skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Chrome.

The "You deserve a better browser" argument is all about privacy which doesn't bother me.

It's actually become better recently with the 'google lens' thing built in which is pretty handy. It's also pretty good at translation which I find other browsers are clunky for.

I wonder re privacy if there are any examples at all, out of the billions of users, of a real person being harmed by Google knowing their browsing habits?
A Reintroduction to Programming
Being too blunt raises defenses and completely wipes out the effectiveness of your feedback. Folks that are invested in outcomes make choices for good reason, and they've probably got a track record to back it up. You have to meet them where they are, and considering their communication styles and how they make decisions will improve the chances you're actually heard.

It's a fact of life that people shut down when approached with evidence that refutes their world view or choices. It doesn't matter if it's your boss or grandparents.
This is entirely the perspective of an abusive CEO. As we say here in Australia, get fucked. What an entitled grub.
> I think that I did not make a mistake except to believe that you truly intended to attempt to compress the data I was sending you.

Weird phrase to hear from a digital carnival scam artist.
There's a 'concentration' (of people / power) effect by the creation of a business or company or corporation that makes said entity more appealing to cater to by government than individuals; centralisation is more efficient than decentralisation.

There's also the fact that, historically at least, business entities were created to serve a public need, and therefore these business entities should be encouraged to grow their service to greater satisfy the need.

Government still acts as if this is the case despite that many business entities are the grotesque offspring of that old idea, having evolved through perverse incentives into todays unrecognisable mutants of 'responsibility to shareholders' that are hideous to look upon.
CHON?
> The thing I keep coming back to here is how we all must sound to the janitors, security guards, baristas, etc, who can't ever work from home.

Every job has its perks and disadvantages. I don’t have the same perks my friends who are doctors have, so should they now give them up because it’s not fair to me because I’m not a doctor and don’t have them?
> The problem with that is nearly everywhere in the US the average rate of speed on highways is about 5 miles over the speed limit

By "everywhere", if you measure by speed per mile of road, I bet you're right.

By if you measure average speed by driver, I'd bet congestion dominates and average highway speeds are significantly below the speed limit.
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To clarify, this is specific to "alphabetic" writing, cuneiform/hieroglyphs are older.
Largely agree, 19 years here. Good managers and bad managers alike have weaknesses that are largely in-built personality traits. Telling them won't change how they've spent decades behaving.

The two worst managers I had clearly had anger management issues and some sort of inferiority complex, theres no feedback to fix that.

Try to stick with good managers as long as you can, especially if their weaknesses that don't bother you too much, understand where it's coming from, and try not to take it personally.

The 3 examples at the top of the article - unclear guidance, unable to set priorities, and not training new hires .. these are good benign issues that I've seen repeatedly from good managers.

You can remind them in a friendly tone why things are happening -(as they raise yet another low importance high urgency task) "if we keep switching to these urgent but less important tasks, the long-term important things (give examples) you are unhappy with the pace of will continue to be slow". The best outcome tends to be a 20% reduction in the undesired behavior, over many months. It doesn't go away or get unlearned.
Maybe. Or it might be referring to a particular phone bitch which it is imploring the viewer to put down.
But you see the contrast between "you are a valuable and well-compensated knowledge worker" and "you have to move somewhere more appropriate for your working-class income"? And how can anyone continue to say this is lucrative with a straight face?
I am capable of writing very good software, testing it, and putting it into production, but I am not capable of being responsible for what happens at 3am on a Sunday. Whether that deal is okay is up to you. I'm okay if you don't want to pick me. There are other jobs I can get. I write good software though.

If the customer is awake at 3am on a Sunday, it's the customer's problem that they were awake at 3am on a Sunday. If it's a social network, I frankly couldn't care; the customer should go to bed. If it's going to be deployed in the emergency room, fine, we should care, but YOU, management, should find people who are actually willing to take that shift (for extra money, or are based in other time zones).
> Imagine the difference between "I want to give you feedback that you aren't spending enough time with new hires" vs "I know you've been wanting to spend more time with the new hires, why don't you take them for lunch and send me to your status meeting over Tuesday lunch time this week."

This is the proper answer. Ultimately, feedback should be about changing something. My experience is that most people are neither good at giving or receiving feedback, and that includes myself. There are more effective ways to change things.

OP's is useful when you have to give feedback, which is expected in most large companies in some form or other (evals, etc.).
Driving in Europe is like running on a track with a couple of assholes and a few normal people. Driving in the US is like running on a track with a couple of assholes and a lot of normal people.

The end result in the US is that on highways drivers will settle into social groups of normal people driving along with occasional disruptions from the assholes.
No, that is exactly how you inform a superior officer that you believe the mission is a waste of time, effort, equipment, and manpower, and will probably get everyone killed for next-to-no benefit.
Most of the time, the US drivers passing on the right in my region are speeding and driving erratically. I agree that slow drivers in the fast lane are dangerous. Driving in the slow lane like it's the fast lane isn't the solution.
With all the negativity in TFA and in the comments, I just want to point out that objectively, the world's gotten a lot better in a lot of ways.

Extreme poverty is down to almost nothing.

Polio is all but eradicated.

Many types of cancer, death sentences just 20 years ago, are treatable. HIV is practically curable.

You can learn anything you want on YouTube, Wikipedia, and the wider web with time and effort, for free. (The TFA acknowledges this.)

I'm not saying there aren't huge problems. The benefit, to paraphrase, is not evenly distributed. But in nearly every sense it's better to have been born in the 90s than the 60s.

We can and should discuss lack of regulation, legal-but-wrong tax evasion, societal risks, there's plenty of bad to go around. But put it in context - there's a lot of good to go around too.
My point wasn't that you can't find art made by a human that has the characteristics of AI art. My point was more that it's just bad art.
On the two lane sections of I-5, among other busy trucking routes, you can encounter miles long convoys of trucks in the right lane. If you religiously stick to staying to the right, you and a whole lot of other traffic will be weaving between the trucks and changing lanes every minute or so. So nobody who's going 10mph faster than the trucks does that. If you actually did that, you'll likely get boxed out trying to get back into the left lane as soon as you come up on another truck -- you'll have a brief period where you're going 75 in the right lane, then you have to slow down to 60 to deal with a truck, then you go back to overtaking at 75, then get back in the right lane... rinse and repeat. What happens instead is that the people enraged by this will use the gap on the right to go 100mph past everyone who just wants to cruise at a steady speed past all of the trucks.
I guess ChatGPT is making things up because it is much less than that. Closer to 25million km, although complicated by the fact that the sun does not rotate as a rigid body but instead rotates faster at the equator than the poles.
Is the argument here that every software team should have engineers whose normal working hours have 24/7/365 coverage?
I have found this article https://www.tecmint.com/best-rss-feed-readers-for-linux/ and has some nice self-hosted options.

From a desktop app's point of view, I have tried liferea for a while and liked it a lot.

I'm not using anymore though, because the websites I used to follow went behind captcha mechanism(s) and cannot fetch their feed any longer which saddens me just by thinking about it.
I got pulled over and given a warning when someone passed me to the right.

I told the officer I totally support the policy.

In my defense, I was overtaking other vehicles to the right and moving at the speed of the vehicle ahead of me, but as I was driving a large vehicle I was preserving a longer follow distance than the tailgater (err, driver) who passed me thought I needed...

AITAH?
Ask HN: How to validate B2C software ideas?
Find customers before building is a popular tactic in B2B SaaS where you conduct user interviews before even building the MVP. I think that works well because business people are used to getting cold calls/meetings. But what about B2C ideas? How do you conduct interviews? Are non-business people used to getting sales call? Or is there a better way for a software that costs say $30/yr?
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Won't work, recorded deed restrictions run with the land.
Oh, I was thinking board positions that could never be reached in a real game. Actually, I have no idea what the technical definition of a legal board state is, haha.
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Nobody talks about why Google defederated GTalk.

At first, Google was very idealistic in its mission, perhaps even doe-eyed in the manner expressed in the article: no defensive patent portfolio to match their level of innovation (until Apple went "thermonuclear" on Android, and started an internecine patent war); open GTalk XMPP federation (until Facebook extracted GTalk users' "social graph[1]" without giving any data back). No internal data controls so that employees could to innovate quickly, trusting they'd do the right thing (until an engineer harassed SF Bay Area teenagers he knew IRL using their Google data), and so on. No technology can win against the human condition.

1. At a time when the hype for social graphs was a little higher than it is for AI now, and Google viewed its battle with Facebook as existential.
> Remember, ownership is a social construct.

But the argument about you not really "owning" stuff even when the button says "buy" is a legal one.
> When did on-call become so accepted and demanded from employers?

As a 50 something year old software engineer. Its always been like this. I'm kinda shocked at how reluctant the new generation is to support the systems. Sure we'd all prefer strict 9-5 hours but most companies rely on software to stay in business and you need experts available in case things go wrong.
I wasn’t woken up. If someone is woken up, it’s expected they take more time off.
Well XASA obviously!

The government would save billions (tens of billions over the long haul), increase cadence, increase mission scope, and cut flight times, by cutting NASA’s build-&-burn rocket manned program in favor of SpaceX’s reusable manned craft and space refueling services.

SpaceX Starship could also reduce the cost and increase cadence of scientific missions, in two ways:

1) By reducing launch costs via greater system reuse.

2) And by increasing available launch volume, eliminate a lot of the design & manufacturing time, cost, complexity and risk created by today’s need to fit craft into toad’s more limited volumes.

Less need for craft miniaturization means (a) fewer risky/complex unfolding maneuvers in flight, (b) much easier radiation mitigation via more shielding, larger more resilient circuits, redundancy, etc. And (c) fewer craft, with more capabilities and higher longevity.

And as with the manned program, increase mission scope, while reducing transfer to target times, via in orbit refueling.

If only we could find someone with the incentives, plan, means and mandate, to cut government space spending while somehow also expanding its manned & scientific space exploration capabilities and scope.

The hardest part is to find such a uniquely capable person, who also has enough slack time to take this on. A rare trait combination, indeed. What are the chances of finding a genius reefer doom scrolling bloviating slacker? Who could put all that disposable time to better use?
I've long said that anyone making that argument for having your average car be able to go up to 150 or so needs to be put in a car, forced to drive at a minimum speed of 150, and forced to do 50 or so miles on your average American highway.

If after that experience they are still alive and still wish to make that argument, then I will accept it.

But with that said, I have heard an alternate argument for it that makes more sense to me. Most cars aren't running their engines at 100% -- they shouldn't be. But the top of the RPM and speed dials, are meant to represent that 100%. So the 155mph standard upper limit on many cars' speed gauges is more to account for the fact that if you push the powertrain of the car to 100%, you will probably find yourself at somewhere near those kinds of speeds anyways, and you want to still show the driver how fast they're going, even if they're doing something nuts.
I think this article is teaching you how to dance on a song that isn't being played for you. Unless the feedback is something that is going to benefit, or improve your own work, then toss it aside. My experience [1].

Unless your company is in pursuit of a noble human endeavor, just make sure you get some good work done, and make good connections along them way. The truth is rarely what a company seeks. So if your manager is imperfect, don't sweat it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21766903
If anything the effectiveness/necessity of manually adding print statements to get any feedback about what the program you're working on is doing makes me look down on software development in general.

We are working on a system that could have nearly total visibility, down to showing us a simulation of individual electrons moving through wires, yet we're programming basically blind. The default is I write code and run it, without any visual/intuitive feedback about what its doing besides the result. So much of my visual system goes completely unused. Also debuggers can be a pain to set up, way more reading and typing than "print()"
I think Waugh's quote is on point with why them being explicit is relevant (and it's not about the prudish takes):

> “The format that they use that in is not the greatest,” Kick said. “It is in fact more distracting than it is actually getting the message across.”

How many speedsters are going to slow down because a sign says "fuck" vs how many drivers are going to point, laugh, grab pictures with their phones, anything besides actually slow down or pay attention to the road?
bumped it up
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Not related to this paper but you may find the Solresol constructed language interesting:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solresol
It’s even more important to give it bluntly if the feedback is irrelevant. That way you’ve wasted less time.

Me: “we aren’t giving enough guidance to new hires”
Leader: “it’s not a priority for us since we are freezing hiring”

Perfectly good interaction, where you didn’t waste time sneakily phrasing things you think you know better than the leader. And you learned some valuable info about the org priorities as a result.
now we are talking!!! to me early retirement is exactly that freedom, go to local community college and teach a couple of courses to up and coming stars, coach a little league, volunteer… but all on your time and your fullfillment and not someone else’s!
I was following this discussion on the /r/chipdesign subreddit when Ken posted there a few days ago. Nice to see that he gave credit and linked to that thread.

I'm a physical design engineer that uses software from Cadence and Synopsys to do chip layout of blocks with billions of standard cells. Our flow automatically puts antenna diodes in for all block input pins. Then the tools are usually good enough to breakup internal nets with layer jumping to avoid antennas.

Some of the charge also comes from the CMP process. Modern chips have about 20 layers of metal but there are lots of other via layers in between those and then all the base layers with the actual transistors. You want the wafer to be flat before building the next layer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical-mechanical_polishing
"Explicit" as used in the article doesn't mean what you think it does.
I'm curious how they arrived at the conclusion it's an alphabet without deciphering it.
You may be thinking of Lebanon.
For creative works, there's always a license behind it post the invention of copyright. It wasn't as obvious in the past now that DRM and digital/streaming only has given studios/publishers/etc the ability to cancel your access at their discretion. Though complicating matters is that there's increasingly nothing worth spending money on in the first place anymore.
I suppose it depends on what type of “criticism” it is. Generally feedback is most valuable when it’s constructive not critical. If you just say “X is bad” that isn’t very useful no matter how you phrase it.

I would be surprised if respectful constructive criticism was met with firing but I suppose it does happen. Probably not the best to be working for those people in any case.
In my opinion : yes. But when you think about who Elon became, I think … Yeah a truly terrible way to train an AI.
I don’t know if it’s “very high”. It can happen but on average I think successful people tend to be more reasonable and intelligent than average (not always obviously).
Well yes, it’s a higher variance approach. If you can’t afford to look for a new job then by all means keep your head down and avoid all controversy. I would do the same in that situation. That doesn’t apply to everyone however, so for those people it would make sense to try to make things better and potentially advance their careers.
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> the argument about you not really "owning" stuff even when the button says "buy" is a legal one

Ownership is a stack of rights. It's a social construct--you can't lab test for ownership. It's meaningless to say what "really" owning means without specifying which of those rights you view to be essential in this situation.
I think what the speedometer is capable of displaying, what the car is actually capable of reaching, and what the governor should be set to are 3 separate items. I wouldn't have any problem with the latter being set lower on general cars mostly because it'd be an extra "and you removed the limiter on a public road" charge when they are caught more than the hope it'd actually do anything preventative. It's not like people getting pulled over for doing 120 mph now are getting a $100 speeding ticket though and the same thing could be achieved through just making that punishment higher directly.

Also anyone buying a car that can genuinely take itself to 150 (i.e. not that the speedometer can read 150 but that the whole car, tires included, are actually rated to not fall apart when the engine tries to do so) who hasn't already taken the thing to a track is either nuts or one of those people with a car collection garage of things they never actually drive. That includes any of you model S owners... it's a blast.
I think also, being able to write a minimal amount of code to implement any given feature is important.

However, your code should anticipate a range of possible future requirements changes... But then it shouldn't try to be a silver bullet either. Experience helps a lot as it allows you to see hurdles and limitations ahead of time so you know exactly how much silver you can put in your bullet for any given part of your code.
Oh why can't anyone just ever call a spade a spade on here?

The main finding was that it was Fraud. People in these villages got addicted to free money for their long dead relatives. So instead of declaring them dead they willfully knowingly illegally buried/cremated them and happily kept cashing checks. In the form of various retirement payments and government social programs.

It unveiled massive wide scale fraud. It was not some silly innocient whoopsie story as you tell it.
It’s surprising to me that such dysfunctional orgs exist where a single person can just fire someone immediately over some feedback. How have they even grown to be a business with that attitude?

But sure, you do need to adapt your strategy for the environment you exist in. That’s just common sense.
Good catch. The total discount should be divided by 100. I missed that. :) Fixed now.
Barely tangentially related, but I5 desperately needs to be widened to 3 lanes with a strict "No semi trucks in the left lane, for any reason" rule that is enforced with impounding trucks, the goods they're carrying, and loss of licensing for the drivers and the companies they work for. I'm not even against making it so that CHP, OHP...etc, are allow to use the proceeds from auctioning off the impounded trucks and goods to fund themselves.

I've wasted far too many hours of my life getting stuck behind a left-lane truck on that road, trying to overtake a column of trucks in the right lane while going up a 6% grade.
But that would imply Russia becoming a neo-colony of the US, like the two mentioned countries. Which I don't think would ever happen, I think Russia would chose MAD over that if forced to make that choice. Russia under Yeytsin was already drifting towards becoming something like that, and has been firmly going in the other direction ever since
If I spend long enough, I can count whole numbers to infinity. I cannot possibly count all the numbers between 0 and 1. This so why real numbers have a whole different magnitude of infinity from integers.
im talking about nukes man...irakis dont have them...you have to open your eyes, do you want to be a saint or something? your discourse doesnt add up, have you heard about self-defense? its in your genes: somebody hits you or threatens you, youll instantly be either running or fighting, its a reflex
I like the idea of added compensation based on hours covered as it incentivizes the business to avoid very small rotation sizes, but paying extra per page seems like a perverse incentive favoring instability.
Feels very organic actually considering it has been around for a while now and people are only now beginning to move to it in droves.