skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero chance this thing is anything a normal person would consider quiet. Moving enough air to generate the thrust it takes to transport humans is not quiet.
I heard a story in Singapore. I don’t know how much truth there is to it but basically: there was conflict going on in China, and every time the news told the story the issue grew worst. China asked singapore for advice and LKY said to stop posting it the news and no one will know about it, and it won’t grow and it will die down. So China forced the media to stop talking abou it and the conflict died down in a few days.
It's a little disappointing to see so many developers--maybe on average the most comfortable job in the world right now--prioritizing comforts like compensation, using their favorite languages, or remote work, over helping to improve the world.

Over 45% of men prioritized one of the above three, whereas a mere 6.5% prioritized "How widely used or impactful the product or service I'd be working on is." Revealingly, "How much impact I could have by working there" isn't even an option. Sounds like the survey authors didn't even consider that people might actively care about improving the world.

So many developers have comfort to spare! Maybe spend a little bit more optimization power on trying to accomplish something important?
Oh I meant the longest subtree, afaik depth of merkel tree is the longest one no?

Edit: Also I think element count can be also alternative for depth
I think it being autonomous is integral to it being a "success". Energy density is still a major limitation and doing away with the pilot can be one way to make the numbers work economy wise. A flesh and bone pilot will come at a substantial weight penalty, effectively reducing the utility of this 2 seater by half.

As a licenced pilot myself, I am with you, however. Would not climb into this death trap as a self loading freight any time soon.
Least paid developer type is game development. And c++ is commonly used there.
Opera Mobile != Opera Mini, so far it doesn't have a news feed (or I have it disabled?)
Awe crap I misread your requirements. Not trackpoint, track_pad_.

I used to swear by a trackpoint until one day I could only use a trackpad. Now I don’t want to go back. Grin

And I meant to say that my laptop is not ExpressCard. It is CardBus.
Maybe if we keep going back and fixing it we'll find a solution that works. Worth a try.
On the internet? Difficult question.

In certain countries, to people below a certain age? Certainly.
I don't blame Facebook. What I blame are politicians and special interest groups making the claims they do without revealing the true reason they are upset, they no longer control the message or distribution of the message.

regardless of the factual content politicians and special interests groups always were able to control what we were presented with as truths and lies through the cooperation o the press who in many nations is not independent and even in those where it can it falls into the trap of wanting access so it simply becomes a mouthpiece.
This hack lets you play the Nintendo Switch on a tiny black-and-white Sony TV
Ask HN: Best way to learn front end development as a senior back end engineer?
Assuming no frontend experience whatsoever. What's the best way to add HTML/CSS/JS + a Framework like React/Vue/Angular to my tool belt.
I also picked the Ergodox over the Kinesis, though I only tried the Kinesis for a day.

I had spent 10+ years working nomad style on a Thinkpad, and when I got a desk I got one of those USB Thinkpad keyboards with the trackpoint in it. Turns out if you zap them with static 2-3 times a day for a couple years, they'll eventually stop working... One day it just up and died, and a co-worker had the Advantage and Ergodox Ez and I'd been meaning to try them.

I had switched to a tiling window manager a few years before that, i3, so I could do a lot of the navigation without using the mouse. I've at times toyed with the idea of putting a trackpoint in the Ergodox, and if they made one I'd probably buy it, but I'm pretty happy with my current setup.

For most navigation I use my keyboard. Since I have 3 monitors, using the mouse is not a great experience anyway. I mostly use the mouse for web browsers (never really been happy with the mouseless navigation experience there).

Love the Ergodox Ez. I've also got an Ergodox Infinity with Cherry Brown, I kind of prefer those keys, but I like the Ez's tenting kit. I also picked up an Ez with Gaetron Blue, which is honestly too loud for my work environment and doesn't feel enough better to be worth it. My normal keyboard is Ez with Gaetron Brown. I just noticed they have a new Ez that has switches you can remove and replace (without a soldering iron), and they have switched to Cherry. A good move, IMHO.
> Chinese labor law dictates a 40-hour workweek and extra pay for overtime, but many companies circumvent those rules by asking employees to sign contracts that say their jobs require flexible work schedules.

Being able to supersede labor laws by forcing^Wasking employees to sign a contract that nullifies them is suspect at best. I get that office tech workers aren't the factory assembly line workers for which these laws were originally designed but the exclusions need to come from the other direction.

> Huawei Technologies employees work on the last Saturday of each month, and that earns them an extra 12 days by the end of the year that they can take in pay or days off. A year into their jobs, Huawei’s Chinese staff can sign a “dedicated employee agreement,” voluntarily forgoing paid vacation days and overtime.

That quote links to a different article[1] explaining this further:

> A year into their jobs, Chinese staff may sign a “dedicated employee agreement,” voluntarily forgoing paid vacation days and overtime. One Huawei engineer said he signed the agreement four years ago to start receiving shares as part of his compensation. The closely held firm says its shares are owned entirely by its executives and employees.

So the deal is "Work an extra 12 days per year for 12 days of pay/vacation. Then give it up along with all the rest of your vacation days and maybe we'll give you some equity. Also, we can probably claw back the equity. Also, you'll probably never be able to actually cash it out.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/huaweis-founder-casts-a-long-sh...
People have pet chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigs, goats etc. and we eat all those.
Yeah but you're doing this for your own business. If it works out well you'll end up reaping most of the rewards.

I seriously doubt these companies pay these guys that much. At the end of the day, these are just jobs and businesses shouldn't expect their employees to sacrifice so much for something they don't even own.
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I don't fear flying cars. I fear flying car crashes. Instead of a fender bender they "land" in your bedroom.
You read the comments and you think everybody gets it, but then nobody gets it.

Google must be too early.
That's because it redirects to the http version of the page.
Using Git to manage a one.com website
I think the usual advice is that she should try to solve one of her own problems. That doesn't mean curing diabetes or anything. I used to get annoyed because my personal budgeting program expected the debit & credit columns of my bank statement to be swapped, and I had to cut & paste the columns every time I imported a statement. That's a great first Python project, in my opinion. Look for nuisances. Maybe that means front-end development, maybe not. But whether anyone has any personal or professional success with software development depends on that person having the sense that they can solve a genuine problem with their skills, even if it's a modest problem or takes them a while or isn't a perfect solution.
Lots of reasons:

- A local Docker build might have issues due to your local computer's environment that cause mysterious or hard-to-replicate problems.

- You might not have permission to push new images to your organization's Docker repo from your computer.

- You might be on slow internet, or your docker images large enough, such that pushing on the cloud is 10-100x faster than pushing locally. (this is my pain point)

- You need to remember, and use, whatever Docker image tagging scheme your organization requires.
The mindset involved in complex programming feels quite similar to writing long-form fiction to me.

It seems common for people writing novels to consider 4 hours of actual writing a day to be a maximum, beyond which their productivity plummets. Sure, they may be thinking about the novel outside that, but they're not actually sat at a keyboard typing.
Good point. People using language carefully (as physicists usually do) call it an interpretation for a reason.

The OP's point on deism vs multiverse vs simulation (added later in the thread) is actually fairly interesting. Reductio ad deism.
C/C++ are basically languages used only for technical products, while Java/web is used internally by pretty much every large company on Earth. This puts immense pressure on salaries.
> I still don't see why dependency management has everyone so up in arms for Go, though. Especially for infrequent use, it's hard to beat just copying the lib into your source tree and re-fetching from git every now and then.

That's not "dependency management", that's step 1 of any development environment setup ever made. It's basically giving up on dependency management and doing everything manually.

The correct way to do dependency management:

Have a config file with all the dependencies, clearly specified, including versions.

Have a tool that has a standard command (mvn install, gradle build, npm install, etc.) without parameters that brings the dependencies locally and makes them available for your local environment.

For the standard command, depending on your environment and philosophy, either fetch sources or fetch sources and compile them or fetch binaries.

To upgrade a library, change the version in the config file and re-run the tool. To add a library, add the library info in the config file and re-run the tool. To remote the library, remove the library info from the config file.

The cognitive overhead is much, much smaller with a well designed dependency management setup. I just run the standard command and it does what I need, no rummaging through Github repos to find what I need.
I agree with your opposition to this development with respect to people moved per unit of energy consumed. I think development funds are much better spent on improving the efficiency, reliability, and capacity of mass transit systems for large and crowded urban areas. However, that's not really fodder for sexy startup material.

Additionally, if these are widely adopted, I can imagine a highly-crowded Class G (or D, if near an airport -- and how do you establish two-way comms between ATC and an autonomous flying taxi?) airspace ending badly for passengers or bystanders in crowded metropolitan areas. This may be why KittyHawk has done their R&D in New Zealand, rather than in the US under FAA regulations.
Long for sure, but I really miss practical use cases, for example:

> Asked how long the string is, you might say 12. However, Rust’s answer is 24:

I get that, `.len()` is tricky, but why not include an easy, common way to determine character length of a string in the documentation?
> that earns them an extra 12 days by the end of the year that they can take in pay or days off

That line is hilarious. How exactly are they "earning" anything? They're just getting deferred pay for those days or deferred day offs, which were supposed to be day-offs in the first place, as they were saturdays.
I did 100 hr weeks for my first startup 3 decades ago for about 4.5 months, then wound up in a hospital. The code turned out OK but my body was pretty much used up. After that I decided becoming more efficient in 40 hrs or less is much better.
Can you summarize the relevant ideas and techniques in the paper?

It's pretty long.
* get up at 8 to 9am

* have breakfast if got up soon

* commute to office for 45 minutes, arrive at 10am

* work

* leave at 6.30 to 7pm

* arrive home 45 minutes later

* dinner

* random web browsing

* sleep at 12am
Don't worry, when they say "how we all get around" they don't mean the vast majority of society including you. This is for the billionaire class that is turning New Zealand into the billionaires' prepper island. This is for those who precisely don't want to share the sky with you. A basic Cessna from 1975 is currently around $110,000 and not because it's an antique. How much do you think this nonsense air taxi will cost? You can do the math yourself. Are you the demographic that is going to pay $500 for an air taxi across the city?

This video has all the hallmarks of the Billionaire liberal cult message, twinkly background music, delusional statements about how electric is emissions free just because it externalizes the emissions to the power plant, the fake smiles and restrained psychopathic messaging about being "reeeeeally excited". It's all there.

It's amazing how people don't get that we are on a path towards Elysium, not some delusional liberal hippy fantasy land of everyone just getting along and loving each other. But sure, maybe I'm wrong and there will be billions of these zipping around in the sky. What a wonderful prospect. Now if they can only control the peasant rabble's behavior to make that possible.

But the techtalitarians have that part covered too as they sacrifice the civilized world to savagery that can be used as justification to enact ever more controls and surveillance. It's bizarre to see this delusional tradeoff happening as magical thinking blinds people to the reality that stares them down.
Nope

I worked with a team of Korean engineers (Samsung) to integrate one of my employer's products (MobiTV) into their first true touch screen phone. This was in 2007 at Sprint's headquarters in Kansas.

They all worked very very long hours, will get in around 9-10am and stay until 10pm in the office, with Saturdays being half days. It was cultural to show you working hard, and "sleeping" in your desk was seen as a badge of honor: (so tired form working hard, that I have to sleep on the desk).

The code they produced was shit, and full of bugs. For every fix, there was another bug introduced. But whatever, they eventually ended up shipping an "ok" product, but they way they went to it was horribly inefficient.

I personally would not recommend.

In addition, now that I am working on my own app full time, I have seen that once I start spending a lot of time coding/in front of the computer, my efficiency (amount of work down per hour) goes down.

It seems that there is a natural limit on how much 'intelectual' work can be done in a week, and spending more time is counter productive.
On the other hand, if the tasks are easy and don't require brainpower (i.e. small UI tweaks, adjustments, etc), spending more time doesn't necessary reduce efficiency.

My strategy has been work on the hard tasks first (usually 3-4 hours), then spend the rest of your time on low intensity items.
Ask HN: Empty Delaware C Corp, dissolve, hand-over, or?
I had a profitable product, a company in the UK running it, and things were looking great. When Stripe's Atlas program launched, I was one of the first to incorporate in Delaware, hoping to take my product and all my future business there (making things potentially easier for handing over the product, or seeking a potential growth-investment).

Once everything was ready, the environment my product operates in started changing dramatically, and things became sour. I decided to hold off transferring everything to the US company, and keep it fresh and clean while I see if things would improve on the product side.

Two years in, they didn't.

I'm basically paying the yearly franchise tax ($450) plus registered agent, plus TaxAct 1120 filing fees ($97 for federal/state taxes) and will soon have spent a couple thousand dollars to keep the empty shell alive.

I looked into closing it down, which, again, involves fees and more fees, but will probably be my next step.

Are there any other venues some of you have taken, or can suggest? Is it worth considering to hand-over (for a modest fee) the company as a starting point for someone else?

Part of me thinks it may be useful to keep the US company around, but the "useful" part hasn't really come up in the past two years. I know there's potential to use it as a legal and proper way of entering the US with a work permit, but I'm not sure if that's really worth considering.

Still in the UK at the moment.
On a side note my ublock origin went into overdrive on androidpolice. How many trackers does a man need FFS?!
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> They think they're very savvy for having the Uber app and knowing how to use it. In fact my uncle was bragging about some uber benefit he gets via his amex platinum card.

In fairness, it’s a great benefit.
Ieeee
I just have a bookmarklet to kill all "fixed" position divs.

I'm clicking it more and more these days - even those damn fixed navs that take up a stupid percentage of the screen give me the shits.

If clicking the bookmarklet doesn't get rid of your stupid modal newsletter sign up or annoying sticky nav, I'm just closing the tab.

Here's the bookmarklet btw:

javascript:(function()%7B(function () %7Bvar i%2C elements %3D document.querySelectorAll('body *')%3Bfor (i %3D 0%3B i < elements.length%3B i%2B%2B) %7Bif (getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position %3D%3D%3D 'fixed') %7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
I agree. People talking about flying cars sound a lot like people demanding faster horses. Or flying horses.

I do not think the American dream of a private car scales too well to the future, be it with rubber wheels or tiny propellers. Especially given the population growth.

Instead, a brief visit to Singapore, for example, will convince anyone what the future of transportation looks like. A public transport system, enabling a lifestyle that makes cars redundant.
I dunno. I mean yes in theory, but we don't need the theory, this has been tried multiple times and there two basic ways that it ends up:

- Factual correctness and overall decency loses out to popularity— making a funny, low-effort post will in many communities get you a lot more magical internet approval points than doing the work of engaging with an issue, seeking alternative sources, etc. Yes, there are counter-examples of this, but the long term trend is always toward a low quality of dialogue.
- At a certain scale, posts are simply concealed from a user who is likely to disagree with them— basically pre-moderation. Being challenged on a viewpoint requires energy, and people don't like to do work.
> On a real-life social network, there are safeguards that prevent blatant lies and angry-mob-like behavior to be contained

Sadly, no. It just lacks "reach". It's harder to meet up with like-minded sociopaths and get a good angry mob going when every meeting has to be in person and every lie must be repeated verbally, but it's still very possible.
Are you asking only about SaaS apps? For ecommerce, the whole site should be the marketing site. For a mobile app, website is the smallest piece of the marketing puzzle.

Frankly, I think marketing is much more important than technology for success. And I say that as a software developer. It doesn't matter how good your product is if nobody knows about it. It doesn't matter if it's better than the competitor's if the competitor is better at telling people why they should use their product.

I currently work at a SaaS business. Our app and marketing sites are one and the same. Some of that is for historical reasons, but I believe that for us it's an advantage. We grow steadily in part because the product team works more closely with the marketing team than with anyone else in the company. Exposure, conversion, and retention are baked into every feature and every decision we make. We could never do that nearly as effectively with an outsourced marketing department.

One caveat: we are a mass market B2C company. I wouldn't be surprised to find that there's a sliding scale for how closely marketing and product need to be integrated depending on how high-touch the sales process is. An enterprise B2C where there's no way to try the product at all without a custom-negotiated contract has no reason to integrate the marketing site with the product.

That said, I'm always skeptical about outsourcing marketing entirely. See the first point above.
Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500M messages a year
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>Oh and Vim is still the only editor I dare use to open a 1GB CSV file with.

vim isn’t actually even so good at this. It still needs to read the whole file into memory. Yes, it doesn’t need to syntax-highlight the whole file, but it does still need to keep it in memory.

Other editors work by just loading enough of a big file to keep the illusion up that they have loaded all of it, when they are in fact dynamically loading and unloading parts as the user navigates within the file.

I think sublime works like that, though it still does something that requires load time proportional to the file length.

Many hex editors also do this, probably out of necessity because they are often used to inspect huge binary files (like disk images), though thanks to never having to do line wrapping, they also have it much easier to do so.
Another article on HN today says it has personal funding from Larry Page. ie not Alphabet.
Haha :) This is the first of a few projects open-sourced out of the Hasura platform
Backend does not necessarily mean web technology. I'm reminded of an oft-lost distinction between "The (Inter)net" and "The Web".
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my thought exactly. Are people on here religious?
A lot of negative comments here. I must say I'm impressed and I applaud these people for building an innovative working thing and taking it to production. No pilot - mind blown.

And sure, this might not be the solution to humanity's overall mobility, but heck I can see it being useful in many ways.
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On the one hand you're saying that facebook are effectivly "forced" to censor nudity (which may actually be legal in some jurisdictions), and then you immediately say it's "untenable"?
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It is if the variable is accidentally in global scope due to hoisting if it is not explicitly defined in a finer scope. Not an issue in strict mode, you'll get a reference error instead of an implied global.
I think it's perfect for transportation. A share model could really exist with it, less infrastructure.

If it becomes popular, entire cities could change how they look ( roof = taxi, roads for bicycles and deliveries on the roof)
Hopefully it will allow user triggered overlays.
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Nice bit of victim blaming...

“If you want to be paid the same as a man, maybe you should not have made ‘not being groped’ [aka company culture] your top priority!”
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Indeed, people seem to use "virtue signaling" to easily dismiss someone behavior while sounding smart. It's a conversation killer.