skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been at my current company since 2005. I’ve changed disciplines twice, business groups (1000s of employees) three times, teams four+ times, roles at least three times (IC, Tech Lead, Manager). Many smaller re-orgs occurred in between and a few too many office moves.

In short, in a huge company there are challenges at all levels of the technology stack and that’s completely forgetting about areas like finance, marketing, business development, legal and HR.

It’s hard to get bored if you try to keep learning and challenging yourself every day.
Weasl – a plug and play login that improves signup conversion
Maybe make the move to a FAANG, just to get a real world idea of what that's like?

Your life journey is unlikely to be damaged by it, and the greater understanding of the world (etc) will likely be beneficial. Warts and all. ;)
Absolutely non-stop. Everyone else needs to connect into Sacramento. That’s the only way to make the commute work.
Are you confused about where his wealth came from? He co-founded Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies on the planet which has made tremendous impact on people around the world. He's also giving away almost all of his fortune, that's the whole point of his foundation.
Tons. Commercial flight simulators are very good. They help with mundane stuff like the layout of the cockpit or familiarization with different airports (hong kong is a must) And the harder stuff pilots could not train for in real planes like equipment failures, maybe all of them. And yes, their minds can be "tricked", meaning pilots do come out of simulated emergencies sweating.
> What’s wrong with just […] doing your job

You're not being rewarded for your success or your hard work in any meaningful way; you're not learning new things or barely keeping up with the status quo; you're forced to work with other individuals who do not care about the quality of their work, or the effect it will have on others, or do not offer enlightening conversation, views.

> collecting the check

The check is not keeping up with the ever increasing cost of living.

> People are so caught up in the rat race […] Career does not have to be the definition of success.

I don't want it to be. I want to be able to make enough to meet my (reasonable) life goals.

If your company is giving you meaningful work, compensating you well for it, and you would not find better on the market, then more power to you. Not all of us are so lucky.
>I work in airworthiness and maintenance, so I deal with aerostructures on a daily basis. You?

I know you work in airworthiness from your post history. It also indicates you work with flight systems, and not structures. Amirite? What is your professional qualification?

You can see what I do in my profile.

>What happens if you take a square with sides of length x, and smooth the corners down until the radius of each corner is x/2?

Same thing as happens with any regular polygon with sides of length x.

You said "It's not the shape of the window but the radius of the corner". This, like every other statement in your initial comment, is a misleading half truth at best. The true picture is complex, but the shape definitely matters, because you want to avoid abrupt local changes of stiffness in the direction of most stress (this can happen without any openings even, for example by adding a local bracket).
The project they describe IS a Go port of carlo (it's even named lorca).

carlo/lorca is meaningfully different than electron.

Electron takes chrome code base, adds node.js code, a bunch of other stuff and makes it an SDK. As a result Electron-based app consists of a copy of chrome a copy of node and maybe 2% of the total size is unique to the app.

carlo/lorca re-use Chrome instance already installed so 100% of the size is unique to the app.

That removes the biggest complaint about electron i.e. bloat of shipping 100+ MB of SDK to deliver 100 kB of app.
I find textbooks painful, but I also think I grow the most when reading them. This is because textbooks are organized, the material often goes into more depth than a blog post, and most importantly for me, I can be away from electronic distractions.
Lit: Literate Programming for Any Language
May I ask what you use to install a PWA on Linux? I am so far using WebPin, but it doesn't offer some PWA APIs and is based on Chrome instead of Firefox.
That "until it finishes running" bit is why you can't tackle realtime at just the kernel level or just within the process. You need to also consider the whole system—ensuring that the services you're trying to run as realtime processes actually fit within your hardware's performance envelope. If you have processes that need to be pinned to a CPU core and have exclusive use of that core, then you need to ensure that you don't try to run more of those on the system than you have CPU cores available to dedicate. If you're timesharing cores between multiple processes, you need to know that the processes sharing cores have timing requirements that can be satisfied by your available resources. The human in charge of the overall system design needs to be figuring out things like how many time slices per second each realtime process needs and how many microseconds of CPU time it needs in each time slice to complete its work.
Didn't know that. Looks like Safari is continuing it's devolution into becoming the next IE.
What "state side-effects" are you dealing with?
That "private failure" was forced by a price cap on subway fares that was left unchanged for decades worth of inflation. It was a sneaky way to bypass the US Constitution's prohibition of taking private property without compensation.
I still use jQuery, it still works quite well. IMO it still has a better API for a lot of stuff.
Make a 'Happy Darwin Day' card with designs generated by simulated evolution
Thats an incredibly reductive way to think about it that comes from a really cynical position - I feel bad for you that thats how you think about it. Its opened a lot of different worlds of thought to me.
> A currency has 3 objective functions: medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value. It objectively fails the third test.

No. Value is subjective. I understand what you're saying, and for what ever its worth, I promise I don't sell old folks on crypto funds.

> Fine it's an investment, it's a bad one.

Good - we're on the same page. You have a value judgement. Don't pretend to be an authority on the subject beyond your _well heard_ opinion.

> The idea that you're buying into blockchain technology's future by owning bitcoin is like saying you're buying pets.com stock because you want to invest in TCP/IP

Yes, exactly. Money and industry turn out to be closely linked.
My sense is that jQuery and early web front-end approaches reflect how designers think. They were created by designers who understood code for other designers who didn’t so that designers could play a role in the web. Sites wanted to be unique.

New frameworks reflect how developers think. Sites want to work more than they want to look unique. In many cases, uniqueness is viewed as driving up training or onboarding cost.
The cascade was great for HTML in the absence of scope, which is to say in the age of documents. It's a reasonable approach to dealing with all the problems inherent in managing global state. But globals suck. In the age of components it makes little sense to cling to the cascade as if it were more than a means to an end.
Since GraphQL lets you select a subset of attributes, there is no reason you can't expose C on A directly, as well as exposing the indirection through B. Redundant attributes are A-OK.

You'd have something like this::

a { b { c { x } }

as well as

a { c { x } }

or even:

a { cX }
I don't think fiction can be shrunk down, but I think lots of non-fiction books can.

I'm thinking specifically of some books that I've read in the past couple of years that include:

* Deep Work
* Influence
* Thinking Fast and Slow
* Predictably Irrational
* Getting Things Done
* How to Win Friends and Influence People

I think all of these books suffer from the common pattern of present an idea then a bunch of examples that demonstrate the idea. I don't think you lose anything by ditching the examples. The core ideas are usually well stated and don't need clarification or demonstration.
Well it's a question of ego. 2 parts:

1. If GM were to - like you say - "work with Tesla", who would be in charge of what to do, when and how? GM would want GM cronies to do that. It would be like Apple after they fired Steve Jobs
2. Even if TSLA would be in the driver's seat (pun intended) who would be working for whom? TSLA is already as big as GM in terms of market cap, and with better future, but in a TSLA-GM JV GM would want to be "da boss".

Things are fine the way they are GM, F, FCAU will either die, consolidate or become irrelevant; and the new TSLA-like companies will be the new "energy and transportation" players.

Clayton M. Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is still valid.
Amazon's cloud competitors: We won't compete with you
> there are already regulators mandating safety features on your car.

Yes, I know that. That doesn't mean I agree with it.

> As long as someone else is out there who can run into me through no fault of my own, I'd like some assurances that their vehicle has safety features that will protect me.

They won't. Even with all the safety features that are mandated, someone else can still injure or kill you in a collision through no fault of your own. The main things protecting you are safety features in your car, but if they're actually going to protect you, why do you need regulations to get you to buy them? Wouldn't you be willing to pay for them anyway?
Could someone list some practical examples where Differential Programming would be useful?

I am familiar where Nueral Networks and Convolutional Networks have done well especially around image processing etc.

But I can’t imagine where having differential code would help unless it is just tying multiple neural networks together in a continuous chain of differentiation.

For most programming tasks, I can’t imagine how differentiation would be possible or beneficial.

Is there a possibility that one could start with a series of unit tests and partial results and through gradient descent actually arrive at additional passing test cases? Most of the time in my experience, passing additional test cases like this requires significantly more complex structures that would not be found via differentiation.
> Nobody wants to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines in 2019.

That's certainly _one_ reason why.

I would posit that the main reason is that web developers would like to reuse their webapp skillset for building desktop apps. This seems like it accomplishes the goal.

Re: testing against multiple browsers, frankly this is _mostly_ a solved problem. The big gaps between rendering engines is on the real fringe of css at this point, which most of us aren't bothering to use. Also, many people builting on top of electron (and presumably this platform) are using css toolkits like blueprint, and most of those take care of most of your cross browser issues anyway. So, largely not a concern.
Definitely. Even on the more competitive side, Quake 3 got something like the CPMA mod to tweak the balance and rules to make it better for competitive gaming. Zero chance of that for SC2.

Lack of LAN mode for competitions was just such an obvious indicator they spoke about esports but didn't really understand it.
I agree with RussianCow, I don't think mutations are in any way harder in GraphQL than they are in REST.

IDK what you mean re: state management. That sounds like a client side concern, nothing to do with the protocol used to communicate with the server.

Additionally, in my experience, the client-side tooling is better for GraphQL, despite it being around for only a fraction of the time of REST. In fact, that's why I chose GraphQL for my projects. I wanted the tooling (Relay, Apollo) that works out of the box with GraphQL, and requires hacks to get it work with REST.
> it sounds like they have their shit together a lot more than Tesla.

Is that really a meaningful comparison considering the tremendous difference in scale? They probably won't have their shit together when they have to deliver thousands of vehicles per week.
Do you actually work with C#, LINQ and generics?
OPEngine: A lightweight, bloat-free API framework
The point is definitely to share costs and resources, but my thinking is converging your camp experience behind a paywall is a bit of a commoditization thing. Its one way to ensure equal financing of the costs, but in the places I've camped its been a lot more "we want you here, please provide what you can". Unless of course, everyone is on equal economic footing in which case... mayybe a less homogenous group would be of a benefit?
The former Soviet countries probably have a bunch of low cost talent as well.
Can’t speak for SAG - but having worked non-union camera crew jobs and union jobs as a member of the Cinematographers Guild, my experience was day/night with regard to pay, safety, and limited (and compensated) hours. 100 percent would go back to union film jobs.
What happens when a human being reports a prediction? Is that done purely by an algorithm? I still see nothing with real technical details in the three articles you linked to.
It's a fair argument that browser based UIs are not the best in all areas (resource usage, reliability ...), but an area where they win is effort needed to make them good enough or even nice simply due to its popularity.

And I certainly prefer an app launching my browser to show its UI over it bundling a whole fucking browser.

> You have to conform to ???

Web applications are able to work in browsers.
” They relented after every single person under the CIO (including Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu faiths--hey, company paid vacations unify world religions!) said the company would have their resignations within minutes unless they reversed their decision. They did.”

If he wanted then to quit, why didn’t he accept their resignations? I’m missing something.
It's high compared to a typical lease, but a typical lease also generally includes significant penalties if you go over 10,000 - 12,000 miles per year.

$680 isn't unreasonable considering the accelerated rate of depreciation and wear & tear that would come with the amount of miles a full time rideshare driver is going to accumulate. And will be mostly all tax deductible, due to the bulk of mileage being business travel.
It is not a mostly solved problem.

The people behind Slack, Spotify, and so on have actually commented on these threads explaining the exact line of reasoning. This stuff isn't limited to just CSS, and it makes total business sense to avoid it.
> Why would you make that case that people in prison were put there because they were unwilling to work? Do you think prisons are filled with unfortunate souls who got caught stealing bread to feed their families?

You're contradicting yourself. Valjean was quite willing to work, it just wasn't enough to feed himself and his family. (And in fact he worked quite hard, both in prison and in the rest of his life.) If you think that prisoners are willing to work, then they are unfortunate souls who got caught stealing bread.

On the other hand, if they are people who wish to work on the black market, or wish to work in ways that society deems impermissible (fraud, theft, etc.), or wish to engage in conduct on the job that society deems impermissible (perhaps conduct like theft that lets them avoid working), then they aren't unfortunate souls precisely because they aren't willing to work, at least as "work" is defined. If they are justly in prison, it is precisely because they brought it on themselves, and even so, society feeds and clothes and houses and heals them (though not very well, mind you), and this is generally believed to be a worthwhile thing for society to spend money on.

If this is worthwhile for people convicted of a crime, why is it not worthwhile for people not even convicted of a crime, who are merely unwilling to work?

(Unless your position is that society should be supportive of people who are willing to work in any possible definition of work, whether they choose to be a programmer, a hitman, or a drug lord, and instead of housing and feeding hitmen and drug lords in prison, it should let them earn their keep?)
The Meteor framework has been actively developed ever since it was released and continues to have a broad, enthusiastic user base.

Mr Goldstein would have known this if he had visited the Meteor blog (https://blog.meteor.com/) and Meteor forums (https://forums.meteor.com/).
I wonder whether blinkist agrees with, but does it anyway because people want it.
Tesla had a joint venture with Toyota years ago. They were making the drivetrain for the RAV4 EV. Toyota offered to provide the same kind of training in assembly methods to Tesla that they once provided to GM in the very same place (Tesla's factory is the former GM/Toyota NUMMI factory), but reportedly Tesla clashed with Toyota's engineers and management, so the whole partnership dissolved. I don't think anyone wants to work with them now.
I work at an org that has an IT union, its horrible.. in fact just today i saw a manager have grievances filed against her because she was asking developers to do work on improving this project she had just taken over. Then an argument ensued that union chief even said..you can't file a grievance for someone asking you to fill your 40 hours of work... now another battle is beginning.. and this is just one instance, I could list hundreds like this.. another good one.. grievance for being woken up to suddenly during slumber. i am not sure people would even believe the shit i've seen
I've run efficient email hosting before. They didn't have backups, they had snapshots. Anything that isn't physically offline with vaulted, off-site provider isn't a backup.
Yacht builders employ lots of people to build large yachts, what's wrong with being a yacht builder?

Why $10 million? What about in countries outside of the United States? What if a wealthy person has a single asset that is worth more than $10 million and has one kid? ex: a $50 million commercial building. Would you force a sale of the asset and then strip away $40 million away?

What about lottery winners who win over $10 million? Should lotteries be capped at $10 million?
This sounds like how things should be done. Many game dev companies basically started out this way. The problem with this is that most (many?) people aren't willing to risk starting a business like this. There's a high chance of failure.
Related, seemingly contradictory:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/microsoft-google-cloud-pitch...
I'd suggest the BBC are more balanced than most, so I'd suggest your comment here is close to being cut out false equivalency with a side of whataboutism as you can have on a topic that's talking about violence at Trump rallies specifically.

This article is about mindless violence towards the media that's displayed and documented at Trumps rallys. It's not about antifa.

I don't know what media outlet is to Antifa, that is Fox News to the Right. But I'd welcome a discussion on what we can do to encourage a more fair and balanced media and what we do to hold drunken louts like the gentleman in the article for abhorrent violence.
All (admittedly cursory) evidence points to:

- Purchased from a tribe that didn't have credible control over the area

followed by

- 20 years of skirmishes/wars with the tribe that actually controlled the area.
In what way is BA subsidised? It's been a private company for decades.

(I haven't looked into the orders.)
The way this works: that the program locates chrome executable, launches it in a special mode, chrome prints which port it allocated for that instance to stdout, the program parses stdout to find the port and opens websocket connection.

See: https://github.com/zserge/lorca/blob/master/chrome.go#L50

How would that be intercepted? Only the program that launches that chrome instance can read chrome's stdout.

It's no more or less secure than the same concern with a regular Chrome.
Activision Blizzard lays off nearly 800 employees after 'record' 2018
This plan is being primarily supported by those making over $100k, as those are the primary tax payers. People who make over $100k are more likely to have children who make over $100k.

Simulate a scenario where people living on welfare are incentivized to have 2 extra children. Those 2 extra children are unlikely to increase the wealth of the population, resulting in a spiral of poverty within a few generations.

I know many people who make more than six digits who are excellent parents and would be happy to have more children. I also know many people who make more than six digits who have happily removed themselves from the breeding stock and live a gluttonous child free existence. People who make more than six digits are unlikely to have children unless they want them
Sorry for curse words I’m very confused
The src directory is becoming a popular option. See https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2014/05/25/python-packaging/#the-str... for an enumeration of the reasons.

Another resource might be https://hynek.me/articles/testing-packaging/
I think the biggest complaint about electron is not bloat of shipping the app (a one time download, not a big deal in modern times), but running the app. Since each electron program uses its own instance of Chrome, there is no resource sharing and so memory consumption is high.
before we all get riled up note from the article, notice the non-game-development part

The layoffs, which will mostly be in non-game-development areas like publishing, will impact Activision, Blizzard, and King. In one case, an entire studio of 78 people was shut down—Seattle-based mobile game studio Z2Live. This is in spite of Kotick saying that the company achieved "record results in 2018." Activision made a statement about exceeding its expectations, but other market-watchers clearly had higher numbers in mind.
I'm not sure what you mean by "false argument." I'm definitely making an argument you don't like, but those are different things.

How is it justifiable for trust fund kids to have economic security while being unwilling to work while also being unjustifiable for non-trust-fund-kids to have economic security while being unwilling to work? What is the difference?

You are claiming that it is a moral principle, perhaps even wired into our biology, that those unwilling to work are unwilling to live. Yet this is clearly not true in the case of those with trust funds. What is your defense of this fairly glaring exception? (One perfectly coherent answer is that this exception should be closed and inheritances to adult children should be disallowed; if you're an adult unwilling to work, having had parents who were willing to work does not save you. There are other defenses, too. I'm curious what yours is.)
Realtime doesn't mean error free. A realtime OS might provide some form of a watchdog feature where it can detect when a program fails to meet its deadline. Think of it like a segfault in a traditional system. If everyone did their job correctly, it would never come up, but people make mistakes and it is better to detect them and fail in a controlled manner than it is not notice and fail in unpredictable ways.
Maybe I'm just spoiled having doing web dev back in the netscape 4 era when things were _really_ bad. These days it seems like a reset stylesheet and a couple polyfills and you're good to go. I don't doubt that certain problem spaces still run into major cross browser issues, but I guess I've been lucky enough to avoid those problems for the last couple of years.
Electron is bad? Your website is bad and I don't trust anyone with a bad website
Yes, without an assertion. Just change your compiler options.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=%20%20let%20foo%20%...