skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope you don’t think I’m suggesting a company should cover up serious crimes

You are suggesting that they should shuffle people around without investigation to quiet complaints of situations against which are obligated by law to protect their employees, including potentially involuntary reassignment of the reporting party (again, without investigation of the facts) despite the legal prohibition on retaliation.
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Any yet I've somehow been bombarded all week with spam sms from only the party who's candidates I do not intend to vote for. Anyone that could tie the website I visit to my phone number should be able to guess that easily enough.
You can use "add to desktop" which also work on Android and iPhone, it will make the browser (chrome/safari) run "chrome-less" eg. without url bar and menu.
Maybe your memory is playing tricks on you?

It's why I switched to a PC in the 1990s. And everyone I knew. And everyone I met, read or heard about.

What was the point buying a Mac, when you could buy a faster, more compatible PC running Windows 95, which was pretty Mac-like, for half the price?
Similar article, 190+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18352506
Bonus that a child who had a premptive lobotomy would never regret the decision or wonder what life would have been like without it. There is literally no downside...
Oh I know. I meant whether the login stays persistent or whether you have to scan repeatedly on the web version. On the desktop app you can once and it lasts months.
Let me introduce you to OpenStreetMap...
i don't actually know the answer, but here's a guess. imagine you are going on a trip and you are planning your outbound flight and first night's accommodations. you suspect that the price will go down at the last minute so you put off making reservations as long as possible. which are you more willing to risk, having a place to sleep when you get there, or getting there on the day that you planned? i suspect most people are more comfortable risking a late arrival than arriving with no place to stay.
It's unclear how much the bus was losing per year per person potentially served. Also, instead of traveling cross country all the way by bus, why can't they just keep a feeder pattern to big cities once every few days. That should save money. The goal should be provide transportation where there isn't something else, not independently cover the country.
What's volume? After-hours trading tends to be extremely light (and heavily restricted as to who may participate), so prices have a tendency to deviate from reality by quite a bit. Watch the futures if you want to know where AAPL will land in the morning.
Is there more Chinese hacking etc stories cropping up in the media at the moment, or is it just that people are sharing them more frequently right now?
> But then to go on and say it "may increase it" is irresponsible.

I would say it's actually common sense when you consider how HIV is actually transmitted and account for the fact that conditions, where the procedures are happening, are very likely far from ideal.

The whole thing represents a pretty pointless complication and infection risk, not just from HIV but all kinds of other nasty things.

If there's nothing wrong, there's no reason to cut off pieces from people.
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You should read all the way to the end.

"AVs navigate themselves—so all we’ll really need to know is where we want to go. And Google, with a rapidly-growing autonomy project of its own, seems to have caught on to this.

"If you zoom out on Google Maps’s recent features, you’ll notice that they’re increasingly about figuring out “where to go?”

"And even Google’s map seems to be following this pattern. Over the last two years, Google has gradually been turning it inside out, from a road map to a place map.

"Is Google future-proofing itself against a not-too-distant world that has little need for driving directions? Whether or not that’s true, it does seem as if place information might be even more important tomorrow than it is today."
Just to be clear, as far as I can tell from Google, the author actually works for Apple [1] on Apple Maps, at least at some point. So this blog may serve as an advertisement of his own work, despite the fact that it seems to be written in the voice of an observer.

"Justin O'Beirne designed and led the development of Apple’s cartography effort, and is the author of Maps for the Masses, an upcoming book about digital cartography." [2]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/person/justin-o-beirne

[2] https://qz.com/author/justinobeirne/
Well the thing that got me into Blender in the first place was seeing really cool 3D animations that were built from scratch by a single individual, and a hobbyist at that.

Have you used Photoshop? There's a thousand options within the dropdown menus, no one uses all of them (AFAIK), you learn how to do the thing you want to do and then you're familiar with that subset of tools.

So Blender has a thousand tools for animation - but I didn't even want to do that, I just got good at using the geometry manipulation tools and exported my STL, so I wasn't familiar at all with all the different timeline and video export tools. Until I googled "open source video editor", that is.
According to Wikipedia, the per capita homicide rate of turkey is approximately 3.5 times higher than that of germany. Croatia is actually less than that of Germany, although they did fight a very nasty war in the early 90’s and that may have colored some people’s perception of the country.
Love knowing this kind of stuff, thanks
I have a yahoo account or two, and I think I have a flickr account somewhere ... but as a general rule I don't / wouldn't keep a sole copy of data that I care about on a free-hosting system that I know can't contact me.
Thanks for explaining that - I tend to assume there are smart people are working on these things, and when thinking "Can't they just... it would be so easy to..", I assume it's because the problem is a lot harder than I think it is, not because they're missing the obvious solution right in front of them.

For my own personal more mundane stuff, it's usually "can't you just parse the names and addresses and put them in separate fields?" and the answer is usually, "80% of the time, yes. If you're ok with that, we're good". They never are ok with that :-)
MIPS and ARM were both founded or went from small players to big players based on patent protection. Xerox, and everything it spawned (GUIs, email, networking) was built on its copier patents. It was a fairly small photography company before that.
I think the thing that confuses me and parent is that Maps ALREADY knows about road continuity. And road names.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but (1) flow labels along their roads to the center of the screen, (2) separate them with predefined padding, (3) drop labels if visible label count > maximum, smallest-to-largest road, until under the threshold.

If UXers want to bitch, hide it behind a layer filter. But honestly, #&@+ them. (Sorry, but we are talking about maps that don't show road names here)
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Just FYI the IRS is hiring directly. I keep seeing them advertising open software engineering positions in Austin, TX, though I'm uncertain about other locations.
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I'd say most Linux installations today are Android mobiles. Do those have Minix too?
Oh, so now we need to feign being impressed so no one gets their feelings hurt?

The fact of the matter is, were DMA indeed a hard problem, I would not have posted the comment.

So instead of posting a link to a blog post, perhaps you could try to disprove my claim?
For those who have used modeling tools like TLA+ and Alloy in industry -- could you give an example of at what point(s) in the development process you used the tool and how long it took?

I'm intrigued, but having trouble visualizing how even lightweight formal methods can fit into an agile development process at a startup building a web application.
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I've never signed up for a frequent flyer program. They're obviously just trying to get me to use their airline more often than I otherwise would. Seems to me I'm better off just keeping them all at a distance and picking whichever airline makes sense for each specific trip.
Haha, hundreds of millions then. And I guess that's just the registered ones...
On iOS there's a clunky workaround. Drop a pin on the street with no name and the pin info tells you the name. Of course you probably don't want a pin, so scroll down and hit the trash can.

What would be awesome is if the UI didn't assume I wanted to drop a pin when I'm pointing at a spot on the map - it could popup the info with an option to add a pin, or just touch away to not do that.
Saying something is unfeasible or hard to do doesn't make your comment toxic.
It's long, but basically Peterson connects red terror and extermination of the bourgeoisie class and the modern-day socialist pursuit to exterminate white privilege and patriarchy.

He proposes that the Communist system and Marxism after inherently violent and inevitably degrade to the idea that death is the only possible punishment for the enemy class, even though initially the Marxist revolution is started with good intentions of helping the unprivileged.
I refuse all such games. It’s like Thoreau said: you judge your wealth based on what you can afford not to worry about. It means giving up money, but on principle these “points” are disgusting to me. Especially credit cards, which are also frequently rationalized based on their security benefits over debit cards- security benefits which IMO there is no reason debit cards shouldn’t also have.
Vince Li, who now goes by the name Will Baker, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger, 22-year-old Tim McLean, on a Greyhound bus that was bound for Winnipeg on July 30, 2008.

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He has since received a full discharge from the mental hospital in Selkirk, Man., where he was being held

Hmm
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Yes, but even if the specic allegation was not true, his whole relationship with someone he had power over was highly inappropriate. Unfortunately though, given that the senior leadership had a history of engaging in such inappropriate relationships, Google’s action here is to be expected.
Whatever loss of productivity would be immensely offset by the optics of taking actions against such a walk out.
> Even when they actually have the url for a video, in the last several years since I have started paying attention I don't think I have ever seen a student use the "paste and go" option in the right click menu. They ALWAY paste it in then hit enter. Paste and go is right under paste!

I usually go Ctrl-L to focus the location bar, then Ctrl-V to paste, then enter. Is there a keyboard shortcut for "Paste and go?"

I agree - I'm not sure these "digital natives" are all they're cracked up to be. Of course there are exceptions.
> That is true, height is often a bad proxy for some other quality you're looking

Be careful of what you wish for. Because getting at the actual quality you want is part of what makes building in SF so difficult, e.g. the infamous "shade on public spaces" test.
I know HN dislikes lazy dismissals, but I think the downvotes here are a bit harsh. This is unreadably turgid prose, and quoting it here saved me from a frustrating experience.
@edent did you submit this to HN as https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/ or the ASCII variant?

edit: whoa, HN autoconverted it to Punycode. 🅂𝖍𝐤ₛᵖ𝒓.ⓜ𝕠𝒃𝓲/🆆🆃🅵/
In 1991, the BSD's as we know them today didn't exist.

386BSD - 1992
FreeBSD - 1993
NetBSD - 1993
OpenBSD - 1996

There were also ongoing lawsuits concerning AT&T code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD#History

I'm not 100% sure but from memory I don't believe the HURD (Mach-based) kernel was even bootable in 1991.
I didn't see bootable HURD releases till much later in the 1990's and they were notoriously unstable.
I can't make sense of these numbers. Can you report misconduct without speaking up? Or is there a lot of retaliation that doesn't induce any suffering, or...?
What is most noteworthy is that these facts were pretty widely known but never publicized by the media until recently.
Farenheit, Inventor, VRML, every so often one comes out with "the scene graph to rule them all". Turns out writing a high-performance renderer (and you do want that) is quite challenging. There are so many different rendering techniques and the scene graph is really not the hard part...
And heck, it would be very easy to make this a setting: yes or no, this user wants as many street names as possible.
I mean, I can't say I know, but what about this particular article raises that question? They write about issues from all over the world[1], this doesn't seem any different. Plus I doubt most "brexit refugees" were planning on eloping to isolated regions of Canada.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world
This rant is a bit outdated. These days, we don't assume the user is stupid. We think they might be a troll, a botnet, or someone working for a click-farming scam.

Giving users a good experience without trusting them is an interesting UI challenge.
Not the same problem, but I have been on and off thinking about infinite/recursive compression and compression of random data. Finding patterns in numbers can be very compelling.
This is a great write up but aweful news for us Apple users who finally thought Apple would be able to catch up with Google Maps. That is the only have part of one state and will be many years until the whole country but the promise that the new data would be near perfect made it worth the wait. Apple continues to favor manual vs automated such as news and music and in each case googles automated approach wins out. Yes Apple is backing privacy which is fine but they shouldn’t say they can offer equal or better features and also pursuing the privacy strategy. POI and Yelp has been the major issue with Apple Maps and this review shows they aren’t changing in this regard so now we have better vegetation but same POI issues. Very disappointing.
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Anecdotally (15 years of riding buses up and down the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic), I've never noticed a big difference in driver quality or safe driving practices between Chinatown buses and the big names.

Then again, I have no idea how well they maintain their buses.
Most people aren't flying international to begin with, and certainly not people trying to stay affordable. In that price range, 1900 per ticket is out of reach and certainly insane tonthink 'affordable' to an average customer of airline service.
If you consider the world a classroom and the problem homework then none of the 30 students are aware they have homework. The cockroach in the corner of the room knows but everyone else didn’t get the memo. My point being - I will argue that majority of the world is unaware of impending doom - either for reasons of lack of education and awareness or out of pure ignorance. People forget that modern life as you and I know it does not apply to a large population of this planet who are blissfully unaware or don’t have the resources and capacity to do anything about it if they were.

It certainly doesn’t help that our political and value systems have been set up to promote greed and corruption. Look at Trump, he has to be reasonably educated right? But does he give a damn? And if not, why not? The same goes for all the senators.
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Great article discussing the achievements and the missteps of apple's new maps.

Oddly, I found Apple's most successful effort, greenery, to be mixed. It's really cool the data is there! But....the roads are less visible. I think they need to increase the contrast or somehow make the roads more notable amidst the green.

As for the locations, I was surprised to see the limits listed here. Apple seemed supremely confident in their Techcrunch feature. And they rarely preview stuff like this, so I had assumed they had some secret ace. But, this looks rather limited and error filled. Optimistically they only rolled it out to a small area to work out these kinks. But the errors O'bierne highlighted don't seem easily solveablr....time will tell.
> To me clutter is the name of a coffee shop four blocks away

Agree, although I don't find it entirely useless; it allows a bit of mental confirmation along the way if you happen to notice something marquee'd go by.

But more generally, there must be a reason or two why this doesn't work, but why leave street name placement "static"? I know it isn't; what I mean is why not accept a touch event to show the name of a street when you tap on it?

It is a touch screen map. Why are the only things I can touch things Yelp wants me to know about[1]?

It seems to me there's a massive lack of imagination going on with maps. Everyone seems to be locust-like scouring for doing anything with them that can turn a quick buck rather than thinking about what they're good for now besides shopping, and could be good for, if-only.

But this is not anywhere near that blue-sky. If figuring out how to make an interactive digital map show the name of the street that is centered on your screen is an unsolvable problem, there's something wrong.

[1] Frankly, I wish I could turn Yelp off, because I mainly only trigger that by accident. But that's a different topic.
In my experience, if you think that implementing from scratch a DMA solution is not hard, then you are an extraordinary talented engineer, far above the level you find at FAANG, so your opinion on this matter is not terribly relevant. It would be as if Jeff Dean came and said writing MapReduce is not a hard task. Nice, but not relevant for the 99.9999% of the talent pool.

I got a couple offers over the years for L5-L6 positions at FAANG (specifically Google and Facebook) to work on low level stuff, including system programming and kernel development, since I have a few dozens upstream Linux kernel contributions in some subsystems I dabbled with.

I also had to deal with writing a video4linux custom driver for an embedded industrial machine and a very custom acquisition card using DMA in the past, and it was significantly difficult even to just make it work playing with the well-defined kernel DMA APIs. I can easily see how the complexity required to write the entire kernel plumbing framework that makes DMA possible to leverage for normal developers like me would be a hard engineering task, definitely one that deserves an L7 architect/engineer capable of coming up with the right level of abstractions, incredibly important for a C kernel API. Just because one can explain on a whiteboard what DMA is and how it is supposed to work by remembering the OS college class (I'm not saying that's you), it doesn't make it an easy engineering task, engineering it's about making things work. I'm sure if you go back to the LKML mailing list and look at the time period where DMA support was initially introduced in the kernel, you'll be surprised at the sheer engineering complexity that was discussed when introducing such core kernel feature.

In conclusion, the fact that FB and GOOG wanted to hire me to work on stuff relatively close to what we're talking about, at a level that is considered senior, gives me some legitimacy to say that me thinking it's a hard problem isn't probably too far from the truth, otherwise we are somehow assuming that FAANG extends offers to incompetent people (multiple times), mistakenly considering them senior engineers.

I take your original comment as naive as the people who say "I could have built Instagram/Whatsapp tech in a week!", because you either are a super expert, or you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

Perhaps you should consider getting an offer for $1M/y (or more! Since L7 tasks are easy for you maybe you can shoot for an L9 and ask $2M/y, I have a close friend at GOOG at that level who gets paid that much) there then, if you're not already in that elite band of compensation?
I'm curious as to whether this could be generalised to any browser if there was a small server that accepted websocket connections and for each one, opened up a listening port on the server side.

If the socket was exposed as an environment variable
WEBSESSION=/tmp/websession_socket.16417

Then applications could connect to the socket at WEBSESSION and feed data to the browser (to display in an iframe).

Mostly I say this because I've made one of these but haven't been using it.
Can Flix help?[1]. New investment, renewed vigour to innovate. If they can convert a good percentage of people who would now take their car because Greyhound's are so uncomfortable, they maybe profitable in these rural routes.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyhound-bus-routes-flixbu...
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1) I manage a team of fullstack engineers where I do very few coding tasks but also can sometimes chip in on large efforts or when senior people are out of the office.

2) Code liberally on weekends and on my bus ride in the morning on OSS and a SaaS I've built over many years.

Staying engaged technically makes me unquestionably a better manager, but I will impede my team's development if I take tasks in the team sprint.