skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. But it only goes so far.

Ultimately, even code and toolchain flexibility comes at a cost - for example, should you go for a non-relational database because of potential future scalability needs, or cross that bridge when you come to it? Or should you make your code internationalizable, even though the first release is in English only? The right answer may depend on the probability of the business need occuring in some foreseeable time frame.

Unfortunately, the OPs point is too black and white, where the reality is much more grey. In my view decisions in a project need to be subject to a cost-benefit trade-off, and future-proofing is no exception.
Do you know of any cases where pilots intentionally hit the wrong targets?

The laws both national and international that govern military operations don’t put civilian lives a head of military operations in all cases.

I’m not American but from my experience we had to do a lot of work for risk reduction when planning missions, essentially we perform and throughly document the process in which we reduce the risk of collateral damage that came in form of selecting a strike package to minimize the damage, choosing a time that would ensure minimal non-combatants in the AO and also providing the parameters of engagement to the pilots based on the value of the target.

I can say that out of the approved strikes close to 50% of them were aborted last minute and even after munition launch due to the pilots giving us the no-clear in the last moment and then essentially missing the window of opportunity.
The difference is, it's rarely an on-the-spot firing (at least in the UK). There are usually a few levels of "performance improvement" / "how can we help you get back on track?" before you get anywhere near "you're goneski".

Assuming we're just talking about "not quite the best" work performance here.
Nice project! I really like the small and elegant syntax. Any plans for macro support in Dern?
I was Apple from the Macintosh SE until a couple years ago. Finally had enough and put the (significant) effort into shifting over. It took some time getting used to Windows again (hadn't really used it since 98SE other than sporadically), updating all my habits and muscle memory, etc.

Haven't regretted it once.

The machine I built for half the price of the equivalent Mac STILL makes me feel all warm and happy a year later. It feels weird to have more performance than I'd ever need, while spending so little. Windows 10 is perfectly usable, unlike multiple predecessors. WSL is amazing, and basically gives you that *nix-terminal-in-an-instance feel that used to be a unique feature of OSX.

It's easier than ever to switch, and there's less reasons than ever not to. Apple is treading dangerous waters I reckon. I seriously think if more Apple users knew how far Windows PCs had come, they'd be switching now, as I know I myself held off for a fair while just because I was hesitant to believe it had gotten that much better.
OK, perhaps. But what will mainly collapse is human civilization, and populations, and then ecosystems will more-or-less recover. Not the same, for sure. But that's not such a big deal, in the long term.
- re: const assignments: you're correct. I did not compile this and the assignments should use let.

- Show me where you have access to p1 outside of your closure.

The idea is / was -- you need access to both p1 and p2 for some comparison. The first `somePromise` would have been more accurately written `someInitalPromise`

The point is that try/catch + async & await removes a lot of cognitive overhead. Before async/await I rarely used try/catch -- so it's easy to get things done without it, but the combination of the two aforementioned has made codebases I work on much easier to maintain.
It's about time that data owned by big corporations be put in the public domain.
Indeed, why?
I've seen exactly that. Stupid rules coming up, extremely performing employees leaving or making it clear that unless that's revoked they'll leave.
That seems an odd thing to want to change. Do you also move proximal punctuation inside the quotes, AE-style?
Well.

My servers are on the cloud.
My IDE is on the cloud.
My everything is accessible through the internet.

I need to be at office everyday, for some reason.
"I've met many many board members over the years and they are often very unimpressive."

This is an extremely difficult thing to assess frankly.

There are so many reasons for board members.

Often they could be from a family fund. Maybe they are from an institutional investor who own a lot of share. They are not there to provide strategic guidance, rather just to sit there and keep an eye on things. They may be simply there as an 'extra head' for another party, like the CEO who wants to keep the power. And sometimes they're there because they have deep networks that you might not know about.

Instead of forcing women on boards, they should try to convince companies that having female board members is a good thing, maybe provide some data, and then create some networks for hiring.
This is on par with The Smithsonian or the British Museum burning to the ground. It's where Brazil's Declaration of Independence was signed and it was the residence of the Portuguese Royal Family for decades.

While the closest fire station is 500 meters from where the fire happened, and the National Museum is located in front of a lake (in a place called Quinta da Boa Vista), they had issues accessing their water supply - for which they are the entity responsible - and whole areas of the wooden, termite-infested museum burned while they tried to sort the water supply out.

The museum was in disrepair for several years, with the media reporting on it repeatedly, but their govt budget for 2018 was a mere $13,500. Since 2010, it was the fourth important Brazilian museum to be burnt down due to fire (or rather, lack of a proper fire prevention system).

Not from the article, but important to emphasize:

"The museum of Quinta da Boa Vista had the largest collection of Egyptian mummies outside of Egypt, the largest collection of Pompeii outside of Italy, the mummies of the American civilizations, the fossils of Luzia, the oldest homo sapiens ever found in Brazil. Largest meteor to ever fall into the country. A huge collection of dinosaur fossils."

And, finally, I'll add that the museum was where physical evidence of new species was mandatorily catalogued. It's a loss for so many other branches outside history, like biology.
At the moment, Tempo Automation[1] is probably the closest thing to the goal you describe.

[1]: https://www.tempoautomation.com
My experience is that SD-cards don't last very long when used as the `/` directory.
Price inflation happens daily. You can store your value on Bitcoin and exchange it for enough bolivars just before you go to the supermarket.
Plastic Pollution
I already decided to not buy a new MacBook, and now i’m making a similar decision with the iPhone after 6 years. My main issue is instability of the OS. I could list issues for an hour, but it also doesn’t help that I can’t reliably connect remove photos on my phone via Linux, since apparently Apple changes important things about the connection protocol every 3-6 months. The instability of spellcheck is shocking too - ever since 10.5, it mishandles edited text in a very nonfunctional way.

If Apple is going to make iOS buggy and second rate, there goes my main reason to use an iPhone. Same with Mac hardware. Those are the parts that are supposed to be the good things about Apple - iOS and MacBook hardware quality were my reasons to buy their products.
See also their FAQ on Plastics [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics
I enjoy that nobody knows what the Van Eck phreaking[0] is. It works, but to get a good picture the gear is quite large to carry unnoticed.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
From their site:

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I was NovelRank's biggest fan. I made it for authors like me; who barely sold any books, but it still felt good to know that someone found your writing valuable. It grew to be valuable to so many others. I'm sorry this has happened and I have to now focus on my new wife (married for the 1st time Aug 3rd) and what my future can be now that my income is gone.

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"This is mathematical nonsense."

Board members might be the least likely of all people related to the company to have the right credentials. It's networks, power, relationships. Not usually talent.

Though I'm totally against board quotas, it's very easy to see how women are locked out of this game. Far, far more so than for normal roles within an organization.
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Oh IT cell actually reads tech news?
I tried it out for a bit and compared to my current reader of choice this is what I miss:

- keyboard navigation

- expanded view (full content in the list view)

Some other remarks:

- The pricing is a bit high for me, for a couple € more I could run my own virtual server (which could also be used for many other things) with an opensource feed reader.

- Do Not Track is a nice addition but it would be better to proxy the images through your service instead of removing them altogether.

- The feed crawler should handle last modified and etag headers to save bandwidth both for yourself and the content providers (it could also use a proper user agent with a subscriber count in it).
I'd definitely consider at least putting a screenshot on the front page, or in the Github readme. I clicked your link very interested, saw nothing but a Sign Up button and then an (almost) empty Github readme, and lost interest.
Holy Quran app made via NativeScript
I would add classical music and also traditional ("trad") Irish music to this. Parents would have had it on a lot when younger but not really in an annoying way. It was just there. Used to hate as a teenager but somewhere around the 20s it just all clicked and I love it. Probably listen to more of it than anything else.
First YA Book to Feature a Female Hacker
> It would be difficult to imagine what multi-architecture support in a single build directory / command-line invocation would look like

That's exactly what MacOS fat binaries are. Single binary contains sections for multiple architectures.
This article barely even touched IoT and mostly talked about economics living in the city.
Let people work from home at their own whim. Never inquire about their performance. Never document anything related to their performance. Shutter your company in 5 years when you have a bloated payroll, terrible products, and nothing ever gets done on time.

I get that actually managing people and their performance is harshly frowned upon on HN, but it is a very necessary evil. Working in a place where the inmates run the asylum is is not fun either from my experience.
Last time I looked, “gender” had been redefined to include many more than just two genders according to various universities. Multiple countries are likely to legislate in extra genders. So mandating one logically requires mandating all of them eventually. Just mandating sex and racial attributes alone will cause significant board changes.

Interesting times ahead. The market will have fun sorting out the profitability of these changes in due time.
Generator of logically connected fake data
Isn't this just outsourcing? Wasn't it tried? What are the differences between "remote work" and "outsourcing"?
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It usually points to a router, of which there can be hundreds of devices connected to it on your home network. Securing your wifi is one thing (which doesn't even absolutely prove that it was one of your home devices that did the torrenting, thanks to things like the KRACK attacks), but to then say "well you should secure your internal network such that torrenting cannot happen" is absolutely ridiculous. Torrent programs can work off any port, so that filters out port blocks. Is grandma going to install layer 7 traffic inspection so the grandkids can't doing illegal stuff on that newfangled interwebs? They'll switch to https then...

My point is that anyone with the technical know-how and very rudimentary internet access can bypass almost any restriction you try to put on it. What if the pirate is a minor and won't listen to their parents and keeps on torrenting? Do you permanently take their internet access away? How does that then stifle them for school homework or their social interaction? How can we expect each and every citizen to deploy NSA grade traffic monitoring on their router? The whole thing is ridiculous and the courts are still vehemently out of touch
I think we need to take it one step at a time. First, let's kill the modern web, then continue to get rid of other layers of bloat on modern computers, and when all the low-hanging fruits have been plucked, we can do something about hardware protocol latency...
The issues with encryption technologies is a separate matter to the prosecution of large-scale criminality & the closure of white-collar loopholes - both of which of course we need much more of. Saying we're ignoring the alligator is quite an exaggeration though, and access to communications (with a court order) would be very useful to large-scale criminal cases, including in working up the chain. Many international paedophile rings have been successfully caught out.
> BTW, you have an use case where you need to use DB from outside VPC and you can't do peering?

Lambda in VPC have unacceptable cold-start for interactive applications. This is partly why DynamoDB use is so popular with Lambda, it does not have to be in VPC.
Looked at from another angle, these changes shift the nexus for innovation from manufacturing and process technology to architecture and design on the front end, and to post-manufacturing packaging on the back end
You know we've reached Peak Valley when VCs are advising to spend more time selling than iterating.

Outbound sales is short-term begging for money, period.
If you only discover that a product doesn't work for some of your users because one of those users is on the development team, then you probably need a better way to get user feedback.

You can hire developers of diverse gender, ethnicity and age, but those are most likely still very similar along other dimensions like income, location and ability to deal with complex systems.

Rather than trying to hire more diverse developers, you might be better off paying someone to find out what your actual users think about your product.
It’s really expensive to fire people. Not only do you lose out on the recruiting, the training, the profiling. You will have to do it all over again. I’ve never fired anyone in my entire career in the EU. I do not understand how it’s feasible to do it willy-nilly in the USA. Can anyone tell me that? Or is it much more rare than I think?
Null Value – against demise of the hacker public license (2017)
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Anyone who's read Cryptonomicon knows what Van Eck phreaking is, and anyone who hasn't read it probably isn't worth talking to. :)
Based on the comment, I'm assuming you built a desktop system. Is there an equivalent for laptops? I keep looking at Surface books, and... get tempted, then read about something that seems like a major flaw, so I hold off. $3k would be a lot to drop on a machine, so... I want some assurances it would be worthwhile switching from a MBP (2015).
For one, many companies are open to outsourcing, but refrain to allow remote work to their own employees, or just allow a couple of days.

Because productivity is all about being seated on the office.
Some rules are good, some rules are bad. Too many bad rules result in people with the possibility of leaving to leave. The better an employee is, the more possibilities it has to leave. In conclusion, given a company with enough bad rules, good people will leave.

I don't see a problem with this premise. You can argue about which rules are good, and which rules are bad, but to skip the entire article (and brag about doing it) is shortsighted.
fingerprint? neah. I'd rather them not know my fingerprint.
Michigan Democrat Candidate Refuses to Oppose the Antisemitic Movement (BDS)
Apple seems to have fixed the issues with the keyboard being delicate.
“Transactional sex was once driven by poverty”

Isn’t poverty what drives most of us to get any job? I work because otherwise i’d be in poverty.

Are they implying that sex work is the only work available to them? Unlikely. But I imagine sex work is far more profitable and easier of a job than the alternatives - so maybe that actually makes it a good thing?
Even the US government is accused of weaponizing the IRS to target political opponents. Do you really think the IT department in India would operate without interference?
From your brief description that sounds like a useful meeting. Useful enough to do more often than once or twice per year. But it doesn't really sound like a performance review.
When you outsource you throw a spec over a wall and wait for them to throw the finished product back at you at some point, hopefully before the deadline.

If you have a remote team, you'll still have teamleaders and/or managers that keep things in sync with the company goals.

This is of course quite a caricature, but it illustrates the issue unless the company is willing to allocate manpower to be in continues dialog with an outsourcing company.
this! Apple's USB ethernet adapter is a useful thing as well and it works flawlessly with the Linux kernel.
a developer model without a touchbar would mean nothing would ever get written for the touchbar.
Use a read only root fs and overlays in ram, this will keep your sdcard based Linux server running much longer, though it is a bit tedious to set up.
What you are talking about is uncontrolled airspace. Pilots announce their moves to each other.

The automatic message is called ATIS, which also exists at manned airports. These days it is recorded automatically, tho.
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I've never fired and never been fired for sub-par performance. I'm from the EU. It must be ultra rare then.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal
I just chucked Ubuntu on a Dell, it's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.
BJP leaders actually bought land worth crores, just a week before demonetization. They knew it beforehand.

http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/demonetisation-bj...
I think that a big part of Aurora Serverless being different from regular RDS, is something like this has been implemented in front of RDS. Havent used Aurora Serverless yet, but I think you can only talk to it by HTTPS, right?
Didn’t realise Europeans couldn’t use reddit
In my humble opinion, it would be better if the quran and all the religious books stay stuck in the past where they belong.
> you'll spend a lot of time on a mac writing scripts and such do deal with the difference between your Mac dev environment and your Linux production environment (if you do web dev)

Or you'll just use a virtual machine?
Hey,

thanks for your feedback!

Keyboard shortcuts will be added in the next release (next week), and expanded view in the Reader is also planned and will be added in some of the next releases.

Also thanks for the other remarks, we will not decrease the price as this is the minimum to ensure the service is sustainable. Will definitely think about the image proxy and the etag headers.
>Anyway in most of the EU, by law and by convention^ people don't get fired often.

Any source on that? This is simply not true and simply a lie.
There is no such "European convention" - as each country have its own history, laws, languages and culture.

In all European countries people are fired every day all year round, with no compensation or any bonuses or whatever.

There are VERY few exceptions like government workers or workers in national owned companies (like defense industry) which are hard/impossible to fire on spot (Unions).

For example I was fired from job about 2 times in past 3 years, and I have seen others being fired. Banking, Consulting, Software Houses.

By convention in Europe you are fired when you are:
- not needed,
- too expensive,
- worse then expected at whatever you are doing,
- not liked,
- company does not have cash and orders.

Same like in rest of the world.

Also unemployment rate in Europe (7,1%) in general is higher than in USA (3.9%).
I think she was close to figuring out what can happen, but missed the mark. Great developers leaving are your canaries, and the Dead Sea Effect is a real thing. So what do rules and processes have to do with this?

I'm currently happiest at my job that is the most "enterprisey" and has more rules. I can't wear shorts or sandals to work, which perpetually irritates me. I can't run the OS I want at work, and I have a hard time getting simple things like a decently sized monitor because of esoteric rules. A lot of these rules are dumb, and sound like the ones in the article, but I'm planning on staying for as long as I'm challenged and having fun.

Our team runs kanban instead of scrum/sprints, and we're constantly asking to use non-approved technologies (where appropriate) in a traditionally Java-based company. We have individual and team agency, and there is an implied trust that we will prioritize accordingly, get things done, and make good technology decisions. I would gladly deal with a dozen other dumb rules as long as I'm able to hold onto the above, as interesting work and agency to solve it in creative ways is the number one thing I'm looking for.

Contrast that with some of the other places I've worked. I used to be able to drink beer at work, we could have dogs in the office, I had more vacation time, free beverages and snacks, etc. All those things are nice perks, but they came tethered with what I consider the detestable processes that the article glosses over.

Any process related to productivity is designed to set a bar which will bring up your lower performing individuals. This bar will drag down your good developers - that is what makes good developers leave. Knowing how to fix problems and being unable to do anything about it while stuck in an endless barrage of sprint planning, sprint retros, forced demos, velocity tracking, etc. is not fun. Forced consensus on any decisions is like pulling teeth and people end up afraid to contribute or have a dissenting opinion.

The people that are OK with the productivity bar are the ones that stick around for 15 years and become "indispensable" because they know where the bodies are hidden. Anyone good that joins the company probably won't last more than 18 months.

I apologize for the long rant, but it's been a topic I've spent a great deal thinking about in the last 2 years after trying (and eventually succeeding) to find a good place to work.
Thanks! Appreciate your kind words.
The touchpad on my new Lenovo X1 is great enough that the only thing that I miss about my Macs is the incredible resale value.
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If you are looking for 80's listings, please check out http://www.hebdogiciel.free.fr/

The site contains all the listings from the Hebdogiciel magazine, re-typed and ready for download. The magazine was a must for all French-speaking computer kids back then.
Thank you for saying in two sentences what I (likely) failed to say in many.