent country. US laws do not apply there.

I'm sure the random person violates a number of laws of Iran and/or other autocratic countries with one's online comments. Should these countries serve up extradition papers for them?
"probably somewhere else" is the correct answer in the US.
Not a problem if you buy a Sony Bravia TV. I bought one and it only took a little over a year before they stopped shipping updates to it.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864635
Calamares ABI Checking
They describe it as a donation, but I think your description is more accurate. It doesn't go to charity.
Apps? The only electronic device permitted in my bedroom is an alarm clock. I have an old one with seven segment displays. It's impossible to doomscroll at midnight with it.
this exactly. freebsd's loader is one of the only sane ones ive seen. grub is an amazing piece of software but its really a mess to work with.
What if those laws hold back the society at large?

There is no evidence that the availibilty of Tor decreases sales in the works themselves. Quite the contrary, while i don't use z library specifically, i often use the open librarys to speed read through certain sections before i decide to buy the print, or through kindle just because the experience is that much better.

The powers that be offer us a contract where all our data is open and available for selling, training, marketing and general manipulation but yet when someone maintains a decentralized directory of books they get punished by the full extent of the law.

In this particular case, the United States can't even provide a list of copyrights that are being violated and the judge was removed for collusion. This is where my taxpayer dollars are going?...
It’s lacking in POI but I find Organic Maps great otherwise (if what you are looking for is there).

https://organicmaps.app/