skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It totally depends on what problems you’re trying to solve. Engineering managers often end up performing many duties of a PM, and in smaller companies the only PMs you may need are the founders/executives

Most PMs I know are former software engineers (or if hired as PMs out of school, studied computer science) with good people skills and high level knowledge of what they help coordinate. I would hate to work with an MBA-type PM who couldn’t appreciate technical problems and solutions
Wealth only really matters to the point where you can support a good living. That "good" will vary but beyond that increases in wealth bring diminished returns. Think about a salary: if it's below a threshold you are unhappy no matter what. Above that any raise brings more marginal increases in satisfaction, you start looking at other things for that.

The US is past that point so now it needs more than wealth.
Yes they are. Especially younger generations in China nowadays are much more likely to be pro-Chinese government and less agreeing to western values. Plenty of young students who came to study in America for a few years also have a tendency now to become more agreeable with Chinese government
Read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.

You seem like you're trying to get back in touch with the idea of 'Quality' as it applies to life, and he does a good job at walking a reader through it. I won't bother going into what I got out of it, as most philosophy is best experienced without preconceived expectations

Nowadays, you have to slow down. Most tech businesses thrive on shallow thinking to drive engagement, and try to tweak every little heuristic to "get a click" to justify their own existence.

By all means, take a break, but understand as well that as a practitioner you are part of the problem every time you refuse to say no to some dark pattern B.S.

I've started measuring every software pitch against my first set of Encyclopedia of the Natural World CD's from back in the 90's.

No phoning home. No ads. No engagement metrics
No dark patterns.

Just an encyclopedia of 0's and 1's.

It is amazing when you look at most software nowadays, and realize that a large proportion of it (especially on mobile) is trying to convert user->value instead of providing value->user.
There is no virtual anything with WSL. It’s Linux userspace running on Windows kernel.
Bitcoin whale moves $194M in BTC at a cost of $0.10 in 30 minutes
I have seen his essay on this and I am curious as to how relevant it is today, not so much because of languages, but because most languages have frameworks that will speed up a lot of the development time when used properly.
We do this a lot! Woordsamenvoegsmania! (The mania of connecting words)
That magical $70k figure has been bandied about for the better part of a decade, yet nobody ever seems to adjust it either for locality or inflation.
Yes. Lisp is fundamentally simple and is introduced in the beginning. I can recommend Racket with the sicp language extension to get the dialect used in the book.
There is this thing called "a trade-off".
I use laravel daily... normally as a backend to SPA style apps, with Vue on the frontend. It's a great workflow. I've tried and tried to move to nodejs as a backend, but there's just too many options, and I feel like there's no best practices there.

Basically it feels like php did back in 2012. There wasn't really a 'framework'... there were a few popular ones: codeigniter, symfony, zend -- but until the entire dev base flocked to laravel you really didn't have that community.

Then laravel kept just becoming stronger and stronger, and then vue came about and fit perfectly along side laravel. JS has no real backend that the entire community has adopted. I mean a large part of the js community doesn't even use backends they use serverless or BaaS like firebase, and there's definitely no really good full-stack frameworks esp since you now need to choose one that fits your 'flavor' (vue/react/angular).

Whatever you do, you WILL probably want to learn react or vue, I prefer vue, but that's just my preference. Vue/react are very employable skills right now. React more so, but vue is rising in popularity and I think will surpass react (I hope)...
While I also love MagSafe and its features, wouldn't having a more standard port is much better?

iPhones are constantly bashed by a group of users because of not having USB-C connectors. Having four USB-C ports with identical capabilities on a MacBook pro is a more pragmatic and flexible solution to have, when compared to MagSafe.

On the power level and power button issue, Apple changes its features to shape customer behavior and expectation from its devices. Apple removed battery meter from Macs since it's standby is too long (30 days) and robust (auto-hibernation), so you're unlikely to run out of juice.

They also believe in the stability of MacOS such that it's not important whether the machine is off or in standby. Because it boots in ~10 seconds and wakes up in ~2. They want to remove these distinctions from their computers and try to lower your cognitive load. Actually this is one of the finest features of the Macs IMHO. They don't make you think to use it.

Open the lid, and if the screen doesn't come on, press the power button, done.
Sounds dubious. They seem to be focused on Autopilot working as intended. What if that is far from good enough?
I must agree. "God's Own Programming Language" (not meant as satire) is certainly indicative of the psychological phenomenon of a superiority complex in the Lisp community.
The house I grew up in was purchased from sears in 1919 or sometime right around then. Apparently the house shipped as a kit via rail.
Dominique Venner analysis: https://www.counter-currents.com/2010/09/homer-the-european-...

TLDR; https://thegoldenone.se/2018/02/21/dominique-verner-epic-quo...
does google have a choice when authorities come knocking down? Maybe they should encrypt the data in such a way that only the user can decrypt it. We need to think about privacy as a design requirement and not something that is optional. Companies wouldn't do it because that is the only way they can monetize thier profit seeking craze.
Even at night? And in snow?
Or Watch_Dogs. Or Person of Interest (insuline pump).
You’d get 90% of the way there with just font selection, paragraph spacing, and margins. Maybe colors as well.

Butterick’s typography stuff and tufte will carry you through, and then just steal some more specific detailing from sites like this, gwern, xxyxyz etc

I compiled a list of such sites I was planning to steal details from for my own blog, but never actually followed through on, if you care: https://github.com/setr/pollen-site/
On windows, but I will give it a try, thanks for the tip

Edit: You are a champion, that worked!
Palm Pre and webOS. Form factor beat the Nokia N900 in portability and the OS was just as Linux-y as Maemo was.
Could you tell me which of his publications you refer to here?
So does Tesla have cameras that see 4-8x better than a human then? Or do they use potato cameras that are useless at night like Uber did?
Inkdrop looks seriously good. I may consider switching from my tiddlywiki+orgmode setup (it's painful, but haven't found anything better that is cross-platform). My only concern is if Inkdrop were to shut down in the future. Does it support exporting my data?
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Was looking to buy one these in the intermediate future. Was bummed to hear the news.
Increase in GDP also brings very tangible improvements in income, life standards, modernization of cities, new technologies and a lot more to be happy with.
Software doesn't have many opportunities to be deadly, and when said opportunities do exist, this is frequently in regulated fields where safeties are mandated by law (interlocks on a laser or a welding robot arm etc).
Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito on Moving Fast But Not Breaking Things
Bredesen has written a book describing it. But the core of it seems to be adopting habits that most HN readers would familiar with as being considered healthy, according to current medical fashion: E.g. eating a low-sugar, calorie-restricted diet, exercising regularly, maintaining gut health using probiotics, avoiding chronic inflammation, getting regular, sufficient and good quality sleep, staying mentally active. Stuff everyone should be doing, regardless of their current age or health.
Three things helped me:

1) Mindfulness training so I could see myself in the moment NOT concentrating and stop myself. Still not at 100% with this but have been getting a lot better since I first took https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/mindfulness-wellbeing-pe... a couple of years ago.

2) Thinking of my mobile in the way marketers think of it. As a cache for mobile minutes. Each marketing dept is like a little gnome each trying to get at my treasure. So I cut them off. I deleted all apps with ads and made an effort to block all ads or suggestions for new content across the digital things I use via everything from Greasemonkey to plug-ins to switching providers of services. So now distraction from my digital browsing is significantly diminished.

3) Re-reading this Michener essay about once a year: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~xs3d-bull/michener.html. It reminds me that it takes long periods of time and discipline to create great things. Else they are easily achievable and don't IMHO qualify as great. This includes everything from putting tons of time in for Ironman training (quite the physical achievement) to writing a book (look at Michener's books and how crazy-well-researched and expansive they are) to having a good relationship with your mate to writing quality code for your most recent idea. The more the gnomes pick at your little time treasure, the less time you have to achieve great things.
The list of interventions in that article is really long.

"Increase telomere length" - is that even doable at the moment?

"Increase GABA" - I thought oral GABA supplements do not cross the blood-brain barrier?

Others sure are doable:

"Enhance leptin sensitivity" and "Increase autophagy" can be done AFAIK by intermittent fasting (even better, water fasting several days).

"Enhance mitochondnal function and biogenesis" - any kind of sports, CoQ10 and photobiomodulation come to mind (BTW I've heard of a pilot study where they greatly improved Alzheimer's for ~2 weeks after a treatment with a near-infrared radiation helmet).

"Reduce homocysteine" - supplement B12 (ideally, methylcobalamin).

Most of the mentioned hormones (upper half of right column) can be optimized with medication.

"Reduce inflammation" is likely very beneficial, but tricky; eliminate all foods that cause autoimmune reactions?
That is exactly what I am doing. I just got an Aero 15 with a 1060gb, which I honestly think will suffice for most games I play.

But if I ever get into more graphically demanding games I can hook up an eGPU and throw in a 1080Ti or something.
It would be useful to hear about the challenges in detail.
was stuck with 600 stackable baby formula
dispensers in her garage

Is this an over-dramatization, or is Amazon really that much of a monopoly, that you cannot get rid of inventory at all elsewhere?

I can understand that other marketplaces might not be efficient enough to turn a profit. But just selling the inventory at purchase price?

What alternatives are there? Ebay comes to mind. Anything else?
That's simpty not true. We never ever do send spam, and i mean not even newsletters for our customers. And i still had problems when delivering invoices (PDF attachments), And thats with paying mxtoolbox 25$ to monitor blacklists. The biggest problem was microsoft365 mail service. We then switched to external local mail provider (europe) that had better delivery but even then some of the invoices would simply get stuck in microsoft365 and i would get no reponse. We are now using mandrill, and it works ok. I did not want to host it outside of europe but i did not have any other option.
Object is a set of features at location. According to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVGQeFFjhEk
A lighter version with a retina screen, updated internals, and 2015 MBP style keyboard? Yes, please!
The other day I saw a video of a woman calling the cops on a 9 year old boy because he accidentally brushed her butt with his backpack.

Sorry, I am not yet convinced. And the women I see around me don't seem that stressed out. I'd expect them to be nervous wrecks who never leave the house if everything was as horrible as feminists claim.

I also know women who are unhappy if they don't receive any attention anymore. A cynic could say the problems solves itself for most women after a while :-(
I have a Garmin sport/smart watch, it lasts for weeks and it has always-on color display. Smart watches from other brands also last for many days or weeks.
That's $10 I'd rather save, my dude.
Sears had Prodigy, so they had the resources to understand the technology and potential going forward. Here's an interesting Wire article from 1993: https://www.wired.com/1993/06/prodigy/

Long story short, their attempt to push online shopping on Prodigy was proving a failure. That kind of cuts both ways because that shows they did understand the technological potential. Also, by 1993 it was becoming clear to many people that web advertising was going to be huge. (I remember wanting to get into BBS advertising at that time, before I realized the Internet existed, coincidentally about a year or two before Link Exchange was invented.) The Sears Catalog was first and foremost an advertising platform. Like AOL, Prodigy failed because it was a walled garden. But I don't think walled gardens were ever considered greats platforms for advertising to the exclusion of wider potential markets. So Sears could have realized the fatal flaw in Prodigy and the future potential on the web for advertising, if not for shopping.
Star Citizen, aka Feature Creep: The Game.
This article reads like a single sound bite.

I agree that the internet and social media can act as a catalyst to celebrate confirmation bias.

But I also think we have to be mindful beyond just confirmation bias and include conformity bias and halo effect.

In fact, you could probably add another 5-10 common human biases to the list, but Zipf’s Law would help narrow down which ones to focus on.

My personal feeling as an observer of human behaviour and the parent of teens is that we need to specifically educate ourselves with an emphasis on common biases.

Bias innoculation thru education perhaps?
I think its also partly to take the attention away from their Uighur camps, and to paint the idea that they are 'anti-religion', rather than explicitly seeking to rid Uighur culture and religion from China.
Why have the financial ticker? If you own stocks, do you plan on reacting to this notification? Do you see yourself as a professional day trader?

Imo the amount of noise is extreme in stock news and there is no value in listening to it. It is wasted attention and wasted emotion. Much better is to pick a few stocks/ETF's and invest on a longer horizon.
Chuck Moore always says he did not invent FORTH, but discovered it.

It's fascinating the relationship between Lisp and Forth. I am quite sure there is something about these two old simple languages and the concept of duality in mathematics that we are missing.
One more amongst 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' passed away.
RIP Paul Allen. :(
Are you arguing that buying a return ticket even though you need a (much more expensive) one way ticket and then not using the return segment is fraud?

Apart from proving that you intentionally bought a return flight best of luck defining this as fraud in front of a judge.
I actually prefer Sears model. At least there was some minimum of quality I could expect. In addition, I could be fairly certain that I would not get a counterfeit. This is one of the reasons I loce shopping at Costco, good quality, good prices, excellent service.
There are non-google app store places to get apps though. APKpure, for example.
Definitely a positive attitude that helps others grow and oneself discover new ideas.

I like the following post, cited by one of the comment, which gives a clear path for constructive feedbacks https://www.lifehack.org/646592/premium-the-lost-art-of-crit...
.. that statement doesn't really have a lot to do with how things are/were in China.

Americans don't even know what real poverty looks like.
At least in Norwegian the general rule is: if it is one thing, it is one word.
Is sad to see how the English rules influence how many write now. Auto-correct end "spelling-checkers" are often terrible at this, and many think if MS Word or Google say it should be written a way it is the correct way
...buffet?
True but if that is the case, you have to play by their rules, even if they are idiotic. It kind of is what it is until things change.
we should buy NSA made routers instead.
Here is the thing: my personal boundary is my perceptions. I won't believe something you tell me, which I perceive otherwise.

That would be the ultimate goal of the power game feminism is playing. Political correctness is another tool for that, censoring my thoughts.

If you want to convince me, show me things I can perceive and factor into my estimate of the situation. Don't ask me to simply believe stuff. That would be mind control and power games, and I am not playing.
Nobody still uses them, even if they are available. In fact anything that doesn't looks enterprisey enough never goes past code reviews.

The adoption cycle for even the simplest of Syntactical features when it comes to Java enterprise is >10+ years. In some companies its never.

The saddest part isn't even that. The sad part is a whole generation of programmers have been raised, and turned to be architect astronauts without ever using something like a lambda or a closure.

The only hope for programming as a craft now is hoping Oracle kills Java(even if by mistake), and then some thing like Perl 6 comes along to replace it.
Is that hearsay, experience or a guess?

There have been a few projects with 10 to 100+ Lisp programmers. What was their experience?
Mac Pro "cheese grater" towers and arguably Apple's best Pro machine or tower ever [1].

Mojave macOS version just recently unfortunately EOL'd my last Mac Pro (Mid 2010 with no Metal capable GPU), such a nice design and powerful pro machine still to this day.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/08/07/apples-mac-pro-ch...
Yeah, I misread it originally as $34.99, which may make some sense as a kitschy novelty thing, even if only marginally.
I highly recommend being less bad at rebase - it's one of git's best features and actually pretty simple when you get the hang of it.

Being able to completely rewrite a feature branch at will before merging it (or rebasing or cherry picking or whatever) to master lets you go full on XCKD[1] with your commit messages but still compress them down to 1-2 logical "add change 1" "fix bug 2" commits at the end.

Thinking about commit messages mid-flow isn't worth it ;)

[1] https://xkcd.com/1296/
you could always claim duress is the reason why you didn't sign your name.

there is a trick under UCC, which is technical, but totally enforceable in court that does something similar.

no, I'm not going to mention it.
The Kudzu Effect
It's inversely proportional to length too. Maintainability is about maintaining a delicate a balancing act between several competing fundamental concerns - two of which are expressiveness and verbosity.

I think python's popularity is partly because it found a sweet spot that was neither too expressive nor too verbose. It's certainly possible to dial up the expressiveness (LISP, Perl) or dial it down (Golang, VB) and get something that is harder to maintain both ways.
Cool, I've found a future alternative, from no one else but the CryptPad team: spreadsheets are among their [goals][1], but will require quite a lot of time and funding, I'm continuing to look for a current alternative, but this is great news

[1]: https://blog.cryptpad.fr/2018/07/13/CryptPad-Roadmap/#Goal-1...
I was on the HyperCard 2.0 team. I'm also nostalgic for it. It's a shame no one has created anything as simple and useful for generating web pages.
I just did a Google search on “c++ map” and didn’t see the behavior you describe.
Not really a giant chunk, just a very vocal chunk which might well just be a minority.

Besides, I believe that women are often the target of sexual interest. I just don't believe that it is such a horrible thing as some of them proclaim. At the very least, many don't really have the comparison to what it is like to be unattractive, which is not very pleasant, either.

Many people expend a lot of money and time to become more physical attractive. Few people expend effort to become less attractive.

What's more, if you complain about being "sexually harassed", at the same time you signal "social proof" of you being attractive. So telling such stories is a double whammy: you can show proof that you are attractive, and get some pity points and protection, too.
I agree, I too think merges are kinda weird, but maybe it's just you and me having a different mental model.

I like small, atomic commits that do just one thing. I frequently rebase onto master whenever I'm working on a feature. When my branch is good to be taken into master, I do a fast-forward merge (basically a commit by commit patch application); no magical merge commit from nowhere. Of course, FF merges are possible only when you're rebased.

Things people not used to this workflow might think will be a problem:

>Conflicts when I rebase from master

Solve them. They're going to happen anyway when you merge into master, so it's easier for everyone if you resolve your conflicts then and there.

>Multiple people need to work on the same feature branch

Sure, do your work locally. Before pushing, fetch the remote branch and rebase onto it as well. Resolve conflicts and your work history will be pristine.

Ask everyone on the team to do the same and nobody will have to resolve somebody else's merge conflicts (because you're the best person to resolve your conflict).
I really mean baseline is just getting higher among devs, that wasn't case before the smart phones were that popular (ive read your comment as 'challenge' is there, not negative)
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Except that no one actually evaluates KPIs like that. Product improvements are not KPIs that anyone gets measured on.
I would not be surprised that when there a lot of news about extrajudicial punishment and trial by media, then the general opinion about the problem of false accusations goes up.

> The share of American adults responding that men who sexually harassed women at work 20 years ago

If a large portion are giving an answer based on the Kavanaugh case then the answers does not reflect the poll question. The poll question is also very unclear if it meant people who has been convicted and server their time to society, if its people who has been accused of a crime that happened more than 20 years ago, and if statue of limitations has occurred. The other questions in the survey is likely to have framed the question and thus biased the result.