skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"every team working to improve the customer experience - guided by leadership priorities and initiatives"

The fundamental issue is that in almost all larger companies, upper management does not trust that their employees are either intrinsically motivated to do a good job, or are smart enough to determine what "a good job" is.

So rather than having a chain of trust from upper management to middle management to individual contributors, they seek to create a measurable control system. This inevitably replaces people's intrinsic motivation to do a good job with an extrinsic motivation, which only poorly represents the company's actual goals. At this point, most people are no longer trying to do a good job, they're instead trying to make their numbers look good.

Upper management has effectively replaced real, meaningful work with a game where everybody tries to score points, and the people who don't participate in that game are eventually stackranked out of the company.
Whenever this sort of topic comes up, I always have to give a shout out to 20th Century Flicks in Bristol:

https://20thcenturyflicks.co.uk/

They have a huge library of DVD and VHS for rental!
I agree that there needs to be more ISM bands, but I don't agree that licencing bands is niche at all.

The bands owned by Cellular providers are not entirely empty at all, in fact they're very well utilised. It is much easier to make efficient use of spectrum when you can plan it properly, and when there is only one system making allocation decisions (e.g. TDMA/FDMA). Collision based systems (like Wifi) have an efficiency cost.
The hard part will be legal. You will need permission to have a radio and that often means certification of the system along with right to use the frequencies phones use.
And one of the interesting (and hard) computer science problems is how to turn an arbitrary einsum expression into the most efficient series of operations (transpose, matmul, etc.) available in hardware kernels. This is mentioned in the post under "How Contractions Are Actually Computed".
There's a ton of material related to anomaly detection with Prometheus and Grafana stack: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/10/03/how-to-use-prometheus-to.... But maybe this is the "way too complex" case you mention.
Chromebooks still set for scrap, even with 10-year lifecycle
This looks very similar to what ChatGPT would write
Every time I am presented with something like that that reminisce me of the 90's web, its innocence, and the unlimited potential it presented, I am brought back to Jaron's Lenier book, "You are not a gadget" and this often-cited quote out of it:

"If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty-headed and contentless"
I'm still playing around with this one: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/10/03/how-to-use-prometheus-to... (there's a github repo for it).

So far, it's not terrible, but has some pretty big flaws.
> It turns out that empowered people want to do a good job and want to save money.

You have to be careful here. In your example those captains didn’t really care about their job they cared about getting the high score. Metrics, KPIs, etc work but only when they’re setup perfectly aligned with your actual business goals. Measure/score the wrong thing and you’ll get nowhere.

For example, what if the metric posted was distance traveled by a barge. You’d have captains taking the longest routes possible just to get the high score instead of shipping the most product per unit time which is what the manager would have intended.
Apart from complexity and patents, the other other barrier is licensing.

Those technologies aren't terribly useful to use in your house like WiFi is, and even if they were, you need more government paperwork to do it. That means less hobbyist interest.
Oh, I am not claiming that overall system is friendly. I am paying some absurd taxes myself.

But at least "I want to test run a business idea at tiny scale, without violating law" is solved.
Often I want to know the sequence of some events, what points are reached. Adding print statements is a quick way to trace that. How can tooling make that more convenient?
Monty Python covered this a long time ago. To get rich, first you need to get a lot of money.
You seem confused, I'm not selling anything, I explained the reality of PGP at the time it was created.

Perhaps you have a literate child that might explain context.
He talks a lot when on a book tour, you know, promoting a book.

There is a couple months where he is on every podcast. Then he is gone again.

You know who else does this, every other author on the planet. When a book is coming out, then suddenly the authors are on every podcast or show, talk, debate, anything they can manage to get on. Its a blitz.

You know what else happens on a book tour, they tend to give a highlight of the book. They don't sit there reading off references and citations. They give a streamlined high level idea of what the book is about, but not all of it, because they want people to go buy it.
What’s the Deal with Mid-Training?
The FA is probably charging you a significant fee to calculate predicted_annual_spending_in_retirement_before_tax_and_fees / 0.04

The idea is that you can reliably withdraw 4% of invested savings over decades without exhausting the capital. Some feel the 4% should be 3.75%, 3.5%, 3.25%, ..., especially if you retire early.
Technically correct yet missing the point. The plane could have disintegrated in a dozen other ways if the wall wasn’t there, or something else could be in the way.

I think the fact we have dramatic footage of the crash makes it a very attractive topic for engagement. News are spinning it into something it is not. A handful of massive errors happened and we know nothing yet, the focus on the structure for being in the way just makes for good clickbait, gives people an easy target to blame - the airport, engineers, regulators (doesn’t really matter who), and something to get riled up about.
This is nearly my exact experience at work. I work on an internal tools team, so my users are other engineers at the company. Product teams have Product Managers and seem to put in a lot of effort into their OKRs, but for the internal tools team, we're in some limbo: still forced to write OKRs, but no parts of the process that are actually useful. We might have an OKR to upgrade Jenkins before an EOL date, but no introspection about whether the company at large would be better served by GitLab CI (as an example). Management only cares that we have defined KPIs like "Days remaining until Jenkins EOL date" and that they are improving. I still try to have the difficult conversations, but it's a constant battle with management as improving developer happiness by allowing them to use a better system isn't easily demonstrated on a dashboard.

Also, like you said, teams write their OKRs in a vacuum without coordinating with other teams. So, one engineering team might have an OKR to fix some memory issue affecting their Jenkins pipelines, but they didn't communicate that with the internal tools team that operates Jenkins. It then became a struggle between the two managers, one saying "We need to fix this Jenkins issue or we'll fail our OKRs commitment" and the other saying "We already committed to different OKRs this quarter, we can't take on new work." The engineers are stuck between this battle trying to help each other in secret without management hearing about it.
I mean Coca-Cola is junk food, it's unhealthy and we know it is. They advertise to maintain the illusion that it leads to success and happiness. They can't afford for scientific understanding to win over the brainwashing of 'brand advertising'as that would be the death knell for the company (or 99% of it).
Main content of each page not loading for me - maybe it's Flash?
Microplastics impact endocrine hormones and potentially are carcinogenic.

Lifespan growth has stagnated although technology has improved. Quality of life has declined as number of temperate days with good air quality declines with climate change.
I needed a TS anomaly detection for my internship because we needed to track when a machine/server was doing poorly or had unplanned downtime. I expected Microsoft's C# library to be able to do this, but my god, it's a mess. If someone has the time and will to implement a proper library then that would ve awesome.
The cost of 30 to 300 is the cost of the cloud pc, with or without this device. The device just provides a secure way to access it.

For context

For 30 you get 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM,64 GB Storage.
For 300 you get 16 vCPU,64 GB RAM, 1 TB Storage.

https://www.microsoft.com/en/windows-365/enterprise/all-pric...
I've been using Qube https://qubemoney.com/ for a couple years as a bank to help with my money management. It has some nice features, but I'm looking to migrate away from it over the next year. I'm a "Simple" refugee, who got here via "One".

The big down side is that it is fairly expensive, I spend almost $200/year on it. Which would be fine, if I felt like I was getting something for it. But, in the 2 years I've had it, I've not really felt like they've done much improvement of it, and my customer support experience has been pretty bad. For example, one time some of my "auto transfers" just vanished, leading to a couple hundred dollars in late fees, and when I contacted support they "recovered" them, but then I ended up with a bunch of duplicated auto transfers.

I also really just don't ever feel like I have much of an idea of how much money I have available. Simple was always very good about that: I could look and it would tell me an exact number I had that was unused.

Now, that $200/year is for a family plan, so it covers 4 people. Having debit cards and accounts for the kids is fairly nice. Transferring money to the kids for chores is handy.
You mentioned your coworkers found shortcomings, I assume that implies the presence of bugs (be it in code, documentation, or even just more unnecessary code to maintain)
Maybe you're thinking of Angus Barbieri [0]:

"Angus Barbieri (1938 or 1939 – 7 September 1990) was a Scottish man who fasted for 382 days,from 14 June 1965 to 30 June 1966. He subsisted on tea, coffee, sparkling water, vitamins and yeast extract while living at home in Tayport, Scotland, frequently visiting Maryfield Hospital for medical evaluation. Barbieri went from 456 pounds (207 kg) to 180 pounds (82 kg), losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a record for the length of a fast."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast
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What you do not consider is that all serious UBI initiatives will see UBI as a _replacement_ to multiple other already existing welfare programs such as housing stipends, childcare benefits, maternity leave benefits, illness benefits, food stamps, veteran care... Not only will those be removed if UBI is implemented, the bureaucracy around those benefits will be eliminated or significantly reduced which means that more of the money paid in taxes will be distributed to people.

As far as my own tax burden, I pay a marginal tax rate of about 33% and would have no issue increasing that. I also think I pay too little in property taxes for my house. I am also getting a tax write-off to my loan which means I can take on a higher loan that I maybe should have (this write-off is bad on a macro scale because of the increased risk), I think that write-off should be phased out. There are also other taxes to adjust such as Tobacco taxes, VAT:s (we have four tiers today: 0, 6, 12, and 25 percent VAT depending on the type of good), Wealth taxes, Carbon taxes, and Financial taxes such as those on dividends and transactions.
Anecdote time: [Hi from Argentina!] During 2020 everyone and their dog made a similar project with Moodle (not as nice, but easier to implement in a few weeks). At the peak, I had to use at work 4 Moodles and my wife 4 Moodles, and only 2 were in common. A friend has like 5 or 6. Note that all of them were in the same University! And all of them had a slightly diferent configuration so transfering quiz from one to another was sometimes a problem.

I participated actively building questions for one of them before the pandemic, and we copied a lot of the stuff to one or two of the others.

I don't know about selling this stuff, but I think it will be difficult.

Anyway, I have some feedback about the questions. I tried the free ones. In the calculus example, when the computer replaces

something + 7x + c

with x=-4, it uses

something + 7 × - 4 + c

We usualy prefer that the students use parenthesis arround the negative values like

something + 7 × (- 4) + c

In a midterm we will put a warning, but not substract points if they don't use the parenthesis. Most of the times the students don't write the × and the equation is confusing.

Also in the next step

something + - 28 + c

I strongly preffer

something + (- 28) + c
LLMs and Code Optimization
FreeBSD Foundation: A Year of Sponsored Development in 2024
Ask HN: Have you considered outsourcing your side projects?
I am sure I am not alone in this when I say that I have too many ideas for projects and not enough time. The pile of unfinished side projects continues to fester in my Documents folder as if to shame me, daily.

Has anyone considered paying a cheap-ish freelancer to just knock out some of the prototypes you have in mind and then picking it up from there?

I know that with side projects half the fun is doing it yourself, but it's also nice to actually realize your ideas and see them come to life. A small prototype can quickly validate your idea. Sometimes the hardest part about starting is setting up all the dependencies.

Has anyone done this? What did you learn?
Maybe that's why I'm not rich? Because I am honest?

I think this culture of normalizing lying means that more and more humans are just garbage. Because being able to trust someone is telling the truth is just a fundamental part of integrity. Without integrity we have.. well I guess the world we live in.. dangerous, full of trash. Everything is bullshit.

I hope the machines take over soon.
> Surely even in the UK food is a bit more than just a way of not dying.

It definitely is. Most people I know care about having good food. It does vary a lot with income and region. The biggest problem is long working hours and people not having time or energy to do anything more than buy ready meals.

While people in the UK tend to eat worse than people in the rest of Europe, we eat better than Americans and food here is "rich and varied".

I am puzzled by GP's comment about having cheaper rent by not having a kitchen. I have never even heard of anywhere you could rent here that did not have a kitchen - its really must be bottom end room rental (and even there shared kitchens are normal).
One of the problems here is that this uses quite a lot of the MS source code and I'm not sure of the license & legality of it. This was in an era where MS used to release part of the actual source code of Windows for OEMs to adapt, but as there was a special deal for each particular OEM, it is not very clear what the actual licensing & redistributing terms are if you didn't had such a deal. Most probably, this is violating MS copyrights, even if the source code is easily available on the web these days.

I already had to drop a customer project like this a decade or so ago (just because of this uncertainty) so it's not entirely a moot issue.
> Acme won the auction because it was able to bid more. It was able to bid more because it has better lifetime value per customer, i.e. it does a better job of satisfying customer needs.

This is obviously not true. What if they are backed by investors? And there are a gazillion other reasons why they could spend more on that ad ...
This. The elite salesperson is great at understanding and solving problems, not BS.
Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD? – André Machado – Blog
Safari’s idiotic AI has decided that every time I want to go to youtube, I actually want to go to a specific clip of peppa pig failing to learn how to whistle

Google’s idiotic AI has decided that the clip of peppa pig failing to whistle depicts suicidal ideation, and so every time I visit the clip I get a big dramatic black rectangle and a therapyspeak question “Am I an adult who is prepared to view a depiction of suicide.” It took me embarassingly long to notice that this nessage, repeated constantly enough, was actually affecting my mood.

Your scenario is generous in assuming that the suicide prevention FAANGers who coded up this situation are intelligently following bad incentives. I think its more likely that their intelligence is just found lacking, when unfairly compared to the galaxy brain needed to actually guess the consequences of our actions at this scale.
Reminds me of the classic adage that "everything can be solved by another layer of abstraction, except for the problem of too much abstraction layers".
Can't talk for all regions of Apple Maps, but here in Canada I still get many errors when using it - especially when using bikes, buses and so on. It remains impossible to confidently use compared to Google Maps. When it comes to Apple AI stuff - too much work was put on Apple Vision and this was a tragically bad strategic decision from Executives at Apple. I wouldn't be surprised it will be presented in the future as one of the greatest miss from Tim and his gang.
Look into Actual Budget, it’s a free self-hostable clone of YNAB. Or could be thought of as an independent implementation of the same budgeting methodology - but it felt close enough in UI and concepts that I feel comfortable calling it a clone.
Let's be real. If you have a website were you are trying to sell something to your page visitors (not ad clicks or referral links), then each of these annoyances and hurdles increase the risk that a potential customer backs out of it.

If you give great customer service, you get great customers – and they don't mind paying a premium.

If you're coercing customers, then you get bad customers – and they are much more likely to give you trouble later.

Most business owners are your run of the mill dimwits, because we live in a global feudal economic system – and owning a business doesn't mean you are great at sales or have any special knowledge in your business domain. It usually just means you got an inheritance or that you have the social standing to be granted a loan.
>>just "it's overrated" and "standards have risen".

> LOL

If it were simply the art itself, and not the name attached to it, nobody would care if a piece in the style of Leonardo was forgery or an original, they would only care if it was good.

There wouldn't even be a word for forgery, in the context of art, if it was really about the art itself.
The change was quite shocking. For 25 years, to get a new job I’d send out 5 resumes, get 4 interviews, and 3 offers. This time around, I sent 200+ resumes, got 2 interviews, and ghosted on both.
We had a sales guy that the rest of the office hated, but whom I absolutely loved. He'd sell the craziest shit. E.g. him and I attempted to replace a customers Kubernetes stack with Azure websites and CosmosDB, saving them two years of hosting the first month (We failed because the client didn't feel like we where being serious).

At one point he sold a project that would lead to his termination and it was the most brilliant sale I've ever seen. A customer wanted monitoring and a 24/7 "operation center", but one which didn't have access to any systems. We'd channel alerts from the customer into our on-call, which would then phone the customers staff and tell them that "YO! X is broken" and hang up. The price was insane, is was free money, but the customer was excited and felt like they got a great deal.
hello,

afaik.:

the first model of the ST, the 520 ST - idk if it existed in the "STF"-variant with a build-in floppy-drive - had only a single-sided external drive.

starting with the ST 1040 STF the drive was double-sided - but still single-density :)

just my 0.02€
There is a heavy Dunning-Kruger effect where people think they are very discerning and sophisticated in how they filter, but gradually descend into depths of misinformation without realizing.

Grandparents sharing nonsense on Facebook also think themselves highly informed — after all they’ve spent the past ten years in retirement “doing their own research”.
Done something silly, or done the same thing with a false advertisement that was more viral?
Doesn't seem to offer more insights than the Kubernetes docs.
> The Steiners were harassed and threatened both online and physically in their home by deliveries of such things as a bloody pig mask, live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, and large orders of pizza.[5][1][6] Pornographic magazines with David Steiner’s name on them were sent to a neighbor’s house.

Wow, what disgusting human beings..
Search for podlet. It lets you do what you want.
there are always exception to the rule :)
Amazon is a multi-billion dollar global behemoth but they still stole tips from their drivers. Capitalists gonna capitalize.
See also perhaps "IPv6-mostly on OpenWRT" from RIPE 87:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ6pxh6ukCg

* https://ripe87.ripe.net/archives/video/1136/

* https://ripe87.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/8-I...

Ansible roles:

* https://github.com/oskar456/ansible-openwrt-ipv6-mostly
The internet did not take off slow and it wasn't a hard sell. Maybe to home users in rural Canada, a negligible fraction of customers. Internet usage exploded so fast that just a few years after it became available to most people in developed countries we had the dot-com bubble and bust (2000). Everyone and their mother got online in a few short years. Before the public got access the proto-internet had already grown and expanded globally.

I can't predict the future. If I had any insight I would invest today and not tell anyone about it here.
I thought it was good idea at the time, so I picked up a tld that allowed me to do first letter @remainingname.com so it looked something like j@coblast.com.

It ends up being overly confusing when communicating it.
Did the engineer end up malnourished? If not...
I have what I think is probably a weird mindset that practically everything I own, short of maybe a car or a house, I assume is worth £0 after I've owned it.

Probably indicative of not having a very good business brain. However, it always seems strange to me when when people buy things and keep track of their used values the whole time they own it - expecting at some point to trade it in.
> assisted living is something like 5-6k here so you need 1.5m to just cover that without other expenses.

For what it is worth, the average person in the US spends about $7,300 per person over a lifetime on nursing homes. Only 32% spend anything. The 95th percentile is $47,000. The median person spent just a week or so in a nursing home. 5% of the population spend more than 4 years in a nursing home. You seem to have costed 20 years. Possibly I don't understand the nature of 'assisted living'.

Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1700618114

How much to save for the potential eventuality comes down to your risk profile and appetite. I'm always intrigued by those who on one hand have a very risk-hungry investing approach yet also have a very risk-averse outlook on end of life care.

I have a family member who has been in a nursing home for 4 years. I hope they'll last another 4. Essentially, the person was able to trade in their home for this care, and more. I'd say that's a fairly common transaction.
Nice! I'm glad I was not the only one frustrated by these and I actually made sth similar just this weekend, also using Groq cause it's super fast as u said. (but haven't published it cause I'm always frustrated about that part of sideprojects :D) https://x.com/Straaajk/status/1875492276715315405