skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the midwest. Tech jobs aren't rare in the larger urban areas, no differently than California. Drive south towards Fort Hunter-Liggett or toward Napa Valley and even in California tech jobs become rare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano,_Texas#Headquarters_of_m...

I do agree though that the ability to protest and boycott is an entitlement. How many security, facilities, janitorial, or vendor staff have that freedom at the Google campus? In that consideration it does not sound like such a campus achieves equal opportunity employment in theory, but perhaps might by contracting other those positions to service providers. If that is true and those service providers were to boycott a Google business priority it should be no surprise when Google would refuse to continue services from such vendors. Again, this is a horrible way to do business.

> I don't have strong opinions about whether or not these protests are good or bad, but plenty of people across the world would love to be able to speak their mind at their job without it putting their career in jeopardy.

I vote with my time. If I become disgruntled with an employer I find another. Tech jobs, even in the midwest, are always in crazy demand for talent. I certainly don't put my employer's business in jeopardy to enjoy externalizing a personal opinion.

> I'm sure it would play out the same anywhere if this set of conditions were true regardless of political leanings.

History does not reflect this. I am old enough to remember the bay area was just like this during the 80s since I lived in Santa Clara. More lucrative markets were not like that without regard for job security, such as the financial district of New York. Other geographies are not like that. Most people are not willing to risk their employment relationship for the sake of freedom of exercising politics and actually look upon as a negative and potentially damaging behavior. To make the assumption that other areas are likely reflective of one's own is a form of ethnocentricity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism
After YC launched workatastartup.com earlier this year, we decided to relaunch an in-person expo and career fair of sorts to go along with it.[0] The expo consists of keynotes by Sam Altman and Justin Kan on the topic of working at a startup followed by presentations by 40 YC companies of various sizes and industries. We're live-streaming for anyone that's curious to follow along.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367707
Nautilus 3.30
I found that the changelogs on Android have never been that high quality to begin with. This is probably because from a very early stage (version 3.3.11), the Android Market automatically updated apps.
You can enable it using the preference provided below, but the reason behind it was battery life.
I don't think so? The product is too simple to get destroyed from money pressure and bloat. All it needs to do to make it worth their while is skim a little off the top, maybe 1%.
What do you mean by "compiles itself away"?
Yeah its amazing how all over Europe after 70 years they still regularly find bombs.

The Wehrmacht also laid millions of mines but thanks to German obsession with administration those were all removed in a few years (with the "assistance" of German POWs)
The scale of oracle cloud is laughable compared to its competitors.

http://www.platformonomics.com/2018/05/follow-the-capex-sepa...

In terms of value to the taxpayer I think AWS's offering would be head and shoulders above anything else. There would be no quicker way to be fired at amazon than if evidence came out that you were rorting or delivering an inferior product to a customer, behavior thats almost assumed with other government contractors.
Do you have a personal website? Leave one here; Who knows maybe someone reading your post would hit you up in the next few weeks.
It's possible to look for anomalies in scrolling text that's passing by much faster than can be read. (I'm not convinced that requires opengl, but one reason I use iterm is because doing this on terminal with default settings quickly freezes because of infinite scroll. I presume you can turn that off, but easy copy/paste and minimum contrast settings are nice too. Also, the progress meter on large pastes is suprisingly useful.
We're using Kotlin in our backend and pretty happy about it. It has support for co-routines and great syntax, it's lightweight compared to Scala and IntelliJ plays great with Kotlin (no surprise as both of them are from JetBrains).

I won't even mention the learning curve, we started learning Kotlin using IntelliJ's support for converting Java files to Kotlin initially and then it took only one week to learn about the details thanks to its documentation.
They were trying to offer what they considered to be an important public service, in the only way they could figure out to possibly do it, under the constraints of the time.

The mechanism was a poor one, but they didn’t have any other choices (besides giving up and effectively conceding that people’s circadian rhythms would be disrupted by the target devices with no ability for a third party to offer any mitigation, at a time when it seemed like the phone vendor had no interest in the topic whatsoever).

This isn’t “suspicious” if you take a moment to understand what the developers view as their mission. Indeed, it is strong evidence that they are treating this project first and foremost as a cause to promote / public service, rather than a business to profit from.

If your personal top priority is phone security rather than health, and you are inherently suspicious of all software developers, then of course you will recommend people not side load applications which haven’t been carefully vetted by Apple. That is also a reasonable position to take. If you are Apple, there are obviously good reasons to shut down any developer’s ability to pursue such a workaround of platform policies.

But the argument that willingness to provide a free tool which can be sideloaded on a phone in contravention of platform policy indicates willingness to distort scientific evidence just doesn’t hold water. The two things are entirely unrelated.
Freedom and secure boot are not mutually exclusive things. The important bit is the ability to enroll your own signing key. See the yellow state in this diagram: https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/verified-bo...

Disclaimer: I worked on this.
The original asker asked, "Will iTerm2 support ligatures at some point in the future?", so it was indeed a helpful answer to know that it does support ligatures.
>Not matter how well intended those employees' motivations it likely cost their employer a substantial piece of this enormous profit pie.

Who makes everything for Google? Who makes everything for the shareholders?

The workers, the employees. If they don't want to work on something that is against their morals and ethics as a whole, they get to decide that.
Linking to this comment instead of the actual link you want so that the right person gets credit :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634075
Is anyone else getting annoyed by the "make X great again" meme?

I've been seeing it everywhere after the Trump campaign, and after the 100th time I saw it, it started making me want to vomit.
On top of that question, a judge was ok with that?

There has to be a line where the testimony is so empty (even if both sides agree to it) that it could only be misinterpreted an would be better left just .... out.
Oh haha. Thanks.
Dart is a successor to Javascript, not Kotlin.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring repeated requests to stop.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
What we're living in is the vindication of Andrea Dworkin's views about the sexual revolution: https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/how-the-se.... Women are renegotiating the rules in a way that isn't so one-sidedly beneficial to men. Part of that is putting constraints on when and where sexual propositioning is appropriate (and it's not appropriate in the workplace).
Here is a good rebuttal by John Gray:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight...
What they are doing is not legal as they do not provide a way to opt-out.
In my view tough on crime just means mandatory sentences in most cases, leaving judges out of that part of the process.
Thank you, these look great! Ordered some.
Open Offices Can Lead to Closed Minds
If the terminal is double-buffered, it'll reduce input lag noticeably (16 ms vs 33).
They say only sane people question their sanity. Insane people are convinced they are sane.

Why do you think all of that is "deeper" consciousness?

Also, you say we may never know if you and I see red the same, but we do know. We know that color is simply a reflection of light along certain wavelengths, we can demonstrate this. We know how our eyes receive and interpret this information. We know that there's something missing from the middle and it's all upside down and that our brain corrects for this. We even use this information to create optical illusions.

I know you're thinking "But what if what I see as 'red' you see as what you would consider 'blue' and vice versa". That's meaningless. If I hold a red pen and say "This is a red pen" and you agree that it is a red pen, then we are both perceiving that to be red. Our perceptions are in agreement.

The rest sounds like idle daydreaming. I mean, nothing you've described sounds really all that out there and I have done plenty of that as well. It's a good way to pass the time during my commute.
I'm not defending this person at all, I don't even know who they are! I'm saying that what they're deriding this person for doesn't really justify exasperation over the fact that investors don't care. The mere act of having engaged in a relationship that would cause a conflict of interest was almost certainly handled in some form.

Again, don't know this person. For all I know, they deserve to be lambasted. This article, though, falls short of making that case by a great deal.
Except for the dangers of concentrating autocratic power. You make a good point, but context still matters.
Was anyone else annoyed that the color for Millennial vs Gen Z kept swapping back and forth in the doc?
Do you get less blue light or do you get more red light?

I use flux like stuff everywhere because it feels better but I never really analysed if there is less blue light.
One thought that crossed my mind is the extent to which Xi's government can ride this wave and use it to eliminate political enemies. The old way was to accuse political enemies of corruption and have them jailed. I wonder if the new way is to get them accused of sex crimes, or just ruin their reputation in China so that they become radioactive to work with.

I think whether or not these posts are censored will tell you what's likely. If they are taken down quickly, it's probably not government instigated, but if they're not removed, then it leads to the suspicion that the government wants these published.
The comment clearly wasn't about all veterans.

In a case like this, the following site guideline should kick in: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Working link is http://www.kameli.net/~raimu/rnd/ted-chiang-story-of-your-li...
SQL: Where spaces may not matter
> Night Shift’s default setting is not capable of dialing things back to the level of the old phones with Night Shift turned off.

What about a non-default setting? Night Shift gives a whole range of color temperatures. This feels like FUD if you're still able to set Night Shift to a level of blue/green light comparable on previous models... and the article doesn't even address this.
Yet another argument for Electron to burn in hell.
if [[ `whoami` = 'root' ]]; then

The software itself might be cross-platform, but its installer definitely isn't.
Visualizing the Hidden ‘Logic’ of Cities
I've been using this for the past couple months by using the nightly releases. it has been insane how much higher quality vim feels when you get 60fps scrolling and no banding
This is fair, but all the more reason to criticize the article, which does nothing to convince one that this person should be lined up next to people accused of sexual harassment, nor mentions their misuse of funds, even in passing.
That's a very interesting point of view!
What are the constraints?
The counter example of this is that habits are hard to break when you stay in the same environment. If your habits are what prevent you from relaxing (dog forbid you work from home), then going somewhere else may be just what you need. A change of environment is just a way to escape yourself.

Industrial scale resorts do strike me as a bit bizarre, but they are an industry fed by marketing and advertising. As you say, there are also the "bucket list" things people would like to see/do that end up as vacations, because that's the only time you could do them.

These adventures may also help you relax when you return, because you have memories and stories to tell (or pictures to brag?)... because if you remember the perspective of your vacation, you may be able to relax a bit even when you're back working.
A robin orangebreast in a cage

Puts all heaven in a rage

simply doesn’t have the same punch.
> It's about misusing company funds for it

Then it's embezzlement scandal, not sex scandal.
While I agree that the failure mode of being clever can be asshole, I really don't think that's the default failure mode most of the time. I wish he had provided some examples so I could have a clearer grasp on exactly what he means by clever and asshole.

I feel like the advice should be more like, "If you're going to be clever, make sure it's the right tone for the audience, and that the failure mode of your joke isn't asshole".
Because you never really tried it for longer than 25 seconds?
Does anyone know why the rotation force is not transferred mechanically to ground level?
Clearing land, removing poison ivy by the road, taking down yet more white pines and a few small-ish oaks. Generally getting it presentable in the front and also ready for sheep (eventually).

I bought 4.5 acres in March, so this will take many more weekends to come.

Stripping paint off an antique newel that I bought from an architectural salvage.

Working on a wood bench I've been carving, but moving forward with that is now pending a draw knife that I ordered from amazon.
Over the past few years I've tried:
- Checklists, OKRs, Kanban

Currently, I use a goal system with 3 components:
(1) long-form essay writing to explore goals, desires, interests. I then capture this into a Google doc for the year and make it the Backlog.
(2) Google spreadsheet for logging, tracking and measuring progress.
(3) Periodic Reviews and retrospectives in the form of blogposts.

Here's the Goal System Tracker:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U0ufWHqntVcz89nebyRt...

Here are the Blog Posts (Reviews & Retrospectives)
https://apicardami.com/category/goals/
What is Nautilus ?
> Times of nothingness are great for original thinking, creativity and learning, maybe some people just can't do it.

Nothing is scarier than some time alone with your thoughts. You may even feel something...
One Year After Data Breach, Equifax Goes Unpunished
But there's a line. It's fine and all to promote your tulpa, but the minute you use it as evidence, you have to actually demonstrate that it does exist. Or else it is not evidence. And you can't say with any certainty that the author is wrong.

I mean, it's not non-scientific discourse when you're disagreeing with the hypothesis in a book about science.

And I said that in his case, not only do we have tools to map his brain while he tulpas and that it could provide answers, but there is a test that could be conducted if we could find a way to implement it.
It's a species of programmable synthesiser. If it looks like a lot of work, you should see someone playing an analog modular synth. In fact, you should see someone playing classical piano; that's years of practice and a whole chunk of music theory.

The most impressive thing you can do with it is live coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPdbp1An2s
I really love parinfer when doing clojure. It makes lisp syntax kinda seem like writing python. Much more accessible to me that way.
True.

I have set triggers that color the text / give out osx notifications if there is a string somewhere like Error/Exception.
TL;DR The dinosaurs at The Atlantic take another stab at guessing what teenagers are doing instead of reading their publication.
Out of curiosity how does one measure the frame rate of the terminal on macOS?
He created a fake account to publish his "look at me, I'm 13" tweets.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15156363

If he's 14, then he's pretty much an attention needing dude (as he submitted this moon library at least 5 times and his "I'm 13 yo" tweets at least 3 times). At the same time, he claims that he does not like to mention his age.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17370469
> Agreed on using standard terminal. I’d like if someone could explain what utility they get out of iTerm (or any other non-builtin terminal).

For me it's simply that I couldn't get custom colors (e.g., the Solarized Dark theme) to display correctly with built-in Terminal. I haven't tried in 5+ years though -- maybe it's fixed now, and/or maybe I was doing something wrong at the time. But iTerm "just worked", and I never noticed performance issues so once I switched I never looked back. shrug
http://archive.is/5AqeF
Wanting to keep the forum honest isn't "off-topic", and I'm not sure what "metaflamebait" is..
Thanks for the link to the query, but would it show everything that has been flagged?
No, that's not true since at least 2013 (the year I joined Google).
Co-author of article here. Some notes:

* Light levels matter a lot, and we are trying to move the discussion to objective (and impartial) measures rather than talking about colors and subjective impressions

* Yes, our surveys of viewing distance (5000 people) were done in imperial, so we describe it that way for an English-speaking audience

* Yes, metamers are real - two spectra can stimulate the cones identically but be different to the non-visual system. We are comparing screens with identical luminance and 2-degree observer chromaticity matches, and the melanopic response does in fact vary

* The SCN has a logarithmic dose-response to light, so indeed 20% isn't that much. But 2x is an important change to talk about

* Our goals do not include making screens redder, but to improve outcomes for most people. We think the way to do this is by improving the contrast between day and night, and that this means that many of the the lights in the world should use timers that people can adjust based on the outcome they want

* The biggest surprise here (and the impetus for the article) is "wow that's more than double" when you first measure the phone, because the iPhone X doesn't feel that much bigger than an older phone

* Defaults certainly matter, especially when a product implies it will improve your sleep
So our knowledge about guns is bad because guns kill? I can't explain it more, sorry. I think the explanation I've given is very obvious - technology can be used badly, but it's always the people who do it, not the technology itself. Technology is neutral, you can simply not use it - knowing it still might prove important for development of other technologies, e.g. for prevention, reparation, ... after the original technology is used, in case of nuclear weapons for example (how would we know how to prevent and treat radiation illness without knowing anything about nuclear physics), and at the very extreme, the technology itself will do nothing - until people start using it. People are bad, not technology.
Good lord, what do these people want? For men who gasp have sex to not have jobs?

No. Of course. That's exactly they want.

Well... to not have jobs when they say.
> If your habits are what prevent you from relaxing (dog forbid you work from home)

Your typo made me smile as that situation could be just as effective at making it hard to work from home.
Fun fact: liberals and left criticized his book heavily too (mostly they claimed he does not know much about enlightenment and your article seems to claim the same).
Ligatures are great in a terminal with the right font. For example Fira Code does some nice things with ligatures for not-equal, 0x, rockets, etc.
Ever heard of the word nepotism? This is not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
Never benchmarked a virtual terminal before, but wouldn’t one basically use a timer and a bunch of unbuffered+blocking writes to stdout to determine how fast the terminal is drawing?
> Ruby is a far more pleasing mental interface to software systems than anything else.

I've heard this argument for basically every niche language, usually things like Lisp and (color) Forth. I've concluded that different people have very different internal mental models of programming.
What's the alternative? Someone who did a non-criminal act that was settled should never work again? Ever?
You need to first prove you have a personality, before you can compare and contrast and label something distinct to it.

So already we are an order of magnitude more complex from even arriving at any sort of conclusion about "personality". We actually have very little idea as to what it actually is, how it's influence, etc.

The Indic traditions, imo, provide far greater insight into the processes of the mind than the current sciences do.
A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery
I'm also a dev and I prefer the lockdown. There's plenty of other computing equipment that is not locked down, and the restrictions only really apply to a tiny amount of use-cases. For instance, I would have had no trouble learning to code if I was growing up now on a modern Macbook – or even an iPad. (In fact it would be loads better than QuickBASIC. I am so envious of techie kids now.)
Sad to see that for the new generation, "news" is equivalent to shitty Instagram pictures.

It's quite funny that they consider this as more trustworthy than conventional "news". Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network.

> “Flop accounts have a lot of people fact-checking each other instead of just depending on one source giving us information,” Dann said. “The fact that we’re all posting about these things means we all have to do research and it’s a lot of people completing these things together, not just one person, which makes us trust it more.”

Are they sure? I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc).
It's a process that's still shaking out. I strongly suspect dating coworkers will be on the chopping block. Anecdotally: I've never heard a woman say "you know, I wish more people would ask me out at work." They view it as an imposition.

Driving those changes will be technology like Tinder. By making the market for dating more efficient, it will reduce the need to permit romantic solicitations in other contexts.