skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of these things is not like the other...
Gaia Sky – FOSS 3D astronomy visualisation software with Gaia data
I drive from Connecticut to Manhattan and back during rush hour and have been reliant on Waze's aggressive and inventive routing decisions that often take me through quiet neighborhoods to hop from one highway to another, dodging traffic jams I presume. It almost always gets me there by its eta.

On one hand I'm sympathetic to these people (my wife and I are house-shopping and one of our factors is the house being on a quiet road, also I don't particularly like out-of-state drivers in my town, for example New Yorkers don't realize you can turn on red in Connecticut, drives me nuts), on the other hand I can't be late to my shrink sessions - my guy ain't cheap!
Snapchat takes a second try at Spectacles
Isn't part of the point of a proper standup to allow for synchronous interaction?
This seems to be the case. Cohort studies show that significantly larger improvements in intelligence occur in the lower half of the distribution.
Interesting but not really useful. You can easily record your session yourself with a free program and skip this rediculous 1€ per 10 min. fee. Also the website does look like it was hacked together in like..maybe also 10mins ? I would take it down and rework it to a more mature product.

Edit: There could be more features like auto upload to youtube etc.
or automated marking of the current broadcaster
Why use t2 instances of t2.large or larger? The price difference to go to m5 instances is negligible[1], and with m5 you don't have to worry about CPU credits and you get better networking.

[1] e.g., Linux on-demand for for t2.xlarge comes to $135.49/month, where as m5.xlarge is $140.16/month. I seem to remember last time I was doing reserved instance purchasing, the RI cost for m4 instances was actually less than equivalent t2 instances (I don't see it now, so maybe my memory is wrong).
When I quit a programming job in industry to work as a lab programmer at a university. Loved it so much I am now pursuing a PhD in hopes that I can always find work in research.

Reasons:
- more flexible work hours than industry
- more flexible work topics, basically work on what you find interesting at the moment
- it's nice to be surrounded by the young and curious rather than the business-savvy/practically-minded grown-ups of the world
Anyone work on something strategic that not only encompasses technology but a shift in how the business operates, does business with it's customers etc
Including something of "value" with a purchase doesn't automatically make something gambling.

Under the Kinder/Happy Meal is gambling logic, buying a bag of M&Ms could also be gambling because I "value" the blue ones the most and will receive a psudorandom number of blue M&Ms in the bag.

There is also a big difference in intent. Spend $5 on a Happy Meal and you are spending $4.90 for a meal and $0.10 for a piece of junk toy. And half the time you can ask for a specific toy anyway. On the other hand, spend $5 on loot boxes (or scratch tickets, lottery tickets) and there is no expectation of any other "value" than the potential value of your winnings.
The Day I Got Very Close to Be Murdered
The die part though.
I'm trying to read your comment charitably[1], since it's "obviously" wrong (as wrong as if you said, "hard to put this advice into practice since most professional programmers have never worked in a company that has any business processes or tools, and it's not really possible to start working in one that does have one")

I say this because your parent post is "obviously" a great response that directly answers the question.

So, if I want to read your comment charitably: a lot of technical people are poorly in touch with their feelings. Maybe you are right about Liquix, and they poorly report their most rewarding experience.

At a guess what would you say is likely more gratifying (the meaning of rewarding) for Liquix? What would a better answer to the question be?

I really have trouble guessing why you would write this, unless you thought rewarding meant "highest-paid" (not the usual sense of the word.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I played MtG a bit in my teens through early twenties, and I think that one difference was that a pack of cards had positive expected value. The set of cards you got would generally cost more to buy individually than you'd pay for the pack.

Is this the case for these loot boxes?

As a side note, I remember MtG being called "cardboard crack" back in the day, including by those who played it.
That's why we have these things called laws and democracy and international agreements. Relying on individual action rarely brought massive change.
Been a software engineer majority of my life and if I worked on technology that could kill people and my company was not approaching how I thought made sense it would be difficult for me to stay.

I do not know if that is what is happening here but might be.

IMO, you can NOT be kind of driving. SDC technology should NOT go directly to consumers at this point.

Should be done with a commercial offering as we work through testing.

SDC - Self Driving Cars
Cruise control is very different. It doesn’t allow people to take their attention off the road. In the Tesla deaths it appears quite clear that the driver was not paying attention to the road.
Agenda I felt being pushed in the article:

Agenda a): building more roads and highways is the only possible solution to congestion issues, either implied or directly called for:

> The cause of worsening congestion, says Moore, is pretty simple: more people wanting to drive on the same amount of road.

> In 2016, that number had not budged much, growing to only 21,826 lane miles. In the same period of time, the number of vehicle-miles traveled by Los Angeles commuters rose by some 10 million per day.

> Doing this, says Moore, requires a mix of road redesign to better handle thru traffic, congestion pricing (whereby drivers pay a variable toll depending on the number of cars on the road on existing road capacity), and building new roads to meet demand.

> Some metro areas are already putting these ideas to the test. Washington, D.C., has built what are known as queue duckers...

> Ultimately, Moore says, Los Angeles needs to redirect its transportation dollars away from a little-used public transit system—which eats up about half of the city's transit budget—and into building more roads and adding lane-miles to meet increasing demand.

Agenda b): reducing car traffic kills local business (several places as well, please go through it if interested).

I posted the comment to highlight that this is not a researched journalistic piece, but one-sided article from somebody who makes the same point over and over, completely unsubstantiated. My agenda was to discredit the source as I don't think it's well written enough to be a good starting point for an interesting discussion.
What about a Kindle?
Working on the BBC micro:bit project - first in Arm and then in the Micro:bit Educational Foundation! (http://microbit.org/). The combination of nice hard technical problems, a really collaborative group of companies, universities and communities delivering it together, and the look of joy on kids faces when they first make something of their own with the micro:bit.

I think making sure that the broadest/most diverse range of people have the digital skills they're going to need to create the best future for us all is really essential, too, and micro:bit is really starting to contribute to that.

Additionally, since we launched the foundation, being able to focus on the needs of our audience and building a sustainable organisation rather than something that looks glitzy and investible (we're a UK-based not-for-profit) also contributes a huge amount to the sense of fulfilment.

(We're going to be hiring a number of people over the next few months, so if you like the sound of that - https://micro-bit-educational-foundation.workable.com/ )
This design—which is fairly common in suburban areas—leads to huge headaches when the road is constricted due to construction, accidents, special events, etc. A grid system is much more efficient at adapting to varied conditions.
I've found working on http://editfight.com to be extremely enjoyable. It's an online collaborative pixel art app with a fixed size grid. I made it for fun, and a few really talented pixel artists came and have made some awesome things. But the best part is that they have constantly given me feedback on what would improve their experience, and I've been able to add the features they're asking for within the hour, and it's been a really enjoyable cycle of that for probably 2-3 weeks now. It's so incredibly gratifying to see them appreciating and finding useful all the new features I keep adding for them. It's kind of addicting to keep improving the site for them and watching them use the improvements to make more and more amazing things. One of the biggest examples of this has been the "create a gif from the time-lapse of everyone drawing" feature which someone else suggested, and surprisingly only took about an hour to implement. It's pretty niche, but the few people who find the site and like it, they come back to it like every day and keep making incredible artwork in it.
Low delay is much, much more important for calls than for streaming. One second of buffering delay may be acceptable in streaming playback (users often contend with longer delays). That much delay will severely degrade a video call, especially if the audio stays synced with the delayed video.
The problem is you can NOT give SDC directly to consumers. Period! It is being debugged and you should be limiting the audience and have a highly controlled audience using a commercial offering.

Nobody debugs without working with a limited group of people let alone something that kills people.

The Waymo approach seems to be the much more responsible.

SDC - Self Driving Cars
I wrote a small chrome extension to reload assets as they change.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t have many users, but it’s always nice to hear from someone when it makes their day a bit easier.
> In the TCP case, of course you don't need to worry about loss.

You do, because TCP packets get lost at roughly the same rate as UDP packets do (though, there are some caveats here: on some congested links UDP packets tend to be dropped earlier).

The only major difference is that TCP will cause the packet to be - eventually - resent. The price of this complexity is added latency due to the requirement to buffer for a longer time than it could conceivably take to re-transmit packets so you can continue to stream. If you ever exhaust that time a TCP based system will grind to a halt.

In live video / real time conferencing such latency is really annoying and if it gets too long can be killing.
If everyone does it, then it's just clogging the side road without doing anything to improve throughput (assuming the traffic doesn't clear ahead).

It's sort of a modified tragedy of the commons - as long as few people do it, it rewards the side-road takers. Then the side-road saturates and nobody is any better, only the locals are worse off.
"All posts public" seems like a smart approach: it makes your posts worthless to FB, since everyone else has that information. I went ahead and deleted my account, more for FB's clueless response to the CA thing than the "breach" itself. I haven't missed it so far, but if I make another one, I'll make everything public and banal.
I think when Tacotron-level speech synthesis is feasible to create on mobiles, offline, some really interesting opportunities for new apps open up. Right now you wouldn't want to listen to a long-read article on the web read by speech synthesis, but the moment a system can create realistic, emotionally-accurate speech (especially if you can match quotes/dialogue to correct, gendered voices), you'd probably consider it when you were on the go.
My mid-sized city of 200k has buses that run at 6-7 minute peak frequency. 10 minutes is table stakes for any decent-sized transit system.
There have been a few posts on this thread about not for profits. Anyone interested in not-for-profit startups should look at https://www.nominettrust.org.uk/ whose strapline is 'We transform lives with tech"
I really like Gatsby & static site generators, especially when hosted on something like Netlify.

Have you used it with a Drupal or WordPress on a larger site? To do a decoupled site, every time someone publishes a new article or a change, you are going to have to do a ton of HTTP requests during build time for Gatsby since incremental builds are not a thing yet. If you use the Drupal Paragraphs module, that can really complicate things as well. The only way around this with Gatsby that I can think of is to have Drupal create a repository of static files that get incrementally updated. Then Gatsby could grab a compressed version of this during build & create a new version of the site.

I would love to hear thoughts from anyone else though as I'm sure better ideas must exist.
> Sunlight has significant blue light. (This makes sense, considering that our sensitivity to blue light evolved in order to sync to the day/night cycle).

Your thesis about the evolution of our sensitivity to blue light comes from the fact that sunlight has blue light, but now you're using (a) to prove (b).
We all practice eugenics when it comes to choosing a mate, yet recoil in horror at the prospect of applying it to society. Isn't this a remarkable inconsistency? What makes it immoral in the latter case, yet positively encouraged in the former case?
I'd argue that ballooned beyond "internet outrage" though; a lot of parents started seeing the loot boxes as slot machines. That gave the issue its "Is it legal?" and "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" angles.

Honestly, people probably don't give enough credit to the MW2 "boycott"; it showed kids that they could organize if the company's practices got out of hand. I think the MW2 and BF2 issues were really part of a longer trend towards dark patterns in video games, and it took time for people in positions of authority to realize how serious the situation could become if they continued down the path they were on.
It is also worth noting that agriculture itself (especially in the developing world) is a major contributing factor to climate change. Governments in these countries are either unable or unwilling to protect their natural resources, huge patches of rainforest and jungle are being destroyed to make room for more farm land and/or harvested as timber.

So we are losing huge forests (which help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by simply existing) at an unprecedented rate and we are producing more emissions by developing this land for agricultural use.
Reversed a software for micro brewing station to be able to make custom receipt. Thanks Cheat Engine for the fixed address.
The Heart surgeon thing is likely referring specifically to a UK press article recently featured on HN that was about surgeons in the UK reacting to a policy change that means their stats are shown to the general public. A large minority of those surveyed said that as a result they now refuse to do surgeries they think will be very bad for their stats, even if clinically the surgery might be appropriate and within their competence. A majority said they knew a surgeon who had made such choices.

As a patient in that system (the NHS) I would prefer my surgeons not to make decisions based on trying to game the statistics. If I need heart surgery, I want whoever is competent and available. So if these stats block that, I'd rather we don't have the stats.

Frankly it's weird anyway because surgery is a team activity, not solo. Nothing serious is done by one bloke in a surgical gown, there's a team. I had a relatively minor operation and the named surgeon will have spent most of that operation _talking_ not operating. All the sewing and some of the cutting will be the nice younger doctors I met, a woman who'd been doing this a few years and was well on her way to being an actual surgeon, and a new bloke who seemed like he'd probably graduated just a couple of years ago. The old bloke with the paperwork saying he's allowed to cut people open is mostly there to watch over them both and step in if things go to shit. The woman is doing most of the work, showing the noob what she's doing and maybe overseeing while he stitches me back up at the end. There's some Eastern European doctor lady making sure I neither die nor wake up, and two or three nurses making sure everybody has what they need, and counting things to make sure nothing is left inside me that shouldn't be there. But if I'd died (very unlikely for minor surgery) it would count against my named surgeon and not the rest of the team.
[random advice from the internet] A project form is not going to patch up a cracked relationship between founders. Talk about how you feel with your cofounder, not the internet.

Good luck.
I schools every cyclist I see on the sidewalk. The two cyclists that ran into me both said they didn't mean to (and didn't apologize, btw), and I use that as motivation for the scoldings.

Most of my walking is near store fronts and it is exceedingly dangerous to blow by open doors at the clip I see these cyclists doing. It is so frustrating to me to watch this.
What isn't clear is how you spell the word after hearing it.
Have you tried Ghost or Netlify's CMS? I would highly suggest them for small sites over Wordpress. I find Wordpress runs into many of the same issues as Drupal.
"The plain fact is that from an economic point of view"

Thats a different discussion than the one I read the parent talking about.
A car of any size can kill a person on the road, it’s not something you design for.
One of the most rewarding things i've done recently is transfer my knowledge about devops obtained while at a mid sized company (~600ppl) and setting up the entire ci & cd pipeline for a small startup ( <10 ppl).

Also, to my observation what has a huge impact on my statisfaction, is seeing what you made in the wild or just a recognition from colleagues/clients by saying "thank you for the good work".
My comment used the phrase "for trucks" not "with trucks." My apologies for the confusion.
Great post and completely agree. You can NOT be kind of driving.

Plus who does not work with a limited group of users while you are testing. That is true for tech that does not kill you and more so when it can.

What Tesla is doing is honestly close to criminal. Waymo approach makes far more sense.
It's a called Jira, Redmine, etc.

The standup meeting is just a duplicate for ... reasons.
I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail this summer and spent 4 months sleeping outside. My body very quickly adjusted to sleeping when the sun went down and waking up when the sun came up.

Lots of thru-hikers experience a post hike depression, myself included, but I always thought it was mostly about being back in the real world with real responsibilities. Maybe it has to do with light?

I did notice that when I was in a town staying in a hotel I would always stay up much later than I did when I was on the trail.
Two projects come to mind. Both were reporting tools. They helped companies improve the efficiency of a process 100x - 1000x. This resulted in the process being run more often and delivered multitudes more value in the form of better communication and knowledge transfer. They were fun to build and delivered tremendous value.

The first was at a fastener wholesaler. There was a sales report that would be built once a month by a sales person. It pulled data from a backend ERP system, combined it with some other data sources, and generated some trend graphs and summaries. The whole process took about five days of manual labor. It used to be done once a month, by a sales person. I've built a set of tools to do this which would take an operator about 10 minutes to run. It ended up being run daily, weekly, and quarterly. Everyone was aligned and on the same page!

The second was at a financial firm back office. One of the side responsibilities was generating reports for clients. These contained mundane things like trades summaries of various kinds. They were delivered in CSV or plain text format via FTP or email. It used to take a couple hours of work to build a new one, and output options were limited. I've built a reporting framework that added a bunch of output options, including beautifully formatted Excel files, and cut the config time down to about 10 minutes. By the time I left, we had over a thousand such reports being run daily.

Both projects opened up my eyes to how much value good software can bring to an organization, and how much impact a single developer can have.

I recently decided to package up some of that experience into a package and offer it for sale. I run https://goodgrids.com, which allows companies to automatically convert CSV files to nicely formatted Excel files. This project is fairly new, but it is very personally rewarding.
Of course. Why else has Google spent billion on the tech?
I visited Tatarstan recently, and as a kazakh I find that they have same problem as we do here in Kazakhstan. Tatars who don't speak their own language or poorly(we call them shala).
I’ve never had a worse webdev experience than attempting to create a BigCommerce theme. There are hundreds of theme files, and a maddeningly incomplete and inconsistent templating tag system.

I was so jealous (as I was creating hundreds of duplicative templates) of Shopify and their Liquid templating language.

I now hate BigCommerce for being so hard to work with.
I mean, sure, that's true.
Inflates her ego, I assume, Makes her feel better.
"We're sorry we got caught and now we have to apologize for it."
How two Ethereum ERC20 contracts got hacked
A nice thought somebody brought up the other day:

Try to go some meetups not developer related and hear the people’s problems at hand.

Then you can chime in with your developer perspective, which other people do not have.

And from this, both sides can mutually share their experiences and benefit from each other. And maybe this is where your future might be.
Even 10am seems early.

When I have a week day off and see people shopping I always wonder who are all these people? I can't see everyone being off that day, the same day.
Thank u very much !

That's a great collection. I'll definitely share this with others.
A Look Under the Hood of Spotify’s Direct Listing
SOLID Principles #5 – Dependency Inversion Principle
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Why do startup company names all sound alike?
For me longevity is the key. When I see systems that still do their thing after a long time. I had a backend EPOS system that ran for 11 years, a pensions system that is still being built upon 17 years on (though that could have an element of a Ship of Theseus[1] about it) and genealogical search system that is running still after 13 years at a library.

The last one I didn't even know about except someone mentioned to me they'd gone to the library and done a search and so I had a sneaky visit myself and saw it was the same old dog of a local network PHP website...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Building tools for the AI applications of tomorrow
And I was very surprised by the diving adaptation story last week until I got to the part where they found that the adaptation was just a single gene.

And I wouldn't be surprised that some environmental adaptations might be better than others given that relatively little evolutionary time has passed and the barriers for the transfer of altitude adaptations from one high altitude region to another. But there are no such barriers to the transfer of IQ enhancing alleles, those will help you everywhere.
Are you suggesting I go through the self-taught route and learn from MOOCs and books instead?
Microsoft partners with Discord to link Xbox Live profiles