skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Q: is it really "the airline" or - more likely - the [relevant] government a) setting and b) enforcing policies such as these?
Most of us echolocate already, oftentimes without even knowing it.

An exercise to test/prove existing echolocation abilities:
Stand 10 meters from a wall. Close your eyes and walk towards it. Try to stop right in front of the wall without opening the eyes. The majority of participants will stop when the wall is 1/5 meter in front of the face. Participants report “hearing” the wall.

Broadly speaking, listening is the human means for becoming aware of physical threats. Even unconsciously heard sounds will trigger stress hormones.
Betting against a team is different from trying to rig the game. An unfortunate side effect is that it incentives hedge funds to discredit legitimate companies.
But why wouldn't you pick a cut-rate consulting firm in that case instead of one that claimed to be doing deep work in a number of areas?
Some people are good at remember names, some people are not. Some people can spell, some people cannot. Some people are good at math, some people are not.

Frankly, I find it unnerving if someone I barely met remembers my name. Is this person stalking me?

Even weirder is when someone just comes up and say "Hi <my name>"...because they hung out with my brother in high school (he is 6 years older than me) and remember me simply because I look like him. This has happened twice, both in my late 30's. Seriously, you aren't supposed to remember people that long.
Previous discussions of similar post:

"Terry Davis has died" (templeos.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912618 (634 points, 38 days ago, 207 comments)

"Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following" (thedalleschronicle.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938835 (177 points, 35 days ago, 42 comments)
The common use cases for firebase can be easily reproduced with Phoenix. Phoenix also comes with a handy presence feature that allows you to track whether someone is currently using the product. (Think which present users in a chat room)

I understand the skepticism, but I would highly suggest taking a look and playing around. It's really, really good plus you get to fully own everything you build ;)
The bill has at least 18 regulations according to this article. I’ll be waiting to hear about the 36 we are eliminating. Surely the libertarians and small-government conservatives will demand it.
its pretty generally accepted that marijuana is psychologically addicting. so addiction certainly plays into the profitability.

then again facebooks business model is based off addiction to scrolling, so ehh.
"From what I hear it's a pretty good gig, minus dealing with the public."

It's a pretty good gig, if you don't count the actual gig?

My experience with tech support doesn't involve phones, fortunately. I got some exercise crawling around under people's desks.
I demo'ed my work up front. And then did their algorithm puzzles. I don't think I aced them all. I have an answer to them all and demonstrate that I can tackle these kinda problems.

But it seems they want people that have studied for months and probably have seen the problem before, so they can go thru all the possible optimizations and come up with the best answer in 45 minutes. Basically they are hiring an 'Interview Cracking Engineer'. Not a developer...

I thought it used to be that they look at your resume and they ask you questions to confirm that your resume is real. And that's that. Now it's basically just an exam, period...
On the other hand, there's no way to log into a shadow profile, and shadow profile information is never displayed to any logged in user, so you're safe against this particular exploit.
Considering that are paying for TV show development, video games should not be beyond them.
Thank you for sharing. Metastream is very nice! I thought I was following Paul Frazee's blog but I wasn't (updated my feeds now) so, thanks for the link to the `hyperswarm` post too.
I should have clarified this a bit more in my post. I think it's possible for people to perform at a high-level and be "engaged" at work, even if the company isn't constantly winning like the warriors.

The only analogy I can think of is another sports one. I used to do track & field. I wasn't the fastest guy running, but I still pushed myself to beat my previous records. I felt a sense of progress/fulfillment when I ran faster than the past.

I think this can exist inside a company as well. It's highly unlikely that people find fulfillment by the mission of a company, but they can find some sense of fulfillment (at least in a work context), by "playing the game their way" and continuously improving.
It's the same people who put out the nearly identical looking Cozmo a couple of years ago. Same thing, but apparently can hear now.
This comment is really representative of human ego and over-confidence. Note that I cannot downvote you, but you can downvote me.

I offered an anecdote, you offered an anecdote. Many of my UK colleagues said "heating up a pot of tea".

But, since you are so very confident of yourself and your country, you swear to me that my experience is so wrong that people should not believe it happened.
It's user-hostile, business-unfriendly, and completely intentional.
Disengagement: we get emails saying how profitable we are, the directors drive super-nice cars ... but we get cost-of-living pay increases, no bonuses. Why should we be 'engaged'? Feels like we're getting ripped off.
OTOH, they are moving way less passengers. We need to do some math
Infinix or Fit. Get the high strength nicotine salt juice.

There is a shift in how you deal with things. It is like an off brand smoke, or the difference between a menthol and regular.

It passes. Takes a day, maybe two. Once it has passed, you will find going to a real tobacco feels bad. It always was, but you became inured to it over time.

The other thing you will find is your craving isn't necessarily for nicotine. It's the extras, and of course, those are bad too. All an ugly cycle.

Scrape $50 together. That's enough for a unit, couple refillable chambers, and some good juice. Again, nicotine salt is where it's at. Get the highest strength, and use the device in moderation. You will self-select everything else quickly after that initial shift.

Then, no matter what, stay with it for a time. It will only take a few successful times for the psychological impact to fade and confidence grow.

From there, you've got a much healthier cost management problem. It's a nice problem to have.

Me? I'm tapering off just to end this shit. :D
Waiting at the carousel has never been 15 minutes for me. You must travel to tiny airports. I literally never seen an airport that's taken less than half an hour to deliver my bags.
To be honest I don't think the typical corporate strategy is irrational, either, because employees can be wrong about product and business decisions in exactly the same way that executives can be, and, ultimately, the construct of the corporation exists specifically so a pursuit can outlive any contributor to it. Endless discussion and fretting over every single thing hinders productivity, also.

But why am I supposed to feel good about being part of that system? And who decided that was the best we could possibly do?

19 years out from the release of Black On Both Sides and still all anyone wants is to tell me to try to have some fret in my heart behind the things that they do. I mean, I guess...
I'm in my mid forties and I've been working for pay in tech since '96, so this puts me in a similar demographic like yours.

I think you're being too picky and greatly limiting your job choices. I miss the days of private offices, but those days are over in any moderately cutting edge companies. You'll find offices in Cisco, Juniper and Oracle, you'll find open seating at Google, Facebook, and startups. WFH friendly companies generally expect you to become productive before they're ok with fill time WFH. As a senior engineer, you are expected to mentor junior engineers and participate in broad design and architecture, that's much harder to do from home. Unlike you, I have kids, which puts severe constraints on my time, and I find myself WFH quite a bit, but my company is ok with it, since I'm productive. Open offices suck, I agree, but find a coping mechanism - for me it's a noise canceling headset, a pile of music on my phone, and a very careful arrangement of whiteboards to pretend I have some privacy. I'm not doing anything strange at work, just the activity around me is distracting. It's sad, but for the time being, private offices are extinct.

As a senior engineer, you also spend more time in meetings - precisely because that's how you disseminate knowledge to other people in a corporate environment.

If you've been working for a while, you probably have deep expertise in some area, find companies which need that and are willing to pay for it. No strange startups with low salary and high equity, etc. I don't know about you, but over my career, I've made hundreds of professional connections. It's difficult to walk in the front door with grey hair for a fair interview, since in our field, people view us older folks as has-beens. Call in those former connections.

Anyhow, good luck! Try not to get stuck being too curmudgeonly.
By definition it's not baryonic, because we aren't detecting it and we would be detecting it if it were. "Dark" in this context means, in and of itself, non-baryonic.

And please don't bring silly Star Wars references here, they don't help and this particular one is basically offensive. HN isn't reddit.
I don't think my definition above is all that flaved (I have several, all more or less imperfect). By that definition, any reason making people be engaged, is good for employer, good as cost cuts with no downsides can be.

Note that this cost cutting can be considered predatory or not -- what if the engaged person's pay-and-benefits have a big proportion of RSUs which gain value after said cost cutting?
That might bring the wrong kind of attention and doesn't really resolve the issue. Given that the past few months has seen a lot of posts of articles about this, hopefully attention is reaching the people that should be taking a look at it in the government - FCC, FTC, etc.
Ultimately this is because we can't yet prove by experiment, which theory is the correct one.

We need to observe these guys being produced in a particle collider to definitively know what dark matter is made of.
Because it's the least that can be done for people willing to take substandard pay for risking their lives in literal battle zones. You can only really use it when you're traveling on orders, meaning being transferred to somewhere away from your family or when you're in full uniform. Most service members I know only use it when being deployed.
> it's highly unlikely that the "final" dark matter candidate will be completely made up of baryonic matter but it's not been exclusively proven.

That "highly" in "highly unlikely" is the key here, that highly is "immensely huge" e.g.:

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/824/2/L3...

"While future observations will determine the strength of the constraints from Eri II, existing data from Eri II and from the sample of compact ultra-faint dwarfs appear sufficient to rule out dark matter composed exclusively of MACHOs for all masses above ~10e−7 mass of the Sun."

And if your definition of the "consensus" is 100.0000% then I do consider it useless.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus

If you use Merriam-Webster's: "the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned" then yes, there is a consensus because "most" begins for me at "more than 60%." And I accept only those that are actually "in the field" and not those that studied something completely different but "have a strong opinion." Sorry, that's automatically useless. I know personally the Ph.Ds who believe nonsense as soon as they are out of the area they have researched personally. It's simply a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect as in "I was successful while studying X my whole life and therefore I believe I can 'understand' Y better than those who studied Y their whole life." And I'm talking here only about the natural sciences.
Bad data is bad data. It's true it gets averaged out due to the masses. Still it does provide a somewhat accurate picture, but has a degree of error.

Best means I can argue this are colleagues in plant life and marine biology using the same tools are still attempting to get concrete predictive data for the environment. It's simply not there yet.
Has everyone already forgotten about GDPR?
The problem with sports analogies is that athletes typically actually matter to the success or failure of their organization, and that's both immediately visible to and recognized by everyone involved.

Even for athletes, though, you see more simple name recognition for NBA players than for, say, NFL players, simply because basketball teams are smaller and the individual players are so much more pivotal to the team's success.
Toilet paper in EU, you can even resell preloaded OEM software.
My wife was in labor for 40ish hours in 2016. There was never any pressure for a c-section.
Super weird food for thought, but I used to think about the universe a lot as a kid, and back then we were under the assumption that the expansion of the universe was slowing. At some point that viewpoint changed and we now believe it is accelerating, hence the emergence of so called dark matter. Anyway, this led me to envision a fourth dimension, a sphere. Imagine that our universe began at any arbitrary point on the inside of this sphere, and then orient the sphere so that we are at the bottom (like a penny inside of an inflated balloon). Now imagine (don’t believe, just imagine) that our universe is expanding at a constant rate. As we approach the equator of this sphere, the area that we must cover grows larger, but once we pass the equator it begins to grow smaller. And so what might appear to us as slowing down and speeding up could just be the shape of space changing, and not the speed of expansion. Again, just food for thought.
Really? Who are these people that consider physics to be complete? I'm kind of skeptical that there's a large body of folks that know enough about physics to even ponder its completeness, but who also are unaware of the discrepancies between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Ergonomically, it's much easier to hold your phone in your hand with the flashlight on, and point its camera at the plumbing under the sink to show a remote expert, than to strap some goofy goggles on your face and stick your head up under there looking around, with pipes bumping you and water splashing you in your extremely expensive electronic face.
And then we're told it's not enough to just show up and do the job that was initially asked of us. It's especially worse as a company continues to mature, which means that it gradually loses the benefits that once made working there worth it because reasons. I'm talking things like free snacks, paying auto detailers to show up at the parking lot to wash cars once a week, gym discounts, etc. And it's usually by the time they cut these corners that they start coming up with ideas like "employee engagement."

Maybe buzzwords like that wouldn't be needed in the first place if your employees were simply happy to do their jobs; now this faux-philosophical mumbo jumbo has to be inserted and the job needs to mean something. No, screw employees being enthusiastic and committed to work because it benefits their lives outside of work... we need them to be enthusiastic and committed to work for the sake of it so we can pay them less. (is what it comes down to)
Thieves and Geeks: Russian and Chinese Hacking Communities
If a company uses the tracking data to personalize prizes of stuff that you are interested in, you suddenly might pay much more than you think without ever being aware of it.
> How a baby is delivered is none of anyone's business but the mother herself.

* It's the doctor's concern because of the Hippocratic Oath

* It's the baby's and therefore father's concern (but not choice), since vaginal birth is correlated with better outcomes.

* If insured, it's the insurer's concern, as it's over twice the cost of vaginal delivery. (In the case of the UK, this is the government, so literally everyone.)
Refusing to provide an RSS feed is one thing, but what Firefox is doing is removing "reader-y" code that other people have written better, plus axing live bookmarks which I never liked.

That is to say, what Firefox and Datastreamer are deciding about RSS appears to be unrelated. However, as a cocreator of RSS, you probably know that HTML -- which is the source of "metadata" for you -- is hard to parse correctly. Much harder and error-prone than parsing XML for RSS. Your solution serves only to push complexity downstream.

Providing RSS feeds is practically free everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if many more resources are spent deciding to turn it off than feeds would consume for all eternity.
At least a password with alfa numercial characters according to https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ios11-iphone-lockscreen-woes,ne...
Nope. What I'm saying is that YOU're average (and me, and everyone). Which means that given a few facts about you, the rest can be correctly inferred. Which means that you cannot prevent systems from inferring how you can, say, be induced to buy something, because you cannot keep those few trivial facts it needs for that from the system.
A short video would reach the non-choir audience better.
that goes both ways though, hedge funds talk their book on the long and short side

The difference is that it is generally much easier to make money on the long rather than short side. Stocks generally tend to rise in value, which acts to passively eat away at the returns to shorting. And with shorting you have unlimited downside while your loss is capped with a long position

So if you are shorting you are fighting gravity and have to sometimes be more vocal to compensate for that. If it were easier to short stocks, maybe people could make money without being as vocally critical
In proto2, you could use `has_foo()` to check if `foo` is present, even for integer types. You could also specify what the default value should be, so you could specify e.g. a default of -1 or some other invalid value, if zero is valid for your app.

Unfortunately, proto3 removed both of these features (`has_` and non-zero defaults). I personally think that was a mistake. I'm not sure what proto3 considers idiomatic here. Proto3 is after my time.

Cap'n Proto also doesn't support `has_` due to the nature of the encoding, but it does support defaults. So you can set a default of -1 or whatever. Alternatively, you can declare a union like:

# (Cap'n Proto syntax)
foo :union {
unset @0 :Void;
value @1 :Int32;
}

This will take an extra 16 bits on the wire to store the tag, but gets the job done. `unset` will be the default state of the union because it has the lowest ordinal number.

I suppose in proto3, you ought to be able to use a `oneof` in a similar way.
That was mostly about forgetting people. Not about forgetting their names. Very different.

I rarely forget someone. I also rarely remember their name, even after being told it multiple times. When I meet people I totally tune out when they say their name, partially cause I'm socially nervous, but also my mind is jumping ahead thinking about interesting things/questions, like what they do or the meaning of their t-shirt slogan. I just don't find names interesting themselves... They're just labels. And labels don't matter, they things being labeled do.

But there is also some sort of mental block, like a brain stutter, going on. Cause I often(like 1/2 month) can't bring to my lips names of best friends, people I've known years interact with weekly if not daily. It's usually only a few seconds or a minute before I can get their name. But, it's weird and low-level worries me.
This is why it is a great idea to use VSCodium. An open source fork of VSCode that removes telemetry and packages itself for all major operating systems.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
Apple doesn't give a shit about games, and they're a detriment to the company's overall brand image anyway. This much is crystal clear, and there's no incentive whatsoever to be a game developer working in Apple's ecosystem save the UNIX background. Everything marketed as game-capable on any of Apple's products is convenient happenstance that they're taking advantage of, and none of it is planned for.

VR on iMac Pro: Great you finally had enough pixel fill-rate to catch up with sub-$2k systems. No one plays VR on iMac Pro. Who's the demographic there? Professionals? Nah, performance is still better on Windows systems.

Metal: Instead of letting vendors write the graphics drivers, you do, so you control the graphics stack, too. Great, but not for games. This might make your expensive windowing system run a bit better on your 5k monitors, though.

ProMotion: Fantastic for professionals, especially artists, and great for consumers, but those rates are utilized mostly in hardware accelerated software, and not for usage in iOS games. Unless the game is simple and has a low polygon budget, you're not holding consistent 120 FPS. It's not happening. Maybe in legacy titles finally ported to iPad and iPhone.

Game capabilities in Apple's hardware are possible with them pursuing other features, but they are never a focus. That's perfectly fine! But Apple will never produce a game friendly platform and you need to understand that when developing games.

Engines that conveniently have the ability to compile to Apple's hardware targets should be thought of as a nice-to-have and not a core feature.

Apple's iPhone games are a development-expensive variant of the flash games of yesteryear, with far less accessibility to young artists and developers.
sounds like your saying a site has to use Facebook and Twitter if they want to achieve the same thing as an rss feed.

Worse: a site has to scrape FB and TWTR to achieve the same thing.

I'm baffled how anybody who even knows what page-scraping is could think of it as an improvement over RSS.
This sounds like the same situation as the music industry, bundling in an album 12 songs you don't want, along with the 2 you do want.

Or newspapers, where you pay for the 4 sections you won't read, along with the 2 you do read. Or streaming services, paying for the thousands of shows you won't watch, along with the dozen you do watch.
It is definitely inequitable. However, it is also how humans work - we want to advantage our inner group over other groups.

This cuts directly to the heart of the meritocracy argument (most strongly in technology, but it exists everywhere): how can you claim that everyone is judged by their merits (directly related to how hard they work and how smart they train themselves to be) when being lucky (in genetics, in birth, in support and growth, in opportunities) plays such an overwhelming role?
I believe studies of note-taking suggest a link between retention and the physical act of writing. My habit is to imitate writing the person's name on my palm several times after an important introduction.

In general though, my brain is not optimized for this. I rely in no small way upon having a digital extension to my memory. Usually, not being able to remember months and years of my life is more of a personal concern than not being able to remember names or faces. But, it's not clear that the broader issue is solvable, so I write on my hand, and apologize for the necessity.
Vim anyone?
Trading electricity if there’s no Brexit deal