skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is nothing more soul sucking than writing, maintaining, modifying, and supporting ETL to produce data that you yourself never get to use or consume. Instead, give people end-to-end ownership of the work they produce (autonomy).

I think this is more the point than “engineers shouldn’t write ETL”: the engineering-related department consuming the ETL’s output should likely be the ones writing/maintaining it. Or, perhaps more generally: don’t delegate entirely to another team if the team that cares about the result is capable of meeting their own needs.
How China aims to dominate the world of robotics
I prefer to think of them as carpenters.

Every carpentry job requires solving a lot of problems every day, and using a variety of skills.

But carpenters don't think of themselves as divas or creatives.

In most cases, it's not nearly so romantic.

There are objectives, roadmaps, client needs: it's just a job. Put on your hard hat, get your morning coffee and do it.
A few weeks ago MS suspended development of Office for UWP, so unlikely.
The number of carrion feeders scales with the number of available corpses so...
Tech Billionaires Duke It Out on Twitter Over Proposed ‘Homelessness Tax’ in SF
Can't believe I'm saying this but I think MS could own Apple if they took on Apple in any programming realm outside of objective c/Swift if they embraced Linux desktop.
I think there's an element of accumulative and quantity/volume effect with EMF sensitivity, so perhaps not having heavily shielded wires is necessary; the arrangement of the wires could also have an impact as to whether they create a closed faraday cage or not.
Should have gone with my second choice of career then :P

Not much work there without fluent Japanese though, so I guess it turned out alright. I’ll just have to deal with houses costing a small fortune.
One step closer to Debian...
I created Rust sub. Feel free to join. Also, I don't see how to find or share link to a community. Is there a way to find community by a fingerprint?
I urge you not to take Levine's book seriously, especially when it comes to the early history of computing and the Internet. It is a poorly researched and argued work of history
I sorta agree with you, but to be a pedantic bastard, a single hydrogen atom can absorb and emit 21cm radio wave[1], so molecular sizes don't completely rule out radio absorption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line
Burial at C it is then.
For myself, it's the electronics in the base of a laptop that bothers me most that I must shield from - and I use a wireless keyboard to keep my hands off of the keyboard of the laptop, otherwise my hands start to hurt very quickly. I don't appear to be sensitive enough to sense interference or sensitivity to wi-fi etc, or it's too subtle compared to stronger electrical pollution, so I just can't perceive it.
I think there is a lot of psychological stuff at play if you only feel it off things you associate with electricity, but don't get it from unrolling sellotape.
obscure / outdated knowledge can pay off as well.
Who said anything about desktop? Microsoft needs something for phones and tables and they don't want to pin their cart to Google's Android horse.
If their prediction is that if Linux starts getting a share of locked-down corporate desktops (think insurance companies, warehouses, big retail, etc) it would make sense to be playing in that field, given that it's a familiar name for people transitioning from tired old Windows XP Embedded or similar.

It would be very clever for Microsoft to start offering Office 365 for Linux but only support it on their own distro. And it's understandable; getting that bucket of ugly bolts to work on Linux would be an epic hack job and probably would never be particularly stable on random distros.
Hard water is not for yousoften it with these systems
Unfortunately there hasn't been much legitimate study into this area, in part likely because there seem to be very few who are sensitive enough to 1) notice it, and 2) for it to bother them significantly. I have found people who just from talking to them, based on their life experiences, predicted they would be very sensitive to EMFs - and then upon shielding their laptop temporarily they could notice the difference; I do want to do blind studies related to this to dispel naysayers (who also don't have proof to the contrary).
The Circle? A heavily underrated book, I think.
An unfortunate side effect of caring more about the animal than its damn owner does, I expect.
He also advocated for free education, free clothing. People want to pain adam smith as an extremist, but having read him a couple of ties, he'd be considered a centrist today.
Do you know meaning of words "tufta", "purga", "pripiski"? USSR officials were happy to perform on paper any reform, increase and improve anything, because it was the easy way to climb hierarchy. Glasnost` and Perestroika were symptoms of deeper problems with economy. The main problem was "everything is ours, so nobody cares".
Happy iPhone and iPad user here... but I can't help but think Apple is walking down an unfortunate path these days.

The recently refreshed MacBook Air and Mac mini really smacked me in the face. Astonishingly, ridiculously high prices for the specs. Upgrades at even crazier prices, even by Apple standards. Such a shameful show of greed and contempt for their customers.

I can't help but think Apple has decided it'll be the brand for rich people only (and people who haven't yet maxed out their credit), and to hell with everyone else. These days, the Genius Bar seems more interested in selling you upgrades rather than fixing your problems.
Might want to check out cacher.io for a team-based app that integrates with VSCode, Atom and Sublime.
Hm, I'm not sure about sellotape for myself - however there certainly are a wide range of EMFs and electrical (static or otherwise) to test for.
because it already has to go through it for signals processing
There are people out there that hook up their laptop to an external display and then use it with the lid closed. Wouldn't be surprised if some of them want to use the mic with that configuration as well.
You've never tried to tutor a computer class, have you? There are absolutely people who naturally 'get it' and people who never will, along with a large middle ground of people who don't 'get it' innately but are capable of learning.

This tabula rasa dogma might help determine how to treat people from a human perspective, but when trying to help people choose a career path it's terrible.
There are people who could work harder than you worked and not get to the point you are at.
That hardware capability is exploited in the following paper, if you want to know the details:

Mordechai Guri et al. (2016) 'SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit'.

http://cyber.bgu.ac.il/advanced-cyber/system/files/SPEAKE(a)...

By Mordechai Guri, Yosef Solewicz, Andrey Daidakulov, and Yuval Elovici.
Yep, this. It's branding 101. Rolex is not in the wristwatch business! They sell luxury, period.
> I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound like I had it easy.

Not at all, but you had it possible. There are plenty of people who are just not equipped to do whatever you do and will never be halfway competent, let alone pretty good at it, no matter how much training they receive.

We're all good at different stuff in different amounts. There's probably some stuff they can do which you can't, too. That's OK.
But then, you have no idea who I am or what level of introspection I'm capable of. Assuming thousands of people are just imagining it because the people who sell the crap and their hangarounds told you so doesn't make you look very smart.
I'd just write it in regular JavaScript. The time you spend learning x framework can be used to write the 5% of it's features you will actually use.

People invoke framework names like they are casting +100 intellect buffs on themselves but you just don't need them. Be a crazy person and make a webpage without any frameworks. Come to the dark side.
He is not too dark. He just don't know better. ;)

This is one of my criticisms of the author who write about, basically, deep planning: he himself didn't have horizon of planning far enough to envision future where horrors he plan to write about have been foreseen and humanity overcome them at their inception and these horrors are removed as class of errors. Imagine PSP/TSP at the level of humanity progress/interaction with other civilizations.

Strugatskie brothers came there very closely - they have a civilization which plans progress around possible bad things that can happen [1] (including not having space travel so that tagorians won't fight, I guess). But they also was wrong - they saw this as impeding progress while in effect PSP/TSP-like practices make progress more streamlined and faster. But at least they tried.

Watts didn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagorians
It works quite well too. As I understand it, SQLServer itself is effectively running on top of its own "OS" like layer (even on windows), so porting cleanly was made significantly easier.
I'm curious what innovative tools have emerged in the past two years that changed the dynamic?
cough 4 cough
I believe they all do, but I haven’t been able to find a document to confirm that.
There are some things that can help mitigate it, but they sound like one is advocating for women to remain "barefoot and pregnant," such as adequate rest, eating right, etc.

On the flip side, carrying a baby makes the mother a chimera and puts her through a whole host of changes that, in some cases, have profound positive impact on her health. You hear a lot less about this than about the horror stories, but it does exist.
Ask HN: How do you come up with creative, original ideas?
Sam Altman said that "original thinking", ability think independently is one of the best predictors of founder success.

I'm good at learning and understanding things, but bad at inventing my own original interesting ideas, and I want to get better.

How do you come up with new insightful ideas? Did you learn some mental tools, skills, or habits that helped you get better at this? Are there any good books on creativity/invention/innovation that can help?
> simplifications of the other pillars

This fallacy is called "reductionism."
Can you explain what problems someone faces if a callback is executed immediately?
Does anyone have experience with ETL as a service like StitchData (not related to stitchfix)?

The startup I'm employed at needs some data analysis, but it is not big data, simply a way to unify analytics into a queryable database. I'm not looking forward to writing any ETL code, and was hoping someone here had a tool to help.
I hope you realize the inverse of the problem you posit here: Why should other cities be forced to bear the burden of homeless people being shipped to them?

The end result of your logic would essentially lead to caravans of homeless people because it would be cheaper to give them a bus pass and a pat on the back rather than take care of their own responsibilities. The idea that they have agency in this case is a facade because then the city could deny them care under the guise of 'well we gave them a chance for a better opportunity and they denied it'. It seems to be a uniquely American thing to ignore actually addressing the damn problem in favor of making it someone else's problem.
To be clear, the download limit is imposed by Ravel, the startup that paid for the effort of redacting copyrighted annotations from the scanned images. Lexis later purchased Ravel, but the download limit comes from Ravel’s control over the redacted digitized images, not Lexis’s copyright over the source materials.

Now, what would happen if you breached the research agreement? You’d probably be sued for breach of contract. But that’s not what case.law is doing. It’s abiding by everyone’s legal rights: the original publishers who collected, archived, indexed, and added annotations to the case law, and the folks who helped digitize versions that could be freely distributed. The government paid for the courts so the cases are free, but it didn’t pay for all those other things and they aren’t free.
Microsoft do cool things like this which makes me think "oh wow they really are a different company to 15 years ago"

So I go and check out a new Windows 10 laptop and the first thing I see, even on Microsoft's own Surface devices running a 'clean' Windows install, is a bunch of adverts on the start menu and sigh.

FFS Microsoft.

Why do you do so many great things then ruin your most popular brand with crap like Candy Crush and Twitter on your clean Windows install on your £3000+ premium laptop running Windows 10 Professional?

Not to mention how you conveniently always reset my settings to your defaults including reinstalling all your ad-crap every 6 months with a new Windows release. So I have to go find that damn PowerShell script again to wipe them out because a normal uninstall option is just too much to ask for isn't it!

Honestly it does my head in. Windows 10 is a solid OS but they trash it with these awful little pointless decisions. Fine stick your Candy crap in the Home edition but leave Professional alone, especially as you offer me no alternative as an independent development as I can't meet your Enterprise level requirements.

Do you see Apple loading up third-party apps into macOS? No? I wonder why.

Solving a lot of the complaints about Windows 10 isn't some super hard development problem. All they have to do is provide an actual clean version of Windows 10 with no third-party crap and cut out a few of the MS apps as well like 3D Paint (really?), 'Get Office' (again really? In your Professional version?), stop nagging me about changing from your own products, remove all 'suggestions' and tips, allow me to properly disable Cortana and OneDrive with a single option and they be actually gone for good, and maybe have an option to fully disable telemetry (not that I would as I know it is beneficial to you and I but it will shut up some noisy people online and makes everyone happy).

See not that hard is it? Also please go to a one release per year. The fact you have screwed up the last two consecutive updates shows you are pushing to do too much too quickly. Who are you in a race with anyway? Just take your time and do a nice solid update every Spring and everyone will be much happier.
I've had the exact same experience and it took actually getting a job to get out of the rut. I will also note that it's entirely possible to get a degree in CS without learning this stuff, in fact, that's the default for many programs. Only syntax and algorithms are mandatory, everything else must be learned through electives and osmosis. So the people who are:

1. Minmaxing life and taking the shortest path to a degree

2. More interested in CS theory

3. Just plain unlucky in that everyone teaching their elective courses went out of their way to provide a sanitized environment

can end up mildly screwed.
Companies in the San Francisco
I appreciate your analysis. To contrast this, simply to bring everything into a larger perspective: we developed in a natural world without all of this electrical pollution. And as your questions suggest, it is very difficult to pinpoint what any one cause may be, including what state of health a person is currently in - and whether that is perhaps making them hypersensitive, likewise it could be a 'skill' or sensitivity they developed and can feel only in specific contexts which would further make testing it difficult.
Is charging a (reasonable) fee 'denying the service'?
Interesting, had never heard of this before:

http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
If we can assume that clocks have decent computing power, and if we can assume that people that need to do time calculations across significant longitude differences have access to decent interactive computing power (smart phones, tablets, desktops), then I think some kind of dual time system might be workable.

Clocks would display both a "World Time" and a "Zone Time".

The World Time would probably simply be UTC.

For coordinating across significant longitude differences World Time would be used.

The Zone Time applies to a region similar to a current time zone, and is an idealized solar time, adjusted so that sunrise each day is around 6:00 AM LZT (Local Zone Time).

Schools, stores, most offices, mass transit routes that are mostly in the zone, theaters, meals, and similar things would base their schedules on LZT. So office hours, for example, would typically be 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM LZT, year around.

This would let most people work on a schedule that syncs well to the Sun, which should have tangible benefits for many people. There would be no going to work or school in the dark, and in summer the longer daylight time would automatically come after work/school.

This needs to assume people have decent access to interactive computing power because it would complicate planning things that involve interactions between LZT and World Time, especially when planning events weeks or months ahead.

(And yes, under this system 6:00 AM LZT from one day to 6:00 AM LZT the next day would not be exactly 24 hours. So? Things for which that matters would be scheduled on World Time, not on LZT).
Time tracking software is rarely an asset to a software team. Software is complex to develop, as the author alludes to. Requiring engineers to track time is more often than not a way for mediocre or new managers to attempt to enforce control.

What's worse, the temptation of micromanagement becomes all the greater. The discussion becomes about the metric, not about the work. "Why did this work take you 3 days and not 2?" instead of a proactive discussion about the work as it develops.

Nothing will lose you great developers than overbearing management. Especially when you know that the time you spend on a complex problem is being counted, like having your manager stood over you, looking at their watch while you code.

Time tracking can work. But only if a developer chooses to use it for their own. A manager enforcing it will almost always lead to resentment, worse productivity, and ultimately loss of good people.
And an unknown and unknowable attack surface.

At least with the switch if the mic doesn't work you just check for magnets around it and that's it.
Unified frontend development with .NET is their big opportunity for this IMO. Something like Xamarin Forms but a lot more optimized like Flutter and supporting mobile, desktop, and browsers would be incredible. Right now .NET seems pretty unpopular but a really strong front end use case could reverse that.
I find the layout for results hard to read - the italicized titles don't help and complete separation makes it hard to compare the products in any way.

A simple table with some basic facts about each product and sort functionality would be a lot better. For example "AirPod Alternatives" list things like battery life - but don't offer an easy way to compare it.

Additionally, the single-minded focus on Amazon and cheap leads to Chinese items that are far marked up in price dominating. These can be obtained from more direct Chinese sellers for much cheaper than on Amazon. For example, many of the OBD2 dongles listed are a rebrand of Chinese dongles available for $3-5.
ETL means "Extract, Transform, Load" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
Unless specifics about the implementation are public, it's safer to say "...until it (malware) does have access to the T2" in response to your comment.
This article is confused about what users want.

EFF and politicians just hate cookies. If only users knew the website used cookies they would choose something else they cry out. A billion cookie warning clickthroughs later - nope.

If only we made the cookie warning scarier with GPDR, including lots more details about how the scary cookie will be used. Nope - click click click go the users, permit, OK, Allow etc.

Aside from EFF hysteria here, let's focus on what users might want.

Users want

* their computers to be free of malware (looking at every company out there that installs bloatware and malware every chance they get on PC's and phone's with totally bogus privacy policies),

* want to be safe when they visit a website (not make it easy for a random website clicked on from a phising link to go the ransomeware route),

* want to be able to browse in incognito mode from time and time if they want to leave less of a digital footprint.

* want to be able to browse relatively safely without their ISP and or govt selling all their data about exactly which pages they visit (google's push around SSL may help here a bit, and these privacy invasions tend to be huge and at utility scale),

* Maybe would sort of like certificate authorities not to give out chase bank SSL certs to random middlebox DPI companies (google's aggressive stance on CA ecosystem after seeming total inaction by folks like firefox and IE and Safari).

* Help move folks to proper 2-factor (non-SMS based) to avoid account hijackings

* While making lots of things easy (auto suggestions everywhere etc).

In short, stuff that helps users avoid messes in their day to day life, but users seem happy to give up a lot to have maps, search, new devices etc all work together relatively smoothly.

Depending on how you count, google is cleaning up in this space BTW. Talk to some businesses who've made the switch to chrome + google apps about the number of phishing / ransomware issues they have (if they were another companies email service + ie / firefox).

Check out the absolute trash results (active malware) bing can return for basic search terms.

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/bing-is-pushing-malware-when-y...

Seriously, bing should run the landing pages of adds through google's filters.

Users privacy is under absolute attack. Of all the people attacking this privacy (from governments to ISPS and more), google is not top of list. It makes for a good clickbait headline though.

BTW - Apple in same boat on enviro issues, despite all the Greenpeace attacks on apple, if you looked at the enviro story and workplace labor issues in android space you'd be shocked.
> It seems several orders of magnitude much easier for people to develop the habit of recording information they might need later.

6 months is fine for just social commentary and such, but it seems to me that a design like that effectively forces the community to be banal, because the community will not remember anything for any longer than that time.

Better if there was some mechanism by which the most-saved (upvoted?) posts are retained by the network as a whole for longer.

On, for example, Stackoverflow, most of the posts I've found useful have been more than 6 months old. 6 months is not such a long time unless we're talking about the latest pop culture hotness.

We are lucky Shakespeare didn't use a platform that forgets everything after 6 months.
Software developers cannot sit down and design a new type of spacecraft engine.
Pretty much anything in thermodynamics. Phase changes, energy, entropy, symmetry, action principles, degrees of freedom, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, equipartition theorem, etc..
It's mostly wireless antennas, from my experience. Distance helps a lot. It's not like I was secretly wishing for this to happen. It sucks enough without having people spitting and laughing at you to mask their own ignorance.
The lid sensor likely won't fail. What will likely fail is this T2 chip and/or its firmware. And it will fail in mysterious and unfixable ways.
Oh yeah, 6th street - 8th street on market is still the same. I actually walked back from the Mission one night and one of my co-workers was like "You walked me through a crack den." Most of the people down there were strung out and not violent, but he was definitely not comfortable.

Gilde[1] is right near the area you're talking about and they provide tons of services for the homeless and mentally ill so there is a high concentration around that area.

[1] - https://www.glide.org
Just one of many examples

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/former-goldma...